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Nasa: Triumph And Tragedy BBC2, 9pm The first of this two-part history exalting the US's National Aeronautics and Space Administration - aka Nasa - runs up to that evocative landmark event, the 40th anniversary of which is less than a month away, when man first set foot on the moon. The famous Apollo 11 trio of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin (right) and Michael Collins are all present and correct here, but they're only part of the culmination of this story.
The bulk of tonight's account covers the build-up to their iconic mission, from Nasa's foundation to take on the USSR in a 'space race' to the Gemini project that preceded the Apollos, and a reminder of the fatal lessons learned in the earlier stages of their quest to fulfil President Kennedy's pledge to put a man on the moon by the end of 1969.See the full content of this document
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Interviewees include the relatively unsung heroes from other space-flight crews, the ground-based colleagues who enabled them t...
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