Moon Machines (Widescreen)

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The right tools for the job... The U.S. Moon missions would never have gotten 10 feet off the ground without the pioneering engineers and manufacturers and the amazing machines they created to turn science fiction into history-making headlines. From nuts and bolts to rockets and life support systems, every piece of gear was custom made from scratch to perform cutting-edge scientific tasks while withstanding the violent rigors of space travel. Now here's your chance to climb aboard the capsule, put on a spacesuit and learn the real stories behind the right stuff. "Saturn V": October 4th 1957, and the Russians take a huge leap forward in rocketry when they successfully launch Sputnik 1 - the world's first artificial satellite. Over the coming years the Soviets would continue to astound the world with their space achievements. America needs to respond - and quick! "Command Module": We recount the story of the engineers who built the Apollo Command Module, a fully pressurized living space that would need to provide three men with food, water, air, power, communication, navigation and above all protection, to the moon and back. "Navigation": We tell the story of how a group of computer scientists grappled with the challenge of navigation of a round trip to the Moon back in the days when computer code and software hadn't been invented and computing power was a fraction of what it is today. "Lunar Module": The story of the engineers challenged with building what became affectionately called the Lunar Bug. A constant battle to meet the seemingly impossible demands of weight restrictions, the Lunar Module was one of the greatest engineering feats in history. "Suits": To survive outside of a spacecraft, a new space vehicle would be required - the spacesuit. Flexible enough to allow man to function yet provide protection from the hostility of space. Two unlikely companies from the east coast took the challenge.