The Best Episodes of From the Earth to the Moon

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   8.7/10(626 votes)

   #1 - Spider

   S1:E54/19/1998

   Engineers at Grumman Aviation work with NASA and the Apollo 9 astronauts to design, build, and finally test-fly the world's first true spaceship—a “lunar module” which will hopefully land the first humans on the moon.

   Director:Graham Yost

   Writer:Andy Wolk

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   Director:Graham Yost

   Writer:Andy Wolk
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   8.5/10(637 votes)

   #2 - Apollo 1

   S1:E24/5/1998

   The tragic death of Apollo's first three astronauts during a pre-launch test haunts the spacecraft's designers, as they struggle to come to terms with what happened, and find a way to save the moon program.

   Director:David Frankel

   Writer:Graham Yost

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   Director:David Frankel

   Writer:Graham Yost
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   8.4/10(532 votes)

   #3 - Mare Tranquilitatis

   S1:E64/19/1998

   The glare of the public eye, conflicts among the crew, disastrous simulations, and a series of harrowing last-minute crises threaten the Apollo 11 astronauts' success at pulling off NASA's crowning achievement—the first lunar landing.

   Director:Frank Marshall

   Writers:Graham Yost, Tom Hanks, Al Reinert

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   Director:Frank Marshall

   Writers:Graham Yost, Tom Hanks, Al Reinert
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   8.4/10(517 votes)

   #4 - Galileo Was Right

   S1:E105/3/1998

   Geology guru Lee Silver helps Dave Scott and his Apollo 15 crew unravel the moon's mysterious origins by teaching them to become his lunar surrogates, and thus the first fully-trained “field observers” on another world.

   Director:David Carson

   Writers:Remi Aubuchon, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

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   Director:David Carson

   Writers:Remi Aubuchon, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin
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   8.3/10(552 votes)

   #5 - That's All There Is

   S1:E74/26/1998

   From the perspective of Astronaut Alan Bean, see how he made an unexpected journey to the moon and his friendship with his Apollo 12 crew mates.

   Director:Jon Turteltaub

   Writers:Erik Bork, Tom Hanks, Paul McCudden

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   Director:Jon Turteltaub

   Writers:Erik Bork, Tom Hanks, Paul McCudden
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   8.1/10(684 votes)

   #6 - Can We Do This?

   S1:E14/5/1998

   NASA responds to John F. Kennedy's challenge of landing a man on the moon with a group of new astronauts for the Gemini Program, who work toward the eventual lunar voyage with a series of risky and groundbreaking earth-orbit missions.

   Director:Tom Hanks

   Writer:Steven Katz

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   Director:Tom Hanks

   Writer:Steven Katz
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   8.0/10(566 votes)

   #7 - 1968

   S1:E44/12/1998

   NASA takes its boldest and most controversial step—an attempt to fly men around the moon and back for the first time in history—at the end of one of the most cataclysmic years of the century.

   Director:David Frankel

   Writer:Al Reinert

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   Director:David Frankel

   Writer:Al Reinert
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   8.0/10(445 votes)

   #8 - Le Voyage dans la Lune

   S1:E125/10/1998

   The bittersweet end of the Apollo program—and the final manned journey to another planet—is juxtaposed with a light-hearted recreation of the first cinematic imagining of such an endeavor, the 1902 French silent classic “Voyage to the Moon.”

   Director:Jonathan Mostow

   Writer:Tom Hanks

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   Director:Jonathan Mostow

   Writer:Tom Hanks
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   7.8/10(461 votes)

   #9 - For Miles and Miles

   S1:E95/3/1998

   America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, is grounded with an inner ear disorder. A thankless new desk job starts to look permanent, until fate—and surgery—bring him a chance to rescue the space program.

   Director:Gary Fleder

   Writer:Erik Bork

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   Director:Gary Fleder

   Writer:Erik Bork
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    7.7/10(563 votes)

    #10 - We Have Cleared the Tower

    S1:E34/12/1998

    A documentary film crew follows the final preparations for the first manned Apollo launch. Now behind schedule due to the Apollo 1 fire, astronauts and launch pad personnel bet their lives--and America's space future--on its success.

    Director:Lili Fini Zanuck

    Writer:Remi Aubuchon

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    Director:Lili Fini Zanuck

    Writer:Remi Aubuchon
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    7.4/10(481 votes)

    #11 - The Original Wives' Club

    S1:E115/10/1998

    A group of young military wives struggle with their new “jobs” handling both the national spotlight and a demanding home front. Meanwhile, their astronaut husbands lose themselves in the pursuit of a national goal alternately competitive, glamorous, and deadly.

    Director:Sally Field

    Writers:Erik Bork, Tom Hanks, Karen Janszen

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    Director:Sally Field

    Writers:Erik Bork, Tom Hanks, Karen Janszen
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    7.1/10(514 votes)

    #12 - We Interrupt This Program

    S1:E84/26/1998

    As the life-threatening consequences of the Apollo 13 accident escalate in real time, so do the tensions among the NASA press corps covering it. Among them, a respected, old-school TV journalist questions the confrontational methods of a younger, slicker colleague.

    Director:David Frankel

    Writers:Peter Osterlund, Amy Brooke Baker

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    Director:David Frankel

    Writers:Peter Osterlund, Amy Brooke Baker