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The Best Episodes of From the Earth to the Moon Season 1

Every episode of From the Earth to the Moon Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of From the Earth to the Moon Season 1!

The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:HBO

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Can We Do This?" is the best rated episode of "From the Earth to the Moon" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 577 votes. Directed by Tom Hanks and written by Steven Katz, it aired on 4/5/1998. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Apollo 1".

  • Can We Do This?
    8.1/10577 votes

    #1 - Can We Do This?

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/5/1998

    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

  • Apollo 1
    8.4/10544 votes

    #2 - Apollo 1

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/5/1998

    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

  • We Have Cleared The Tower
    7.7/10473 votes

    #3 - We Have Cleared The Tower

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/12/1998

    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

  • 1968
    8.0/10481 votes

    #4 - 1968

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/12/1998

    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

  • Spider
    8.7/10533 votes

    #5 - Spider

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/19/1998

    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

  • Mare Tranquilitatis
    8.4/10454 votes

    #6 - Mare Tranquilitatis

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/19/1998

    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

    Writer: Graham Yost, Tom Hanks, Al Reinert

  • That's All There Is
    8.3/10475 votes

    #7 - That's All There Is

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/26/1998

    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

    Writer: Tom Hanks, Erik Bork, Paul McCudden

  • We Interrupt This Program
    7.1/10432 votes

    #8 - We Interrupt This Program

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/26/1998

    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

    Writer: Peter Osterlund, Amy Brooke Baker

  • For Miles And Miles
    7.8/10390 votes

    #9 - For Miles And Miles

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/3/1998

    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

  • Galileo Was Right
    8.4/10442 votes

    #10 - Galileo Was Right

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/3/1998

    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

    Writer: Remi Aubuchon, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

  • The Original Wives' Club
    7.4/10409 votes

    #11 - The Original Wives' Club

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 5/10/1998

    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

    Writer: Tom Hanks, Erik Bork, Karen Janszen

  • Le Voyage dans la Lune
    8.0/10372 votes

    #12 - Le Voyage dans la Lune

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 5/10/1998

    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