Synopsis

The men who flew Apollo 8, alongside the engineers who built it, share the compelling story of humanity's first journey around the moon. The American space program had suffered a devastating blow when the Apollo 1 crew perished in a fire during a pre-launch test. Faced with this tragedy and fearing a Soviet triumph in the escalating space race, NASA made a bold and perilous decision: transform Apollo 8 from a planned Earth orbit into an audacious, direct trajectory to the moon, relying on techno