The Space Race in Colour

Channel 4 HD

9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Saturday 26 September

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This concluding episode examines how the space dreamers defied the odds and reached the moon. On 25 May 1961, President John F Kennedy publicly committed the US to putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade, giving NASA a major challenge to rise to. Colour footage reveals the triumphs and tragedies of those years, culminating in Apollo 11 and Armstrong and Aldrin walking on the moon