America's Secret Space Heroes
Season 1
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Network: Smithsonian Channel
Season aired: 2017-05-14
Overview
The inside stories of how the unknown engineers of NASA created such superior machines as the Saturn V moon rocket, the Space Shuttle, and the Hubble Space Telescope, often against incredible odds.
Episodes · 6
Saturn V
Witness the incredible story of the engineers who built the mighty rocket that put man on the moon: the Saturn V.
Lunar Module
See how a team of engineers, through ingenuity and dogged determination, built the spacecraft that put man on the moon.
Space Shuttle
See how NASA engineers met the challenge to build a spacecraft that can launch like a rocket and land like an airplane.
Space Station
See how a shared goal to build a space station brought Cold War enemies together and inspired visionary breakthroughs.
Hubble Telescope
The history of the Hubble Telescope, as told by the brilliant minds and mavericks who built and repaired it.
Viking Mars Mission
The inside story of Project Viking and the incredible ingenuity that put the first spacecraft on Mars.
