From the Earth to the Moon

S01E05

Spider

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.

• Directed by Graham Yost
• Written by Andy Wolk

S01E06

Mare Tranquilitatis

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.

• Directed by Frank Marshall
• Written by Tom Hanks, Al Reinert

S01E01

Can We Do This?

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.

• Directed by Tom Hanks
• Written by Steven Katz

S01E10

Galileo Was Right

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.

• Directed by David Carson
• Written by Remi Aubuchon, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

S01E02

Apollo 1

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.

• Directed by David Frankel
• Written by Graham Yost

S01E04

1968

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.

• Directed by David Frankel
• Written by Al Reinert

S01E12

Le Voyage dans la Lune

• Directed by Jonathan Mostow
• Written by Tom Hanks

S01E11

The Original Wives' Club

• Directed by Sally Field
• Written by Tom Hanks, Erik Bork

S01E09

For Miles and Miles

• Directed by Gary Fleder
• Written by Erik Bork

S01E10

Galileo Was Right

• Directed by David Carson
• Written by Remi Aubuchon, Jeffrey Alan Fiskin

S01E07

That's All There Is

• Directed by Jon Turteltaub
• Written by Tom Hanks, Erik Bork

S01E08

We Interrupt This Program

• Directed by David Frankel
• Written by Peter Osterlund, Amy Brooke Baker