Favorite/Best episode

My favorite is "1968". So often I heard about Apollo 8 and how important it was to be able to go into lunar orbit, but there was really so much more behind its importance in history. The series did a good job of expressing that importance by showing most of the events of '68 which made what they did seem all the more important. I use it in my history classes when we talk about that era because of what it shows.

My favourites aren't in any particular order,

Apollo 1 for the way they showed the impact of the fire,

We Have Cleared the Tower for the way they showed how much preparation went into every Apollo launch

1968 for showing what an incredible year it was

Spider for the way they explained how much work went into the design of the LEM

Mare Tranquilitatis for the landing sequence and the pre mission interviews with the astronauts

Thats All There Is, simply a road trip set in space!

Galileo Was Right! because of the way it focused on understanding the Moon itself.

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I liked "Spider" the best, I guess because it was the freshest take on the story - focusing on the rather big story of the engineering challenges, rather than the astronauts and the specific events of a mission. Not that there's anything wrong with the latter: just that it's been done.

Which is by no means an indictment of the freshness of the other episodes. The great strength of the series was that it brought a new take or a unusual angle to every episode, which was quite an accomplishment. It made the series not just fresh, but enlightening and entertaining.

The Apollo 13 one was the only one where, to my taste, they worked a little too hard to come at it from another angle. I suppose that's only natural, given the fact it had just recently been the subject of a thoughtful and well-made movie.

I also very much liked the Apollo 12 one ("That's All There Is"), which managed to be original and fun without really going outside the usual frame of the story.

The Apollo 11 one ("Mare Tranquilitatis") was also tricky, as it's one of the most covered - in immense detail - stories in history. I liked how they brought the focus in incredibly close, so you really had a sense of what it was like to be two guys sweating out immediate problems while standing in an expensive tin-cannish contraption that just happened to be a couple hundred thousand miles from (nearly) everyone else alive.

"That's All There is" for no historical reason, It was just the most entertaining.

"Can We Do This?" and "Spider" Great opening, great casts. It really hits home the monumental task ahead of these people.

I'm not sure why but my biggest favorite was the one about Apollo 15 Galileo was Right. I think it's because when it comes to science and inspiration it had the biggest impact on me. The way they get really in depth on examining the moon. I first saw it when I was in high school and it really inspired me to get my butt in gear start acing those math and science classes.

I have three second favs. The first two about the Gemini programs and Apollo 1 I thought was an excellent opening. Spider was another fav because I love the technical and engineering inspiration of that one while building the LEM.

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"Spider." It's my go-to if I'm depressed. Usually in a pair with "And That's All There Is." Also love the first episode--what a tracking shot!--and "Galileo Was Right" and, lately, "First Wives Club" and "1968." I turned 12 in 1968 and remember that whole crazy year. "You saved 1968" indeed!

Heck, I love all of them. Have trouble watching the Apollo 13 episode, though, because of how they treat Emmett Seaborn.

Thats just too hard to pick, some make me tear up, but I think the one with Al Bean was a riot.

Le voyage dans la lune. I loved the parallelism of the film with the last apollo mission. 1968 comes afterwards.