From the Earth to the Moon

[HBO] HD. 'Can We Do This?' New astronauts undertake a series of groundbreaking but risky Earth-orbit missions.

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.

[HBO] HD. 'We Have Cleared the Tower.' A documentary film crew follows the final preparations for the first manned Apollo launch.

1968 was looking very bleak, but then NASA took a bold step sending the Apollo 8 on the first mission towards the moon.

After sending three men into orbit around the moon, landing them on the surface was the next goal.

[HBO] HD. 'Mare Tranquilitatis.' Conflicts, disastrous simulations and a series of last-minute crises threaten the success of Apollo 11.

Due to an accident, some astronauts had to be replaced. That's how Allan Bean got to join the Apollo 12 mission.

The problems with the Apollo 13 have the entire world on the edge of their seat, and the press is closely chasing the big news.

America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, is grounded with an inner-ear disorder. A thankless new desk job starts to look permanent, until fate -- and surgery -- bring him a chance to rescue the space program.

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.

The astronauts' wives had to make some sacrifices throughout the Apollo project and cope with the prospect of losing their loved ones.

The bittersweet end of the Apollo program -- the final manned journey to another planet -- is juxtaposed with a light-hearted re-creation of the first cinematic imagining of such an endeavor, the 1902 French silent classic "Voyage to the Moon."