Part one of a two-part series on the subject of man in space, NOVA examines the history of NASA - from the origin of the space race through the triumph of the Apollo programs. By tracing the history of three key programs - Mercury, Gemini, Apollo - we show how the basic challenges surrounding space flight were answered: rendezvous and docking, life support, weightlessness, space sickness, equipment reliability and so on.

NOVA Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - In The Event of Catastrophe
• s05e02 - The Green Machine
• s05e03 - Blueprints in the Bloodstream
• s05e04 - One Small Step
• s05e05 - The Final Frontier
• s05e06 - BaMiki BaNdula: Children of the Forest
• s05e07 - Trial of Denton Cooley
• s05e08 - The Great Wine Revolution
• s05e09 - The Case of the Ancient Astronauts
• s05e10 - The Mind Machines
• s05e11 - Icarus' Children
• s05e12 - Still Waters
• s05e13 - Battle for the Acropolis
• s05e14 - Road To Happiness
• s05e15 - Light of the 21st Century
• s05e16 - The Insect Alternative
• s05e17 - The Desert's Edge
• s05e18 - The Tse Tse Trap
• s05e19 - Memories From Eden
• s05e20 - A Whisper From Space
• s05e21 - Alaska: The Closing Frontier

NOVA Show Summary

Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science based television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won many major television awards, most of them many times over.