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  • National Geographic
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  • United States
  • Documentary
Two men, thousands of miles apart, battle for the same goal: a shot at putting a man on the moon. Find out how propaganda, miscalculations and raw fear drove two nations to an obsession with space.

2 episodes

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1x01 Secret Weapons

Series Premiere

1x01 Secret Weapons

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The Cold War superpowers' race for space unfolds in the story of two men: charismatic ex-Nazi Wernher von Braun on the American team and the enigmatic Sergei Korolev, the Soviet project leader

1x02 Race for the Moon

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The Cold War intensifies when Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first human in space. It gets hotter when American Alan Shepherd blasts off 2 weeks later.

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