American Experience: Chasing The Moon - American Experience: Chasing The Moon - Blu-ray

The panorama of America's race to space-from the late '50s urgency to catch up with the Soviets to the immediate aftermath of man's setting foot on the Moon-is exhaustively and absorbingly recounted in this epic "American Experience" offering. Drawing from thought-lost and overlooked archival materials, and offering the observations of crucial figures including astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Frank Borman, and Bill Anders, light is shed on a pivotal era's struggles for a new age.