13 Minutes to the Moon

“I still have nightmares about this.” Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entering the ... more

Special episode with Nasa legend, flight controller John Aaron. This extended interview ra... more

Special episode with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. An extended interview. The true space... more

The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home and without a guidance computer. Their li... more

“We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.” Carbon dioxide threatens to kill the crew.... more

Power must be brutally rationed after the crew fly around the Moon. As systems are switche... more

The astronauts are fighting for their lives. As the oxygen level plummets, they must escap... more

“We were in deep, deep trouble.” This is Mission Control like you’ve never heard it before... more

“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe would take just the flick of a singl... more

Jump on board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story, told by th... more

Hans Zimmer in a special episode about creating the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. Th... more

“We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where President John F Kennedy made his fa... more

History as it happened, uninterrupted: every word, every crackle, the tension and triumph.... more

History as it happened, explained. Kevin Fong guides us through the descent to the Moon fr... more

We are five and a half minutes to the moon. Tension goes “through the roof”. Neil Armstron... more

The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems. We have ... more

Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded. As N... more

War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. And then NASA took the bigg... more

The computer that got us to the moon. The size of a briefcase, there had never been anythi... more

"You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened 21 mon... more

Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: it was a spacecraft like nothing on Earth... more

The unsung heroes who saved the day. "Here’s some 26-year-old kid, who could stop the luna... more

With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win". To unders... more

The final part of our audio countdown to the launch of 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Kevin ... more

Hans Zimmer has composed the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. It is the first time the ... more

Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham and former Apo... more

The countdown begins. The story of Apollo 11 – coming soon.