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.
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