![Chasing the Moon](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/noxwHdVkzY8hd8BqdLsLZvDAHgQ.jpg)
1 Season
3 Episode
Chasing the Moon - Season 1 Episode 1 A Place Beyond the Sky
On 4 October 1957, Soviet scientists launched Sputnik 1 - a beach ball-sized, radio-transmitting aluminium alloy sphere - into orbit. The satellite caused a sensation. Amid Cold War tensions, the Soviet Union’s accomplishment signalled a dramatic technological advantage and American felt it had little choice but to join the Space Race.
- Year: 2019
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: moon, soviet union, u.s. air force, john f. kennedy, moon landing, space, astronaut, space race, space exploration, usa history, timeline, 1960s, american experience, apollo program, lunar mission, apollo, buzz aldrin, historcial, history and legacy, human history, american history, explorator pioneer
- Director: Robert Stone
- Cast: Sergei Khrushchev, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Frank Borman, Yuri Gagarin