Web/TV Resource: Mon. 2/26 PBS Race to the Moon

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Teachers News from American Experience: Race to the Moon

Teachers' News from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
http://www.pbs.org/amex

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In this issue:
- AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Reprises RACE TO THE MOON
- Explore RACE TO THE MOON Online

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Reprises RACE TO THE MOON
Monday, February 26 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings)

This Friday in movie theaters across the country, a film called
"The Astronaut Farmer" opens. It tells the fictional story of a
farmer who builds a rocket in his barn and attempts a one-man
mission to launch it into space. Admittedly, it sounds a bit
outlandish.

In 1968, the idea of strapping three men into a rocket that would
orbit the moon and return safely to earth seemed equally crazy.
NASA scientists didn't know that they could pull it off; one
astronaut told his wife his chances of returning home were 50-50.

Yes on Christmas Eve, one of the largest audiences in television
history tuned in to an extraordinary sight: a live telecast of
the moon's surface as seen from Apollo 8, the first manned space
flight to leave Earth's gravitational pull and orbit the moon.
The historic journey captivated people around the world.

On Monday, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE revisits the story of Apollo 8
with RACE TO THE MOON. Tune in to see a story that's even better
than fiction.

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Explore RACE TO THE MOON Online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/index.html

Crew Conversations
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/sfeature/sf_audio.html

Listen in on the Apollo 8 crew with these onboard recordings.

Astronaut Families
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/sfeature/sf_families.html

What was it like to grow up in an astronaut's family? Read these
questions and answers.

Space Race Diary.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/sfeature/sf_diary.html

In the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union were locked
in a race to reach the moon -- all part of the Cold War. Read the
diary a Russian cosmonaut wrote during those years.

Teacher's Guide
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/moon/tguide/index.html

Share this incredible story with your students and explore the
tumultuous year of 1968.

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