Season 1: The Apollo 11 story

How Cold War rivalry fuelled Nasa’s race to land the first astronaut on the Moon

The Moon landing is threatened when an alarm goes off. Can Nasa save the spaceflight?

Without this group of youngsters the first Moon landing wouldn’t have happened.

The extraordinary story of the Eagle spacecraft that landed astronauts on the Moon

Nasa’s ambitions of a Moon landing are threatened by a deadly launchpad inferno

Three astronauts died when a fire broke out during testing of the Command Module

How a briefcase-sized computer pioneered space tech for the first Moon landing

Nasa astronauts circle the Moon as America is rocked by war, assassinations and riots

The story of Michael Collins, the third Apollo astronaut in Nasa’s historic spaceflight

As Eagle began its descent, Collins remained in orbit, on hand if the lunar module failed

The final 13-minute descent to the Moon begins, and it’s all going wrong for Apollo 11

Apollo 11’s mission is on the edge of failure, minutes away from the Moon landing

Flight controller Bob Carlton was tracking the fuel as it burned up before landing

The epic story of the final 13 minutes of the Apollo Moon landing

Nasa archive audio of the astronauts as they make the historic Moon landing

The final minutes before landing were tense, as fuel ran low and connections were lost

Ffity years after the Moon landing, space experts consider a return to the lunar surface

Key events of that year include John and Yoko's Bed-In, the Vietnam War and Woodstock

Hear the full theme music. By Hans Zimmer for Bleeding Fingers Music. #13MinutestotheMoon

Film composer Hans Zimmer reveals how Nasa's iconic Apollo 11 mission inspired his music

A special episode with award winning composer, Hans Zimmer, talking about music and space

The drama, the heroes and the genius that made the Moon landings happen