8.4K views · 93 reactions | Apollo: Missions To The Moon shares rare NASA footage and interviews that capture the mission to land Americans on the moon. Here's the story about how this documentary came together. | National Geographic TV | Facebook

The Apollo program "really was an iconic engineering feat," says Philip Jacknis, a mechanical and industrial engineer who worked on the lunar module. "Nobody had ever built a spacecraft that would pilot a man to the moon." In this video, we speak to the engineers whose hard work and ingenuity helped us take that giant leap in 1969. Building the Apollo vehicle was no ordinary project. In order to land on the moon, which no one had ever before accomplished, the engineers had to do things they had

423K views · 5.2K reactions | “Apollo 8 probably remains as the most significant mission ever flown.” —Chris Kraft, NASA's first Flight Director  View of the surface of the Moon through a window of the Apollo 8 Command Module, December 1968 | NASA History | Facebook