American Experience: Chasing the Moon – Earthrise

Friday, July 31 at 8 p.m.

Join “American Experience” and PBS to relive the journey that defined a generation. “Chasing the Moon” recasts the Space Age as a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama, utilizing a feast of previously overlooked and lost archival material.

Join us on exciting journeys into the origin of space exploration, black hole discoveries and the cosmos during our “Summer of Space!” Watch along this month with special programming from “NOVA,” the new series “Once Upon a Time in Space” and more specials enlightening us about outer space.