Examines rocket science and aerospace advancements including X-1 and X-15 rocket planes, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, Saturn V rocket and Soviet space disasters. Footage of groundbreaking research from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Lovelace Clinic and Edwards Air Force Base. Interviews with Walter Cronkite, Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield, James Lovell, Frank Borman, Gene Cernan, Wally Schirra and Gene Krantz.

12 television episodes. DVD features: Interviews, photo gallery, scene selection, index

[Disc one] The rocketeers ; The last empty sky ; The high ground ; Mercury rising -- [disc 2] Missles to the moon ; The learning curve ; Go fever ; Ten times faster than a rifle bullet -- [disc 3] We choose to go to the moon ; Before this decade is out ; The universe strikes back ; The last man on the moon.