Pioneers in Aviation 3of3 The Race to the Moon

The Race to the Moon documents the Cold War era of the 1950s and '60s, as post-war America finds itself locked in an ideological struggle with the Soviet Union. In 1957, the Soviet launch of Sputnik suddenly shifts the Cold War battlefield to space and heralds the decade-long Race to the Moon. President Kennedy turns to the captains of his aviation industry — now in the autumn of their years — with the century’s greatest aerospace challenge. Part 3 of 3.