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When the Soviet Union lands a cosmonaut on the Moon in June of 1969, NASA and the Nixon administration deal with the fallout ahead of Apollo 11's flight. The people at NASA are allowed a weekend off to DrownTheirSorrows or do whatever they need to get back on track, but soon NASA announces they are back in the race, with Gene Kratz giving a RousingSpeech ahead of the landing of Apollo 11. Meanwhile we are introduced to the private problems of a bunch of NASA astronauts and their wives.
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When the Soviet Union lands a cosmonaut on the Moon in June of 1969, NASA and the Nixon administration deal with the fallout ahead of Apollo 11's flight. The people at NASA are allowed a weekend off to DrownTheirSorrows imbibe and or do whatever they need to get back on track, but soon NASA announces they are back in the race, with Gene Kratz giving a RousingSpeech ahead of the landing of Apollo 11. Meanwhile we are introduced to the private problems of a bunch of NASA astronauts and their wives.
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* DartboardOfHate: following the Russians' successful Moon Landing; the NASA Astronauts get pissed and pin the newspaper headline of Alexi Leonov on the Moon to a dartboard while patrons toss their beer bottles at it.
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* ((Foreshadowing)): Eveybody is watching the moon landing despite it being June 26th and not July 20th.
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* ((Foreshadowing)): {{Foreshadowing}}: Eveybody is watching the moon landing despite it being June 26th and not July 20th.
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* ((Foreshadowing)): Eveybody is watching the moon landing despite it being June 26th and not July 20th.
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* ButterflyEffect: As the country reacts to the Soviets reaching the moon, Ted Kennedy cuts short a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident vacation in Chappaquiddick]] to meet with Congressional leaders on NASA's future.
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* RousingSpeech: Gene Kranz gives one ahead of the launch of Apollo 11, recommitting NASA to sending humans into deep space, and capping off with his iconic line from ''Film/Apollo13'': "Failure is not an option!"
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* RousingSpeech: Gene Kranz gives one ahead of the launch of Apollo 11, recommitting NASA to sending humans into deep space.
--> ''Till a few days ago, I thought I knew what today was all about. I thought it was about being first. Turns out the stakes are much bigger than that. Today is about the future of our country, the future of our world. Because if we fail in our mission today, the United States will turn away from space,and capping off with his iconic line turn away from ''Film/Apollo13'': "Failure the future, bogged down by war poverty and hatred. And the future? The future will belong to the Soviet Union, they will be the ones reaching into space for all of mankind. Now, I want you all to think about what for a moment, what that means for the future to look like the "Marxist-Leninist way of life". But if we succeed, if we succeed in putting Apollo 11 on the moon, we still in this thing, still in the race. The future will be ours to fight for and to win. We put a man on the moon today I guarantee we are not stopping there. We go to Mars, Saturn, the asteroids, the stars, deep space. The galaxy. And then, then we get the answers to the big questions. Are we alone? Is there life out there? I am proud to be a member of this team and I know that we will succeed today in our mission, in putting two Americans on the moon. Because in this room, in this agency, in this country, failure is not an option!"option. Kennedy Launch Control, we are go for launch.''
--> ''Till a few days ago, I thought I knew what today was all about. I thought it was about being first. Turns out the stakes are much bigger than that. Today is about the future of our country, the future of our world. Because if we fail in our mission today, the United States will turn away from space,
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* VisualTitleDrop: The episode's title "Red Moon" appears as a newspaper headline after the Soviet landing.
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* AllThereInTheManual: How did the Soviets make it to the moon in June 1969? The series never tells, but supplementary material reveals the "Soviet von Braun" Sergei Korolev, who in RealLife died in 1966 survived and fixed the problems with the N-1 rocket allowing the Soviet moon landing to proceed and scoop the Americans.
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* AllThereInTheManual: How did the Soviets make it to the moon in June 1969? The series never tells, but supplementary material reveals the "Soviet von Braun" Soviet "Chief Designer", Sergei Korolev, who in RealLife died in 1966 survived the surgery that killed him in 1966 in real life and fixed the problems with the N-1 rocket rocket, allowing the Soviet moon landing to proceed and scoop the Americans.
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** The Apollo 10 lander, used on a test flight to the Moon, was crewed by fictional astronauts Edward Baldwin and Gordo Stevens rather than real-life astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan.
* AngerBornOfWorry: After Ed puts his NASA career in jeopardy, Karen gives him a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. At first it seems that she is being selfish and is angry about losing social status and the perks of being an astronaut's wife but it soon becomes clear that she is worried about Ed. If he goes back to active duty with the Navy, he will most likely be posted to combat duty over Vietnam where he could be hurt and/or killed.
* AngerBornOfWorry: After Ed puts his NASA career in jeopardy, Karen gives him a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. At first it seems that she is being selfish and is angry about losing social status and the perks of being an astronaut's wife but it soon becomes clear that she is worried about Ed. If he goes back to active duty with the Navy, he will most likely be posted to combat duty over Vietnam where he could be hurt and/or killed.
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** The Apollo 10 lander, used on a test flight to the Moon, was is crewed by fictional astronauts Edward Baldwin and Gordo Stevens rather than real-life astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan.
* AngerBornOfWorry: After Ed puts his NASA career in jeopardy, his wife Karen gives him a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. At first it seems that she is being selfish and is angry about losing social status and the perks of being an astronaut's wife but it soon becomes clear that she is worried about Ed. If he goes back to active duty with the Navy, he will most likely be posted to combat duty over Vietnam where he could be hurt and/or killed.
* AngerBornOfWorry: After Ed puts his NASA career in jeopardy, his wife Karen gives him a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. At first it seems that she is being selfish and is angry about losing social status and the perks of being an astronaut's wife but it soon becomes clear that she is worried about Ed. If he goes back to active duty with the Navy, he will most likely be posted to combat duty over Vietnam where he could be hurt and/or killed.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Loads of NASA people are either real historical figures (Gene Kratz, Wernher von Braun, Deke Slayton, a bunch of the Apollo astronauts) or NoCelebritiesWereHarmed versions like Gordo Stevens who may or may not be based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper "Gordo" Cooper]]
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Loads of NASA people are either real historical figures (Gene Kratz, Kranz, Wernher von Braun, Deke Slayton, a bunch of the Apollo astronauts) or NoCelebritiesWereHarmed versions like Gordo Stevens who may or may not be based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper Gordon "Gordo" Cooper]]Cooper]].
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* RousingSpeech: Gene Kratz gives one ahead of the landing of Apollo 11 with the iconic line (taken from the Film/Apollo13 movie) "Failure is not an option"
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Loads of NASA people are either real historical figures (Gene Kratz, Wernher von Braun, Deke Slayton, a bunch of the Apollo astronauts) or NoCelebritiesWereHarmed versions like Gordo Stevens who may or may not be based on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper "Gordo" Cooper]
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Loads of NASA people are either real historical figures (Gene Kratz, Wernher von Braun, Deke Slayton, a bunch of the Apollo astronauts) or NoCelebritiesWereHarmed versions like Gordo Stevens who may or may not be based on [https://en.[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper "Gordo" Cooper]Cooper]]
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* RousingSpeech: Gene Kratz gives one ahead of the landing of Apollo 11 with the iconic line (taken from the Apollo 13 movie) "FailureIsNotAnOption"
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* RousingSpeech: Gene Kratz gives one ahead of the landing of Apollo 11 with the iconic line (taken from the Apollo 13 Film/Apollo13 movie) "FailureIsNotAnOption""Failure is not an option"
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When the Soviet Union lands a cosmonaut on the Moon in June of 1969, NASA and the Nixon administration deal with the fallout ahead of Apollo 11's flight.
flight. The people at NASA are allowed a weekend off to DrownTheirSorrows or do whatever they need to get back on track, but soon NASA announces they are back in the race, with Gene Kratz giving a RousingSpeech ahead of the landing of Apollo 11. Meanwhile we are introduced to the private problems of a bunch of NASA astronauts and their wives.
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* ICouldHaveBeenAContender: Ed is convinced he and Gordo could have landed on the Moon during Apollo 10 (which was a test flight ahead of Apollo 11) despite the tighter fuel margins.
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* ICouldHaveBeenAContender: ICouldaBeenAContender: Ed is convinced he and Gordo could have landed on the Moon during Apollo 10 (which was a test flight ahead of Apollo 11) despite the tighter fuel margins.
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** The Russians land on the Moon first, just a few weeks before Apollo 11 was scheduled to launch.
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** The Russians land on the Moon first, just a few weeks before Apollo 11 was scheduled to launch. They've apparently been making semi-regular use of the massive [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket) N-1 rocket]], which in real life never made it to orbit.
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* HistoricalInJoke: The first cosmonaut to land on the Moon is Alexei Leonov. In real life, had the Soviets gone to the moon, Leonov really was expected to be the first cosmonaut to walk on the surface.
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* HistoricalInJoke: The first cosmonaut to land on the Moon is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Leonov Alexei Leonov. Leonov]]. In real life, had the Soviets gone to the moon, Leonov really was expected to be the first cosmonaut to walk on the surface.surface.
* ICouldHaveBeenAContender: Ed is convinced he and Gordo could have landed on the Moon during Apollo 10 (which was a test flight ahead of Apollo 11) despite the tighter fuel margins.
* ICouldHaveBeenAContender: Ed is convinced he and Gordo could have landed on the Moon during Apollo 10 (which was a test flight ahead of Apollo 11) despite the tighter fuel margins.
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* AllohistoricalAllusion: Leonov's first words upon landing include the phrase "one small step", although the context is [[PropagondaMachine somewhat different]].
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* AnderBornOfWorry: After Ed puts his NASA career in jeopardy, Karen gives him a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. At first it seems that she is being selfish and is angry about losing social status and the perks of being an astronaut's wife but it soon becomes clear that she is worried about Ed. If he goes back to active duty with the Navy, he will most likely be posted to combat duty over Vietnam where he could be hurt and/or killed.
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* AnderBornOfWorry: AngerBornOfWorry: After Ed puts his NASA career in jeopardy, Karen gives him a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. At first it seems that she is being selfish and is angry about losing social status and the perks of being an astronaut's wife but it soon becomes clear that she is worried about Ed. If he goes back to active duty with the Navy, he will most likely be posted to combat duty over Vietnam where he could be hurt and/or killed.
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* WhamLime: The lunar lander pilot steps onto the Moon's surface... and then starts speaking Russian.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: While drowning his sorrows in a bar, Ed tells a reporter that he thinks NASA lost the Moon race because they became too cautious after the Apollo 1 fire. His words end up in the news the following week, and Slayton and von Braun pull him from Apollo 15 as punishment.
* AllohistoricalAllusion: Leonov's first words upon landing include the phrase "one small step", although the context is [[PropagondaMachine somewhat different]].
* AlternateHistory:
** The Russians land on the Moon first, just a few weeks before Apollo 11 was scheduled to launch.
** The Apollo 10 lander, used on a test flight to the Moon, was crewed by fictional astronauts Edward Baldwin and Gordo Stevens rather than real-life astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan.
* AnderBornOfWorry: After Ed puts his NASA career in jeopardy, Karen gives him a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. At first it seems that she is being selfish and is angry about losing social status and the perks of being an astronaut's wife but it soon becomes clear that she is worried about Ed. If he goes back to active duty with the Navy, he will most likely be posted to combat duty over Vietnam where he could be hurt and/or killed.
* ComingInHot: Happens to Apollo 11 even worse than the real version, after which NASA spends several agonizing hours trying to reestablish contact. Luckily, they did survive.
* DeathGlare: Ed, watching Leonov walk on the Moon, glares at the TV like it just ran over his dog.
* DrowningMySorrows: The astronauts all head to the bar after the Soviet moon landing...which causes Ed to spill his guts to a reporter about how he thinks NASA lost its balls after the Apollo 1 disaster.
* HistoricalInJoke: The first cosmonaut to land on the Moon is Alexei Leonov. In real life, had the Soviets gone to the moon, Leonov really was expected to be the first cosmonaut to walk on the surface.
* WhamLime: The lunar lander pilot steps onto the Moon's surface... and then starts speaking Russian.
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!!This episode provides examples of:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: While drowning his sorrows in a bar, Ed tells a reporter that he thinks NASA lost the Moon race because they became too cautious after the Apollo 1 fire. His words end up in the news the following week, and Slayton and von Braun pull him from Apollo 15 as punishment.
* AllohistoricalAllusion: Leonov's first words upon landing include the phrase "one small step", although the context is [[PropagondaMachine somewhat different]].
* AlternateHistory:
** The Russians land on the Moon first, just a few weeks before Apollo 11 was scheduled to launch.
** The Apollo 10 lander, used on a test flight to the Moon, was crewed by fictional astronauts Edward Baldwin and Gordo Stevens rather than real-life astronauts Thomas Stafford and Gene Cernan.
* AnderBornOfWorry: After Ed puts his NASA career in jeopardy, Karen gives him a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. At first it seems that she is being selfish and is angry about losing social status and the perks of being an astronaut's wife but it soon becomes clear that she is worried about Ed. If he goes back to active duty with the Navy, he will most likely be posted to combat duty over Vietnam where he could be hurt and/or killed.
* ComingInHot: Happens to Apollo 11 even worse than the real version, after which NASA spends several agonizing hours trying to reestablish contact. Luckily, they did survive.
* DeathGlare: Ed, watching Leonov walk on the Moon, glares at the TV like it just ran over his dog.
* DrowningMySorrows: The astronauts all head to the bar after the Soviet moon landing...which causes Ed to spill his guts to a reporter about how he thinks NASA lost its balls after the Apollo 1 disaster.
* HistoricalInJoke: The first cosmonaut to land on the Moon is Alexei Leonov. In real life, had the Soviets gone to the moon, Leonov really was expected to be the first cosmonaut to walk on the surface.
* WhamLime: The lunar lander pilot steps onto the Moon's surface... and then starts speaking Russian.
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