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PBS to mark moon landing anniversary

PBS in the US has partnered with Academy Award nominee Robert Stone on a documentary series about the Space Race for its historical strand American Experience.

Chasing the Moon (4×60′) will use archive footage to explore the earliest beginnings of the race to put a man on the moon through to the first lunar landing in 1969.

The series will premiere on PBS in 2019 during the 50th anniversary year of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It will be executive produced by Mark Samels and produced and directed by Robert Stone (Earth Days).

It is Stone’s eighth project for American Experience and will be distributed outside the US by PBS International.

Ballantine Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, will publish the book Chasing the Moon, by Stone and writer/researcher Alan Andres, to coincide with the PBS premiere.

“When we think of that breathtaking moment of the 1969 moon landing, we forget what a turbulent time that was,” said Samels, American Experience executive producer.

“The country was dealing with huge problems – Vietnam, poverty, race riots – and there was a lot of scepticism about the space programme. Chasing the Moon explores the unbelievably complex challenges that NASA was able to overcome.”

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