If you like seeing stuff about the 1960s Apollo program, this is worth a look-see. There are six eps, and the Science Channel is showing all six tomorrow (at least on my system). Each one details a different “machine” that was necessary for the success of the program, and the obstacles that had to be overcome to achieve it, with interviews with the engineers who worked on it. In one of JFK’s speeches, he claimed that we would go to the moon using technology that had not been invented yet. These detail a lot of the things that had to be “invented,” (or at least greatly improved upon):
Ep 1: The Saturn V Rocket
Ep 2: The Command Module
Ep 3: The Navigation Computer
Ep 4: The Lunar Module
Ep 5: The Space Suit
Ep 6: The Lunar Rover