America's Secret Space Heroes

America's Secret Space Heroes

America's Secret Space Heroes

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America's Secret Space Heroes

2017- 2017

1 Seasons

6 Episodes

7.0(1 votes)

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The inside stories of how the unknown engineers of NASA created such superior machines as the Saturn V moon rocket, the Space Shuttle, and the Hubble Space Telescope, often against incredible odds.

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