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As NASA prepares the most powerful rocket ever built, four astronauts train for the most ambitious crewed mission in more than half a century. In spite of major setbacks, NASA choose to press on with the mission. With unprecedented access, National Geographic cameras are embedded at the heart of the mission, following the astronauts, their families and the engineers carrying the weight of history, from training and launch to the nerve-shredding return journey home. We travel with the crew inside the Orion capsule, as they journey farther from Earth than any humans before, around the far side of the Moon and home again in a blazing fireball that marks a new chapter in space exploration.