A four-star general begrudgingly teams up with an eccentric scientist to get the U.S. military's newest agency — Space Force — ready for lift-off.

The story of the United States' space program, from its beginnings in 1961 to the final moon mission in 1972.

Space is a television mini-series. It is based on a novel of the same name by James A. Michener published in 1982.

A propulsive, paranoid thriller that takes us back to the key moment in the alt-history retelling of the space race — when the Soviet Union became the first nation to put a man on the moon. But this time, the story is explored from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward.

This is the story of the unsung heroes who took America into space.