While the producers of this series no doubt are hoping we space
geeks will spread the word about it, they are aiming to capture
everyone possible as an audience, and that includes people who
wouldn't know a Saturn V from a Saturn automobile.

Let's just be glad someone bothered enough to present space
history on television and at least show some things that haven't
been seen fully and clearly in ages.

And I am glad to see they will be focusing on the Gemini missions,
which had their share of exciting adventures that most people
don't know about and it was the favorite spacecraft of most of
the astronauts.

Plus, the era of 1965-1966 was one of the high points of the
Space Age for both the US and USSR: Not only a bunch of
manned space firsts (EVA, rendezvous, multiman crews, docking,
being boosted up to 800 miles altitude by a rocket), but those
years saw the first soft lunar landings, first lunar orbiters, first
successful Mars flyby, and the first landing on Venus, sorta.

And in 1965, they discovered the 3K cosmic background radiation
that gave proof to the Big Bang start of the Universe.