The last programme rushed through the history, but it didn't (to me) have a rushed feel, perhaps because of the narration filling in what the drama could not depict (for instance, the observation that a new Gemini mission was being launched practically every two weeks). But what this last programme also made clear -- and what should have been obvious from the voice-over introduction to each episode -- was that this was less a history of the race to the Moon than a story of the rivalry between the leaders of the competing efforts.

Perhaps the fact that people such as you and I know more of the history of this stuff than the so-called average viewer meant that we tended to overlook that point, focusing on what was being dramatised rather than the drama's overall perspective. But I thought the last episode brought out and pointed up that rivalry very well.

Although I'm sure that one piece of archive footage used was actually doctored. I'm sure that the Soviet probe sent to the Moon to try to steal some of the glory from Armstrong and Aldrin did not appear as a moving point of light in the background of the footage of them bouncing around in front of the LEM!