History premieres 'Apollo Station' coinciding with the 50th anniversary of NASA's first manned mission to the Moon

This production, in collaboration with the production company 100 Balas (The Mediapro Studio), reveals the decisive role of Spain in the arrival of man to the Moon.

Neil Armstrong reaches the moon. His words “it is one small step for man, but one giant leap for humanity” are passed down to posterity. But what does not transcend at that moment is the decisive role played in this feat by a NASA station located in a small Spanish town, Fresnedillas de la Oliva.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of man's arrival on the Moon, next Sunday, July 21 at 10 p.m., History premieres exclusively Apollo Station, su nuevo documental de producción propia, realizado en colaboración con la productora 100 Replies (The Mediapro Studio), que desvela el papel decisivo, y hasta ahora prácticamente desconocido, que tuvo España en el seguimiento de la trayectoria del Apolo 11. Por medio de imágenes inéditas y entrevistas con el personal español que trabajó en la estación madrileña, el canal de televisión aborda esta eminente gesta desde una nueva e inédita perspectiva.

This is not the story of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. It is that of José Manuel and Carlos, the Spanish technicians at the Apollo Station, who were responsible for controlling communications between Earth and Apollo 11 at the same time that the Eagle, the lunar module of the NASA spacecraft, touched the lunar surface. They were the first to hear Armstrong's words: “the Eagle has landed” and to see this image: the module landing on the surface of our satellite. This is his unknown story.

Apollo Station It has the collaboration of a team of professionals who are experts in scientific dissemination. The documentary's script is by Jose A. Pérez Ledo (Orbit Time) and Jesús Mancebón (Challenge your mind), while Pérez Ledo himself is responsible for its direction together with Aitor Gutiérrez (Orbit Time). Apollo Station tells the story of this space station, the facility that NASA had in the Madrid town of Fresnedillas de la Oliva, and that guaranteed contact and communication with the astronauts when Houston, due to the position of the planet, could not do so.

"Man's arrival on the Moon has been studied from multiple perspectives, but perhaps one of the most original, and most unknown, approaches is the role that Spain had in achieving this milestone. Using unpublished images and testimonies from the workers of the Apollo Station, Historia analyzes this historical moment on the occasion of its 50th anniversary," Carolina Godayol, general director of The History Channel Iberia.

The premiere of Apollo Station, on Sunday, July 21 at 10 p.m., is part of the Special 50 years on the Moon, an exclusive programming that also includes the documentary The Nazis and the moon landing (Monday, July 22 at 10 p.m.) and The lost files of the moon landing (Monday, July 22 at 11 p.m., productions that reveal audios, images and videos that reveal the incredible story of humanity's greatest step.