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Blast-off with the Old Inspector to Florida's amazing Space Coast, home of the Kennedy Space Center and the Astronaut Hall of Fame! Feel the jolt of breaking through the earth's atmosphere inside a G-force simulator, watch the successful take-off of the Endeavor space shuttle, and get a taste of life in outer space inside the Virtual Reality Space Station. Even trek along the moon's surface in a lunar rover with Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, and watch as Alan Shepard hits a quarter of a mile golf drive off the moon. On his mission to uncover the mysteries of early flight, the Inspector heads to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. Here, he is able to check out such remarkable instruments as Otto Lilienthal's Glider, The Wright Brothers' Flyer, and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. He breaks the sound barrier with Chuck Yeager and even checks out modern flying machines, such as the Gemini 4 spacecraft, the Skylab 4 Command Module and a hypersonic rocket.
Season number: 1
Episode number: 25
Runtime: 22 minutes