Cast
The miniseries has a fairly large cast, driven in part by the fact that it portrays 30 of the 32 astronauts who flew (or were preparing to fly) the 12 missions of the Apollo program. (The only two Apollo astronauts not portrayed by credited actors are Apollo 13 Command Module pilot Jack Swigert, and Apollo 17 Command Module pilot Ronald Evans.) Members of many of the astronauts' families, and other NASA and non-NASA personnel, are also portrayed.
Several fictional (or fictionalized) characters are also included, notably television newscaster Emmett Seaborn (Lane Smith) who appears in 9 of the 11 episodes.
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