History format that shows how the state of California, its lifestyle and innovative power have turned the world upside down since the 1950s.

Part 1: Test lab for the world In the 1950s, California was to make the impossible possible: A trip to the moon. Hollywood, Free Speech and the Hippie movement inspired the entire world. Until the mid-60s, when the California dream was shaken by race riots, the Vietnam War and the Apollo 1 disaster.In the 1950s, California started to make the world a better place. But not just the space race took its toll. The pioneer state soon faced a major crisis. Preparing humanity's greatest mission, several setbacks robbed the golden state its wings.—Spiegel TV