SUNDAY, AUG. 28

Apollo: The Race

Against Time

History Channel, 9 a.m.

Host Steve Thomas visits Nasa, the National Air and Space Museum and the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center to examine historic preservation of U.S. Apollo, Mercury, Gemini and earlier spacecraft of the mid-20th century. He interviews moon surface walkers Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, Gene Cernan and others. Advisory: TV-PG.

MONDAYS-TUESDAYS

Peace of Heart

Forum Classics

Familyland TV

On Mondays at 10 a.m. and Tuesdays at 12 a.m., this series presents the teachings of Redemptionis Sacramentum (The Sacrament of Our Redemption), subtitled “On certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist” and issued on March 25, 2004, by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Its topics include regulation of the liturgy, the proper celebration of Mass, the laity's role at Mass, holy Communion, the reservation of the Eucharist and Eucharistic worship outside Mass.

MON. -WEDS., AUG. 29-31

Classroom: Ellis Island

History Channel, 6 a.m.

This documentary's three hour-long segments tell the history of the Ellis Island immigration center in New York Harbor and of its predecessor, Castle Garden. On Jan. 1, 1892, Annie Moore, 15, from County Cork, Ireland, and her two brothers became Ellis Island's first “customers”; their parents had arrived three years before.

TUESDAY, AUG. 30

Design on a Dime

Home & Garden TV,

3 p.m., 11 p.m.

A three-member team designs an inexpensive nursery for Ara and Delia Grigorian, who are expecting their first baby.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 1

Life on the Rock

EWTN, 8 p.m., live

Father Francis Mary's guests tonight are “young, radical religious”: sisters of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration, who are happy and fulfilled in their beautiful vocation.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 2

Rome: Engineering an Empire

— Behind the Scenes

History Channel, 11:30 p.m.

If you've ever wanted to know how to produce a large-scale documentary special, this show has the answers. Focusing on a new History Channel two-hour special, this program follows the major production principals — the producer, director, re-enactors, stunt men and special effects personnel — as they achieve their goal of creating a film about the nuts-and-bolts logistics that made ancient Rome's vast conquests possible.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 3

Automobiles: Packard

History Channel, 7 a.m.

This documentary takes us back in time and to Warren, Ohio, the home of Packard Motor Cars, an automobile brand that for the first half of the 20th century exemplified high quality, elegance and striking design. Today, Packards are prized collectibles.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.