Inspiroiva tositarina kolmesta periksiantamattomasta afroamerikkalaisesta naisnerosta, jotka tekivät käänteentekevää työtä NASA:lla. Katherine Johnson, Dorythy Vaughn ja Mary Jacksontoimivat historiallisesti merkittävän operaation aivoina, kun astronautti John Glenn lähetettiin ensimmäisen kerran avaruuteen. Tämä mullistava saavutus palautti kansallisen itsetunnon ja toi USA:n vahvasti mukaan avaruuskilpailuun Neuvostoliiton rinnalle. Nämä ihmistietokoneiksikin kutsutut naiset kaatoivat aikanaan sukupuoli- ja roturaja-aitoja, ja ovat rohkaisseet tulevia sukupolvia tavoittelemaan unelmiaan.
Kipinät sinkoilevat, kun NASA:n julkisuuskuvaa kiillottamaan palkattu markkinoinnin ihmelapsi Kelly Jones tekee laukaisujohtaja Cole Davisin ennestäänkin vaikeasta tehtävästä yhtä hullunmyllyä. Presidentti ei salli tehtävän epäonnistua, joten Jones saa tehtäväkseen lavastaa varajärjestelynä kuuhun laskeutumisen, jolloin lähtölaskenta alkaa toden teolla...
Neuvostoliittolaiset ampuvat 4.10.1957 Sputnikinsa avaruuteen ja USA lähtee todenteolla kilpaan mukaan. Parhaat koelentäjät valitaan ja heitä aletaan kouluttaa avaruusmiehiksi. Alkaa kova testaus, jonka tuloksena valitaan seitsemän miestä jatkoon; Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Gordon Cooper, Virgil Grissom ja Donald Slayton. Heistä tulee välittömästi sankareita. Kilpailu avaruuden herruudesta kiihtyy kun Neuvostoliitto lähettää avaruuteen Titovin.
Apollo 11 on elokuva, joka katsoo puolen vuosisadan taakse. Todd Douglas Miller on tehnyt dokumentin ihmisen ensimmäisestä kuumatkasta, josta tulee tänä kesänä kuluneeksi 50 vuotta. Elokuva on koottu hiljan löytyneistä 65mm aarteista sekä yli 11 000 tunnin määrästä äänitteitä. Elokuva vie katsojan NASA:n kuuluisimmalle missiolle, joka vei ihmisen kuukävelylle ja teki Neil Armstrongista ja Buzz Aldrinista kaikille tuttuja nimiä. Elokuvassa näemme kuumatkan ja sitä edeltäneet päivät sekä astronauttien että sitä maasta seuraavien näkökulmista.
Carpet dealer and UFO photo forger Arif is abducted by aliens and must outwit the evil commander-in-chief of G.O.R.A., the planet where he is being held.
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
A Soviet scientific expedition is being prepared as the world's first mission to planet Mars. Their space ship Homeland has been built at a space station, where the expedition awaits the command to start. An American ship Typhoon experiencing mechanical problems arrives at the same space station, secretly having the same plans for the conquest of the Red Planet. Trying to stay ahead of Soviets, they start without proper preparation, and soon are again in distress. The Homeland changes course to save the crew of Typhoon. They succeed, but find that their fuel reserves are now insufficient to get to Mars. So Homeland makes an emergency landing on an asteroid "Icarus" passing near Mars, on which they are stranded. After an attempt to send a fuel supply by unmanned rocket fails, another ship Meteor is sent with a cosmonaut on a possibly suicidal mission, to save the stranded cosmonauts.
The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio reports, newly transferred & previously unheard NASA mission audio recordings, and more rare & unseen material.
After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for spaceflight.
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.
Neil Armstrong's family and friends, many of whom have never spoken publicly before, tell the story of the first man to set foot on the moon. Drawing heavily on unbroadcast archive footage and the unique perspectives of the contributors, this is an exclusive account of Neil Armstrong's extraordinary life story. From his childhood during America's Great Depression to the heady days of the space programme, his historic first step on the Moon and his famously private later life. Seen through the eyes of those who were with him, the film explores the man behind the myth, a man who was very much a product of his time. The film goes beyond his days as an astronaut and shows that his life after the flight of Apollo 11 was, in many ways equally challenging, as Armstrong came to terms with life outside NASA and the relentless demands of fame until his death in August 2012.
In the mid-1960's, after the success of Project Mercury, the need to master long-duration missions and extravehicular activity resulted in Project Gemini, which provided the seasoning in men and machines that led to the first American spacewalk... and paved the way for ultimate victory in the race to the Moon. This 3-disc set chronicles America's bold new program with comprehensive footage from the film and videotape records of Project Gemini. Includes original Project Gemini documentary, complete 16mm onboard film from all the flights, footage from each mission preparation, launch and recovery. With rare bonus footage of the Gemini spacecraft, Titan launch vehicle, crew training activities and more. Runtime is over 6 hours. NOTE: Some of the tracks do not contain audio.
Janet recalls the summer during her teenage years when her family moved yet again for her father's job with NASA, including him teaching her to drive and her meeting her first boyfriend.
July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lands on the surface of the Moon. Such a feat was apparently performed to the greater glory of all mankind, but actually it marked the end of the space race disputed by the two great superpowers of the time in their eagerness to arrive before and the beginning of the spread of the Cold War into space. Nowadays, the struggle continues, but the main competitors and their purposes are others.
July 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are 240,000 miles from earth facing the most hazardous venture in the history of space flight; the first human landing on another world. They'll succeed, abort, or die in the attempt.
On July 16, 1969, hundreds of thousands of spectators and an army of reporters gathered at Cape Kennedy to witness one of the great spectacles of the century: the launch of Apollo 11. Over the next few days, the world watched on with wonder and rapture as humankind prepared for its "one giant leap" onto the moon--and into history. Witness this incredible day, presented through stunning, remastered footage and interviews that takes you behind-the-scenes and inside the spacecraft, Mission Control, and the homes of the astronaut's families.
Melvin Byrd, who dreams of being a scientist, is a Cape Kennedy "miniscule molecular particle surveillance monitor" - in short, a janitor. His job is to keep a major rocket project completely dust-free, and this he does with his own hilariously fantastic inventions - including a literal attack on dirt by a "knight on a white horse". In his work, he meets Judy, a chimp involved in a top-secret project, which leads Melvin into the one room strictly off-limits to him. Not until he has entered the project room does Melvin learn that any man entering it will be negatively ionized - making him fly like a bird.
A documentary charting the rigors of the Russian space program, where the symbol of national pride would justify the most demanding training conditions.
The '60s. Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia, two amateur radio enthusiasts, listened to sound from space with home-built equipment in their hometown of Turin. But one night, they recorded something quite different from the usual static that would change their lives forever...