Ed Dwight Jr.

Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a national blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the trailblazing astronauts who became the first African American, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.

Uzay Yarışı; ABD, Rusya ve Küba'yı kapsayan karmaşık bir Soğuk Savaş propagandası ve Sivil Haklar kazaları ağı olan, uzaya ilk siyahi adamı gönderme yarışının ardındaki az bilinen hikayeyi ortaya çıkarır. Tarihçiler tarafından "soğuk savaşın son muharebesi" olarak adlandırılan, tarihimizi şekillendirmiş ideolojik bir savaşta her bir ülke tarafından savunulan ve sıklıkla birer simge olarak kullanılan üç adamı dinliyoruz.

America's experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race are well documented. However, few know about the moment these two worlds collided, when the White House and NASA scrambled to put the first black astronaut into orbit. This is the untold story of the decades-long battle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be the first superpower to bring diversity to the skies, told by the black astronauts and their families, who were part of this little known chapter of the Cold War.

The 1950s and 1960s witnessed an unprecedented surge in space exploration, led by the USA and the USSR. This rivalry aka the ‘Space Race’ – climaxed with the greatest technological achievement in human history: the Apollo Moon Landings. The doc recaptures the drama of this competition for supremacy, which went on to define the nuclear age and explores the uneasy alliance between visionary rocket engineers and politicians’ desire for military supremacy. From the first satellite to the first man on the moon, and its impact on the Cold War, the doc shows how the race was about more than missiles: it was also a question of surveillance, espionage, and the possibilities for living in space.