The Space Race plot
"The untold story of the first black astronauts."
The documentary 'The Space Race' profiles the black pilots, scientists and engineers who joined NASA to serve their country in space, even as their country failed to achieve equality for them on Earth . Since 1963, when the assassination of John F. Kennedy thwarted Ed Dwight's search for the moon, to 2020, when the echoes of the civil unrest sparked by the murder of George Floyd reached the International Space Station, the story of African Americans has been at NASA a history of world events colliding with aspirations of unusual men. The bright dreams of Afrofuturism become reality in this documentary when science fiction is transformed into scientific fact.