On October 4th, 1957 Sputnik 1 was launched into Orbit by the Soviet Union, demanding a United States response and kickstarting mankind’s journey into space. Less than a year later, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act – officially forming NASA. For the next 65 years the agency has pushed the limits of human spaceflight. In part one of this retrospective, Nightly Films looks into the origins of NASA in start of the Space Race – and the seemingly impossible mission of its early years – to land a man on the moon only eleven years after it was formed.Aug. 2, 2023
