A Place Beyond the Sky begins in 1957 and tracks the early years of the space race as the United States struggles to catch up with the Soviet Union.
General Note
Originally released by PBS, 2019.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on June 18, 2019.
Content Note
A Place Beyond the Sky: Introduction (3:05); --Apollo 11 (5:17); -- International Relations (3:38); -- Space Race (7:24); -- Wernher von Braun (4:36); -- Advancing U.S. Technology (7:16); -- Soviet Space Program (5:13); -- Project Mercury (3:59); -- Manned Space Flight (6:59); -- U.S. Response to Soviet Space Flight (5:47); -- Race to the Moon (5:00); -- Cocoa Beach (6:01); -- NASA Media Coverage (6:04); -- Time "Life" Magazine (2:30); -- First African American Astronaut Candidate (6:32); -- Impacts of Space Travel (2:12); -- Astronaut Group Two (4:35); -- Kennedy's Space Program Briefing (5:01); -- Kennedy's Rice Stadium Speech (5:22); -- Astronaut Family Life (3:30); -- Lunar Mission Mode (8:06); -- Kennedy's Assassination (3:32); -- Credits: A Place Beyond the Sky (2:01); .