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.
Direction
Altman's restless camera trapped in sterile NASA corridors
Acting
Young Caan and Duvall before they became icons
Production
Authentic pre-moon landing anxiety, no CGI safety net
Director
Robert Altman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Altman was fired during editing; the studio re-cut without him. What survived is still unmistakably his.
Released two years before Apollo 11, this captured real uncertainty about whether moon landing was possible — or survivable.
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