Soyuz spaceships dock in orbit and cosmonauts make a mess while playing with their food as the Space Rules Film Festival takes you to the USSR (or CCCP) in Four in the Cosmos.
Space exploration in the 1960s captured the public’s imagination because it was promoted as exciting, dangerous and heroic. The John Glenn Story captures the spirit of the dawning space age. America’s most enthusiastic space fan, President Kennedy, introduces this film about astronaut John Glenn’s first orbital flight in the Mercury capsule Friendship Seven. - Space Rules Film Festival
Follow astronaut Alan Shepard as he prepares for and then flies aboard Freedom Seven becoming the first American in space in this NASA film about the Mercury Program from 1961. - Space Rules Film Festival
Parkes Radio Telescope in the early 1960s. Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. (via CSIRO)
‘From 8 minutes and 51 seconds after the TV was switched on (and some 6 minutes and 42 seconds after the first step), the world witnessed the historic 2 1/2 hour Apollo 11 moonwalk from pictures received by the Parkes Radio Telescope’ (CSIRO).
