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UNITED STATES · 1968

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Robert Altman
space race astronaut training isolation Cold War competition NASA
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Synopsis

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.

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