1950s Space Movies

America’s space program is undoubtedly one of its greatest modern achievements. Few people cannot recall the famous quote “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” or do not know where it came from. The story leading up to the moment a man walked on the moon, as well as everything that came after, is just as interesting and important as the moment itself. The significance of the history of America’s aeronautics programs cannot possibly be overestimated, and their story is one that is incredibly important to the modern world of today. It would not be the nation that it is, with the technology it possesses, without its crucial involvement in the “space race”. If the technology that sent a man to the moon did not exist, our daily lives would be impacted and basic tools would be missing. Beginning with America’s first official aeronautics organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (or NACA) and continuing through to the present day and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (or NASA), the story of America’s aerospace programs is interesting and extremely important. It is a story that spans many years and giant leaps in technology, and involves important locations like Wallops Flight Facility and Kennedy Space Center. From the early beginnings of NACA and Wallops, and continuing on to the rise and success of NASA and Kennedy Space Center, aeronautics

As of 2017, the United States of America is still the only country in the world to put men on the moon due to the many rockets they made during the 1960’s. These rockets were some revolutionary pieces of technology during the 1960’s because America went from almost nothing on rockets to men on the moon. But there are some rockets that outshone the others because those rockets did great things or they came back from near extinction. The U.S. space program made many different types of rockets during the 1960’s, but the best type of rockets were the Delta rockets, the Atlas rockets, and the Saturn rockets.

One film during the 1960’s that had a great impact on American culture, was Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This film draws attentions to the cultural events in 1960 such as the Cold War and the nuclear threat. Kubrick decided to turn this awful disaster that happened back then into a comedy that a lot of those enjoyed watching.

After WWII, the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies engaged in a series of political, economic, military and technological competitions collectively known as the Cold War, which ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. One product of the Cold War, in particular, is of unique interest: the Space Race. Initially, the Space Race seemed to be extensions of U.S. and Soviet military programs; it then transformed into a technological and political competition between the two aforementioned countries; eventually, the Space Race transcended the concept of competition, and became an international effort of space exploration, and especially, a means for the U.S. and USSR to make amends to their broken relationships.

What are your thoughts on the space race from 1957 to 1975? , do you think it was really worth 18 years? A fun fact that is interesting to me is between the two rivals they wasted about 100 billion dollars in today's dollars. Nevertheless, during the 18 years of the space race there were many missions, and flights that remained as remarkable achievements for the space race history. Although the Soviet Union and the United States were two nations that were rivals since the war known as the ¨cold war" they both managed to make history with some remarkable achievements.

The subject that I chose to research is the Apollo missions. After reading 50 Years of Americans in Space I was amazed and the continuous path of discoveries and exploration. When NASA was just beginning it had a spaceflight program that’s goals were to simply be able to survive out in space. From there they continued to push the boundaries, to try harder and get farther and in 1969 they landed on the moon. Along the way so many questions were asked, theories were tested, and lives were risked and lost.

I think this is a decent film since it has every one of the qualities I'm searching for in a motion picture. It has diversion, activity and sentiment. It additionally has a rousing story that I got to be distinctly inspired by. It was additionally extremely reasonable and dependable. This is currently one of my most loved movies and that says a considerable measure of the amount I preferred it.

What does this tell us about our society? Are we becoming dependent of I-phones (for our way of thinking) and GPS systems for geographical directions to places? Next you’ll be telling me that for our societies way we’ll be dependent on Holograms, which by the way are very simple programs. They remind me when I used to watch Star Trek in the 1970’s. They were for pre-recorded responses,designed to give the impression of intelligence;of thinking.

The 1950s has been a great time for most people. It has been full of new trends, fads, and stars. Overall this is a very happy time in the 1900s. It is full of new beginnings and a lot of fun!

Permit me to begin by sharing the two main reasons I was initially enthusiastic about this film. First of all, the concept of time travel has always fascinated me. In fact, time travel stories were the earliest kinds of science fiction tales I appreciated. Add in a bit of Yuletide magic, and I'm sold.

This film is pretty realistic. I thought that the air battles were pretty realistic. For a film that was made in 1969, the special effects of the planes and the fight scenes were pretty fast-paced and accurate. The fight scenes seem more modern as far as special effects than what I would expect from a movie made in 1969.

During more than 40 years of spaceflight, a lot of things have changed. Today's Space Shuttle is a luxury ship compared to the Mercury capsules that carried the first American astronauts into space. Forty years ago, a lot of people might have had a hard time believing that Americans and Russians would be living together in space on one Space Station. Space probes have visited every planet except Pluto, and a mission there is currently being planned.

What I do love is the setting. Not much of the time period is described in the book, so the movie fills in a lot of the gaps and I really loved what they did. It’s a weird, surreal 70′s version of 90′s or 00′s England, with strange red one piece suits and purple hair and white EVERYTHING. Retro futurism is pretty aesthetically pleasing, I must say. I also enjoyed the Nadsat slang peppered throughout the movie (it’s EVERYWHERE in the book and so annoying to read in the beginning, although by end it became my favorite

In the early years of space exploration, the concept of a reusable spacecraft existed only in science fiction. This, however, changed in 1972 when President Richard Nixon announced the launch of the Space Shuttle Program. The Space Shuttle would have a shape similar to a jet plane and would be able to reenter the atmosphere, safely land in an airstrip and be ready for use again after a thorough maintenance process. Designing this kind of craft would require never-before-seen engineering techniques and inventions, the most famous of which are the insulating tiles that allow it to withstand the very high reentry temperatures, which can reach up to 2300 °F.

I think that this film was amazing with its use of micro hint and underlying meaning. I also suggest that anyone who enjoys a good old fashioned Film noir show have a glance at it if they don’t mind the science fiction being mixed in. The mixture of these two genres has given the detective genre a reboot and has even furthered the love for the science fiction genre.