Narrator Lee Marvin standing on a seashore. U.S. astronauts heading to their capsule for launch on mission to first man on the moon. Launch service structures falling away, as rocket launch is completing countdown in launch of Saturn V rocket carrying Apollo 11 mission to the moon. View of Mission Control operations center during Apollo 11. Glimpse of the earth from the moon and sound of Neil Armstrong on radio to Houston Control Center, "Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." View shifts to Houston Control Center. View of the Lunar Module, Eagle, descending and landing on the moon surface, July 20, 1969. Next, a view of Neil Armstrong descending ladder from the Lunar lander and taking the first step onto the moon by a human, and then moving about on the lunar surface, on July 21, 1969. View of seashore, again, where birds are walking on the wet sand. Flock of birds flying above breaking surf. Aerial view of Hoover Dam. A road being built in rugged wilderness. View of the Panama Canal. Aerial view from helicopter flying very close to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Popular 1970s vocal group the "5th Dimension" sings the song " A pocketful of seeds" by Elliot Willensky as they dance. Scenes of engineers working in the background, on screen, on various engineering projects in the United States. Engineers working at night. Men build railway track.
View of building and skyscrapers at a city in United States. Civilians seated in classroom listen to a lecture on civil defense. Woman instructor at blackboard points out to phonetic alphabet chart. Factory workers listen to the lecture and ask questions. A Sergeant with model planes in hand, explains and demonstrates to the class.
Men get out of a car and walk up to an observation tower. Observers look through binoculars. Man comes out of shack on top of the tower. Woman at window of shack makes notations. Civilians learn about interception at a control and intercept station. Men and women learn to place marker on a flat control board.
United States Airmen work at filter center. Men receive call at an Interceptor station. Officer speaks over phone. Pilots get into jeep and drive away. They get into cockpit of an airplane. Two jet planes speed along for take off on runway.
United States Air Force Lieutenant sits in front of radar scope unit. Air Force personnel in the background perform other duties with radar scope. Lieutenant scans scope and gives information on phone for United States air defense.
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