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.
Representatives of Navy, Air Force, CAA and other organizations seated in Air Defense Spotter monitoring room. Men seated on table, call and answer phone, give and receive messages. Large vertical plotting board made of Plexiglas. Airmen stand on platform in rear of marking information behind glass. They give hand signals.
Civilian Aircraft Spotter seated on desk in a home speaks over phone. He reads out a message from a sheet of paper lying on table. Man wears binoculars round his neck. He is a participant in U.S. civilian air defense.
Sign board above doorway reads 'Continental Air Command Headquarters'. Military policeman on duty in front of the building. Large radar screen for Air Defense in operation moves in circular motion.
American women volunteers in air defense mark locations on a table layout. Women equipped with microphone and headphones, receive instructions and place markers on locater table. Women raise their hands during the plotting operation. Markers on table show location and direction of aircraft flight.
Pilots stand at desk counter in flight operation room. Major answers phone and delivers message to the pilots. Pilots carrying parachuted and crash helmets run out of the room. Numerous takes of Pilot seated in cockpit of aircraft, wearing helmet and oxygen mask. Pilot's hand on control stick of aircraft shows maneuvering. Pilot operates control stick of the aircraft.
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