The Space Race
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2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Victor Glover from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin, Ed Dwight, Victor Glover, and Frank Marshall from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/8C/96/8C9671CA-21B7-C674-E95E-618E670CF3B6/171568_AR4_6088-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin, Ed Dwight, Victor Glover, and Frank Marshall from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Frank Marshall from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortés from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/65/9F/659FE07E-1CF0-EB13-A507-403D6AC2C126/171568_AR4_6047-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortés from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/59/4B/594B7E3B-2FFF-D102-980A-993CF41F958A/171568_AR4_6007-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Ed Dwight from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/30/3B/303B939D-3D7B-BB92-92B1-BD7760070DD3/171568_AR4_5921-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Ed Dwight from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Victor Glover from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/E3/48/E348015B-E57E-9F1A-FC98-46E965B18F0F/171568_AR4_5974-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Victor Glover from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/D2/AC/D2AC0F39-0F43-5B7B-61DC-0FB3D4F367AF/171568_AR4_5948-0x300.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Lisa Cortés from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/1F/1E/1F1E2CE0-0EA1-58FD-1012-2117A20B31B0/171568_AR4_5886-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Lisa Cortés from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Ed Dwight from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/80/74/807466DF-0821-065D-F528-BCF6F9BEE54D/171568_AR3_8801-0x300.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Ed Dwight from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Lisa Cortés, Leland Melvin, Ed Dwight, Victor Glover, and Frank Marshall from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/21/6F/216FE183-8304-640B-8AB8-877034A1C1B6/171568_AR3_8764-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, Lisa Cortés, Leland Melvin, Ed Dwight, Victor Glover, and Frank Marshall from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/BC/48/BC482115-A8FB-229C-6A57-B1DEEF863564/171568_AR3_8757-0x300.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Frank Marshall from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/0C/DB/0CDBF924-F033-5D3C-51ED-F527090802A4/171568_AR3_8752-0x300.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Frank Marshall from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Victor Glover, Frank Marshall, Lisa Cortés, Ed Dwight, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, and Leland Melvin from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/F0/30/F03054CB-E2CA-8373-4B99-B9E63D79C42A/171531_FM1_9572-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Victor Glover, Frank Marshall, Lisa Cortés, Ed Dwight, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, and Leland Melvin from the “The Space Race” panel at the National Geographic presentation during the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin and Victor Glover at the lunch celebrating 20 years of Cesar Millan beginning from “Dog Whisperer” to his current series “Better Human Better Dog” during the National Geographic Day at the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/C8/55/C8559361-38A2-A983-72A4-1DBC25C26108/171530_SC7_8064-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin and Victor Glover at the lunch celebrating 20 years of Cesar Millan beginning from “Dog Whisperer” to his current series “Better Human Better Dog” during the National Geographic Day at the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin, Sophie Darlington, and Victor Glover at the lunch celebrating 20 years of Cesar Millan beginning from “Dog Whisperer” to his current series “Better Human Better Dog” during the National Geographic Day at the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/DB/06/DB062140-319A-252D-7A02-2939944782B9/171530_SC7_8067-450x0.jpg)
2024 TCA WINTER PRESS TOUR - Leland Melvin, Sophie Darlington, and Victor Glover at the lunch celebrating 20 years of Cesar Millan beginning from “Dog Whisperer” to his current series “Better Human Better Dog” during the National Geographic Day at the 2024 TCA Winter Press Tour at the Langham Huntington on February 8, 2024 in Pasadena, California. (National Geographic/PictureGroup)
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![Air Force Captain Ed Dwight's official portrait. (credit: public domain)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/67/05/6705D922-15BF-CABE-E053-34C1CC2244C7/TheSpaceRace_05-0x300.jpg)
![Directors Lisa CortÈs and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza behind-the-scenes at NASA Glenn Research Center. (National Geographic for Disney/Keero Birla)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/B4/74/B474F59D-2B6C-F596-387D-6EE98853DD3C/TheSpaceRace_44-450x0.jpg)
![Directors Lisa Cortés, left, and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza behind-the-scenes in Denver. (credit: National Geographic/Ryan Dearth)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/38/06/38065639-31D6-D556-7FC4-07109CE6A04C/TheSpaceRace_49-450x0.jpeg)
![Directors Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, left, and Lisa CortÈs behind-the-scenes in Denver. (credit: National Geographic/Ryan Dearth)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/81/C6/81C653E9-E27E-43C4-4A50-1699B06A4785/TheSpaceRace_47-450x0.jpg)
![Directors Lisa CortÈs, left, and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, right, pose with Ed Dwight during an interview in Denver. (credit: National Geographic/Ryan Dearth)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/C4/66/C466C428-9CAB-2FEA-D717-C4839499AEBB/TheSpaceRace_52-450x0.jpg)
![Ed Dwight sits down for an interview. (National Geographic for Disney/Ryan Dearth)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/C5/4E/C54E9456-C5CC-8243-0A0E-459AEA431B33/TheSpaceRace_41-450x0.jpg)
![STS-122 Mission Specialist Leland Melvin tests his gloves for a final fitting before space shuttle Atlantis' launch. Atlantis will carry the Columbus Lab, Europe’s largest contribution to the construction of the International Space Station. It will support scientific and technological research in a microgravity environment. Columbus, a program of ESA, is a multifunctional, pressurized laboratory that will be permanently attached to Node 2 of the space station to carry out experiments in materials science, fluid physics and biosciences, as well as to perform a number of technological applications. (Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/EA/C7/EAC741BA-6748-8497-058F-D7C0BEEBAD16/TheSpaceRace_Melvin_02-0x300.jpeg)
STS-122 Mission Specialist Leland Melvin tests his gloves for a final fitting before space shuttle Atlantis' launch. Atlantis will carry the Columbus Lab, Europe’s largest contribution to the construction of the International Space Station. It will support scientific and technological research in a microgravity environment. Columbus, a program of ESA, is a multifunctional, pressurized laboratory that will be permanently attached to Node 2 of the space station to carry out experiments in materials science, fluid physics and biosciences, as well as to perform a number of technological applications. (Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett)
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![Air Force Captain Ed Dwight. (Courtesy of Ed Dwight)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/DD/43/DD435984-3821-BAD3-F848-C2B4508CFD6A/TheSpaceRace_08-0x300.jpg)
![Ed Dwight sits down for an interview in Denver. (credit: National Geographic/Ryan Dearth)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/63/FF/63FF1242-AE04-66B9-AC74-AA2F648A901C/TheSpaceRace_23-450x0.jpg)
![Directors Lisa CortÈs and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza behind-the-scenes at NASA Glenn Research Center. (National Geographic/Keero Birla)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/7D/11/7D11400D-B87F-C038-DC62-A830384B90DD/TheSpaceRace_43_R-450x0.jpg)
![Air Force Captain Ed Dwight in the cockpit at the beginning of his flight training in 1954. (Courtesy of Ed Dwight)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/B5/C5/B5C5CE05-3349-8094-CE15-D16AEF1763F2/TheSpaceRace_06-450x0.jpg)
![Guy Bluford during an interview. (credit: National Geographic)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/41/D5/41D5832B-E1D4-B239-C5F2-6D0C66EB6E8A/TheSpaceRace_UHD_4-450x0.jpg)
![Guy Bluford on STS-53. (credit: NASA / Public Domain)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/0D/3C/0D3CA677-F1FE-641A-2BB5-0D1ED972C071/TheSpaceRace_61-450x0.jpg)
![Astronaut Guion Bluford onboard STS-8. (credit: NASA)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/6D/1F/6D1FDF14-2CAB-29A9-097F-C1A34035BE53/TheSpaceRace_10-450x0.jpg)
![Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, one of NASA's three 41-B mission specialists, participates in a training session in the Shuttle one-g trainer in the Johnson Space Center's mockup and integrating laboratory on June 14, 1983. He stands at the aft flight deck, where controls for the remote manipulator system (RMS) arm are located. (credit: NASA)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/9A/37/9A373DA7-1996-BB10-7BEF-E6D70949306D/TheSpaceRace_14-450x0.jpg)
Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, one of NASA's three 41-B mission specialists, participates in a training session in the Shuttle one-g trainer in the Johnson Space Center's mockup and integrating laboratory on June 14, 1983. He stands at the aft flight deck, where controls for the remote manipulator system (RMS) arm are located. (credit: NASA)
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![Guion Bluford in the wind tunnel at NASA Glenn Research Center. (National Geographic/Diego Hurtado de Mendoza)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/27/E3/27E383C4-1D0B-C878-7E59-999335C91263/TheSpaceRace_01-450x0.jpg)
![Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, 41-B mission specialist, doubles as "director" for a movie being "produced" aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger in February 1984. McNairís name tag ("Cecil B. McNair"), beret and slate are all humorous props for application of a serious piece of cargo on this eight day flight - the Cinema 360 camera. Two of the cameras were carried aboard the Challenger to provide a test for motion picture photography in a unique format designed especially for planetarium viewing. This camera was located in the crew cabin area and a second was stowed in a getaway special (GAS) canister in the payload bay. (credit: NASA)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/18/3E/183E38EA-3CC9-C143-77D7-ABE92D323184/TheSpaceRace_15-450x0.jpg)
Astronaut Ronald E. McNair, 41-B mission specialist, doubles as "director" for a movie being "produced" aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger in February 1984. McNairís name tag ("Cecil B. McNair"), beret and slate are all humorous props for application of a serious piece of cargo on this eight day flight - the Cinema 360 camera. Two of the cameras were carried aboard the Challenger to provide a test for motion picture photography in a unique format designed especially for planetarium viewing. This camera was located in the crew cabin area and a second was stowed in a getaway special (GAS) canister in the payload bay. (credit: NASA)
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![Ed Dwight smiling during Interview. (credit: National Geographic)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/39/37/393753DD-24DF-2B0F-0BCD-00E7D31DF44A/TheSpaceRace_UHD_2-450x0.jpg)
![Charles Bolden during an interview in Washington, DC. (credit: National Geographic/Cheriss May)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/3A/B1/3AB12AC8-C755-7071-FE74-7806BF20E342/TheSpaceRace_17-450x0.jpg)
![Ron McNair during NASA astronaut training. (credit: NASA)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/2B/9F/2B9FB0FA-5EC2-E9F8-299C-34989378E81C/TheSpaceRace_UHD_3-450x0.jpg)
![Directors Lisa CortÈs and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza pose with Guy Bluford. (National Geographic for Disney/Keero Birla)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/97/E9/97E9637D-DEA4-BD27-3671-BB6932B3EDF0/TheSpaceRace_46_R-450x0.jpg)
![Charlie Bolden on the shuttle Columbia. (credit: NASA / Public Domain)](https://www.dgepress.com/storage/uploads/49/10/491028CB-4AFF-1854-18E5-945217FE6BDE/TheSpaceRace_60-450x0.jpg)