![]() Lee looks at his watch to see that he has just minutes of air left. People on Earth are losing hope as his time has run out. It points right, so he walks in that direction. With little air left and nowhere to go, Lee spins the toy mouse his son gave him. Lee takes the Soviet flag from a dead cosmonaut and lays it on a nearby rock with his own American flag. He finds the crashed Russian lander on its side, the three dead cosmonauts sprawled around it.Įveryone on Earth is nervously awaiting news, but none comes. Lee gets out of the Gemini lander and walks around with one hour of oxygen in his suit. Mission Control okays his retro burn and he lands. With only seconds left before he must abort and return to Earth, he lies about seeing it. As Lee orbits the Moon, he does not see the beacon of the shelter. The Russians have also lost contact with their team. He encounters a power drain malfunction en route which tests his character and hinders radio contact. ![]() The shelter pod (a LEM lander) is launched and landed successfully. Deflated at not being first, everyone carries on. Lee persists, driven by the same astronaut dream.Īfter a press leak about Pilgrim, the Russians launch a week early. Chiz pushes Lee's training hard, half to get him ready, half hoping he will drop out and Chiz can step in. Chiz is outraged, but agrees to train Lee in the few days they have. Lee (James Caan), one of Chiz's crew, is tapped. NASA and the White House insist that an American civilian be their first man on the Moon. Chiz, although trained and qualified, is an Air Force colonel. The equipment is ready, but the Russians complicate matters by sending up a civilian. Later, astronauts from an Apollo mission would come to retrieve him. ![]() He would stay on the Moon for a few months in a shelter pod launched and landed before him. One astronaut would be sent to the Moon in a one-way rocket (depicted in the film as a Titan II), using a modified Project Gemini craft. ![]() The Americans had a secret alternate plan to the Apollo program, the fictional program Pilgrim, in case this happened. The Russians will be sending a Moon landing mission up in four weeks. They grumble about it, but their commander, Chiz (Robert Duvall), knows the reason for the abort: the Pilgrim Program. In the late 1960s, astronauts training in an Apollo simulator have their session ended early. ![]()
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