''Space Chase USA'' (also known as ''Space Chase U.S.A. (2019)'', ''Spacetown USA'', and ''Spacetown U.S.A.'') is a 2019 American
PBS documentary television film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in term ...
that was released on July 1, 2019.
The documentary film examines the
Apollo human spaceflight program, one of the greatest ventures of
humankind, and its effects on
Cocoa Beach, a very small
Florida town, during the 1950s and the 1960s. The history of the area is especially notable due to the collective memories of its citizens. The many launch experiences at the beach were closely witnessed by members of the community. These members helped build the
U.S. space program
The space policy of the United States includes both the making of space policy through the legislative process, and the implementation of that policy in the United States' civilian and military space programs through regulatory agencies. The early ...
, and the influence of the nascent space program on community members can still be seen today.
The film documentary features accounts by community residents, archival footage and home movies.
Participants
The documentary film includes the following participants (alphabetized by last name):
* Lee Barnhart
*
Walter Cunningham
* Bonnie King
*
Jerry L. Ross
Jerry Lynn Ross (born January 20, 1948, Crown Point, Indiana) is a retired United States Air Force officer, engineer and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the joint record holder for most space ...
* Lee Solid
* Jennifer Sugarman
* Roy Tharpe
*
Al Worden
Alfred Merrill Worden (February 7, 1932 – March 18, 2020) was an American test pilot, engineer and NASA astronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of only 24 people to have flown to the ...
See also
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Earth phase
The Earth phase, Terra phase, terrestrial phase, or phase of Earth, is the shape of the directly sunlit portion of Earth as viewed from the Moon (or elsewhere extraterrestrially). From the Moon, the Earth phases gradually and cyclically change ...
References
External links
* at th
PBS WebSite*
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2019 American television episodes
2019 television films
2019 films
2019 documentary films
American documentary television films
PBS original programming
2010s American films
2010s English-language films