Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
The NASA movie it has the most in common with is Robert Altman’s Countdown (1967), his flatfooted pre- M*A*S*H film with James Caan and Robert Duvall that fictionalized the domestic lives of astronauts preparing for the first lunar landing.