Film in the Community
Description
Saturday March 8, 2025
FREE with Registration
Doherty High School
4515 Barnes Rd, Colorado Springs, CO 80917
Doors Open at 1:00PM, Film begins at 1:30PM. Directly after the film you will enjoy the exclusive opportunity for a Q&A with Captain Dwight.
Film in the Community, a program of RMWF, shares films monthly at locations around our city – free of charge. Join us in March to watch The Space Race. We look forward to sharing this film and inspiring conversation within our community. Please join us!
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The Space Race
THE SPACE RACE weaves together the stories of Black astronauts seeking to break the bonds of social injustice to reach for the stars, including Guion Bluford, Ed Dwight and Charles Bolden, among many others. In THE SPACE RACE, directors Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and Lisa Cortés profile the pioneering Black pilots, scientists and engineers who joined NASA to serve their country in space, even as their country failed to achieve equality for them back on Earth. From 1963, when the assassination of JFK thwarted Captain Ed Dwight’s quest to reach the moon, to 2020, when the echoes of the civil unrest sparked by the killing of George Floyd reached the International Space Station, the story of African Americans at NASA is a tale of world events colliding with the aspirations of uncommon men. The bright dreams of Afrofuturism become reality in THE SPACE RACE, turning science fiction into science fact and forever redefining what “the right stuff” looks like, giving us new heroes to celebrate and a fresh history to explore.
If you're unable to register online please call our office at (719) 226-0450 or Nicole at (719) 426-1483.