CLICK HERE: INVITATION - Screening of THE SPACE RACE - SATURDAY, MARCH 8TH @ 1:30 PM - submitted by Birdie Miller

[Juanita Martin]

• We are thrilled to announce that Captain Ed Dwight, the first African American astronaut candidate will attend this screening and conduct a Q and A after the film. Please join us!

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  Rocky Mountain Women's Film

  The Space Race

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  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.

  

  
  Captain Ed Dwight

   

  See you on March 8th!

  Birdie Miller

  Volunteer

  Film in the Community Committee

  Rocky Mountain Women's Film

  719 439 4527

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