The Old Negro Space Program

The Old Negro Space Program is a short mockumentary in the style of a Ken Burns film. Imagining a black space program, whose blackstronauts were excluded from White NASA, the film lampoons Burnss history of the Negro Leagues, a subject of his 1994 series, Baseball.

To impress a girl that he likes, Wallace Suitcase Jefferson applies for a job at the newly formed NASA. Unfortunately, since Americas love affair with racism was in full swing, Jefferson learns that NASA is whitesonly. Undaunted, Jefferson and his friend Loopie Louie Hays form their own astronaut group. Their creationthe Negro American Space Society of Astronauts NASSAis a resounding success, with more than 240 blackstronauts signing up by 1960. The venture also brings personal success to Jeffersonhe wins the girls heart and later marries her.Using spaceships cobbled together from old rocket engines, landing capsules, a school bus, and a used Cadillac, NASSA quickly becomes a major player in the space race. Its members farm out across the country, barnstorming in small towns to raise money and becoming minor celebrities. In Washington, the US government worries about losing the space race to the Soviet Union, but is ten times as worried about losing the race to NASSA. ........

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