A clip of the US Army Jupiter-C rocket launching Explore I, aka Satellite 1958 Alpha, into earth orbit. A shot of astronauts in zero gravity. Another clip of a zero-gravity experiment featuring a cat and mouses. The 1958 newsreel of USS Nautilus making the first trans-polar crossing and of USS Skate making the trip to the North Pole and surfacing there. Aerial shots of USS Nautilus. Another newsreels from the 1958 expedition in the South Pole: the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. Clips of the explorer arriving by tractor. Members of British Geophysical program, Sir Viian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary at news conference. The newsreels of 1958 Vanguard launching failure. The clip of Pioneer 1, the first spacecraft launched by NASA.