March 1965. From the warmth of the Cold War, the USSR and the USA are currently competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for within this race, is usually to be the very first ever to have a guy walk in space. To perform this, no price is too high and no risk is too great. It's up into a war veteran and also a hot-headed test-pilot's improbable duo to fulfill this assignment. Two men in a small spaceship, without proper testing, confronting the complete unknown... these were supposed to do what no man has done before -- and no man guessed what might happen next...