This color educational/promotional film “Where Dreams Come True” is about the diverse people who work at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), including women and minorities. The film wass written, produced and directed by William Greaves, and shot by cinematographer Robert Ipcar for NASA. Copyright 1978.

Opening: Dr. Patricia S. Cowings speaks. Title: “Where Dreams Come True”, narrated by Ricardo Montalban (:06-1:16). Mission control room at NASA. Men, women, all ethnicities. Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) takes off with the Space Shuttle on its back, piggyback style. Men radio from NASA to the jet. The Director of Shuttle Operations, Isaac Gilham, in the Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California. The Space Shuttle Columbia comes in for a landing on the runway at Edwards Air Force Base. Gilham speaks (1:17-4:00). Gilham speaks with a colleague at NASA Dryden, behind him is a UAV or drone with the words “Mini Shifter” (?) on the nose. It looks similar to the Israeli Scout UAV. A NASA test plane. Northrop HL-10 flying aircraft. Johnson Space Center in Houston TX. Space Center complex in Houston (4:01-5:51). Dr. Ronald McNair, a new NASA astronaut and physics professor, speaks outside at the Johnson Space Center complex (5:52-8:36). Dr. McNair is a karate instructor, he shows off his skills. McNair jogs. He wears a helmet and does parasailing. A woman on a sailboat. She does parasailing as well. She is geologist and astronaut Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan who speaks (8:37-11:45). Dr. Sullivan answers a question and continues to speak. Northrop T-38 Plane. Astronaut Frederick Gregory in the cockpit, he takes off in the T-38 test plane and flies over Edwards. Gregory speaks (11:46-14:14). Astronauts walk. NASA employees during various tasks (looking at machinery, in the computer room, turning on computers, testing an astronaut) (14:15-15:52). A man is tested in a rotating chair, he spins repeatedly. Dr. Patricia S. Cowings speaks outside, she’s a psychophysiologist, which is the study of the relationship between physiological signals recorded from the body and brain to mental processes and disorders. These biological signals may be generated by activity of organs in the body or by muscle activity. NASA employees in a wide variety of jobs (15:53-17:58). Computer. A black woman looks up at a launch tower. An Asian man looks at a model of the Space Shuttle. Paul Ernesto Reyes, NASA employee, speaks. He discusses the payloads required for the shuttle. Reyes walks through the NASA plant (17:59-20:29). Men and women look at computers. A woman wears a headset. Reyes speaks. A man and a woman review pictures enlarged on a screen. Space Shuttle. NASA control screen. Reuben Ramos, NASA Communications Systems Engineer, speaks (20:30-22:33). Apollo 11 Lunar Module coming in to land on the moon in 1969 and landing – ‘The Eagle has landed.’ Dr. Patricia S. Cowings speaks. Cowings works with a man at a computer. Gemini IV spacewalk by Astronaut Ed White (22:34-24:48). Isaac Gilham speaks. Astronaut Frederick Gregory speaks. Dr. Kathryn D. Sullivan speaks (24:49-26:41). Dr. Ronald McNair speaks. On the tarmac or in the computer room, NASA at work. Isaac Gilham speaks to men at a meeting. Men and women, of all races work at NASA. Earth as seen from outer space (26:42-28:18). End credits (28:19-29:01).

Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 – January 28, 1986) was an American NASA astronaut and physicist. He died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, in which he was serving as one of three mission specialists in a crew of seven. Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist and a former NASA astronaut. A crew member on three Space Shuttle missions, she was the first American woman to walk in space on October 11, 1984. Patricia S. Cowings (born 1948) is an aerospace psychophysiologist. She was the first American woman to be trained as a scientist astronaut by NASA; she did not travel to space. She is most well known for her studies in the physiology of astronauts in outer space, as well as helping find cures for astronaut’s motion sickness.

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