NASA plans its next decade in space, fresh off the Moon landings, in this 1970 film hosted by actor James Franciscus. It walks through the missions on the drawing board: Mariner spacecraft flying past Mars, Pioneer probes studying Jupiter, and Viking landers aimed at the Martian surface. The centerpiece is the Grand Tour of the Outer Planets, a proposed mission designed to exploit a rare alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune that would let a single spacecraft visit all four. NASA scientists and engineers appear on camera to explain the engineering problems each mission has to solve and what they hope to learn once it works, alongside footage from earlier missions and simulations of hardware that had not yet flown. The film also covers solar astronomy, cosmic ray research, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence as parts of the same push outward. It won prizes at the Columbus Film Festival, the Venice Golden Mercury, and the International Exhibition of Scientific Films in Buenos Aires, all in 1970.