影片将聚焦美国传奇宇航员尼尔·阿姆斯特朗的生平，重点讲述他在1961-1969年间成为人类历史上第一个登月者的过程，同时也展现出人类在这次史上最危险的宇宙探索征途中所付出的难以想象的国家与个体牺牲。

塔克中尉（丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰）性格冲动，蔑视威权，但他同时是开发缩微飞行器技术的“阿尔法计划”的主驾驶员。塔克酒后胡作非为导致记者女友莉迪亚（梅格·瑞恩 Meg Ryan 饰）愤怒离去，当日的工作则同样遭遇了挫折——一群匪徒闯入研究中心，试图将研制中的缩微飞行器芯片夺走，研究员为了保住芯片，将已经进入缩微状态的塔克和飞行器注入了一名路人杰克（马丁·肖特 Martin Short 饰）的屁股，杰克是一名神经过敏的超市收银员，塔克在杰克的身体内部游走，帮助其躲过匪徒的追踪后返回研究中心求助，然而中心为利益决定放弃杰克体内的塔克，二人无奈只得自救，他们向莉迪亚求助，想要在塔克的氧气耗尽前夺回被抢走的芯片，令塔克恢复原来的大小……

　　根据美国历史上首批进入太空的宇航员的真实故事改编而成，他们是阿兰·舍帕德、戈斯·格瑞森、约翰·格婪尼、斯高特·卡本特、高登·库伯等，共七位英雄。影片详细地描绘了美国太空计划的诞生过程以及第一批航天员诞生的历史故事。

Jim is a test pilot. His wife Ann and best friend Gunner try their best to keep him sober. But the life of a test pilot is anything but safe.

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.

In 1960, a pilot testing an experimental rocket powered aircraft accidentally flies into the future and finds himself in a sealed city whose people suspect he is a spy from outside their walls, but who want to keep him to procreate with the ruler's daughter because the majority of the inhabitants are sterile.

A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, and the men he once flew with.

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom creates highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor's 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather's robot. And now Gadge's captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend. They must face a mechanical monstrosity bent on a killing rampage of revenge and destruction.

　　立志当人类历史上第一位宇航员的丹•米尔顿•普雷斯科特（比尔•艾德华斯 Bill Edwards 饰）驾驶代号Y-12的宇宙飞船前往太空，在进入外太空的一刹那，他因为过于兴奋而忽略了总部的命令，最终导致飞船失控。飞船坠入大气层，与总部失去联系。不久，国防部的人找到飞船残骸，而惹出祸端的丹却在女友处潇洒快活。

　　丹的特立独行给国防部高层留下极深的印象，他们顶住各方压力，仍然决定派遣丹驾驶Y-13再次前往太空。当达到600’000尺的高度时，丹的老毛病再次复发。他不顾总部的命令，直线冲入外太空。结果飞船失控，受到宇宙粉尘袭击，最终爆炸。国防部找到飞船遗骸，却未见到丹的身影。随后不久，一个恐怖嗜血的生物开始在城市中出没……

Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.

Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step.

X-15 is a 1961 movie that tells a fictionalized account of the X-15 research rocket plane, the men who flew it and the women who loved them.

在20世纪50年代超音速飞行的黎明，一群爱德华兹空军基地的实验飞机试飞员将自己推向了极限。

The story concentrated on a group of test pilots, busily experimenting with a revolutionary all-plastic airplane. Ace flyboy Brad Farrell (Richard Arlen) is determined to prove the practicality of the new aircraft, designed by Professor Blake (Thomas Ross), father of Brad's sweetheart Carol (Jean Parker). Back on solid ground, Brad must vie for Carol's attentions with his own brother, engineer Doug Farrell (Don Castle).

In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.

A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.

A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

The second of three pilot shorts that eventually became the 1989 movie Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.