The film uses historical footage from American, Russian and French archives featuring Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Gagarin, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergei Korolev, Alexei Kosygin, Alexei Leonov, Sam Rayburn and many other contemporary figures.

During the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in a feverish technological competition, popularly known as the space race, to be the first to land a human on the Moon.

The Soviets never sent humans to the Moon, but they successfully guided two freely-roving robots by remote control from the Earth.

With these archives, along with the recollections by surviving participants in the Lunokhod program, and archived news films, the full story of the Soviet lunar-roving robots is revealed; the innovative development, the difficult deployment, the spectacular technological achievements, and the legacy passed down to the new generation of planetary robotic rovers.

Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society appears in the film as a commentator.