Release Date | 1950-06-27 |
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Runtime | 91 minutes |
Genres | Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure |
Stars | John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore |
Directors | Robert A. Heinlein, Lionel Lindon, Irving Pichel, George Pal, Duke Goldstone |
A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.