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In the far distant year of 2000 the US Air Force secretly builds a rocket ship without the knowledge of Congress or the American people and send it on a Flight to Mars. The name of the rocket ship is MARS. Among it’s crew are wisecracking newspaperman Steve Abbott, a former war correspondent and a crew (Four men and a woman) of scientists heading to Mars. After launch, while en route to Mars, our spacefarers encounter a meteor storm and are swept along and before you know it they end up crashing on the red planet. Unfortunately, their atomic power heads are destroyed which makes a return to earth impossible.

The Earthmen prepare to leave their ship by dawning bomber jackets, aviator’s caps and plain oxygen face masks which are not pressurized space suits or helmets.

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In The Day The Earth Stood Still a humanoid envoy named Klattu and his mighty robot Gort, from another world, lands his Flying Saucer on the mall in Washington, D.C. Emerging from his ship he is immediately shot and Gort, his very powerful robot, appears to save him and begins to melt tanks. The wounded Klatuu orders Gort to stop his rampage. Then he is taken to Walter Reed Army Hospital.

In the hospital Klaatu tells our government that he brings an important message to the planet that he wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, the mistrust between nations seems to get in his way. So he escapes into the city to try and learn more about this planet and understand earth-men.

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Watch Rocketship X-M: The 1950 Classic Space Travel Movie Rocketship X-M is available here for watching at Spacemen’s Luck. For more information and a review of Rocketship X-M go here:

Production Credits:
Directed by: Kurt Neumann
Produced by: Murray Lerner, Kurt Neumann
Screenplay by: Kurt Neumann
Cinematography Karl Struss
Production Designer Theodore Holsopple
Film Editor Harry W. Gerstad
Special Effects Jack Rabin
Original Music Ferde Grofe
Length: 77 Minutes

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Space scientists Dr. Ralph Fleming and Dr. Karl Eckstrom develop the first manned spaceflight, “Rocketship eXpedition Moon.” Dr. Ralph Fleming remains back on Earth while the Rocketship X-M crew, in addition to Dr. Eckstrom, includes Dr. Fleming’s Assistant Dr. Lisa Van Horn, Astronomer Harry Chamberlain, and ships engineer Major William Corrigan and pilot Captain Floyd Graham.

After a successful launch, the Rocketship X-M mission begins going wrong almost from the beginning, when their ship is hurled across space and past the moon by a rocket malfunction, where they land instead on the planet Mars. Deciding to turn their misfortune into an opportunity the crew begin to explore Mars. They no sooner begin their survey of the Martian surface when they find the remains of a once advanced civilization apparently destroyed by a nuclear holocaust.

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Destination Moon is available here for watching at Spacemen’s Luck. For more information and a review of Destination Moon go here:

Production Credits:
Directed by: Irving Pichel
Produced by: George Pal
Screenplay by: Robert A. Heinlein
Length: 92 Minutes

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The beginning of space travel movies, for me at least, was Destination Moon. Most space travel enthusiasts, agree that Destination Moon began the 50′s space movie craze. It also was the foundation for most space travel movies up to and including those of the twenty-first century.

Destination Moon was George Pal’s production of legendary Robert A. Heinlein’s vision depicting man’s first flight to the moon. A Space Travel visionary, General Thayer, fearing that some other nation (The un-said Russians as this was at the beginning of the Cold War.) than the United States might get to the moon before the USA with less than humane motives, will take control of the Moon.

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Below is a list of classic space travel movies listed by the decades. For this original publication I am including classic space travel movies from the 1950′ and 1960′. I will over time in later publications add additional decades. In later revisions I will update this list to include classic space travel movies produced as early as the first decade in the 1900′s and even movies right up to 2010 and (over time) beyond.

Once I add a decade in this list I believe I have a fairly comprehensive list, but, if you see a movie you know about is missing from the list, please use the comment system to tell me and the other visitors about it. This list is a work in progress because I am constantly finding some new gem I either had forgot about or never new of to begin with.

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Welcome to this new category for Classic Space Travel here at Spacemen’s Luck. Space Travel Movies of the 1950′s and 1960′s is important for those of you, like myself, who got your vision of space travel from the radio and TV of the 1950′s.

In the series “Space Travel Movies” I will have show descriptions, cast members, production credits and plot lines for movies made during the 1950′s and 1960′s. Additionally, I will be adding my own reviews for these classics. Of course I am biased toward any and all science fiction space travel movies, serials, TV shows, radio episodes and books created during those golden days of space travel.

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