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Journey into Space

We join our lunar astronauts just after Jet presses the rocket ignition button and nothing happened. Then one by one all the ships systems shut down and they are left in a dead ship. Everything is quiet except for the sound of the ship’s master gyro whirring down until it stops.

After a complete inspection of the ships power system they can find nothing wrong except nothing has power. As Jet so concisely puts it unless they can find something they are stuck, stranded on the moon.

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Journey into Space

We join our lunar astronauts outside of the ship. Jet, Doc and Lemmy suddenly hear that strange music again and Doc sees a movement near the craters edge. Jet goes over to investigate and disappears.

Doc and Lemmy go to the crater to investigate and they can find no trace of Jet. They call Mitch up in the ship to use the televiewer to see if he can find Jet. No such luck, Jet is nowhere to be seen. They try to call him on the radio with no results.

Three hours later Jet finally replies. They rejoin Jet who only believes he has been out of contact for about 5 minutes. During his absence he had been having a conversation with his uncle back on earth, in Jets youth, abut the possibility of space travel.

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Journey into Space

Lemmy has continued to hear that strange music and Mitch tells Jet he shouldn’t allow Lemmy out of the ship because he is unstable. Jet and Doc, however, overrule Mitch and Lemmy will be allowed to leave the ship in turn with the others.

After a couple of days of routine spaceflight they have arrived. Spaceship Luna turns around with their rocket engines facing toward the Moon and descend to the surface of the Moon in the area of the Bay of Rainbows. The date is 25 October 1965 (the show is not clear on the actual date) when man first lands on the moon. A full four years before Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin actually did it on July 20, 1969.

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Journey into Space

The first episode of the re-recorded and re-produced Operation Luna series was broadcast in 1958. Originally broadcast as episode 5 in the first broadcast of the Operation Luna series in 1953. This episode also introduces us to the four main characters of the series, Jet Morgan, Stephen “Mitch” Mitchell, Doc Matthews and Lemmy Barnet.

This first episode kicks off on October 19, 1965 (in the far future) as the rocket ship Luna blasts off on it’s atomic motors, from a space port in the Australian Outback, for the Moon with Jet, Doc, Mitch and Lemmy aboard. Soon after escape velocity from earth is made radio contact with Earth is lost.

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Journey into Space

The first Journey Into Space series was originally titled “Journey to the Moon” and was originally intended to have 12 episodes, and 5.1 million people tuned in to the first episode, but the first four episodes (which took place on Earth) didn’t prove very popular, and the audience soon shrank to less than 4 million.

However, once the rocket set off for the Moon in episode 5, the audience reaction was much more favorable. The series was extended to 18 episodes, and by the time the final episode was broadcast, 8 million people were tuning in.

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Journey into Space

Jouney Into Space was written as a trilogy and is an expansive epic radio serial consisting of over 50 episodes. This pre-launch breifing will provide an over view of the three original series first aired from 21 September 1953 to the 19th of January 1954 and again in an edited form in 1958. Later postings will cover each individual episode in a more detailed way.

Operation Luna – The First Series:

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Journey into Space

This website is dedicated to those shows that gave me my first vision of space travel (The vision Robert A. Heinlein gave us) as a young lad in the early 1950’s. The radio show “Journey Into Space” was not one of them. In fact I never heard it until the early 2000’s. But when I finally discovered this series I so enjoyed it (especially the first story Operation Luna) that I must include it here because it does fit the vision of Heinlein’s space travel.

Journey into Space was written by BBC producer Charles Chilton, who’s previous credits include a Western serial, “Riders Of The Range” and later a producer for the final episodes of “The Goon Show.” Journey into Space was as it’s title suggests a science fiction adventure serial that ran for three epic series and told the tale of man’s attempts to conquer first The Moon and later Mars over 50 plus episodes during the 1950’s. Journey into Space – Operation Luna was originally broadcast on the BBC Light Programme on 21 September 1953 (Monday evenings at 7.30pm). Final transmission was on the 19th of January 1954.

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