Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

This is the legend of old time spaceman “Noisy” Rhysling a blind singer of the spaceways who lost his sight saving a ship and then spends the rest of his life bumming rides on spaceships singing his songs. He is the poet laureate of space, part Homer, part Robert Burns, and part Rudyard Kipling. The space-going songwriter and radiation-blinded spaceship engineer crisscrosses the solar system writing and singing songs.

The story begins when the aged Rhysling is signed aboard the Tramp Spaceship Gartalk as a Jet Man. There is an engine malfunction and and Rhysling looses his sight.

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This very strange episode begins with a Commander Dykstra, representing Central Operational Headquarters, sending out a bulletin about a strange space craft entering Space Sector K beyond the gravitational field of the planet Mars. Thi strange space craft is heading into section G so he is putting all defense units with all all High Voltage Destroyers on emergency alert.

Next we learn that Spaceship Phoenix, Flight 17 an experimental flight for Neptune, is launched.

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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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Based on the short story by Frederick Brown the story starts and ends with “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”

The show’s announcer begins by saying “a sweet blood curdling story that is only two sentences long. The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…” The story goes on and elaborates on those two sentences and builds a more complete story around them.

The story is about Walter Phelan, the last man on Earth. An Immortal space faring race calling themselves the Zan have invaded the earth and have killed off all life other than pairs of animal specimens for their zoo.

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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 and 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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A Veteran Comes Home is about a space soldier’s return home from a war on Mars to his anxiously awaiting wife and son, whom he last saw 5 years before as a baby. It’s a touching “comes home from war all confused and conflicted” story that is as much about the early 1950s as it is about today.

The story begins with Mary and her young son Billy at the space port waiting for the arrival of her husband and his father back from the wars on Mars. Michael, a Space Soldier, has been on Mars for the past 5 years fighting a war against the Martians.

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It is the year 2000 Plus 370 or 2370 and space travel has become routine. Space cruise liner passenger service’s are on regularly scheduled in the spaceways. The Space Cruise Liner Golden Star is commencing her maiden voyage with 750 paying passengers for a cruise to the Moon, Mars and beyond.

In addition to the 750 passengers Inter Galactic News Service (IGNS) reporter Whitey Ford bullies his way aboard and on the cruise. Will he live to regret this manuever?

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In the far flung future of 1982, no kidding, Spacemen discover The Great Galactic Barrier. Manned space flights to the moon and mars are common. Now they are trying to travel to the planet Volta (not sure where this is or eve what solar system). Volta is beyond the barrier. The Great Galactic Barrier is a strange invisible barrier which is frustrating Man’s attempts to explore the depths of space. So far five ships have attempted the voyage, but none have ever returned, their fate a mystery since no signal can pass through the barrier.

On June 2, 1987 the rocket ship Star Cloud blasts off for Volta. To avoid the fate of the first five expeditions the Star Cloud’s hull has been lined in lead. The Star Cloud is the sixth ship to attempt the trip, commanded by Captain Lewis Thorson and his crew, who are plagued even before they lift off. First there is a stowaway (Charlie who had been grounded for acceleration bends) aboard who is discovered and removed just before lift off. Then several of the crew come down with the Space Blues, a malady that seems to only effect certain crew members.

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