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The 1953 classic science fiction movie Cat-Women of the Moon is a 1953 Science fiction film directed by Arthur Hilton and stars Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory and Marie Windsor.

1953 Cat-Women of the Moon was originally released in full stereoscopic 3-D format in 1953, and a regular B/W print was released later under the title “Rocket to the Moon”. The version of 1953 Cat-Women of the Moon available below for viewing is the B/W version.

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1953 Cat-Women of the Moon is the story of four men (Sonny Tufts, Victor Jory, William Phipps, and Douglas Fowley) and a woman (Marie Windsor) who blast off in a rocketship, and land on the dark side of the moon. The five astronauts on a scientific expedition discover a cave which somehow retains a breathable atmosphere. They remove their space suits and venture on, soon finding a buried city where they encounter a race of “Cat-women”, the last eight survivors of a 2-million-year-old civilization deep within a cave where they have managed to maintain the remnants of a breathable atmosphere that once covered the Moon. The remaining air will soon be gone and they must escape if they are to survive. They plan to steal the expedition’s space ship and return to Earth.

Through the use of their telepathic ability the Cat-women have been subliminally controlling Helen Salinger (Marie Windsor) since before they left Earth so she could win the navigator position on the expedition and lead the crew to their location. Once Helen and the male members of the crew arrive on the moon the Cat-women take complete control of her mind. Unable to control the men’s minds they work around this obstacle with Helen’s help and the use of their superior abilities and feminine wiles. “Show us their weak points,” one says to Helen. “We’ll take care of the rest.”

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X-1 was a half-hour NBC science fiction anthology series first heard on 22 April 1955 that was a revival of NBC’s earlier science fiction anthology series, Dimension X which ran from 8 April 1950 through 29 September 1951. Both series’s are remembered for their really high quality science fiction stories.

With its magazine affiliation, two dozen shows from Astounding Science Fiction were followed by almost 90 were from the pages of Galaxy Magazine. A total of 125 programs were broadcast, some repeats or remakes, were aired until the last show of 9 January 1958.

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Today: 5 February 2012

Other Space Travel History Events:

 
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1564, Feb 15 :  Died Galileo Galilei, considered responsible for the birth of modern science and the scientific method . . . More

1642, Jan 8 :  Born Galileo Galilei, considered responsible for the birth of modern science and the scientific method . . . More

1866, Sep 21 :  Born H.G. Wells, early science fiction author of War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon . . . More

1882, Oct 5 :  Born, Robert H Goddard, rocket pioneer, built the world’s 1st liquid-fueled rocket launched on 16 Mar 1926 . . . More

1897, Aug 28 :  Born Legendary Sci-Fi actor Morris Ankrum star of science fiction films such as 1953′s Invaders from Mars . . . More

1898, Nov 29 :  Born British C. S. Lewis author of the Space Trilogy and The Chronicles of Narnia . . . More

1902, May 2 :  FRA The first science fiction film “A Trip To The Moon” was released . . . More

1908, Jan 8 :  Born William Hartnell actor who played the first Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who between 1963-1966 . . . More

1912, Apr 18 :  Born Al Hodge Captain Video of the classic space travel TV show Captain Video and his Video Rangers . . . More

1913, May 26 :  Born Peter Cushing actor best known for appearances in Hammer Films and as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars . . . More

1914, Apr 2 :  Born Alec Guinness known to space travel buffs as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy . . . More

1914, Apr 28 :  Born Philip E High an English science fiction writer such as his 1964′s The Prodigal Sun . . . More

1914, Jun 12 :  Born William Lundigan best known as Colonel Edward McCauley in the classic CBS TV series, Men Into Space . . . More

1914, Nov 6 :  Born Jonathan Harris actor for comic villain Dr. Zachary Smith in the 1960s sci-fi TV series, Lost in Space . . . More

1915, Mar 3 :  USA’s National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) the NASA forerunner was created . . . More

1915, May 6 :  Born American director Orson Welles who caused the Halloween 1938 War of the Worlds panic radio broadcast . . . More

1915, Jun 24 :  Born Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer, science fiction writer, author Rockets in Ursa Major among others . . . More

1915, Sep 3 :  Born Guy Kingsley Poynter actor who played Doc Matthews in the BBC radio series Journey Into Space . . . More

1915, Oct 12 :  Born Mike Moser creator and producer of 1950′s Space Travel TV and Radio series Space Patrol . . . More

1915, Oct 16 :  Born Judd Holdren actor who played Captain Video and Commando Cody in early 1950′s TV and serial movies . . . More

1917, Dec 16 :  Born Sir Arthur C. Clarke science fiction writer most famous for his novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey . . . More

1918, Jun 10 :  Born Barry Morse long time science fiction actor best known as Professor Victor Bergman in Space: 1999 . . . More

1920, Mar 3 :  Born James Doohan better known as Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott of the Star Trek TV and film series . . . More

1920, Aug 22 :  Born Ray Bradbury science fiction writer best known for short stories such as The Martian Chronicles . . . More

1920, Oct 29 :  Born, Ed Kemmer classic 1950′s SciFi TV actor who played Commander Buzz Correy, CIC of the Space Patrol . . . More

1921, Apr 9 :  Born, classic 1950′s SciFi TV actor Frankie Thomas Best known as Polaris Unit’s Tom Corbett, Space Cadet . . . More

1921, Aug 19 :  Born Gene Roddenberry best known as the creator of the TV and movie science fiction universe of Star Trek . . . More

1921, Aug 26 :  Born Maxime A Faget, considered to be the “Chief Designer” of American manned spacecraft . . . More

1922, Jul 6 :  USA Born William Schallert one of the most prolific actors in Scince Fiction Movies and TV history . . . More

1922, Nov 11 :  Born Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Science Fiction author of many classic stories of dystopian worlds of the future . . . More

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After the cancellation of NASA’s Constellation program, a plan to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the Solar System, and the launch today of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, the countdown to the end of Americas manned space travel has begun.

With only 5 more scheduled Shuttle Missions left (see summary below) before the retirement of the Space Shuttle and now no follow on manned space travel program is planned or in the budget. The last acts of America’s supremacy in space are about to be played.

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