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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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Commander Buzz Correy and Cadet Happy have been on Venus conducting an undercover investigation into a larceny and fraud plot the United Planets government and Venus businessmen. While en route to the Venus space port with their evidence they are over powered by the subject of their investigation, Mr. Don Veal and his assistant Bob Henry.

Veal and Henry steal their evidence and make a getaway in the commercial space cruiser that Correy and Happy were about to leave in.

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Commander Correy and Cadet Happy are en route to the Lunar Fleet Base on the Moon where an open house is being held at the Center for Scientific Research For Spaceflight. Space Patrol Assistant Security Chief Tonga contacts by Space-A-Phone to report that the microfilm blueprint plans for the D-Ray have been stolen and that Base Commander Colonel Jacobs has set Condition Red and locked the base down.

Before Commander Correy and Cadet Happy arrive the base personell have begun inspecting all film before any passengers can board their departing space craft. Any person attempting to bypass this security procedure and attempt to depart will pass through a Cancel Ray Machine that will erase all film.

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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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If you haven’t heard already NASA’s mission is no longer manned space travel. With the decision to cancel the Constellation program there is no longer a plan for manned space flight for the United States.

NASA’s Project Constellation, was a plan to send human explorers back to the Moon by 2020, and then onward to Mars and other destinations in the Solar System.

Canceling NASA’s Moon-bound Constellation program is expected to cost the U.S. space agency $2.5 billion in contract termination liability and other closeout costs over the next two years. Add to that the $9 billion already spent developing the Orion crew vehicle and Ares rockets the total cost for a program that will never be completed is over $11.5 billion. All for nothing.

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Donald Hall of the United Planets Purchasing Commission reports to Commander “Buzz” Correy of the Space Patrol the sabatoge of some classified files. Correy orders a Brain-A-Graph on all the employees at the United Planets Purchasing Commission.

Meanwhile on Lowell City, Mars space appropriations magnate Carlisle McCray, who’s business is as a wheeler dealer called “The Junkman” or “The Scavenger of Space,” is visited by his younger brother Larry McCray. It seems Larry has stolen some classified documents from his boss at the United Planets Purchasing Commission. He makes a deal with his brother, The Scavenger of Space, to turn over those documents so that he can make a killing on future United Planets Purchase contracts.

After giving a Brain-A-Graph to all the employees at the United Planets Purchasing Commission on Earth and finding no clues to the missing or destroyed classified files the Commander heads to Lowell City, Mars to give Larry McCray a Brain-A-Graph.

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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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NASA announced today, January 26, 2010, that the Mars Rover Spirit is no longer a rover. For nearly ten months now the little rover has been stuck with two of its six wheels inoperative. The decision was made, with regret I am sure, to give up trying to remove Spirit from her rut. NASA has made the decision to discontinue their 10 month attempt to get her back in motion.

NASA has re-designated Spirit a “Stationary Research Platform.” Here at Spacemen’s Luck we have decided to Call Spirit “Mars Base One.”

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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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