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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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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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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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The Space Patrol Radio Show ran from October 1952 to March 1955 for 129 known episodes. The same cast of actors performed on both the TV and the radio shows. Included here is the series log for the radio version. As there was also a Space Patrol Television version running simultaneously that version of the show will be discussed elsewhere on this website.

As a further note it is one of the tragedies of collecting old time radio (OTR) that many of these old gems are lost forever and only occasionally does one of these lost shows does turn up from a previously unknown source.

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