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Destination Moon

Two years in the making!

A team composed of an aerospace scientist, an ex-Air Force general, and an industrialist conceives an ambitious plan to land Americans on the moon. From their base in the Mojave Desert, they construct and successfully launch a spacecraft named "Luna" that contains a cargo of four astronauts. But a critical miscalculation of needed power to escape the moon's gravitational pull may put the astronauts' lives in danger.

19501h 31mNRScience Fiction, Adventure, Drama

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About Destination Moon

Directors
Irving Pichel
Cast
John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers, Dick Wesson, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Steve Carruthers
Genres
Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama
Content rating
NR
Original language
English
Production countries
United States of America
Status
Released

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