
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.
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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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