Destination Moon
Two years in the making!
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6/27/1950Runtime
91 minsOverview
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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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$592,000Revenue
$5,000,000Homepage
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A earnest, technically rigorous space adventure that treats lunar exploration as a thrilling but perilous feat of human ingenuity. The film captures both the wonder of frontier achievement and the nail-biting anxiety of a mission where calculations could mean life or death.
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John Archer
Jim Barnes
Warner Anderson
Dr. Charles Cargraves
Tom Powers
General Thayer
Dick Wesson
Joe Sweeney
Erin O'Brien-Moore
Emily Cargraves
Steve Carruthers
Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum
Factory Worker (uncredited)
Jack Gargan
Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Everett Glass
Mr. La Porte (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Businessman at Meeting (uncredited)
Knox Manning
Himself (uncredited)
Mike Miller
Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
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