Destination Moon

1950 91 min Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama

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.

budget $592,000 earnings $5,000,000 return 8.4x

director Irving Pichel

writers Robert A. Heinlein, Alford Van Ronkel, James O'Hanlon