An American businessman puts together a team to try and build a rocket to get to the moon, in order to beat the an unnamed foreign power, (clearly the Russians), to it. We follow the preparations and eventual journey. Taking off despite a court order prohibiting them from doing so! Once there the astronauts have to risk the return without knowing if they have enough fuel to get back.An early example of a colour sci-fi and the only one that features an explanation of rockets and space flight, by Woody Woodpecker! This is a sci-fi that is as factually correct as it could be for the 50's, with very little in the way of fantasy. Though I must admit I lost interest in the plight of the astronauts as there was rather too much technical information and rather too little acting going on.
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