Destination Moon
Two years in the making!
1950 1 hour 31 minutes
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.
27th June 1950
76 years ago
1 hour 31 minutes
Finishes at 4:24pm
$592,000 ($8,158,885 today)
Revenue $5,000,000
Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 2 nominations total
6.3/10
67%
59%
63%
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