

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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $592K
- Box office
- $5M
- Language
- English
- spacecraft
- moon
- based on novel or book
- cold war
- cartoon
- space travel
- moon landing
- space
- scientist
- zero gravity
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical27 Jun 1950
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU18 Aug 1950
GermanyDE
- Theatrical129 Jul 1951
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT14 Dec 1951
SpainES
- Theatrical29 May 1953
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Destination Moon was released on 27 June 1950.
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Sierbahnn
8/17/2026
Post-war science fiction like this is oddly optimistic. In this case, it is also foolhardingly patriotical, capitalistic, and extremely cynical. It's almost as if you're watching the film version of Jules Verne's work about traveling to the moon, considering how little time is spent actually working out how to get to the moon and instead delving into how to rip a set apart in order to strip weight from a rocket. The …
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