[Vision2020] "Destination Moon" (Sci-Fi, 1950)

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"Destination Moon" (Sci-Fi, 1950)

Four American astronauts blast off from the New Mexico desert and fly to
the Moon. They land after difficulties that cause more fuel to be used
than anticipated. Consequently, the crew must race against time to lighten
the ship for a successful return to Earth.

The film features the premise that US private industry will finance and
manufacture the first spacecraft to reach the moon, given the Soviet
threat at the time, and then the US government will bring itself to buy or
lease the technology. Visionary industrialists are shown cooperating to
support the venture.

Destination Moon was the first major science-fiction film dealing
seriously with the prospect, problems and technology of space travel
produced in the United States, and won the Academy Award for Visual
Effects in the name of the effects director, (Lee Zavitz). The film was
also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction (Ernst Fegte,
George Sawley). The eminent science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein
contributed significantly to the script and served as a technical advisor.
Heinlein also published, about the same time as the release of the film,
"Destination Moon", a novella of the same name that was based on the
screenplay.

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