Wow. I was just talking with friends about movies that I remember watching on television when I was young and this gem came to mind.
The main character is an avid fan of the moon program and comes up with a plan to get up close and personal with a rocket on it's way to the moon. He manages to stay on board during the launch and that's when the fun begins. Yes, it's simplistic in that it ignores some of the basic physics of space flight but I'm sure the core audience of this movie - young fans of the Apollo missions - really didn't notice.
If I remember it right they discover him on the way to the moon and he ends up saving the day as the pilot of the command module comes down with the flu and the kid looks after him and helps him recover while the other astronauts continue with their mission of landing on the moon. The return trip back to Earth gets rough as the kid almost freezes but does survive as they make it back to Earth. He ends up becoming somewhat of a hero at the end.
Yes, it pushed the boundaries of realism but, hey, the Appolo program was still going when this came out so it was easy to overlook the small details.
9 out of 10.
The main character is an avid fan of the moon program and comes up with a plan to get up close and personal with a rocket on it's way to the moon. He manages to stay on board during the launch and that's when the fun begins. Yes, it's simplistic in that it ignores some of the basic physics of space flight but I'm sure the core audience of this movie - young fans of the Apollo missions - really didn't notice.
If I remember it right they discover him on the way to the moon and he ends up saving the day as the pilot of the command module comes down with the flu and the kid looks after him and helps him recover while the other astronauts continue with their mission of landing on the moon. The return trip back to Earth gets rough as the kid almost freezes but does survive as they make it back to Earth. He ends up becoming somewhat of a hero at the end.
Yes, it pushed the boundaries of realism but, hey, the Appolo program was still going when this came out so it was easy to overlook the small details.
9 out of 10.