Review – Destination Moon

Writer Robert Heinlein and producer George Pal team up to create this surprisingly sober speculation about a trip to the moon nearly two decades before Apollo 11. No space monsters. No space bimbos in shiny silver bikinis. Just a straightforward exploration of the political, economic and technical pitfalls of space travel in the middle of the 20th century. It’s largely a propaganda piece, extolling the virtues of a well-funded space program and threatening that we need to build missile bases on the Moon before you-know-who gets there first. Of course if the real U.S. rockets had been as deco-snazzy as the spacecraft here, they might have been easier to sell to the American public. Mildly amusing