MEN INTO SPACE Sci-Fi TV - All 38 Episodes! 10-Disc Set!

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Men Into Space is a half-hour American sci-fi series broadcast in black and white from September 30, 1959 to September 7, 1960 which depicted the efforts of the United States Air Force to explore and develop space. Spacesuit costumes and special-effects footage of space vehicles (shot with miniature models) were later re-used in The Outer Limits. The pilot episode used real, high-altitude pressure suits developed by the United States Navy.

The series even included an episode whose plot essentially paralleled the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission's explosion in space more than a decade later, and another that was an uncanny foretelling of the accident that befell the real Gemini VIII mission in 1966.

Scripts often considered the human factor, and while action was the show's forte, humor and romance were part of the mix. Men Into Space predicted women astronauts and scientists, and married couples in space.

A narrator explained in nearly every episode why the astronauts needed magnetic boots to walk in or upon their free-falling spacecraft, how a jet thruster backpack could propel an astronaut through the vacuum of space, why a wrong angle of attack could doom a spacecraft upon atmospheric re-entry, and so forth. The spacecraft in the program were shown gliding to a powerless landing on a dry lake bed, just like the real Space Shuttle nearly 25 years later.