Stowaway to the Moon (1975)

6.0/10 100 min Family Science Fiction

Overview

E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.

Cast

Lloyd Bridges

Charlie Englehardt

Jeremy Slate

Astronaut Capt. Rick Lawrence

Jim McMullan

Astronaut Ben Pelham

Morgan Paull

Astronaut Dave Anderson

John Carradine

Jacob Avril

Charles Conrad

Himself

Walter Brooke

Whitehead

Keene Curtis

Tom Estes

Edward Faulkner

Eli Mackernutt, Sr.

Jon Cedar

Hans Hartman

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