Stowaway to the Moon

movie

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 & crew

Keene Curtis · Morgan Paull · Michael Link · Jeremy Slate · Charles Conrad · Jack Callahan · Walter Brooke · William R. Shelton · Lloyd Bridges · John Carradine · Jim McMullan · Andrew V. McLaglen · Jon Boothe

Studios & networks

20th Century Fox Television · Alan Neuman Productions · A MOR-Film Fare