| Table of Contents |
| Don't Leave Earth Without It: Foreword by Michael Cassutt |
| Preflight Briefing: Introduction |
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| 1. First Flights: The Early Spacesuit Films |
| Space Films Before 1950 |
| Himmelskibet (A Trip to Mars) (1918) |
| Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon) (1929) |
| Kosmicheskiy Reys (The Space Voyage) (1935) |
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| 2. The True Frontier: The Classic Spacesuit Films |
| Destination Moon (1950) |
| Spaceways (1953) |
| Project Moonbase (1953) |
| Riders to the Stars (1954) |
| Gog (1954) |
| Conquest of Space (1955) |
| Disneyland: "Man and the Moon" (1955) |
| Satellite in the Sky (1956) |
| Destination Space (1959) |
| Men into Space (1959-1960) |
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| 3. Wild Adventures: The Melodramatic Spacesuit Films |
| Television Programs of the Early 1950s |
| Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951) and Radar Men from the Moon (1952) |
| Rocketship X-M (1950) |
| Flight to Mars (1951) |
| Cat-Women of the Moon (1953) |
| Forbidden Planet (1956) |
| World without End (1956) |
| Missile to the Moon (1958), Queen of Outer Space (1958), and Nude on the Moon (1961) |
| From the Earth to the Moon (1958) and First Men in the Moon (1964) |
| The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) |
| 12 to the Moon (1960) |
| The Phantom Planet (1961) |
| Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) |
| Lost in Space (1965-1968) |
| The Time Tunnel: "One Way to the Moon" (1966) |
| In Like Flint (1967) and You Only Live Twice (1967) |
| The Terrornauts (1967) |
| Star Trek: "The Tholian Web" (1968) |
| Barbarella (1968) |
| Moon Zero Two (1969) |
| Döppelganger (Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) (1969) |
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| 4. Ships of Fools: The Humorous Spacesuit Films |
| Situation Comedies of the 1950s |
| Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) |
| Space Ship Sappy (1957), Outer Space Jitters (1957), and Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959) |
| Man in the Moon (1960) |
| Moon Pilot (1962) |
| The Road to Hong Kong (1962) |
| The Mouse on the Moon (1963) |
| Situation Comedies of the 1960s |
| Sergeant Dead Head (1965) |
| Way ... Way Out (1966) |
| Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (Those Fantastic Flying Fools) (1967) |
| The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) |
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| 5. Space Frights: The Horrific Spacesuit Films |
| Alien Visitors in Spacesuits |
| The Quatermass Experiment (1953) and The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) |
| Quatermass II (1955) |
| King Dinosaur (1955) |
| 20 Million Years to Earth (1957) |
| It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) |
| First Man into Space (1959) |
| The Angry Red Planet (1959) |
| Journey to the Seventh Planet (1961) |
| The Crawling Hand (1963) |
| The Outer Limits (1963-1965) |
| The Wizard of Mars (1965) |
| Mutiny in Outer Space (1965) |
| Space Monster (Space Probe Taurus) (1965) |
| Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965) |
| Mission Mars (1968) |
| The Green Slime (1968) |
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| 6. Parallel Flight Paths: The Foreign-Language Spacesuit Films |
| The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe |
| Doroga k Zvezdam (Road to the Stars) (1957) and Luna (The Moon) (1965) |
| Nebo Zovyot (The Sky Calls) (1959) and Battle Beyond the Sun (1962) |
| Die Schweigende Stern (First Spaceship on Venus) (1960) |
Baron Prášil (The Fabulous Baron Munchausen) (1961) and
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| Automat Na Prání (The Wishing Machine) (1967) |
Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms) (1962), Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965), and
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| Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1967) |
| Ikarie XB-1 (1963) and Voyage to the End of the Universe (1964) |
| Mechte Navstrechu (A Dream Come True) (1963) and Queen of Blood (1966) |
| Tumannost Andromedy (The Andromeda Nebula) (1967) |
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| Italy and Western Europe |
| Totò nella Luna (Totò in the Moon) (1957) |
| La Morte Viene della Spazio (The Day the Sky Exploded) (1958) |
| Space Men (1960) |
| Il Pianeta degli Uomini Spenti (Battle of the Worlds) (1961) |
| Terrore nello Spazio (Planet of the Vampires) (1965) |
| Dos Cosmonautas a la Fuerza (002 Operazione Luna) (1965) |
I Criminali della Galassia (The Wild, Wild Planet) (1965) and
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| I Diafanoidi Portano la Morte (War of the Planets) (1966) |
Il Pianeta Errante (War Between the Planets) (1966) and
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| La Morte Viene dal Pianeta Aytin (The Snow Devils) (1967) |
| Raumpatrouille: Die Phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (Space Patrol) (1966) |
| 2 + 5: Missione Hydra (Star Pilot) (1966) |
| ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... Morte (Mission Stardust) (1967) |
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| Egypt and Mexico |
| Rehla ilal Kamar (Journey to the Moon) (1959) |
| Conquistador de la Luna (The Astronauts) (1960) |
Gigantes Planetarios (Planetary Giants) (1965) and
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| El Planeta de las Mujeres Invasoras (Planet of the Female Invaders) (1966) |
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| Japan and Western Asia |
| Chikyu Boeigun (The Mysterians) (1957) and Uchu Daisenso (Battle in Outer Space) (1959) |
| Kyojin to Gangu (Giants and Toys) (1958) |
| Yosei Gorasu (Gorath) (1962) |
| Kaijû Daisenso (Godzilla vs. Monster Zero) (1965) and Kaijû Sôshingeki (Destroy All Monsters) (1968) |
| Taekoesu Yonggary (Yongary, Monster from the Deep) (1967) |
| Uchû daikaijû Girara (The X from Outer Space) (1967) |
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| 7. From Reel to Real: The Rebirth and Death of Spacesuit Films |
| Countdown (1968) |
| Marooned (1969) |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
| Television Coverage of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing (1969) |
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| 8. Return to Earth: Spacesuit Films after 1969 |
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| A Chronological Bibliography of Spacesuit Films |
| Bibliography of Other Works Cited |
| Index |
