Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Steineded How sad is this?

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

agb8369 I remembered this as a kid like some others. IF this movie was an after school special catering to kids, my perspective would be different, but it was not when released in 1975.1. Even pre-terrorist days, launch sites were locked down tight. Especially then with a war still in its wake. No kid is going to sneak aboard.2. There is not as much space as depicted in the capsule. They are tight, just as the capsule the kid is shown in at the beginning of the movie.3. The guard entrances when the dad cam in would not have been so lax.I could go on all evening on this flick since it is clueless and lazy with effort. Based on the insanely rushed ending, they somebody must have gotten how bad this was and cut the budget- hence the abrupt and nonsense ending. Even as a kid all those years ago I thought the kid was dreaming, up until the end. Due to the odd demeanor of the adults and the lack of logic, I thought the movie was intended to be the kid dreaming and it then would have made sense. Reason being, the movie literally seems like a dream of an eleven year old.From a kids perspective, the movie would be a 7/10, since THEN it would make sense.

Retro_TV_Man Wow. I was just talking with friends about movies that I remember watching on television when I was young and this gem came to mind.The main character is an avid fan of the moon program and comes up with a plan to get up close and personal with a rocket on it's way to the moon. He manages to stay on board during the launch and that's when the fun begins. Yes, it's simplistic in that it ignores some of the basic physics of space flight but I'm sure the core audience of this movie - young fans of the Apollo missions - really didn't notice.If I remember it right they discover him on the way to the moon and he ends up saving the day as the pilot of the command module comes down with the flu and the kid looks after him and helps him recover while the other astronauts continue with their mission of landing on the moon. The return trip back to Earth gets rough as the kid almost freezes but does survive as they make it back to Earth. He ends up becoming somewhat of a hero at the end.Yes, it pushed the boundaries of realism but, hey, the Appolo program was still going when this came out so it was easy to overlook the small details.9 out of 10.

gazzo-2 Sure I can remember seeing this on TV when I was 9, the kid weighed about 87 lbs, and if I remember right, nearly freezes to death while they are circling the moon(?)-there was some suspense and all that. I had never heard what this was called but I remembered parts of it all these years.Yes this is worth seeing if you can find it; not a bad rainy Saturday afternooner thing for your kids at the least. And hey, it has John Carradine AND Lloyd Bridges. Not bad.**1/2 outta **** at least.

miller-movies Lloyd Bridges and John Carradine are the only big name actors in this TV movie, but the remainder of the cast do fairly well. This is a film about a NASA Moon mission, with a boy who stows away in the trash compartment. While moderately simplistic, it does a good job of showing what an actual mission was all about. Michael Link stars as the title character. Do not expect massive FX, tho there is some good footage from the Apollo missions. Astronaut Charles Conrad provides some nice insight as a news reporter. Shown on Fox Movie Channel on June 5th... it might be repeated. 7.