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Men Into Space (a.k.a. Space Challenge in later US syndication) is an American black-and-white science fiction television series, produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc., that was first broadcast by CBS from September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960.[1]

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  1. 111 relations: Allison Hayes, Alvin Ganzer, Angie Dickinson, Angle of attack, Apollo 13, Arthur Franz, Arthur Weiss, Artistic license, Asteroid, Astronaut, Astronautics, Atmosphere of Earth, Atmospheric entry, Ballistic missile, BBC, Bek Nelson, Black-and-white, Brave Eagle, Brett King, Car, CBS, Chesley Bonestell, Collier's, Colonization of the Moon, Coronary thrombosis, David Duncan (writer), David Rose (songwriter), Denver Pyle, Doctor Who, Documentary film, Donald May, Edwards Air Force Base, Extraterrestrial life, Free fall, G-force, Gavin MacLeod, Gemini 8, Harry Townes, Herbert L. Strock, Ib Melchior, Ideal Toy Company, It's About Time (TV series), James Best, James Clavell, James Coburn, James Drury, Jerome Bixby, Joe Flynn (American actor), Joe Maross, Joyce Taylor, ... Expand index (61 more) »

  2. 1950s American science fiction television series
  3. 1960s American science fiction television series
  4. Television series about astronauts
  5. Television series about the United States Air Force
  6. Television series by Ziv Television Programs

Allison Hayes

Allison Hayes (born Mary Jane Hayes; March 6, 1930 – February 27, 1977) was an American film and television actress and model.

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Alvin Ganzer

Alvin Ganzer (1911–2009) was an American film and television director.

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Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson (born Angeline Brown; September 30, 1931) is a retired American actress.

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Angle of attack

In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, α, or \alpha) is the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the fluid through which it is moving.

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Apollo 13

Apollo 13 (April 1117, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon.

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Arthur Franz

Arthur Sofield Franz (February 29, 1920 – June 17, 2006) was an American actor whose most notable feature film role was as Lieutenant, Junior Grade H. Paynter Jr.

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Arthur Weiss

Arthur Weiss (13 June 1912 – 26 August 1980) was an American script writer for two decades on action/adventure TV shows like Mission: Impossible, Mannix, The Fugitive, Super Friends, The Time Tunnel, Emergency!, and Sea Hunt.

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Artistic license

Artistic license (alongside more contextually-specific derivative terms such as poetic license, historical license, dramatic license, and narrative license) refers to deviation from fact or form for artistic purposes.

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Asteroid

An asteroid is a minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor an identified comet— that orbits within the inner Solar System.

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Astronaut

An astronaut (from the Ancient Greek ἄστρον, meaning 'star', and ναύτης, meaning 'sailor') is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member aboard a spacecraft.

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Astronautics

Astronautics (or cosmonautics) is the practice of sending spacecraft beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space.

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Atmosphere of Earth

The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.

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Atmospheric entry

Atmospheric entry (sometimes listed as Vimpact or Ventry) is the movement of an object from outer space into and through the gases of an atmosphere of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.

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Ballistic missile

A ballistic missile (BM) is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Bek Nelson

Bek Nelson (born Doris Dee Stiner; May 8, 1927 – March 28, 2015) was an American model and showgirl who turned to acting at age 29, making seven films and two dozen television shows in her first three years.

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Black-and-white

Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white to produce a range of achromatic brightnesses of grey.

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Brave Eagle

Brave Eagle is a 26-episode half-hour Western television series which aired on CBS from September 28, 1955, to March 14, 1956, with rebroadcasts continuing until June 6. Men into Space and Brave Eagle are black-and-white American television shows and CBS television dramas.

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Brett King

Brett King (born Bertell W. King, Jr.; December 29, 1920 – January 14, 1999) was an American actor who performed in films and on television between 1949 and 1967.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Chesley Bonestell

Chesley Knight Bonestell Jr. (January 1, 1888 – June 11, 1986) was an American painter, designer, and illustrator.

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Collier's

Collier's was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as Collier's Once a Week, then renamed in 1895 as Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal, shortened in 1905 to Collier's: The National Weekly and eventually to simply Collier's.

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Colonization of the Moon

Colonization of the Moon is a process or concept employed by some proposals for robotic or human exploitation and settlement endeavours on the Moon.

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Coronary thrombosis

Coronary thrombosis is defined as the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel of the heart.

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David Duncan (writer)

David Duncan (February 17, 1913 – December 26, 1999) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

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David Rose (songwriter)

David Daniel Rose (June 15, 1910 – August 23, 1990) was a British-born American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader.

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Denver Pyle

Denver Dell Pyle (May 11, 1920 – December 25, 1997) was an American film and television actor and director.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. Men into Space and Doctor Who are space adventure television series and television series set in the future.

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Documentary film

A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a historical record".

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Donald May

Donald Adam May (February 22, 1929 – January 28, 2022) was an American actor who was known for his roles in Colt.45 (1957–1960) and The Edge of Night.

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Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation in California.

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Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.

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Free fall

In classical mechanics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it.

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G-force

The g-force or gravitational force equivalent is mass-specific force (force per unit mass), expressed in units of standard gravity (symbol g or g0, not to be confused with "g", the symbol for grams).

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Gavin MacLeod

Gavin MacLeod (born Allan George See; February 28, 1931 – May 29, 2021) was an American actor best known for his roles as news writer Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and ship's captain Merrill Stubing on ABC's The Love Boat.

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Gemini 8

Gemini 8 (officially Gemini VIII) With Gemini IV, NASA changed to Roman numerals for Gemini mission designations.

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Harry Townes

Harry Rhett Townes (September 18, 1914 – May 23, 2001) was an American actor who later became an Episcopalian minister.

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Herbert L. Strock

Herbert L. Strock (January 13, 1918 – November 30, 2005) was an American television producer and director, and a B-movie director of titles such as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), How to Make a Monster (1958), and The Crawling Hand (1963).

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Ib Melchior

Ib Jørgen Melchior (September 17, 1917 – March 14, 2015) was a Danish-American novelist, short-story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of low-budget American science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures.

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Ideal Toy Company

Ideal Toy Company was an American toy company founded by Morris Michtom and his wife, Rose.

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It's About Time (TV series)

It's About Time is an American science fantasy comedy television series that aired on CBS for one season of 26 episodes in 1966–1967. Men into Space and It's About Time (TV series) are television series about astronauts.

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James Best

Jewel Franklin Guy (July 26, 1926 – April 6, 2015), known professionally as James Best, was an American television, film, stage, and voice actor, as well as a writer, director, acting coach, artist, college professor, and musician.

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James Clavell

James Clavell (born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell; 10 October 1921 – 7 September 1994) was an Australian-born, British-raised and educated, naturalized-American writer, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war.

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James Coburn

James Harrison Coburn III (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor who was featured in more than 70 films, largely action roles, and made 100 television appearances during a 45-year career.

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James Drury

James Child Drury Jr. (April 18, 1934 – April 6, 2020) was an American actor.

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Jerome Bixby

Drexel Jerome Lewis Bixby (January 11, 1923 – April 28, 1998) was an American short story writer and scriptwriter.

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Joe Flynn (American actor)

Joseph Anthony Flynn III (November 8, 1924 – July 19, 1974) was an American actor.

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Joe Maross

Joseph Raymond Maross (February 7, 1923 – November 7, 2009) was an American stage, film, and television actor whose career spanned over four decades.

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Joyce Taylor

Joyce Taylor (born Joyce Crowder; September 14, 1937) is an American actress.

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Keith Larsen

Keith Larsen (born Keith Larsen Burt, June 17, 1924 – December 13, 2006) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer who starred in three short-lived television series between 1955 and 1961.

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LCD television

A liquid-crystal-display television (LCD TV) is a television set that uses a liquid-crystal display to produce images.

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Lee Sholem

Lee Tabor Sholem (May 25, 1913 in Paris, Illinois – August 19, 2000 in Los Angeles, California) was an American television and film director.

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Lewis J. Rachmil

Lewis J. Rachmil (July 3, 1908 – February 19, 1984) was an American film producer and art director.

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Lieutenant

A lieutenant (abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, security services and police forces.

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Lunar water

Lunar water is water that is present on the Moon.

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Magnetic boots

Magnetic boots are boots that are magnetic, which allows them to attach to the ferrous floor or hulls of a spacecraft during weightlessness, and presumably would allow someone to walk around the cabin of a spacecraft.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun.

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Marshall Thompson

James Marshall Thompson (November 27, 1925Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. – May 18, 1992) was an American film and television actor.

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Meyer Dolinsky

Meyer Dolinsky (October 13, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois – February 29, 1984 in Los Angeles, California), aka Mike Dolinsky (sometimes credited as "Michael Adams" or "Mike Adams"), was an American screenwriter.

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Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Moon landing

A Moon landing or lunar landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, including both crewed and robotic missions.

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Murray Hamilton

Murray Hamilton (March 24, 1923 – September 1, 1986) was an American stage, screen and television character actor who appeared in such films as Anatomy of a Murder, The Hustler, The Graduate, Jaws and The Amityville Horror.

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Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins (June 16, 1896 – June 8, 1975), an American writer of genre fiction, particularly of science fiction.

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Nancy Gates

Nancy Gates (February 1, 1926Katz, Ephraim (1979). The Film Encyclopedia: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume. Perigee Books..P. 471. – March 24, 2019) was an American film and television actress.

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Nathan Juran

Naftuli Hertz "Nathan" Juran (September 1, 1907 – October 23, 2002) was an Austrian-born film art director, and later film and television director.

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North American X-10

The North American X-10 (originally designated RTV-A-5) was an unmanned technology demonstrator developed by North American Aviation.

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Otto Lang (film producer)

Otto Lang (21 January 1908 – 30 January 2006) was a skier and pioneer ski instructor from Bosnia and Herzegovina, who lived and worked in the United States. After teaching skiing at a variety of smaller resorts in Austria, he joined the Hannes Schneider Ski School in St. Anton am Arlberg, one of the most prestigious ski schools of the era.

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Paul Burke (actor)

Paul Raymond Burke (July 21, 1926 – September 13, 2009) was an American actor, best known for his lead roles in two 1960s ABC television series, Naked City and 12 O'Clock High.

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Paul Comi

Paul Domingo Comi (February 11, 1932 – August 26, 2016) was an American film and television actor.

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Pressure suit

A pressure suit is a protective suit worn by high-altitude pilots who may fly at altitudes where the air pressure is too low for an unprotected person to survive, even when breathing pure oxygen at positive pressure.

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Project Mercury

Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.

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Radioactive waste

Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material.

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Robert Reed

Robert Reed (born John Robert Rietz Jr.; October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992) was an American actor.

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Robert Vaughn

Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor and political activist, whose career in film, television and theatre spanned nearly six decades.

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Ron Foster (actor)

Ronald R. Foster (February 19, 1930 – February 26, 2015) was an American actor.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screenplay

A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show, or video game (as opposed to a stage play) by screenwriters.

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Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt is an American action adventure television series that aired in syndication from 1958 to 1961 and was popular for decades afterwards. Men into Space and sea Hunt are black-and-white American television shows and television series by MGM Television.

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Simon Oakland

Simon Oakland (August 28, 1915 – August 29, 1983) was an American actor of stage, screen, and television.

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SM-64 Navaho

The North American SM-64 Navaho was a supersonic intercontinental cruise missile project built by North American Aviation (NAA).

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SM-65 Atlas

The SM-65 Atlas was the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Space exploration

Space exploration is the use of astronomy and space technology to explore outer space.

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Space Race

The Space Race (Космическая гонка) was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.

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Space Shuttle program

The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011.

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Space station

A space station (or orbital station) is a spacecraft which remains in orbit and hosts humans for extended periods of time.

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Space suit

A space suit or spacesuit is a garment worn to keep a human alive in the harsh environment of outer space, vacuum and temperature extremes.

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Space telescope

A space telescope (also known as space observatory) is a telescope in outer space used to observe astronomical objects.

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Spacecraft

A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.

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Special effect

Special effects (often abbreviated as F/X or simply FX) are illusions or visual tricks used in the theatre, film, television, video game, amusement park and simulator industries to simulate the imagined events in a story or virtual world.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Telephone

A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly.

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The Aquanauts

The Aquanauts (later known as Malibu Run) is an American adventure/drama series that aired on CBS in the 1960–1961 season. Men into Space and the Aquanauts are black-and-white American television shows, CBS television dramas and television series by Ziv Television Programs.

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The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)

The Outer Limits is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from September 16, 1963, to January 16, 1965, at 7:30 PM Eastern Time on Mondays. Men into Space and the Outer Limits (1963 TV series) are 1960s American science fiction television series, black-and-white American television shows and space adventure television series.

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The Phantom Planet

The Phantom Planet is a 1961 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Fred Gebhardt, directed by William Marshall, that stars Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Anthony Dexter, and Francis X. Bushman.

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The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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Tyler McVey

William Tyler McVey (February 14, 1912 – July 4, 2003) was an American character actor of film and television.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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Vacuum

A vacuum (vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter.

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Vostok 1

Vostok 1 (Восток, East or Orient 1) was the first spaceflight of the Vostok programme and the first human orbital spaceflight in history.

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Warren Stevens

Warren Albert Stevens (November 2, 1919 – March 27, 2012) was an American stage, screen, and television actor.

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Werner Klemperer

Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an American actor.

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Wernher von Braun

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 191216 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect.

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Whit Bissell

Whitner Nutting Bissell (October 25, 1909 – March 5, 1996) was an American character actor.

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William Conrad

William Conrad (born John William Cann Jr., September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American actor, producer, and director whose entertainment career spanned five decades in radio, film, and television, peaking in popularity when he starred in the detective series Cannon.

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William Lundigan

William Paul Lundigan (June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975) was an American film actor.

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William Schallert

William Joseph Schallert (July 6, 1922 – May 8, 2016) was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career spanning more than 60 years.

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William Templeton (screenwriter)

William Pettigrew Templeton (7 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish playwright and screenwriter who contributed a string of episodic dramas for American prime time television during the Golden Age of Television in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Ziv Television Programs

Ziv Television Programs, Inc. was an American production company that specialized in productions for first-run television syndication in the 1950s.

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See also

1950s American science fiction television series

1960s American science fiction television series

Television series about astronauts

Television series about the United States Air Force

Television series by Ziv Television Programs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_into_Space

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