History Film / DestinationMoon

Not to be confused with the ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'' story which also depicts a version of the first moon landing with a [[DuelingMovies strangely similar]] [[http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3p.html#tintin prescient scenario]]. Also not to be confused with DetonationMoon, which is a pun on this films' title.

* ColorCodedCharacters: {{Invoked}} with the spacesuits, so the explorers can tell who's who on the Moon's surface. Creator/StanleyKubrick would homage this in ''2001'' by using the same colors for the Odyssey crew.

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Seven years before Sputnik launched UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace, and nineteen before the Apollo 11 landing, this 1950 production by George Pál was the first major science-fiction film produced in the United States that dealt seriously with the prospect, problems, and technology of space travel. It was directed by Irving Pichel.

Seven years before Sputnik launched UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace, and nineteen before the Apollo 11 landing, this 1950 production by George Pál was the first major science-fiction film produced in the United States that dealt seriously with the prospect, problems, and technology of space travel.

* TripToTheMoonPlot: Obviously.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology / [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Physics]]: Joe's difficulty in swallowing in space may seem like ScienceMarchesOn, but in fact peristalsis has been a known aspect of human digestion since antiquity. All the producers would have needed to do to verify the difficulty in eating in zero-g is have a gymnast eat something while hanging upside-down. If food can be swallowed without difficulty at what basically amounts to -1 Gs, it would clearly be fine at 0 Gs.