The Astronauts (1960)

Directed by

Christopher Muir

Country

Australia

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A live Australian television play from 1960 about the space race. It shows a fictional attempt at a manned spaceflight from an Australian perspective.

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What happens

The Astronauts is a television film, or rather a live television play, which aired in Australia during 1960 on ABC. Broadcast originally in Melbourne on 18 May 1960, a kinescope recording was made of the broadcast and shown in Sydney on 27 July 1960 (it is not known if it was also shown on ABC's stations in Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth). FilmInk magazine said it may be the only Australian drama about the space race and "the first (to my knowledge) locally written Australian sci-fi drama for the small screen." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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