
Plot
E.J. Mackernutt, Jr., an 11-year-old boy who has always been fascinated by space and astronauts, sneaks into Cape Kennedy and becomes a stowaway on a spaceship scheduled for a lunar landing. After he is discovered, NASA at first cancels the landing, but E.J. and the astronauts convince them to go forward with it. Problems arise when one of the astronauts is incapacitated by illness and the other two are stranded on the moon's surface, but E.J. is able to command the space capsule and save the day.
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Cast

Lloyd Bridges
Charlie Englehardt

Jeremy Slate
Astronaut Capt. Rick Lawrence

Jim McMullan
Astronaut Ben Pelham

Morgan Paull
Astronaut Dave Anderson

Michael Link
Eli 'E.J.' Mackernutt, Jr.

John Carradine
Jacob Avril

Jack Callahan
Dr. Jack Smathers

Charles Conrad
Himself

Walter Brooke
Whitehead

Keene Curtis
Tom Estes

Edward Faulkner
Eli Mackernutt, Sr.

Jon Cedar
Hans Hartman

Barbara Faulkner
Mrs. Mary Mackernutt

Stephen Rogers
Joey Williams