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Cinema Fearité Presents ‘First Man Into Space’ – Sci-Fi Creature Feature That Beat The Russians By Two Years

May 19, 2016 by James Jay Edwards

On April 12, 1961, the Soviets put a man into space.  Twenty-three days later, the Americans repeated the feat.  Both events played a huge part in the so-called Space Race, but Hollywood beat them both to the punch, putting a human into space two years earlier in 1959 with the aptly-titled First Man Into Space. […]

Filed Under: Cinema Fearité Tagged With: Bill Edwards, Bill Nagy, Buxton Orr, Carl Jaffe, Charles Vetter, Chuck Yeager, Geoffrey Faithfull, John C. Cooper, John Croydon, Lance Z. Hargreaves, Marshall Thompson, Michael Morris, Richard Gordon, Robert Ayers, Robert Day, Sci Fi, Wyott Ordung

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