See you later space cowboy series#

For example, a scientist-astronaut stricken with a coronary thrombosis while exploring the Moon was not expected to survive the G-forces of the return flight, so his comrades stowed the space-suited patient in a steel drum filled with water, to cushion him during launch. The program was not idealistic missions sometimes failed and astronauts sometimes died. In many episodes the astronauts were faced with accidents or technical problems that required innovation. As depicted in the scripts, the low-key but decisive McCauley was ubiquitous, assigned to every important space mission over at least a decade, including the earliest human flights, the first flight to the Moon, many additional lunar landings and Moon base construction missions, construction of a space station, and two flights to Mars (neither succeeded, and folklore has it that plans for a never-aired second season would have focused on further missions to Mars and beyond).

McCauley was a sort of 'everyman' character who was viewed in the show as the most experienced and illustrious astronaut. Joyce Taylor had a recurring role in eight episodes as Col. Ron Foster appeared five times as Lieutenant Neil Templeton. Tyler McVey appeared in seven episodes as Major General Norgath. Edward McCauley (William Lundigan), who was in all 38 of the series' episodes.

See you later space cowboy series#

Men Into Space was somewhat unusual for a TV action series in that it had numerous recurring characters, but only one protagonist, Col. The program aired in the year just prior to the beginning of human spaceflight, with Vostok 1 and the Project Mercury launching crewed spacecraft in 1961. Some props were futuristic (such as a forerunner of today's real-life LCD TVs), but the show's Earth clothing and environs, including automobiles, telephones, and other machines, were decidedly late 1950s. The first Moon landing would have occurred circa 1975.

Men Into Space was not set in a specified time period, but clues dropped in the scripts indicated that it took place between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s. The series' star, William Lundigan, played Col. The series depicts future efforts by the United States Air Force to explore and develop outer space. 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 Septemto September 7, 1960.