A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

Artist Chesley Bonestell worked from rocket scientist Wernher von Braun's original designs to paint this view of a space station hovering above Central America, together with a resuable shuttle ...

but most of the time the pacing is slowed by the talky script fashioned from the adaptation of the Chesley Bonestell-Willy Ley book by Philip Yordan, Barre Lyndon and George Worthington Yates.