Stowaway to the Moon poster

Movie · 1975

Stowaway to the Moon

Released 10 January 1975 More from 1975 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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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How old were they?

Oldest first
Walter Brooke
as Whitehead
60
Keene Curtis
as Tom Estes
51
Jeremy Slate
as Astronaut Capt. Rick Lawrence
48
Edward Faulkner
as Eli Mackernutt, Sr.
42
Jim McMullan
as Astronaut Ben Pelham
38
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
22years between the oldest and youngest billed
60Walter Brooke — oldest on the call sheet
38Jim McMullan — youngest billed
48average age of the credited cast
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