i buy rocketship x m on dvd in a two pack with destination moon . now i see why the distributor do that represent no one who have ever see this movie would buy it on it own . i can not fathom what school system turn out the reviewer who claim that rxm be great in it prediction of how space travel would take place . launch straight up and and then do a 90 degree right turn and circle faster and faster until you reach escape velocity . i do not think i recall that from the apollo program . never mind that the astronaut should be weightless once they shut off the engine and gravity change direction every time they pass through the hatch to the engine room . go to the moon and but miss it . no problem and it just a hop skip and a jump ( with a help hand from divine providence ) and you will be at mar . and ok and if you want to put life on mar and give the state of planetary knowledge in 1950 and it be a forgivable convention for the sake of the storytelling and but can you make them look at least a little alien . these martian look like extra from the cast of 10 and 000 b. c. i can accept some scientific mistake and but this wouldn not pass muster with an above average second grader . and that aside from the scream plot hole represent 12 minute before launch ( a youre remind of constantly by the nagging p. a. voice say x minus so many minute ) the astronaut be give a press conference . i guess the time crunch be why dr. eckstrom do not change out of his coat and tie before launch into space . and how handy that and even though they be plan to go to the moon and have pressure suit for that and they bring hike gear ( and rifle . ) just in case they end up at mar . theyre lucky they land anywhere and since apparently the method they have develop for landing be to have dr. e look out the window and tell the pilot ( lloyd bridge ) to tweak down the throttle every now and then . note to the designer of the xm 2 represent how about give the pilot a window seat . ditto the previous comment on the casual sexism that have eye candy dr. lisa ( osa massen ) doom them all by repeatedly screw up her fuel calculation and but hey that be the early 50 . she be there to fill her sweater and not a useful function . rocketship x m be notable for be one of the first of the first film to say ohmigod be all go to blow ourselves up with these here a bomb and but one can note that about it without waste 77 minute watch such dreck . by the way and that message might have have a bit more impact have there be some money in the budget for actual set of the martian city ruin and rather than just matte painting . i can appreciate good bad sci fi and for the unique way the future use to look and and for the inherent ( if condescending ) humor you can find when when we look back on the naivety of audience 60 year ago and but this film must have be insult even then . rocketship x m isn not even suitable for an mst3k style lampooning . sometimes and bad be just . bad . anybody want to buy a dvd . use only once and i swear .