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((Infobox television
| image              = Stowaway to the Moon (film).jpg
| caption            = Original newspaper ad
| genre              = Sci-Fi<br />Family
| creator            =
| based_on           = 
| writer             = [[Jon Boothe]]<br />[[William R. Shelton]] (novel)
| screenplay         = 
| story              = 
| director           = [[Andrew V. McLaglen]]
| starring           = Michael Link<br />[[Lloyd Bridges]]<br />[[Jeremy Slate]]<br />[[Jim McMullan]]<br />[[Morgan Paull]]<br />[[Pete Conrad]]
| music              = [[Patrick Williams (composer)|Patrick Williams]]
| country            = United States
| language           = English
| executive_producer = 
| producer           = [[John Cutts (producer)|John Cutts]]<br />[[Carl Kugel]]
| location           = NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida<br />20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California
| cinematography     = J. J. Jones
| editor             = [[John Schreyer]]
| camera             = 
| runtime            = 100 minutes
| company            = [[20th Century Fox Television]]
| budget             = 
| network            = CBS
| released           = ((start date|1975|1|10)) 
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'''''Stowaway to the Moon''''' is a 1975 television film directed by [[Andrew V. McLaglen]] and starring [[Lloyd Bridges]] among others. The plot centers around a preteen boy who [[Stowaway|stows away]] on an [[Apollo program|Apollo mission]] to the Moon. The film also features [[Pete Conrad]], the [[List of Apollo astronauts|third person to walk on the Moon]]. The film was based on the novel of the same name, written by [[William R. Shelton|William Roy Shelton]].

==Plot==
Eli ("E.J.") Mackernutt Jr. is an 11-year-old boy in [[Titusville, Florida]] who wants to travel in space. His best friend Joey helps him to sneak into the nearby [[Kennedy Space Center]]. Wearing a hardhat and fake security badge and carrying a toolbox, E.J. slips by the other workers unnoticed.

He hides inside a trash compartment in the [[Apollo command module|command module]] ''Camelot'' of the [[Saturn V]] rocket before the [[astronaut]]s arrive for the scheduled [[Apollo]] flight to the Moon. As they work through the preflight checklist, [[Mission Control]] informs them that the spacecraft is overweight by 87 pounds. They cannot explain the discrepancy, but decide that it is not important enough to delay the launch, and the countdown continues. Meanwhile, E.J.'s father Eli Sr. discovers a note from his son telling him of his intentions. Eli and his wife Mary rush to the Kennedy Space Center and insist to the gate staff that their son is on the rocket, but no one believes them.

After the rocket launches on schedule, command module pilot Ben Pelham discovers E.J. Through flashbacks, E.J. tells his story to the astronauts. He and Joey were building a large scale model of a space capsule, and to raise money to build it, they performed work for the elderly Jacob Avril, who owns property adjoining the Kennedy Space Center. Avril's close proximity to the Space Center gives E.J. the idea of stowing away on the upcoming Moon launch.

Charlie Englehardt, the [[flight controller#Flight director|flight director]], tells the crew that the mission is scrubbed, but when the world learns about the stowaway, the [[principal investigator]] urges that the mission continue because it is the only planned visit to the [[Rupes Altai]]. E.J. apologizes for his stunt on live television and asks that his actions not jeopardize the crew's important mission. Englehardt recognizes that E.J. has persuaded the public and US president to continue the mission, and reluctantly gives his consent for the planned Moon landing.

E.J. helps clean the cabin with a vacuum cleaner and performs other chores. Once in lunar orbit, mission commander Rick Lawrence and lunar module pilot Dave Anderson prepare to undock from the command module and descend to the surface. E.J. notices that Pelham is ill, but the astronaut insists that it is just [[space adaptation syndrome]] and asks E.J. to say nothing to the others.

Lawrence and Anderson depart in the [[Apollo Lunar Module|Lunar Module]] ''Little Dipper'', but Pelham's condition deteriorates rapidly. With the ground crew's help, E.J. saves Pelham's life with the vacuum cleaner when he throws up inside his helmet. The boy cares for the ailing astronaut and helps locate the lunar module, which has landed far off course. Despite intermittent telemetry, the lunar module is able to return to the command module with a [[Genesis Rock]]; without E.J., Pelham would have died and a rendezvous would have been impossible, killing the other astronauts.

On the way back to Earth, a stuck valve bleeds much of the oxygen from the ship. The astronauts remain in their spacesuits, while E.J. must retreat to ''Little Dipper'' until re-entry. Despite the low oxygen and freezing temperatures, E.J. never loses faith in the dream of space travel and keeps himself awake by vividly describing the Earth from space to Englehardt and the astronauts.

Some time later back on Earth, E.J., Joey, and Avril watch the full moon from Avril's property. E.J. remembers Lawrence's words: "Kid, you got us off the Moon. Without you we'd be part of those rocks and rilles down there forever and ever! Now we're going home, and we've got you to thank for that!"

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
*((IMDb title|id=0073752|title=Stowaway to the Moon))

((Andrew V. McLaglen))

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[[Category:1975 television films]]
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[[Category:1970s science fiction films]]
[[Category:American science fiction television films]]
[[Category:1970s English-language films]]
[[Category:Films about astronauts]]
[[Category:Films about the Apollo program]]
[[Category:Films directed by Andrew McLaglen]]
[[Category:20th Century Fox Television films]]
[[Category:1970s American films]]

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