Originally released to theaters in 3-D.
Released on 9/3/53. The following day Project Moon Base (1953) was released using the same costumes and sets.
Film music enthusiasts will note Elmer Bernstein's credit for the score, while space art enthusiasts will recognize the moonscapes by Chesley Bonestell.
As he prepares to exit the spaceship after landing, Walt Walters announces he'd brought along a stack of postcards he intended to mark with a special "Moon postmark" for sale back on Earth. This scenario was actually played out with great embarrassment for NASA nearly 20 years later when the crew of Apollo 15 carried several hundred unauthorized "postal covers" (commemorative postcards with canceled stamps) in PPK pockets of spacesuits that were used on moonwalks. At least two of the astronauts had previously and privately signed contracts with a West German businessman who agreed to pay them several thousand dollars for the postal covers on their return to Earth. This was against rules established by NASA in 1965, which prohibited astronauts from personally profiting from the sale of any items they were allowed to carry into space.