Marooned (1969 film): Difference between revisions

Three [[The United States|American]] astronauts ([[Gene Hackman]], Richard Crenna, and James Franciscus) returning from a long space station mission suddenly face imminent death when their spacecraft malfunctions and they are stuck in orbit with a very limited oxygen supply. On the ground, Chief astronaut Ted Dougherty (David Janssen) breaks all the rules to implement a mission to rescue the seemingly doomed adventurers. Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in [[Houston]] who must decide whether or not to approve the dangerous rescue mission.