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As the first episode of Journey Into Space, this one seems a little weak. The action seems fairly mundane for science fiction fans because it's all been seen before. Too much time is spent establishing the characters and it is quite difficult to 'pick out' the different voices. The drama is good but for modern listeners the events seem small-scale in an post Star Trek era. However, when Lemmy starts to hear the creepy music the listener's interest is piqued. It is such an scary and unearthly noise that the listener immediately wants to know what it actually is. Many of these points can also be applied to the first episode of Space Force! Due to the episodic format the story 'hook' seems to arrive only in time for the cliff-hanger. On the recording side of things the scene where the crew walk around the ship in their magnetised boots is exceptionally handled. By using a different distance from the microphone for each character, the shows sounds almost three dimensional, event though it is only mono! And the alien music is certainly a creepy noise.
The scene where the crew light up in the spaceship seems very ill-judged by today's standards, however. Astronauts have to be in the peak of physical fitness. Just imagine how far Neil Armstrong and crew would have got if they had been smokers. They wouldn't even have got through training! The infamous cigarette smoking scene is perhaps the most controversial scene in the whole of Journey Into Space. It was cut out of the 1998 cassette release of "Operation Luna" by BBC Worldwide, perhaps out of embarassment, perhaps in an attempt to be politically correct.
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