Man in Space

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Man In Space aired on March 9, 1955 and directed by legendary Disney animator Ward Kimball. Later, it was edited into a featurette to play in theaters, accompanying Davy Crockett and the River Pirates. This Disneyland episode (set in Tomorrowland), narrated partly by Kimball and by such famed scientists as Dr. Willy Ley, Dr. Heinz Haber and Dr. Wernher Von Braun, and also by Dick Tufeld of Lost in Space fame, talks briefly about the lighthearted history of rockets and is followed by discussions of satellites, a practical look (through humorous animation) at what spacemen will have to face in a rocket (both physically and psychologically, such as momentum, weightlessness, radiation, even space sickness) and a rocket takeoff into space.

The next episode in this series was Man and the Moon. It was released on DVD in 2004 as part of the Walt Disney Treasures line.