Outer Limit

Adventures in time and space told in future tense. No matter that! Can you predict what will come in 100 years or in 10 or in the next minute? Some people think they can.

Nuclear scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, biologists. They'll predict the shape of the future. Why? Because they make the future. Because they see beyond the known dimensions of time and space. Into the unknown dimension, X. We go ahead now in time to 1965.

We're on a vast concrete runway set in the desert of the southwest. A giant metal ship stands before us, proud pointed for the stars. And in five minutes the signal will flash and it will tear up through the atmosphere to the outer limit.

Five minutes Steve. Alright. What are up Charlie? I want a go over procedure again Steve. How are you? I got it straight. You just make sure. Okay. I take her up on jets to 50,000 and I cut in the rockets.

No lower or your tail blast will burn out three counties. I climb four minutes on rockets then start on over tests. Remember that no more than four minutes. Right. Bishop isn't like those strut of rocket you've been testing.

She's the first one built for outer space. She works. She can go clear to the moon. But I know that I brought my toothbrush. Oh, not this trip. Now get this, Steve. You've got power there to clear the Earth's gravitational field.

But remember, after you cut in the rockets, you've only got 10 minutes fuel. If you go beyond the outer limit, and don't save fuel for the return... I know, I won't get down again. That's right, Steve. You'll drift off into space.