The Outer Limit

Countdown for blast off. X-5, 4, 3, 2, X-1. Fire. From the far horizons of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time and space. These are stories of the future. Adventures in which you'll live in a million could be years on a thousand maybe worlds.

The National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers of astounding science fiction presents... The Knight Story, the Outer Limit by Graham Daugh. We go ahead now in time to 1965, where on a vast concrete runways set in the desert of the South West, a giant metalship stands before us, prowl pointed for the stars.

And in 5 minutes, the signal will flash and it will tear up through the atmosphere to the the outer limits. Attention! Attention! Careful for takeoff! Careful for takeoff! Careful for takeoff! Five minutes, Steve. Right.

Worm her up, Charlie. I want to go over procedure again, Steve. Don't worry, I got it straight. Just make sure. Okay, I take her up on just a 50,000 and then I cut in the rocket.

No, Laura, your tail blast will burn out three counties. I climb four minutes on rockets, then start maneuver tests. remember that no more than four minutes. The ship isn't like those strato rockets that you've been testing. She's the first one built for outer space. If she works, you can go clear to the moon. Right now, not a bright-night toothbrush.

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 ten minutes fuel. You'll go beyond the outer limit and don't say fuel for the return. You won't get down again ever. You'll drift out into space. Get that now. Ten