What happens
Major Thomas Manning, a US Air Force astronaut on special assignment at Claymore Island, prepares for a rocket flight with his wife Mary, who fears for him after two earlier pilots vanished. Suspense presents this 1962 episode, first broadcast on 1962-09-09, with William Mason in the lead role. Manning lifts off, reports a strange blinding light, and loses contact with Earth. He returns to the base, but his wife and the colonel treat him as a stranger, and he begins to doubt what he is seeing around him.
Claymore Island, a military space facility off the southern coast of California, and the Manning home nearby
Characters: Thomas Manning, Mary Manning, Colonel Alvin Marks, Maurice Tarplin
Listen for: Manning's wife insisting he is not her husband, and the colonel's guarded questions about the flight
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.