What happens
Test pilot Major Bill Westfall flies the experimental RX-3, a rocket-powered aircraft designed to reach extreme altitudes and speeds, while his friend Hank Hargrove and Colonel Joe Rawlins monitor the flight from the control tower at the base. Bill climbs far beyond the atmosphere, and contact with him is lost as he approaches 210,000 feet. Suspense: The Outer Limit is a 1957 episode of the CBS series Suspense, first broadcast on March 17, 1957, and stars Frank Lovejoy. The story turns on what Bill reports after his return and how the others respond to it.
A military airbase in the American desert, the control tower, and the high atmosphere above it
Characters: Bill Westfall, Hank Hargrove, Colonel Joe Rawlins, Molly, Major Donaldson, Ralph Harlow
Listen for: The tense radio exchanges between Bill in the RX-3 and the control tower as contact is lost
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.