You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his co-pilot, Peter Craig. "The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. This episode, one of “The Twilight Zone”’s most terrifying, predicts that Earth has been destroyed by nuclear war by 1985.

The Twilight Zone episode 6, “Six Degrees of Freedom", uses a space mission premise to raise larger questions about the cosmos.As Earth destroys itself, five astronauts attempt to successfully land on Mars in order to colonize the planet. The astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. on the moon with the Apollo 11 mission, in 1969. "The Little People" is an episode of the The Twilight Zone.

The first American in space, Alan Shepard, did not take that famous journey until May 5, 1961, years into the Twilight Zone's run. Three astronauts land on a place that feels very much like Earth (though it’s thousands of miles away), but find all the people are motionless, frozen in scenes of beauty pageants and mayoral elections. Remington Model 51 . The cast of characters? Indeed, despite decades of copies, nothing compares to the original.

During a confrontation, Captain Allenby (John Dehner) pulls out his pistol.In "I Shot An Arrow into the Air" (S1E15), the astronauts also carry similar Remington pistols in the same style holsters. In "The Lonely" (S1E07), what appears to be a nickel-plated Remington Model 51 pistol with pearl grips is seen in the holsters of the astronauts. And in 1959, some six months after NASA's foundation, the seven astronauts of Project Mercury were named. The Twilight Zone is a classic. Two astronauts, Captain William Fletcher and co-pilot Peter Craig landed their spacecraft on a far off planet for repairs. Like all planets in "The Twilight Zone", this planet's atmosphere and environment was Earth-like and suitable for life. Consider, on October 1st, 1958, just a year before The Twilight Zone debuted, NASA came into being.