The winner of the 1950 Academy Award for Best Special Effects, Destination Moon was the first major science fiction film produced in the U.S. and lifted the genre from the realm of the fantastic to the world of the believable.Co-scripted by Robert Heinlein from his novel "Rocketship Galileo", Destination Moon's suspenseful plot relates the saga of man's first voyage to the moon amid a series of scientific cliffhangers. It marked producer George Pal's initial association with the genre.Later Pal would produce some of Hollywood's most popular science fiction films, including War Of The Worlds, The Time Machine and When World's Collide.