A penurious Senator needs to be shown that an orbiting space-station is essential to national security and the future of space exploration. This TV-movie is believed to be a failed CBS pilot for a 'realistic' science fiction series (similar to 'Men into Space'). Most of the special effects are recycled from the 'hard' science-fiction film 'Conquest of Space' (1955) and are great of examples of what 'serious' predictors thought space-travel would look like in the ensuing decades. A bit predicable but not bad and, as one of the stars is the ubiquitous B-movie thesp John Agar, a must see for some people (but if you are only interested in the visuals, dig up the old movie instead).