Skip to content. | Skip to navigation
This scene from Project Moonbase (1953), a film based on a story by Robert Heinlein (who also co-authored the screenplay) dramatizes the launch and space station docking of "Rocket Mexico."
Blast off and docking scene.
Commentaries on this Media!
Representing Migration: Project Moonbase
by Curtis MarezThis scene from Project Moonbase (1953), a film based on a story by Robert Heinlein (who also co-authored the screenplay) dramatizes the launch and space station docking of "Rocket Mexico."
Other media by this contributor
La Bamba and the Farm Worker Origins of Rock and Roll
Representing Students: Junior
Si Se Puede
Police Violence against farm workers
The Joads arrive in California's San Joaquin Valley
Students and a Professor Discuss How to Use Education
The Future World of Agriculture (1984)
Dystopian Science Fiction and the Death of Public Education: The Running Man (1987)
Cesar Chavez's Short Handled Hoe
MacGyver Joins the Farm Worker Struggle against Pesticides
The Joads arrive in an oppressive labor camp.
Luke destroys the Deathstar
MacGyver as Undercover Farm Worker
Weaponizing Blackface