<And When the Sky Was Opened
Writer: Rod Serling, short story by Richard Matheson
Director: Douglas Hayes

Three astronauts, returning from man's first space flight, cannot remember the events of their trip. Then they begin to disappear one by one.
CAST: Rod Taylor, James Hutton, Charles Aidman, Sue Randall, Gloria Pall, Maxine Cooper, Paul Bryar.



In my more cynical moments (few and far between, but there nevertheless) I think of the NASA space program as being very similar, in eerie ways to this old Twilight Zone episode.

As you recall in this story no one remembered these astronauts had been up in space at all. Then even their friends and family didn't remember them and after the first astronaut disappeared one of the others even forgot he existed as well.

In some strange way, since the eighties and nineties our manned program has seemed like it to has disappeared from the publics eye entirely and only the astronauts are aware they are up on the ISS right now.

Soon everyone here will forget about space....

and then I will forget about it too.

But that is...

Hmmm.

That's curious. I completely forgot what I wanted to say.

Now what were we talking about?

Oh yeah, the weather does seem to be cooling down a bit.

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