[close] The story of Col. Lloyd Macadam's top-secret moon-shot program located in Peru is discovered only after the death of a janitor in the U.S. is investigated by the newly formed Channel Seven television station's top news team. Macadam's plans are accelerated when a Russian spy commandeers the rocket and the Colonel must choose between his country and his life. A period adventure featuring an earlier generation of the Channel Seven newshounds from Astronauts In Trouble: Live From The Moon, Space: 1959 has got film-noir murder, the race to win the Cold War, the first man on the moon, and an elegant and poignant finale from a story that SFX says `surpasses the excellence of the original.` [close]