Rocket Man

Episode 1

Fly Me to the Moon

Tue, Apr 18, 2006

George Stevenson is a widower with a teenage daughter and a young son. He works in a chocolate factory but spends almost all of his free time building a rocket in his garage. He promised his children that they would send their mother's ashes into space so that when they look at the Milky Way, they would know she was part of it. His first attempt at shooting the rocket is a dismal failure but when he meets Mary Hughes, he finds a kindred spirit who also happens to know a lot about science. His teenage daughter Angela feels that too much of the burden of the household is on her shoulders and things are not well at school for his son Tom so he seriously considers scrapping the whole idea.