"Joyride" is an episode of television show The Outer Limits. It first aired on 26 February 1999.
A retired astronaut decides to head back into space one last time in an attempt to figure out where his life stopped being fulfilling.
When NASA astronaut Theodore Harris was in space the first time, in 1963, it didn't go quite as planned. Alone in his Mercury capsule, he panicked and aborted the mission when a mysterious violet light penetrated the c...
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"Joyride" is an episode of television show The Outer Limits. It first aired on 26 February 1999.
A retired astronaut decides to head back into space one last time in an attempt to figure out where his life stopped being fulfilling.
When NASA astronaut Theodore Harris was in space the first time, in 1963, it didn't go quite as planned. Alone in his Mercury capsule, he panicked and aborted the mission when a mysterious violet light penetrated the cockpit and began enveloping his body. In the investigation that followed, no evidence could be found to support his story, leaving a blot on Harris' NASA record and his life in ruins.
And now, at age 63, he knows he can never make amends with his estranged wife Madelaine, but he feels that he could clear his name if he could just get back to where he saw the light. When NASA turns him down, Harris is recruited by Carlton Powers, a self-made billionaire who plans to privatize space travel and thinks Harris' presence on the inaugural flight (on...
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