Eric is the teenage son of a computer scientist who worked for the Apollo program, which sent the first humans to the Moon.

Eric, determined to become an astronaut himself one day, befriends Paul Andrews, the thirteenth man on the Moon.

The movie was filmed in and around Huntsville, Alabama and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and outside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, during fall 1988 and under the title Personal Choice.

[9][10][11] It was presented as a "fair sci-fi effort, with good performances" by all members of the cast but with a "poor script".

[14] According to Film Dienst, "The story of a friendship, told with partly successful observations, quite naively highlights the contradiction between idealistic discovery and the appropriation of technology by the military, but remains superficial in its humanitarian and ecological appeals.