Moon Pilot is a 1962 American Technicolor science fiction comedy film from Walt Disney Productions, released through Buena Vista Distribution, directed by James Neilson, and starring Tom Tryon, Brian Keith, Edmond O'Brien, Dany Saval, and Tommy Kirk.

[3] The film is based on Robert Buckner's 1960 novel Starfire,[4] and reflects Disney's interest in America's space program during John F. Kennedy's presidential era in the early 1960s.

On his flight to visit his family, Talbot is approached by Lyrae, a mysterious "foreign" girl who seems to know all about the astronaut's coming mission.

The Air Force orders him home and places him under the protection of "National Security", a thinly disguised FBI.

The film ends with Mission Control totally confounded by the bizarre transmissions they are receiving from both singing a romantic song duet about her home planet Beta Lyrae.

[6] The screenplay took a satirical view of the United States government, with someone chiding a politician with "Didn't you read our 'Simple Science for Senators?'"

The same character types Disney deified in their earlier Man in Space series were now gently made fun of in the film.

Also on the program was Disneyland, U.S.A., a live stage show co-produced by the Disney team that featured elements and characters from the famed theme park in Anaheim, California.