Riders to the Stars is a 1954 independently made American science fiction film produced by Ivan Tors Productions and released by United Artists.

[1] Riders to the Stars is the second film in Ivan Tors' "Office of Scientific Investigation" (OSI) trilogy, which was preceded by The Magnetic Monster (1953) and followed by Gog (1954).

Gordon makes the first run to capture a meteor; it turns out to be too large for his spaceship's nose scoop, and the ship is destroyed in the collision that follows.

[Note 1] Additionally, one authentic sequence shows "two white rats in a rocket beyond the force of gravity ... one of the most startling series of photographs ever made".

[5] Riders to the Stars was filmed and released theatrically in SuperCinecolor provided by Color Corporation of America, but prints struck for television syndication were in black-and-white.

"Spliced in to give all the idiotic, pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo a precarious footing in fact are newsreel shots ..."[4] Later reviews, however, noted that the filmmakers had created a "near-documentary" by using rocket footage and scientific equipment as a precursor to the coming space age, all within an "unremarkable film".