Spaceways is a 1953 British second feature ('B')[1] science fiction drama film directed by Terence Fisher and starring Howard Duff, Eva Bartok and Alan Wheatley.

The screenplay was written by Paul Tabori and Richard Landau, based on the 1952 radio play[3] by Charles Eric Maine.

Engineer Dr Stephen Mitchell is part of a British space programme that plans to launch a satellite that will permanently orbit Earth.

Smith discovers that there was a new team member added just prior to the disappearance, and that a security guard had died in an accident a week earlier.

After the rocket ship launches into space, Mitchell is surprised to see that Lisa is on board; she had previously convinced Toby to let her go on the flight instead of him.

Despite the revelation that the bodies of Crenshaw and Vanessa are not on board, Mitchell and Frank attempt to jettison the spaceship's second stage, resulting in an explosion, causing their spacecraft to go out of control.

There is not a great deal of action during the first half, but the shrewd deployment of interesting and widely assorted types rivets the attention until the space-ship finally comes into its own. ...

"[9] Boxoffice said: "The offering is believably plotted and capably enacted, while from the production standpoint the values of the piece are considerably bolstered by the injection of what appear to be authentic clips of rocket takeoff and flight.

"[13] Glenn Erickson, writing in DVD Savant, noted: "The disappointment of Spaceways is finding out that it is really a lukewarm murder mystery in a science fiction setting".