Stowaway to the Moon is a 1975 television film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Lloyd Bridges among others.

He hides inside a trash compartment in the command module Camelot atop the Saturn V rocket before the astronauts arrive for the scheduled Project Apollo flight to the Moon.

As they work through the preflight checklist, Mission Control informs them that the spacecraft is overweight by 87 pounds.

Eli and his wife Mary rush to the Kennedy Space Center and insist to the gate staff that their son is on the rocket, but no one believes them.

After the rocket launches on schedule, command module pilot Ben Pelham discovers E.J.

apologizes for his stunt on live television and asks that his actions not jeopardize the crew's important mission.

has persuaded the public and U.S. president to continue the mission, and reluctantly gives his consent for the planned Moon landing.

Lawrence and Anderson depart in the Lunar Module Little Dipper, but Pelham's condition deteriorates rapidly.

The boy cares for the ailing astronaut and helps locate the lunar module, which has landed far off course.