First Man into Space (working title: Satellite of Blood) is a 1959 independently made British-American black-and-white science fiction-horror film.
It was produced by John Croydon, Charles F.
Vetter, and Richard Gordon for Amalgamated Films and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Directed by Robert Day, it stars Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, and Robert Ayres.
The film is based on a story by Wyott Ordung, while the plot was developed from a script that had been pitched to and rejected by AIP.
