The movie apparently went unseen until Sinister Cinema made it available on home video in 2001. There is no record of any television broadcast.
Director Joseph Pevney would direct some of what many consider the best Star Trek (1966) episodes, including Arena (1967) and The Devil in the Dark (1967). He would also be responsible for casting a young, little-known actor named Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov.
This was the pilot for a proposed sci-fi series on CBS to be titled "Destination Space". It was never picked up. It may have been produced in competition with the pilot episode for another series, Men Into Space (1959), with CBS choosing to pick up the latter, which debuted later in 1959.
Both of the logos seen at the end of this movie are not found anywhere else. The Paramount logo is the only one to have the text "Produced by Paramount Pictures" inside the stars, with the first two words written in Times New Roman and the last two words written in Paramount's trademark script, one of very few logos since 1917 to refer to the company in this way. The CBS logo is the only one to begin with the words "In Association with the" written over the double-Eyemark, before the text fades and the zoom in toward the pupil of the inner Eyemark begins as per the standard version of this logo.
Five actors in this movie will later appear in episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959): Harry Townes, Charles Aidman, Cecil Kellaway, Gail Kobe, and Jon Lormer.