LONG MORROW

"it may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. Case in point: the escence you' re watching. THIS is not a hospital, not a morgue, not a mausoleum, not an undertaker's parlor of the future. What it is is the belly of a spaceship. It is en route to another planetary sistem an incredible distance from the earth. This is the crux of our story, a flight into space. It is also the story of the things that might happen to human beings who take a step beyond, unable to anticipate everything that might await them out there... Comander Douglas Stansfield ,astrounant, a man about to embark on one of history's longets journeys- forty years out into endless space and hopefully back again.
This is the begining at first step toward man's longest leap into the unknown. Science has solved the mechanical details and now it's up to one human being to breath life into blue prints and computers, to prove once and for all that man can live half a life time in the total void of other space, forty years alone in the unknown. This is earth. Ahead lies a planetary sistem. The vast region in between is the twilight zone..."

De esta forma comienza el capitulo dedicado a mi capitan stansfield...

Before leaving on his mission, Douglas meets a woman, Sandra Horn. They fall in love, but realize it cant work: When he returns fromthe trip he'll still be young, while she will be an old woman.When Douglas leave, Sandra has herself put in suspended animation. When Douglas returns she is revived, but the doctor has some bad news: six months into the mision, Douglas came out of suspended animation for her. Now he is an old man, and she still young...

"Comander Douglas Stansfield, one of the forgotten pioneers of the space age. He is been pushed aside by the flow of progress and the passage of years- and the ferocious travesty of fate. TONIGHT's tale of the ionosphere and irony, delivered from- THE TWILIGHT ZONE."