Plot

For the Mars space program, scientists transplant he brain of an embittered, egotistical, dying colonel into a computer, with predictable, inhuman results.

A dying astronaut volunteers his mind be linked to a supercomputer, to enable the U.S. to beat the Soviet Union to Mars. His wife and an Air Force psychiatrist oppose the brain removal, fearing that the arrogant spaceman's brain won't adapt, making his death futile, but the Cold War space race takes precedence, so the experiment proceeds, despite eerie developments.—David Stevens