Where to begin? They set off "to find new galaxies for colonization" in the year 2000. The narrative starts: "Beyond this, and into infinity, is Man's last frontier. Over 2 billion light years of solar system, reaching from the great clouds of Magellan to the galaxies of Andromeda and Triangulum". They go "far beyond Earth's universe". This is a sample. So they lift off from Cape Kennedy, which looks like a large desert. Actually seems to be a V-2 launch from White Sands, New Mexico. The meteor shower shows the objects on fire - not likely out in space with no air. Taurus the Bull is a constellation. You really can't go to a constellation - they are just outlines in the sky as seen from the Earth. Usually they are based on some figure that brighter stars have made. Go can go towards a constellation, but after some time you would pass the obvious stars and go beyond them, past our galaxy and on and on. "We should be nearing the Triangulum Galaxy". "Of all the lifeless galaxies we had to land on this planet". OK - A galaxy is a swirling cloud of stars and dust - billions of stars. A solar system is a group of 1 or several stars, and maybe planets, comets, asteroids and other junk, bound together by gravity. A constellation is an apparent shape made by some stars, originally. Used to tell stories or as an indicator of the seasons. (When you see this shape, start to prepare for winter - you would say that to your kids.) They have instant communication with the Earth control center. They at one point their speed is 125,00 - with no units, like MPH or meters per second. Triangulum is not really near the Taurus constellation at all. There is a nice galaxy there, M33. Mr. Messier made a list of things that look like comets, but are not. People would keep bothering him with their great discoveries. You may not realize that if you look at a galaxy with your eyes, it looks like a gray fuzzy blob. Maybe with a really big mirror you see more. Your eye is not a camera- that can take long exposures, or stack many pictures together. Then you get the nice color images. M33 is about 3 million light years away. Light goes 6 trillion miles in one year - that is what a light year is. The main problem is that these galaxies are really far away. We can't even get to a nearby star yet. To check out a galaxy would take eons of time. The writers give kids a wrong impression of things.

In their search for an inhabitable world named Taurus, the crew of Hope 1 is sent millions of miles off course – only to discover another inhabitable world. That's really about it. Not much to see here. "Dull" would be my one word synopsis. A more competent movie might have done more with the alien space craft, flaming meteor showers, or the giant crabs, but not Space Probe Taurus. Instead, the movie is more concerned with the sexist commander and the (gasp) female scientist. You can probably guess how this goes – they fight and fuss until that inexplicable moment when they fall in love. Please! It's been done a million times – and usually in a more effective manner. The commander is played by James B Brown. He looks old enough to be the grandfather of love interest and lone female, Dr Lisa Wayne. Ewww. Francine York plays Dr Wayne and is the movie's loan bright spot. The other two cast members are just plain annoying – one, for being a stereotypical greasy money-hungry playboy and the other for being completely worthless.I realize the movie was made by the notoriously low-budget AIP television division, but it's horrible by those standards. The movie was made in 1965, but looks and feels like it was made in 1955. You can find any number of sci-fi movies from the 50s with far better and more effective special effects. 2001: A Space Odyssey, with its amazing effects, was made only a couple of years later. And the incredibly tired sexist plot I've already mentioned feels more at home in something like Rocketship X-M from 1950 than a movie made in the more liberal thinking 60s.Overall, not a good movie viewing experience.

Four scientists (3 men and 1 woman) head toward the planet, "Tyros", but as they fly through some asteroids, their trajectory is thrown off which causes them to land on it's ocean floor, rather than on the land. On the ocean bottom, which appears to shot in a 75 gallon aquarium, they encounter crabs which are supposed to be attacking the ship, but for all intents and purposes, it looks like they had threads attached to the crabs which were merely dragged across the model in a tank. Kinda lame, especially considering that other movies of it's time had much better special effects. The entire movie appeared to be made by a beginning film student. Even the scene where one scientist is sexually harassing the lone female scientist...was so contrite that I felt an urge to change the channel, but resisted and kept watching it until the end. There is a scene where one humanoid type sea monster attacked a scuba diving scientist which might have (but probably not) been scary if I was a toddler. The scene was completely out of context of the storyline. The actors were "wooden" as if they were just trying to honor their studio contract by appearing the film at all. The lines were very monotone. The reason for traveling to Tyros was never explained.I've given this movie a rating of 1. The plot is painfully thin to say the least. You may enjoy this movie best if you mute the volume because it's such an incredibly basic storyline.I'd love to see this in the hands of Mystery Science Theater 3000. They would make it much more interesting, and funnier.

I fear the only other reviewer at this point, Mr "van Polasm" from Antarctica, is having us on.As the schizophrenia of the various titles of this movie suggests (The First Woman in Space, Space Probe Taurus and [in Japan at least] Space Monster), the makers of this movie had no clue and were making it up as they went along. This movie, even considering it's TV movie status, deserves to be especially damned given that only 3 years separates it from Kubrick's 2001.They crammed in so many 1950s sci-fi cliches that they didnt have time to follow any single one through to the end, and they filled the cracks with preposterously ludicrous scenarios and acting. As for special effects, think toilet paper rolls wrapped in foil and suspended from string.What you have is 3 paunchy overweight blokes and one beautiful young woman as the "astronauts" on your typical early sci-fi "outer space rocket". What they're meant to be doing is anyone's guess until about two thirds of the film has elapsed.Is the story about the feisty young woman vs. the crusty ol' sea dog cap'n? Well, no. That story is killed off after about 5 lines of dialogue when said crust forces said babe to admit her true feelings for him with a forcible kiss or three. Those were the days, when the man didn't even wait to hear yes or no, right? There's also a dream scene which looks like it was put in specifically to satisfy another paunchy old blokes desire to snog the young woman in a bathing suit.Is the story about mankind's first encounter with alien life? Well, no. They come across an alien "outer space rocket" - no-one seems terribly surprised - go in, meet predictably humanoid and hideous alien, scuffle, kill it, blow up the alien ship. End of that story.Next, flaming marshmallows, in the guise of meteors, knock the ship's computers into overdrive (we are told belatedly) and send the ship hurtling way off course right to a conveniently located earth-like planet. At this point in the story we find out that the mission was to explore another distant planet marked for colonisation.Finally, just before the average viewer slips into a coma, there's time to fit in the following cliches:* everyone losing their cool in a marooned ship, * narcissist sacrifices himself for good of all by being killed by predictably humanoid and hideous sea creature, * small scale model "outer space rocket" in fishtank attacked, well... harassed, by alien marine creatures everyone pretends not to recognise are ordinary crabs.Just before the average viewer expires, the remaining paunchy old blokes and beautiful woman escape, declare the planet they just left good enough for colonisation (ahem,.. predictably humanoid and hideous sea creatures? Giant crabs?) and proclaim the planet be named after the dead paunchy old bloke.This movie is awful, awful, awful with not a single redeeming feature - not even camp value. I spent more time, thought and effort in typing this comment than went into Space Probe Taurus. Avoid at all costs.