Above the Moon

It's the year 1963 and a Martian space ship crash lands on Earth. The wreckage indicated that it had been in a battle. It also had the technical information and components needed for human hibernation in space. A recon mission was ordered to discover what threat these beings actually were. The men trained for years on the equipment developed to carry out the mission. The moon launch was used as a cover up for the Mars mission. Both were launched at exactly the same time. The recon team discovered a race of beings far worse than they originally thought they would encounter