Liftoff: Stillwater space enthusiast debuts a labor-of

Sci-fi geeks have long worshipped an obscure TV show about a futuristic Moonbase Alpha and its spacecraft fleet of Eagles.

Now, about a half-century in, those “Space: 1999” superfans are about to get the homage they deserve, courtesy of a Stillwater filmmaker and Eagle devotee who recently completed and is preparing to release a semi-autobiographical documentary, “The Eagle Obsession.”

Jeffrey Morris calls his doc an exercise in “future nostalgia.”

On a basic level, it’s a tribute to the Eagle, which bears a strong resemblance to the lunar module used in America’s real-life lunar missions during the 1960s and 1970s. Morris was only 4 when he fell in love with the lunar module, which ferried astronauts from a command module in lunar orbit to the surface.

Morris was crestfallen when the