Reluctant Astronaut Don Knotts ComedyOriginal vintage movie poster for an American family comedy film The Reluctant Astronaut directed by Edward Montagne and starring Leslie Nielsen as Major Fred Gifford and Don Knotts in the lead role as Roy Fleming, an amusement park children's ride operator hired as a janitor at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston who ends up going into space despite his fear of heights. Fun illustration depicting a man in a spacesuit flying into space from