The images of the rocket at the beginning are from the Italian film Assignment: Outer Space (1960).
On the Italian movie poster, an astronaut is shown enveloped by some kind of alien robot with long metal tentacles. There is no such being in the movie.
This film about a deadly extraterrestrial fungus takes place on Space Station X-7. A previous film about a deadly extraterrestrial fungus was Space Master X-7 (1958).
The story takes place in the distant future of 1990 where there are bases and mining camps on the Moon. The secret coded message sent from Colonel Frank Cromwell Commanding Officer Space Station X7 is dated 3/25/1990. (37:27)