Men into space ship

Actual space vehicles generally pick most exterior colors to control thermal environment. That leads one to the silver, black and white you mention, plus gold. The silver and gold colors come from gold films on transparent plastic films.

Of course, this is for technical reas>

Don, Problem with me is I'm an engineer - worked the end of the Apollo program - so the thermal control colors make it look real to me. The original mockups of vehicles like the LM were usually all white - then the Thermal Guys got involved and the flight articles looked nothing like that - also no two LMs had the same pattern - talk about a lifetime job. One of the reasons I never built the Revel Apollo set while working the program was the knowledge that the final thermal configuration was installed at the Cape late in the schedule. When the Monogram kit came out - LM-5 had already landed - so it was history.

The one place I would draw the line is pre-50s stuff like on the covers of Amazings. The men in space ship could have been an actual flight concept.

I'm not sure about this - but I believe some of the involved black and white patterns on the boosters were to aid in post launch tracking camera film analysis - no doubt about attitude of the target.

Val Kraut

What TV show? I remember hearing about a dramatic production back in the early sixties. Pre Star Trek tia

Keeper (of too much crap)

Are we talking about the Disney Man in Space shows?I've always wanted to see those,if I could find them on tape. The future the way it should have been...

Good news ( I hope!) regarding the Disney Man In Space series. Disney was scheduled to release this on DVD at the end of 2003. For some reason, it was bumped back to later in 2004. I have a copy on backorder on Amazon. The title is listed as: "Walt Disney Treasures - Tomorrowland: Disney in Space and Beyond (2003)"

I ordered it last summer and the latest release date that I have seen is May 2004.

Mike

That would be "Men Into Space", starring William Lundigen as USAF Col. Edward McCauley from the later 1959. The book is a series of short stories by Murray Leinster and dated from about 1961 or so. Unfortunately, as far as I know, the television show was never released to video, much less DVD. They were aided by the Air Force and NASA, and used a lot of then-current models as props, some stright from the box, others with modifications. For more detail, go to:

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more likely dvd. i'll ask my movie addicted friends to look.

didn't they show that nuclear ship that flew by atomic bomb propilsion? and project dynasoar?