Realistic? Give me a break!
Yeah, it was "realistic" by the standards of the illustrated children's books about space travel from the 1950s. And they came up with some pretty fancy sets. But didn't anyone talk to NASA? This was probably the shortest lived science fiction on record, given that manned space flight was just two years away.
I don't recall seeing this the first time around; I was a bit young, but I don't recall even seeing it when flipping the dial. Was it syndicated? Judging from the comments, it wasn't on during prime time. And I didn't see it in reruns, because by the time the series ended, the real astronauts were going into space, and it looked nothing like this fantasy show.
Yeah, let's take a spacewalk, and while the hatch is open, the other astronaut will stick his head out, while not wearing any space suit. It sounds like this was supposed to be the very first manned space flight, too. The booster is stuck; good thing they brought along a welding outfit. This is so funny. What else you got in the trunk? A jack and spare tire?
Most writers in Hollywood seem to feel they can make everything up, whether fiction, non fiction or science fiction. Either these writers were afraid the facts would get in the way of their imagination, or they weren't getting paid enough to do some research.
Watching this, it was as though a TV program had dropped through a wormhole from an alternate universe. In that alternate universe, astronauts take the elevator up to the capsule six minutes before launch time.
I do have to give it credit that at least it was slightly more realistic than Lost in Space.
Yeah, it was "realistic" by the standards of the illustrated children's books about space travel from the 1950s. And they came up with some pretty fancy sets. But didn't anyone talk to NASA? This was probably the shortest lived science fiction on record, given that manned space flight was just two years away.
I don't recall seeing this the first time around; I was a bit young, but I don't recall even seeing it when flipping the dial. Was it syndicated? Judging from the comments, it wasn't on during prime time. And I didn't see it in reruns, because by the time the series ended, the real astronauts were going into space, and it looked nothing like this fantasy show.
Yeah, let's take a spacewalk, and while the hatch is open, the other astronaut will stick his head out, while not wearing any space suit. It sounds like this was supposed to be the very first manned space flight, too. The booster is stuck; good thing they brought along a welding outfit. This is so funny. What else you got in the trunk? A jack and spare tire?
Most writers in Hollywood seem to feel they can make everything up, whether fiction, non fiction or science fiction. Either these writers were afraid the facts would get in the way of their imagination, or they weren't getting paid enough to do some research.
Watching this, it was as though a TV program had dropped through a wormhole from an alternate universe. In that alternate universe, astronauts take the elevator up to the capsule six minutes before launch time.
I do have to give it credit that at least it was slightly more realistic than Lost in Space.