Well it's New Years Eve afternoon in frozen Ackworth, West Yorkshire and I'm got my feet up. I've just watched a great US movie from 1969 called MAROONED starring Gregory Peck, Gene Hackman, Richard Crenna (years before his Colonel Troutman role in Rambo) and a blonde-haired astronaut who I just can't place but I'm sure he was a TV Detective? Anyway, an excellent film released in December 1969, which must have added a cheery note to the first post-Moonlanding Christmas! Not! It looks great for it's time and features a fabulous red Lifting Body space glider called the XRV, which if you ignore the huge exhaust, looks like Thunderbird 2 minus its rear tail-bridge. It's even on a Rescue mission to save the marooned spacemen!
You can see the XRV being transported to its launch area in this You Tube clip of the film. Recommended.
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