I came across this colourful cutaway in a 1961 issue of TV Express and thought one or two of you might enjoy it. Back then most kids like me would have imagined space travel would have become common place by 2013 with maybe passenger ships taking holiday makers to the moon and possibly beyond, giving ordinary people a chance to travel to a distant world.
Since that picture appeared fifty two years ago we've landed 12 men on the moon, built space stations, had re-usable shuttles come and go, and still use rockets like that to launch men, women and satellites into space, but apart from that no sign of package holidays to the Moon, and I can't see it happening anytime soon.
Scoop, the Mars One Project out of the Netherlands is looking for volunteers to colonize the Red Planet. Too bad it's a one-way ticket, you'll have to bring along all your models!
ReplyDeleteMars is tempting, Ed , all that red dust to build sand castles but I was really looking for just a fortnight's holiday not emigrating so I'll have to pass. ; D
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