Spacemens Luck

 

Where Tom Corbett, Captain Video, CMDR Corry and Other Spacemen Still Live

The state of America’s manned space travel program today is in disarray. With the US having no spaceship in it’s fleet capable of carrying personnel into space. And the only other means for American’s to get into space is via the Russian space fleet which has been temporarily (Hopefully) de-certified due to the failure of last weeks cargo flight to the ISS space station.

The reason we are in this position is because our national leadership has failed to keep their eye on the ball over the last ten or fifteen years and allowed our space program to decline to the point it is today.

What prompted me to right this article is I came across a classic failed pilot for a CBS TV series from 1959 named “Destination Space”. The movie over all is standard science fiction for day. But what I found interesting was the speech before a congressional sub-committee criticizing the congress and other leaders on their leadership in the space program. It is to my knowledge the first time that space travel was shown in a plausible political context that is relevant to this day. A leader of the congressional sub-committee suggests that space travel was not just a technological triumph and a great adventure but also costly and that financial justification is an important consideration as well.

I regret that there was only this one pilot episode and not at least one season of the show made. The film used a lot of stock footage from the earlier 1955 space travel movie “Conquest of Space”. Specifically the views of the “The Wheel” (space station) and the spaceship which is bound for the moon. In the source movie of the stock footage “Conquest of Space” A team of American astronauts leave their space station on the first mission to Mars.

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Classic Space Travel Actor Peter Graves

Space Travel Hero Role: 1950′s Actor for Science Fiction and Classic Space Travel Movies.

What They Are Doing Today:
Peter Graves passed away this past week on 14 March 2010 at the age of 83 in Pacific Palisades, California. Peter Graves died of an apparent heart attack. A legendary actor of 1950′s SciFi and classic Space Travel Movies is with us no more.

Space Travel Bio:
Peter (Aurness) Graves born 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota was the younger brother of James (Aurness) Arness himself a Classic Space Travel actor as the alien from 1951′s The Thing from Another World, and long time actor of Televisions Marshall Matt Dillon of Gunsmoke. Peter (Aurness) Graves took his grandfather’s name (Graves) to cut down on the confusion between him and his older brother.

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Today: 7 February 2012

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1564, Feb 15 :  Died Galileo Galilei, considered responsible for the birth of modern science and the scientific method . . . More

1642, Jan 8 :  Born Galileo Galilei, considered responsible for the birth of modern science and the scientific method . . . More

1866, Sep 21 :  Born H.G. Wells, early science fiction author of War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon . . . More

1882, Oct 5 :  Born, Robert H Goddard, rocket pioneer, built the world’s 1st liquid-fueled rocket launched on 16 Mar 1926 . . . More

1897, Aug 28 :  Born Legendary Sci-Fi actor Morris Ankrum star of science fiction films such as 1953′s Invaders from Mars . . . More

1898, Nov 29 :  Born British C. S. Lewis author of the Space Trilogy and The Chronicles of Narnia . . . More

1902, May 2 :  FRA The first science fiction film “A Trip To The Moon” was released . . . More

1908, Jan 8 :  Born William Hartnell actor who played the first Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who between 1963-1966 . . . More

1912, Apr 18 :  Born Al Hodge Captain Video of the classic space travel TV show Captain Video and his Video Rangers . . . More

1913, May 26 :  Born Peter Cushing actor best known for appearances in Hammer Films and as Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars . . . More

1914, Apr 2 :  Born Alec Guinness known to space travel buffs as Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy . . . More

1914, Apr 28 :  Born Philip E High an English science fiction writer such as his 1964′s The Prodigal Sun . . . More

1914, Jun 12 :  Born William Lundigan best known as Colonel Edward McCauley in the classic CBS TV series, Men Into Space . . . More

1914, Nov 6 :  Born Jonathan Harris actor for comic villain Dr. Zachary Smith in the 1960s sci-fi TV series, Lost in Space . . . More

1915, Mar 3 :  USA’s National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) the NASA forerunner was created . . . More

1915, May 6 :  Born American director Orson Welles who caused the Halloween 1938 War of the Worlds panic radio broadcast . . . More

1915, Jun 24 :  Born Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer, science fiction writer, author Rockets in Ursa Major among others . . . More

1915, Sep 3 :  Born Guy Kingsley Poynter actor who played Doc Matthews in the BBC radio series Journey Into Space . . . More

1915, Oct 12 :  Born Mike Moser creator and producer of 1950′s Space Travel TV and Radio series Space Patrol . . . More

1915, Oct 16 :  Born Judd Holdren actor who played Captain Video and Commando Cody in early 1950′s TV and serial movies . . . More

1917, Dec 16 :  Born Sir Arthur C. Clarke science fiction writer most famous for his novel and movie 2001: A Space Odyssey . . . More

1918, Jun 10 :  Born Barry Morse long time science fiction actor best known as Professor Victor Bergman in Space: 1999 . . . More

1920, Mar 3 :  Born James Doohan better known as Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott of the Star Trek TV and film series . . . More

1920, Aug 22 :  Born Ray Bradbury science fiction writer best known for short stories such as The Martian Chronicles . . . More

1920, Oct 29 :  Born, Ed Kemmer classic 1950′s SciFi TV actor who played Commander Buzz Correy, CIC of the Space Patrol . . . More

1921, Apr 9 :  Born, classic 1950′s SciFi TV actor Frankie Thomas Best known as Polaris Unit’s Tom Corbett, Space Cadet . . . More

1921, Aug 19 :  Born Gene Roddenberry best known as the creator of the TV and movie science fiction universe of Star Trek . . . More

1921, Aug 26 :  Born Maxime A Faget, considered to be the “Chief Designer” of American manned spacecraft . . . More

1922, Jul 6 :  USA Born William Schallert one of the most prolific actors in Scince Fiction Movies and TV history . . . More

1922, Nov 11 :  Born Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Science Fiction author of many classic stories of dystopian worlds of the future . . . More

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