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dustydigger
Posted 2015-01-23 11:42 AM (#9354 - in reply to #9162)
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Location: UK		Oh yes,the smoking,how quickly we have become shocked at heroes smoking! I find the old rockets with fins very endearing. Easy for take-off,but what about landing? Slowing down without stalling,then putting the fins down first is taken for granted in most books,but it must have taken great skill! I also love the way private individuals build their own spacecrafts.All that sort of thing disappeared once we saw the reality of the sheer complexity of building the Apollo series,and the sheer scale of people needed to get it up in space. No more Rocketship Galileo homemade converted rockets developed into spaceship with a few tools in a delapidated hut!. But cover artists stuck to showing the old rocket-with-fins design for quite a long time after. An indelible part of my youth,those rockets!

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