clear glass bubbles around their heads - Yes, and it's fascinating to see what an enormous difference exists before and after World War II. The depictions of technical equipment, gear, became enormously more realistic simply because so many guys had had real-world experience with it as pilots, frogmen, firemen, whatever.
I love the 1950s Ley-von Braun-Bonestell-Collier magazine view of “Our Future in Space,” where “Because it's there!” was all the justification needed for a massive national outpouring of money and effort to Get Out There…
https://youtu.be/KeRaAFw5a5I
[Allen Steele's The Tranquility Alternative is set in that world, but in the present day, where - let's face it - that really WASN'T enough of a justification, not sustainably, considering what we haven't found out there. So it's pretty much a ghost town setting now, duct tape on the seats of the orbital shuttle and the once-magnificent Space Wheel slowly falling apart - but the technology to develop what we DID find is coming out, slowly coming on line, with cutting-edge Eurotech companies getting to the Moon their way while the aging goldfish-bowl-helmeted “Greatest Generation” crew watches them go past…]
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Date: 2015-05-14 03:10 pm (UTC)clear glass bubbles around their heads - Yes, and it's fascinating to see what an enormous difference exists before and after World War II. The depictions of technical equipment, gear, became enormously more realistic simply because so many guys had had real-world experience with it as pilots, frogmen, firemen, whatever.
I love the 1950s Ley-von Braun-Bonestell-Collier magazine view of “Our Future in Space,” where “Because it's there!” was all the justification needed for a massive national outpouring of money and effort to Get Out There…
https://youtu.be/KeRaAFw5a5I
[Allen Steele's The Tranquility Alternative is set in that world, but in the present day, where - let's face it - that really WASN'T enough of a justification, not sustainably, considering what we haven't found out there. So it's pretty much a ghost town setting now, duct tape on the seats of the orbital shuttle and the once-magnificent Space Wheel slowly falling apart - but the technology to develop what we DID find is coming out, slowly coming on line, with cutting-edge Eurotech companies getting to the Moon their way while the aging goldfish-bowl-helmeted “Greatest Generation” crew watches them go past…]