MIS was a science fiction TV drama series which aired 1n 1959-1960, starring Bill Lundigan as the intrepid astronaut hero, Colonel McCauley.

Even at that age, I knew enough about space travel that I appreciated its attention to detail and its attempt to get the science and engineering right, at least, as it was understood at the time. The show borrowed heavily on the Collier’s Magazine/von Braun/Bonestell vision of space travel as it was expected to unfold in the last half of the 20th century. It never did work out like that, although we know now it was actually the right way to go about it. The pre-Apollo 1950s engineers and pioneers actually got it right, but the Space Race with the USSR changed everything.

Just think, if it hadn’t of been for the Soviets, we might have gotten into space a little later than we did, but with a much more sustainable and robust long-term program.

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