StarWars
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I must be thinking of XL5 and the Thunderbirds... 
The Thunderbirds were in color.. 
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Here, Fireball XL-5 has landed on the small Saturnian Moon Mimas to look for a spot for a base there.
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Fireball XL-5 has reached Uranus and is approaching its small battered moon Miranda (right part of the frame).
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Ok ,Here another very cool toy from the same era....
Hope you remember this one too.......
"Warning Warning C.N ers "
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Welcome back my friends to the show that never end.............................
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David Knisely
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Ok ,Here another very cool toy from the same era....
Hope you remember this one too.......
"Warning Warning C.N ers "
Yea, and the one line from the robot basically typified the entire series: "That does not compute.". I watched a number of episodes of Lost In Space, but I got terribly annoyed by the continual "Continued Next Week" teasers which were woven into the closing segments of each episode. The character of Dr. Smith was particularly annoying (Babylon 5's security officer Garibaldi would have shoved him out the nearest airlock after the second week). The Jupiter II crashed on that stupid planet leaving them there for an entire season before lifting off and abruptly crashing again in the 2nd season. I wanted space travel and not some dumb "stuck on a planet" kind of series. Star Trek came as a welcome relief. Clear skies to you.
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RobertED
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Yeah, had that one too! Same excuse for not saving it as the XL-5 and Mickey Mantle baseball cards!! "Who knew???" 
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FIREBALL XL-5 is above Neptune's tiny moon Proteus (200 km diameter, and one of the darkest objects in the solar system).
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Here is an orbital sunrise as XL-5 prepares for its departure from Low-Earth Orbit:
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Great scenes you've created there, David. My favorite was Supercar, with I believe Mike Mercury. 
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Ok ,Here another very cool toy from the same era....
Hope you remember this one too.......
"Warning Warning C.N ers "
Yea, and the one line from the robot basically typified the entire series: "That does not compute.". I watched a number of episodes of Lost In Space, but I got terribly annoyed by the continual "Continued Next Week" teasers which were woven into the closing segments of each episode. The character of Dr. Smith was particularly annoying (Babylon 5's security officer Garibaldi would have shoved him out the nearest airlock after the second week). The Jupiter II crashed on that stupid planet leaving them there for an entire season before lifting off and abruptly crashing again in the 2nd season. I wanted space travel and not some dumb "stuck on a planet" kind of series. Star Trek came as a welcome relief. Clear skies to you.
Yea, that got to me too, especially the episode with the talking carrot. Thank goodness for Star Trek. 
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Meade 14" LX200 S/C
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StarWars
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Ok ,Here another very cool toy from the same era....
Hope you remember this one too.......
"Warning Warning C.N ers "
Yea, and the one line from the robot basically typified the entire series: "That does not compute.". I watched a number of episodes of Lost In Space, but I got terribly annoyed by the continual "Continued Next Week" teasers which were woven into the closing segments of each episode. The character of Dr. Smith was particularly annoying (Babylon 5's security officer Garibaldi would have shoved him out the nearest airlock after the second week). The Jupiter II crashed on that stupid planet leaving them there for an entire season before lifting off and abruptly crashing again in the 2nd season. I wanted space travel and not some dumb "stuck on a planet" kind of series. Star Trek came as a welcome relief. Clear skies to you.
Yea, that got to me too, especially the episode with the talking carrot. Thank goodness for Star Trek.
Frankly speaking XL5 was not my cup of tea.. The 90 degree turns with Steve Saturn and Robbie the Robot smoking cigarettes in the XL5 cockpit... 
Lost in space was a classic with Dr. Zachary Smith ..And his complete list of Robot insults...    
http://www.promisedplanet.com/Monikers.htm
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Frankly speaking XL5 was not my cup of tea.. The 90 degree turns with Steve Saturn and Robbie the Robot smoking cigarettes in the XL5 cockpit...
Uh, what 90 degree turns? The launch rail is inclined at about 40 degrees to the horizon at the far end. Indeed, when landing, I usually have XL-5 go into a brief hover, and I rotate the vehicle so that its long axis points parallel to the long dimension of the landing pad area (a slow 90 degree turn). As for Steve, he was Steve Zodiac (and Robert only smoked when he was overloaded by Professor Matthew Matic  ). Here is XL-5 landing at KSC on its hover engines:
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StarWars
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As for Steve, he was Steve Zodiac..
It's been 46 years since I seen XL5..
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Here is Fireball XL-5 on a "tour" over the Olympus Mons volcano, flying just to the southeast of the mountain's caldera:
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David...
Thanks for sharing the Fireball XL-5 memories.
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So Cool!! Thanks for the ride!! 
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Here, XL-5 is in orbit over Europa with Jupiter's light allowing some detail to be seen on the dark side:
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Here is a comparison between the Space Shuttle Atlantis and Fireball XL-5 with both sitting just outside of the Vehicle Assembly Building:
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Strange... I barely remember this series but do vividly remember Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea which came out in 1964, and naturally the Star Trek series. I can just barely recall a TV series with puppet people in a space craft of some sort, but it never captured my imagination... most likely because of the puppets with strings visible as far as I can recall. I wonder if this is the series you are remembering? I think I was resistant to this show because as a very young child I had watched re-runs of Kukla, Fran and Ollie and thought that I had outgrown them and didn't want any more puppets in my life (although I still watched Captain Kangaroo) But regardless... nice tour of the solar system !
Rick
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Holy smokes... what a trip down memory lane!
I remember seeing this when I was very young, mid-1960's, and really enjoyed it. I was in and out of the hospital quite a bit and it was the one constant that I looked forward to. Don't remember the individual episodes well, however.
Thanks for the memories.
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