Re: NASA

> Although it's a wild shot, the writers might have been thinking
> that by that time the ESA would be up to scratch

You think the writers were really thinking that hard about things?
I think they were probably just looking for an excuse to film
a rocket launch... :-)

As I recall, even THUNDERBIRDS had a big rocket launch scene
in the episode "Sun Probe". And that was supposed to be WAY
in the future.

Marc

Marc Martin wrote:
>
> As I recall, even THUNDERBIRDS had a big rocket launch scene
> in the episode "Sun Probe". And that was supposed to be WAY
> in the future.
>

Actually I don't think there's a rocket launch scene in Sun Probe
(except TBIII of course) but an extremely large manned rocket is
shown in Day Of Disaster, where a bridge collapses under it
and it gets lodged under a pile of wreckage in the river below.