I do and I am watching it now! Trans-linear vector principle, lol. Slow and constant acceleration. It made sense when I was a child.
Another main point of that premiere episode is (IIRC, it has been more than 45 years) that Harry, at first, was simply looking for a way to bid for a contract to "salvage" an iceberg and move it to a central American port (IIRC) to help ameliorate the effects of a local drought. It occurred to him that you could use big rocket engines to propel such a large mass through the ocean. It was an outgrowth of that which resulted in Harry assembling a team that could create an actual spacecraft, not just a rocket pallet for moving icebergs. (Now, I suppose I could be remembering wrong, and the iceberg deal came after they got the idea of going to the Moon, but I recall it the other way around.)
Quote from: the_other_Doug on 09/07/2015 02:49 pmAnother main point of that premiere episode is (IIRC, it has been more than 45 years) that Harry, at first, was simply looking for a way to bid for a contract to "salvage" an iceberg and move it to a central American port (IIRC) to help ameliorate the effects of a local drought. It occurred to him that you could use big rocket engines to propel such a large mass through the ocean. It was an outgrowth of that which resulted in Harry assembling a team that could create an actual spacecraft, not just a rocket pallet for moving icebergs. (Now, I suppose I could be remembering wrong, and the iceberg deal came after they got the idea of going to the Moon, but I recall it the other way around.)The ice berg happens at the end. A local official from drought stricken northern California wants the team to go to the North Pole to get an ice berg to bring to their town to help solve the drought. At the time, there was talk of another movie, but when the series started, the ice berg episode was much later, and they went south instead of north!
Testing the Vulture
Imaginge if one day Mythbusters or someone like that could afford to produce an actual space salvage/history show. My top of the mind things to visit first would be 1965-027A and 1970-103A
And the launch. It looks like they did these shots with the full size mock-up.
I think the magic oxidizer you are looking might be the one affectionately known as FOOF. ( Dioxygen Diflouride ).nasty nasty nasty stuff! Hypergolic with everything. Especially rocket fuel scientists.
Quote from: Stan-1967 on 09/10/2015 11:40 pmI think the magic oxidizer you are looking might be the one affectionately known as FOOF. ( Dioxygen Diflouride ).nasty nasty nasty stuff! Hypergolic with everything. Especially rocket fuel scientists.Yuck. That stuff, saith the Wikipedia, is so volatile that it has no practical uses at all! It earns its nickname.Hydrazine, on the other hand, could be workable but it's exhaust makes it only practical in a spaceborne vehicle that will never land or come close to, well, anything, really.The imagery of that final landing in the park that melts the picnic and melts the picnicker's faces..ow.all Hollywood license.....they take a lot of liberties with "facts"
I thought this TV show was actually called Salvage One and it starred Andy Griffith (famous for the Andy Griffith Show and later Mattlock). It also had Joel Higgins (later did Silver Spoons with Ricky Schroeder)Oh, here's the full movie pilot: