Re: "Destination Moon" (1949) - Worth Watching
c186282 <[email protected]>
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On 6/23/26 18:35, Mark Haas wrote: > c186282 <[email protected]> wrote: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8sxUMOiP2M >> >> They actually did a pretty good job of this >> for the time. The math/engineering and the >> expected challenges. >> >> Sorry, no 'moon monsters' :-( >> >> Looks like they fly a 250' V2 with a >> thermal-atomic engine. >> > The technical advisor, Robert Heinlein, was an engineer and sci-fi author. He did a pretty good job - within the tech/budget/story constraints of the film. Knew a guy who called him uncle Bob. Apparently uncle Bob was kinda weird, not exactly the life of family gatherings :-) In any case, it shows that much of the know-how, issues and calculations for going to the moon were already there by '49 ... they just needed considerably bigger rockets.