tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post6647193695160637341..comments2024-03-04T04:08:39.755-08:00Comments on The Fies Files: Character Design #4Brian Fieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-11756999216707150902010-11-28T16:17:33.550-08:002010-11-28T16:17:33.550-08:00Oh, make no mistake: I enjoyed the whole second-ha...Oh, make no mistake: I enjoyed the whole second-hand Moonshot-ness of the Skylab program. The airlock door on the Multiple Docking Adapter that was actually a Gemini hatch, the idea that it was Apollo 18's S-IV-B which would otherwise have crashed into the Moon, the silly triangular toe-boots designed to fit into the triple mesh floor panels - - all that cobbled-together tech symbolized everything right and wrong with NASA of the early 70's. <br /><br />It's just the cardboard brown of the flight suits that seemed so out of place with the rest of the program. This was no way to suit up teams of astronauts. Heck, even Blofeld's minions at the hollowed-out volcano had better color sense in their worker-bee costumes. Skylab was the <i>Star Trek: The Motion Picture</i> of clothing design.Jim O'Kanehttp://www.TVDads.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-44200744132478613262010-11-28T12:17:58.099-08:002010-11-28T12:17:58.099-08:00I had a Sgt. Storm and managed to hold onto him un...I had a Sgt. Storm and managed to hold onto him until fairly recently, when I found him in the bottom of a drawer, liquefied. It was strange: somehow the cheap plastic from which he was molded has softened and...oozed...over the decades. I had to toss him; all I have left is his helmet.<br /><br />I LOVED Skylab! It's unjustly forgotten (or remembered only for its re-entry) but did great work. And as far as I'm concerned, if your space station isn't big enough to let you jog zero-G laps around its perimeter, you ain't got a space station.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYsKGDJe4zEBrian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-63229565716607859112010-11-28T11:33:14.304-08:002010-11-28T11:33:14.304-08:00Even though the Sears/Mattel Major Matt Mason was ...Even though the Sears/Mattel Major Matt Mason was a great synthesis of Robert McCall's <i>2001: A Space Odyssey</i> suit designs, I still prefer the color scheme of his sidekick, Sgt. Storm. The NCOs in that Universe had great crimson suit cloth, on a par with the red of Apollo 9's EVA helmets. <br /><br />Related to all this space fashion talk, the worst clothing scheme idea must be the Raymond Lowry brown utility suits of Skylab and ASTP. Horrendous. Astronauts shouldn't look like UPS delivery guys.Jim O'Kanehttp://www.TVDads.comnoreply@blogger.com