MA-65 - Space Race

Well, who made it?  Who was the winner of the Space Race?  The guys with the starred sleeves were first into the pool, but the guy bearing the stars'n'bars made it to the other side first!

1      Sputnik Announcement      USSR Radio   (0:18)          1957

2      Rice University Space Speech (edit)      President John F Kennedy    (1:45)         1962

3      Sputnik Baby      Roosevelt Sykes  (2:21)          1957

4      Space Race     Allen Bradley Quintet (2:31) 1958

5 Ghost Satellite Bob & Jerry (1:52) 1958

6 Sputnik #3 Buel Moore & The Garnets (2:03) 1958

7 Super Sonic Marty Wilson & The Strat-O-Lites (2:27) 1958

8 I'm on This Rocket Marvin Moore (1:27) 1958

9 Able & Baker Gene & Al with The SpaceMonks (2:42) 1959

10 Rockin' Satellite Ray Sawyer (2:10) 1960

11 Man in Orbit Space Man (2:11) 1961

12 Happy Blues for John Glenn Lightnin’ Hopkins (5:20) 1962

13 Mister Glenn Little Willie John (3:05) 1962

14 Space Walk Roger Booth and The Escorts (2:14) 1965

15 Armstrong John Stewart (2:40) 1969

16 The Battle of the Moon Sonny Hall (1:42) 1969

17 Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins The Byrds (1:51) 1969

18 The First Step on the Moon The Cape Kennedy Construction Company (4:35) 1969

19 The Walk of Ed White Up with People (4:50) 1969

20 Footprints on the Moon Judy Lynn (3:27) 1973

21 Ride, Sally, Ride Casse Culver (3:32) 1983

22 Tranquility Base Planet P Project (1:55) 1983

23 Countdown Rush (5:50) 1983

24 Flying for Me John Denver (4:38) 1987

25 Fire in the Sky Jordin Kare (4:38) 1991

26 My Dog Is an Astronaut Though Pond (3:52) 1997

27 Bless Thou the Astronauts Hastings College Choir (2:56) 2010

Have fun with these boisterous, silly, and/or solemn paeans to the Great Space Race

https://www.filefactory.com/file/5hdke67q6w7y/MA-65.rar

See you Monday with a reminiscence from 1972.

Star Trek Models and Do-It-Youself Props

In the past I've shared  the instructions and decal sheets from the AMT models for Original Star Trek models.

Printed on the instructions sheet would be an ad for a "Star Trek Jacket," which impoverished me would ignore.

Well, evidently SOME people bought one, because now that eight-dollar jacket is going for two hundred bucks!

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On another nerdy fan note, along with the STAR TREK: The Motion Picture costumes my lovely wife made for me, I cobbled together a few add-ons.

 In the movie, Starfleet had wrist communicators.

And each crewmember's uniform contained a perscan, that funny belt buckle which actually was a biometric analyzer.


Meanwhile in STAR TREK II, the uniforms changed, and they had belt buckles with the Starfleet insignia.

So, for my STTMP and STII imitations, here are my rough-and-ready stand-ins:

Not Hollywood quality, but not bad considering they were assembled from leftover car-model parts, cup holders, cassette boxes, and watch straps.  Oh, and LOTS of Testor's model glue.  And considering they arose from comic-book-adaptation art, and memories of a twice-seen film and the random publicity photo in STARLOG magazine.

See you Thursday!
 

Re-Post of MA-20 - The Fallout Follies

Here's another entry in my continuing quest to find fun pop songs from every genre about atomic topics.

1 -   Talking Atom      Pete Seeger         1947

2 - The Fall of the Planet Earth     The Moonbillies         1960

3 -  Talkin' World War III Blues       Bob Dylan          1963

4 -  Mushroom Clouds     Love   1966

5 -  Handsome Johnny     Richie Havens      1967

6 -  Thank Christ For The Bomb (edit)     Groundhog 1970

7 - King of the World Steely Dan 1973

8 - Atom Satillite Del Byzanteens 1979

9 - Face the Fire Dan Fogelberg 1979

10 - Uh-Oh Plutonium Anne Waldman 1982

11 - Two Suns In The Sunset Pink Floyd   1983

12 - I Hate You (from STAR TREK IV)   Edge of Ettiquette 1986

13 - After the War Gary Moore 1989

14 - The Bomb Song Corey Dwyer 1990

15 - Enola Gay Utah Phillips 1991

16 - Hot Frogs on the Loose Frank Small 1993

17 - Duct Tape John McCutcheon 2004

18 - Feed the Bomb Project Bluebird 2009

19 - Whistling in the Nuclear Wind Karl W Mahlmann 2011

Some songs are pretty awful (Track 2), some are pop treasures (Track 10), some are sarcastic (Tracks 12 or 17).  All are fun! 

I like the graphics on the cover, too.

https://www.filefactory.com/file/4v5znmxpaxx8/MA-20.rar

See you Monday.
 

Welcome to the Fortress of Markitude! #5

NOTE:  all of these pictures were taken a few years ago when the place was less cluttered.  All text is in the present tense anyway.

Now we have exited the Comics Closet and are headed south along the west wall.

At the right margin of this photo you can glimpse the edge of the bookshelves.  They are six feet high and seven-and-a-half feet wide, holding 400 books or so.

Just past them is a little square table. That table sits in front of the room’s only window.  The table and chair hold a big space in my heart because they came from the Patio on Classen Circle.

Above the window is a fine assortment of action figures dangling from a shelf.  Also dangling from each end of the shelf are various Superman suspenders and belts (for kids).

Across the back of the shelf are two Superman placemats and a metal tray with art from  Superman II.  On the shelf are the Star Trek cartoon glasses and various DC Superhero glasses from (I believe) Pizza Hut.

 Standing in the corner is a tall wardrobe-type shelf.  On top of the shelf are kids’ shoes, a bottle (empty) of Superman vitamins, and other stuff collected by somebody with too much time on his hands.

PHOTO 14 - Desktop Detail

On top of the computer desk are various jigsaw puzzles; a Superman stein; and some random action figures.

More items from the Fortress next time!

See you Thursday.