tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post1936294969110849542..comments2009-11-20T09:20:36.445-05:00Jeffrey Pepperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00990997892044489714noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post-25537633765039438992009-05-01T14:30:00.000-04:002009-05-01T14:30:00.000-04:00Here is a thread from this blog which shows what the role of the XR-1 in Disney's plans for space exploration was to be:<br /><br />http://www.2719hyperion.com/2006/12/future-from-fifties-building-space.html<br /><br />If we had followed Disney and von Braun's plans, we would colonies on the Moon and Mars by now, and who knows what else we would be doing in the Final Frontier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post-90785609910242773192009-04-29T10:33:00.000-04:002009-04-29T10:33:00.000-04:00What an interesting and unfortunate attitude to take, putting a sport over space - especially in 1958, when the Space Age was just getting started.<br /><br />Clearly this child was not exposed to Walt's Man in Space series from a few years earlier.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34647587.post-50543254386402227152009-04-29T07:08:00.000-04:002009-04-29T07:08:00.000-04:00Wow! How did you ever discover that was the same rocket? I get a kick out of "little ironic coincidence-like facts" like this. One never knows where Disney-related gems will show up.Tonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00857362042054449809noreply@blogger.com