A study of early manned Interplanetary Missions (1962) Video

I saw an early clip from this show. They have their equivalent von Braun figure who dreamed up the nuclear rocket colony ship. He appears in a grainy black and white documentary film that the colonists watch on the anniversary of their launch.

I could not quite figure out what the central conflict of the show is. They've been in space for 50 years, in many ways still culturally stuck in 1962. I think there is a murder, and so my guess is that one of the main themes is that their social order is about to fracture and maybe they are going to start coming apart.
 
They should have optioned the classic epic 'space' poem instead.

Harry Martinson: call your office.


David
 
carmelo said:
Is ever the same stuff: 50s/early 60s were bad,counterculture good.
Trash.

That's response about the Promovideo of "Ascension" ?
be assured we not gonna see this in the TV series, it's just Promovideo to sell concept to TV Channel.
already show in BLASTr (sysf news channel) the fans ridicules the Spaceship design and other thing shown.
(by the way, the "Ascension" Promovideo is pulled from internet)

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That's is Krafft Ehricke promovideo for Convair EMPIRE study to NASA.
Original demanded as manned fly by mission in 1970s
Ehricke proposed instead a complete Spaceflight infrastructure to Explore the Planets in the Solar system.
Typical german , always planning thorough...
 

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