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YouTube sure is great for finding lost memories. Anybody else remember this theme song?

Loved it as a kid, but can't even watch it as an adult. They were supposed to be on a 50-year journey to Alpha Centauri in the pilot (in suspended animation, no less), but after that damn Dr. Smith sabotaged the Jupiter II they couldn't stay in space for more than 20 minutes without crash-landing on a planet with a habitable atmosphere & (often incredibly comical) aliens to boot. Can't decide to this day whether they should have hung Smith or given him the Nobel Prize in physics for about ten years in a row...

[Greg Hullender]

Didn't think I'd ever participate in a discussion that included Fireball XL5, Supercar, Magnus Robot Fighter, Lost in Space (the comic), and The Metalmen. All we're missing is Solar, Man of the Atom.

Sigh. The 60's were a good time to be a kid. :-)

Also, getting back to UMSF for a bit, my elementary school would routinely stop class and turn on the TV so we could watch space launches -- even unmanned ones. I remember watching at least one Ranger launch that way.

One less-than-ideal thing that I remember was seeing Saturn through a telescope for the first time. This was a 20-inch telescope at the local (to Chattanooga) observatory, so not too bad, except for the fact that it didn't have any rings! Just a straight line across it. When they told me it'd take years to see the rings properly, I was just crushed. Hard to believe it's been all the way around almost one and a half times since then . . .

--Greg