Man in Space

I still enjoy the serendipity of the internet, I was looking for a science fiction story from Galaxy magazine (The Discovery of Morniel Mathaway by William Tenn)

but then started reading the next article which was a "behind the scenes" about the Disney TV program: Man in Space

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFXza9RH7-E

Again this was mentioned in Willy Ley's column in Galaxy magazine from October 1955 starting on page 61:

https://archive.org/details/galaxymagazine-1955-10/page/n61/mode/2up

Man and the Moon was the 2nd program in the TV series mentioned in the Ley article.

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_N3EYMgya4

Mars and Beyond was the last program in the series mentioned by Ley.

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk7lf2D848I  

And of course since it's Disney this guy appears:

still without pants.

Anyway, the article and the three shows were very interesting to me.  Maybe rather than presenting an exact forecast of how things actually unfolded they presented a logical but entertaining plan for accomplishing the goal of putting humans into space.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm