The shots in the original and in the remastered episode are based on the same basic photo of Wadi Hadramawt.
The view from space of a parched riverbed on Ardana is actually a NASA photo. The Sinai Peninsula occupies the complete center of the screen, while the rest of Egypt is on the lower left side.įlipped Sinai Peninsula in TOS: "Assignment: Earth" The shot has been flipped: The Suez Canal and the Great Bitter Lake are in the lower center of the screen, with the Red Sea in the left center, and the Mediterranean Sea at the bottom. One of them is a view of the Sinai Peninsula. Among them are exterior views of the huge Vehicle Assembly Building, as well as interior shots of one of the four firing rooms, located in a building next to the Vehicle Assembly Building.įurthermore there are pictures of Earth taken from space, probably from the Apollo 4 mission as well. The episode also shows numerous shots of exteriors and interiors of NASA buildings in the Kennedy Space Center. In the episode the scene is described as showing the launch of a nuclear warhead platform from McKinley Base, however. We can see a lot of footage from the launch of Apollo 4, the first flight of a Saturn V rocket, then still unmanned. When he decides to take the risk of the mind transfer, Kirk says: "Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars and then to the nearest star?" TOS: Assignment: Earth Most likely the spacecraft is of the Atlas-Agena type.īotany Bay docking port in TOS-R: "Space Seed" Finally, we can make out a very schematic depiction of the launch of a two-stage rocket carrying a probe.A possibly generic flight path of a Ranger probe is depicted too.It was launched in 1962 and turned out a failure when it missed the moon. Ranger 3: The depicted probe belongs to Block 2.It has features of both the Ranger Block 2 and Block 3, timeframe 1962-65. Ranger Block 2-3 type: Once again it is not possible to identify a specific probe.Ranger Block 1 type: It is not definitely recognizable which Ranger mission is depicted, but it must be a spacecraft of the Block 1 from 1961.Pioneer 5: The interplanetary probe, launched in 1960, is visible on one screen.Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) and Orbiting Solar Observatory (OSO): They can be seen on the same screen, and are accordingly labeled.The first one has call-outs for the single components, the second one illustrates its operation range. Nimbus I: Two different images of the weather observation satellite of 1966 are visible.We can see the same picture of this probe twice. Mariner 2: The probe was launched to Venus in 1962.More information can be found at Gunter's Space Page.
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We will take care of the latest TV series at a later date. It is a very long page already, but still not complete. The following list comprises all kinds of visual and verbal references to real NASA space programs. Naturally, as an American TV series, Star Trek focuses on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) whenever references are deemed necessary or beneficial. Finally, references are deliberately included to honor astronauts and other men and women working for the exploration of space. Also, photos and models of 20th century spacecraft are popular as set dressing, and they are welcome to tie together the real world and the Star Trek Universe. One motivation, especially during The Original Series (TOS), was to save costs by using footage of rocket launches or pictures of probes that the script called for. It is not surprising that Star Trek frequently shows pictures or verbally refers to people, spacecraft and events of real space exploration. NASA References in TOS and TOS Movies TNG and TNG Movies DS9 VOY ENT Star Trek (2009) Addendum By Jörg Hillebrand, Mike Okuda and Bernd Schneider
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