When I was a young; I watched a lot of television (right, whose kid didn’t?). The time period was around the early to mid 70's. and I was at a very impressionable age. A major chain of events happening at the time was the American-Russian space race (which the Americans won, thankfully). These events (NASA completed several manned missions to the moon) held the national psyche locked in awe and as such the inspiration was felt in everything. I drank Tang in the mornings, my parents had a space age "globe" television on a stand in the kitchen, so that they may keep up with the Viet Nam war, on the daily evening news, there was the Apollo Soyuz mission, Steve Austin, the American astronaut who crashed and became the bionic man, 2001: A Space Odyssey (which I never understood until growing up) and a great many “space” inspired others. These sources had great affect on me; in fact I thought by now I'd be living in some fantastic, low orbital space station with a sentient computer and doubled as a gateway to the moon (what the heck happened?).
This loaded and turned on my curiosity akin to loading fuel into a nuclear reactor; once you load and flip that switch on, you can never shut it off. This is a common trait for Industrial designers, constant curiosity about things, and how they work.
My grade school teachers scolded me continuously for drawing Apollo rocket ships on my desks (all three stages, including the emergency safety engine sitting atop of the command module), in magnificent detail. That said, drawing is another trait common to Industrial designers.
I’ve posted a few URLS for space movies that were out at the time that really put the " fuel" in me and made me excited about space and the future, at the time, enjoy.
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