@Apples55 posted:As a kid, I always watched the space launches and splash downs. I remember when they televised one of the first space walks. My interest has always continued... I was getting dressed to go to work when the first shuttle went up (was a little late getting to work that day!!!). In spite of that, I never had any interest in any of the space cars. I did get a 3349 Turbo Missile Car with my first set, but I don’t think that counts. But while I was doing some long overdue cleaning in my basement, I came upon these...
Found a couple of Life Magazines too. As the old song said, “those were the days, my friend”!!!
Paul, Mary Hopkins would be glad you remember the song too!!
We did not have a television when the Mercury project was going on, and watched some of the Gemini launches and splashdowns. My uncle, Dad's brother, was a career aerospace engineer for Boeing. He was in Cape Canaveral (Kenedy) through the Apollo project. Boeing had a contract for the booster stages, so we gad special interest in those. My grandma was interested. It is sad she passed on less than two week before the first lunar landing.
I had HO trains then. I couldn't afford Lionel, and was enamored by what modelers like John Allen were doing in HO. It never occured to me to combine the model I built of the Apollo capsule, LEM, with my trains. It was massive compared to the trains, standing about 2 feet high when the LEM was in its housing and the capsule was on top. I did use my matchbox cars and trucks on the layout as they were proportioned very close to HO.
