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Tales of Tomorrow: Appointment on Mars (1952)
old memories
I saw this as a very young child. Thought it was great at the time. Even then I could see mistakes such as the gun...I thought a ray gun would have been used. But lasers were not invented then. I remember the success at growing plants in the Martian soil. This has been proved to be correct by soil samples tested on Mars. If I remember correctly, the idea of pointing the ship to earth seems odd now when we know direct courses to planets are not possible. Colour seemed good. I didn't know why the spaceman in question was edgy but knowing how such a trip could bring on a psychotic episode it is now understandable. That's why carefully picked and trained astronauts will have to be the ones to travel to Mars one day. Being made in 1952 and we still only have robots on Mars (60 years on) It is disappointing that is far as we have come. On the other hand, as a young child, I really didn't expect that science would be so close to reality after all.