Red and Rover by Brian Basset for February 18, 2015
February 17, 2015
February 19, 2015
Transcript:
One week ago Dear NASA, Do you have any spare rocket parts I can have? Sincerely, Red Dear Red, Thank you for your interest. The bottom half of a lunar module is on the moon- have at it.
comicgos almost 10 years ago
LeoAutodidact almost 10 years ago
Wasn’t that the whole point of “Salvage One”?
(Andy Griffith TV Movie and short-lived TV Series.)
Catfeet Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Come and get it, indeed!
Plods with ...™ almost 10 years ago
SNERK!!
gcwh almost 10 years ago
And 40 years later, Red executes a salvage mission and NASA can’t dispute his claim. ;-) Yeah, yeah, I know that would still put it in the past… dream with me…:-)
loner34 almost 10 years ago
Tell a kid that and he will work until he gets it. Even if it IS 40 years.
nosirrom almost 10 years ago
Write the Russians, Red. They have some 40 year old rocket engines they’re not going to use.(word of caution though, they tend to blow up upon launch)
dzw3030 almost 10 years ago
If Red pulled off a salvage run, the EPA would get in the way. Bean counters have no soul, just a check list.
amaryllis2 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Oh that’s wonderful!!!
What? Me worried ? almost 10 years ago
Considering the era of this toon Has no one ever seen the movie “October Sky” ? I have and I loved it !
K M almost 10 years ago
OK: Since this strip is set in the 60s (strips have referenced the original Star Trek in first run), probably the only descent stage this could possibly reference is the Apollo 11 descent module; the last first-run episode of TOS aired June 3, 1969; the show would have been better remembered at the time of Apollo 11’s 16-24 July 1969 mission than even Apollo 12’s 14-24 November 1969 mission. There’s also the fact that NASA’s reply mentions the bottom half of a lunar module; after November 69 there would be two LM descent stages on the moon.Interestingly, in the TOS second-season episode “Return to Tomorrow” (first aired 9 Feb 68), Kirk answers McCoy’s complaints about the risk of the episode’s macguffin by saying, “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?” And in the first-season episode “Tomorrow Is Yesterday’” (first aired 26 Jan 67), set in 1969, the crew hears a broadcast radio transmission that says, “This is the five thirty news summary. Cape Kennedy. The first manned Moon shot is scheduled for Wednesday, six am Eastern Standard Time” (no date was mentioned). As it happened, 16 Jul 69 was indeed a Wednesday; and one source (which I now cannot find) said the mission was originally scheduled to launch at 6 AM; of course, history records the time of launch as 9:32 AM EDT.
Meowmocha over 9 years ago
Oooh, NASA’s mean today…