Since it is a rainy night - here's some blast-from-the-past video from 1957 archived for high-speed internet viewing on YouTube: Episode 6 from Disney's 1957 "Man and the Moon" - What in 1957 Uncle Walt thought Apollo 8 would look like - including the hidden Soviet Moon base on the farside! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRDIf_3DqtI Episode 4 of Disney's 1957 "Mars from Earth" - The popular conception of what live on Mars might turn out to be - from a 1957 viewpoint. Includes historical footage back from when Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff was still used for planetary research and an interview with Lowell Obs director E.C. Slipher. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RChnjIKWges&feature=related Episode 6 of Disney's 1957 "Mars from Earth" - Werner Von Braun's dream of an armada of 6 nuclear powered spaceships that use gasified cesium as propellant. Man, would I _not_ want to be riding in the last ship of that floatilla breathing the radioactive exhaust of the leading 5 ships! Note the spherically shaped Phobos and Demos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRCQ2Cu3bSE Compare the Mars landing shown in Episode 6 with the air-bag balls used from the rovers in 2004. Clear Skies - Kurt