Fargo gives the order to fire the FTL with the one-word command, "Engage." The line, its delivery, and the physical gesture he makes are an unmistakable impersonation of Patrick Stewart's Captain Jean Luc Picard in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987).
Fargo was playing in a Mercury Program "Lunar Module."
Zane approached as Fargo played inside then commented on adding advanced technology to a sixty-year-old dinosaur. The module used in Mercury Program was a single-seat module to prove it could orbit Earth. Later on, Gemini Program (Gemini, as in twins) would require multi-seats in that next phase.
The module Fargo sat was a single-seat capsule. Dated by Zane some sixty-years-old makes it all but certain to be the Mercury capsule in which Astronaut/Senator John Glenn sat.
The capsule was a Mercury capsule prototype for a Lunar Module, if not one used to prove NASA could send a capsule to orbit the Moon.
Zane approached as Fargo played inside then commented on adding advanced technology to a sixty-year-old dinosaur. The module used in Mercury Program was a single-seat module to prove it could orbit Earth. Later on, Gemini Program (Gemini, as in twins) would require multi-seats in that next phase.
The module Fargo sat was a single-seat capsule. Dated by Zane some sixty-years-old makes it all but certain to be the Mercury capsule in which Astronaut/Senator John Glenn sat.
The capsule was a Mercury capsule prototype for a Lunar Module, if not one used to prove NASA could send a capsule to orbit the Moon.
The program was to send a crew to Titan.
The missile that carried Zane and Fargo was a Titan ( Titan II) Missile. They deployed NUCLEAR WARHEADS from 1957 to 2000. It is known so, for they were land nukes - based in a nuclear silo - like the one accidentally deployed to space.
All space programs deployed a rocket to a "launch pad." The Titan rocket launched from its DECOMMISSIONED silo with the pair on board, in a Mercury Program Lunar Capsule. Reagan DECOMMISSIONED them.
Fargo did not know a space craft with a Battlestar Galactica-feel would be used, not a rocket.
The missile that carried Zane and Fargo was a Titan ( Titan II) Missile. They deployed NUCLEAR WARHEADS from 1957 to 2000. It is known so, for they were land nukes - based in a nuclear silo - like the one accidentally deployed to space.
All space programs deployed a rocket to a "launch pad." The Titan rocket launched from its DECOMMISSIONED silo with the pair on board, in a Mercury Program Lunar Capsule. Reagan DECOMMISSIONED them.
Fargo did not know a space craft with a Battlestar Galactica-feel would be used, not a rocket.