Re: Worse than CASSINI! October 16th launch date!

Michelle Moore (mfmoore@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)
Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:51:18 -0500 (CDT)

>In a launch surrounded by secrecy, a crew of six, including a family of
>five - complete with young children - is to be launched into space on a
>mission using highly speculative and untested technologies. Supposedly, the
>target of the mission is the Alpha Centauri system.
>
>This is the second
>mission - the first having been a failure, and conducted in complete
>secrecy - of what is known as the Jupiter program.
>

Anyone born before 1962 should recall this as the plot to Lost in Space.
Remember: 2 parents, 3 kids, some other adult male, plus one secret agent
type stowaway (Dr. Smith), "Danger, Will Robinson!", the Jupiter II. It's
all there.

Michelle

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