The cold war feel of the scenes with the Soviets were part and parcel with the fabulous, optimistic idea that in 2001 we'd have a half-finished space station (with scale that dwarfs the pitiful ISS), an elegant lo-orbit shuttle (PRIVATE! Pan Am, BABY!) a more prosaic moon probe, and real infrastructure on the moon.
I saw a feature, packaged with the LAserDisc release of the film. It was a speech by Clarke ca. 1968 and it aroused in me such nostalgia (and such regret) for the go-go-space-age-60s.
Damned Russians - they gave up on the moon race - if they hadn't the film would have become essentially a reality.
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The cold war feel of the scenes with the Soviets were part and parcel with the fabulous, optimistic idea that in 2001 we'd have a half-finished space station (with scale that dwarfs the pitiful ISS), an elegant lo-orbit shuttle (PRIVATE! Pan Am, BABY!) a more prosaic moon probe, and real infrastructure on the moon.
I saw a feature, packaged with the LAserDisc release of the film. It was a speech by Clarke ca. 1968 and it aroused in me such nostalgia (and such regret) for the go-go-space-age-60s.
Damned Russians - they gave up on the moon race - if they hadn't the film would have become essentially a reality.