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Docking Bay 34 Terra V, Mk-5 .
By 1955 the Terra V had grown into a much larger ship. It also sprouted auxiliary booster rockets along the aft part of its fuselage. Other changes were also made and were significant.
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Since the Terra V, Mk V came to the screen after the well-known publication of the Colliers series on spaceflight, it was felt that the public perception of spaceship had also changed. No longer were the ability of spaceships to land and takeoff horizontally taken for granted. Now spaceships were seen shooting skyward vertically, like skyrockets. This was more in keeping with the advances in rocketry during the 50s.
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So now the Terra V in the Mk V version could also take off and land vertically, just like a chemical rocket or horizontally like a Buck Rogers style rocket. It was interesting that, after landing tail first on some foreign planet, it would lower itself on ‘magnetic rays’ back to a horizontal position. This made much easier for getting in or out. Still, they used a short ladder and exited from the top of the spaceship.
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Because the Mark V version of the Terra V was much larger, it could carry a smaller ship inside it. This smaller ship, called the RC-1 was used in several episodes. The additional aspect of the Terra-V becoming a spaceship carrier was that the series producers were selling a toy version of the RC-1’s Cockpit as a premium. The Terra-V’s cockpit was far too complicated of a prop to make an inexpensive version of so they introduced a smaller ship to fit inside the Terra V. The RC-1, or “Rocket Cockpit” as it was also called made the model cockpit a very desirable toy amongst children that watched the show.
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This version of the Terra-V atomic spaceship represents one of the last of this style of ship prior to the launch of Sputnik in 1957 which changed everything.
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A Precision Design Drawing of this Spaceship -----------------------------------------
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This Spaceship is also featured in “Ad Astra per Aspera”
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