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Docking Bay 41 Rocketship M-1 This Spaceship was designed by Chesley Bonestell with changes by Alexander Golitzen and was originally presented as Rocketship M-1, in Abbot and Costello Go to Mars in 1953. . Of all the unlikely astronauts, perhaps Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are the most unlikely. The fact that they would even be allowed to work on an interplanetary atomic spaceship is a stretch of the imagination. However, during a period when even “B” movies were using the spaceship as a mechanism for drawing audience interest, the Abbott and Costello comedy team got to do one too.
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In "Abbott and Costello go to Mars" the Rocketship M-1, is a beautiful ship that becomes the center of attention in the comedy team’s own personal expedition into space. When looking at the Rocketship M-1’s design we note that this spaceship shows little influence of Bonestell’s earlier ship. It looks more like the Moonship in the book Conquest of Space, but without the vertical strike down its back. Its fins and tail is different and it also has a new control room design.
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Adding to the Rocketship M-1’s interest is that during the movie it is shown flying through the atmosphere to around New York, under the Brooklyn Bridge, and even to New Orleans. Later, it also takes Abbot and Costello to Venus instead of Mars so they could meet all those lovely Venusian women who haven't seen a man in years!
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One has to admit that as an exploration expedition, this mission holds a lot of interest!
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And so does the rocket ship Rocketship M-1’s which is a very beautiful and very impressive design for an atomic built rocket ship of the day.
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A Precision Design Drawing of this Spaceship -----------------------------------------
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Complete background information is available in the Spaceship Handbook
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This Spaceship is also featured in “Ad Astra per Aspera”
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