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Space Oddities: Episode 7-Stay Hilton, Go Everywhere...Literally
- 2022/07/16
- 再生時間： 8 分
- ポッドキャスト
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あらすじ・解説
In episode three of our series, we learned that the dream of sending civilians into space was nothing new. In the early 1960s, just a few years before we had actually landed men on the moon, the U.S. based Pan American Airlines began “taking names” and was compiling a list of passengers to be among the first civilians to go to the moon.
It was called the First Moon Flight Club. Of course, it was an advertising gimmick but it worked and over 90,000 people signed up.
Before the Pan Am First Flight Club took off, and a few years before that first lunar landing, another business mogul was taking that same concept and expanded on it, but unlike Pan Am, he was serious. The Hilton Hotel chain wanted to build a hotel on the moon.
Show Notes:
Meet Baron Hilton (Video)
Lunar Hilton on TV Series, Mad Men (Video)
Lunar Hilton Reservation Form (Image)
Von Braun Space Station Concept