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music_space
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posted 01-10-2002 07:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for music_space   Click Here to Email music_space     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I just happened to be watching an old rerun of The Simpsons, the episode where Lisa finds what looks like an angel fossil...

Eventually Homer goes to put the fossil in the closet where he keeps his most precious possessions... and there, on a shelf, sits what looks like an Apollo helmet.

Ed beck
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posted 01-10-2002 09:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ed beck   Click Here to Email Ed beck     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If Homer Simpson collected it, it was likely Don Knotts helmet from his movie "The Reluctant Astronaut". Only Homer Simpson would believe that it was actually flown in space!

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posted 01-10-2002 10:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ben     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That helmet is supposed to be from "Deep Space Homer," the episode where Homer goes into space and Buzz Aldrin has a cameo. That's Homer's helmet, in other words.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 05-09-2011 10:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
From @Smithsonian (via @airandspace):
Anyone catch our cameo in last night's Simpsons intro?

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posted 02-07-2012 08:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for p51   Click Here to Email p51     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"In rod we trust"!

rwhite502
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posted 02-08-2012 07:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for rwhite502     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"Careful, they're ruffled!"

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posted 02-12-2012 04:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AstronautBrian   Click Here to Email AstronautBrian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"You fool! Now we'll never know if ants can sort tiny screws in space!"

and

'Those golden grahams! Those tasty golden grahams..."

Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-15-2016 04:46 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sunday's (March 13) episode of The Simpsons, "The Marge-ian Chronicles," saw the series spoof Mars One.
Lisa volunteers for a future one-way journey to Mars, much to Marge's chagrin. As she searches for a way to convince Lisa not to go, Marge hits upon the most devious strategy of all, and volunteers to go along for the ride. Will the Simpsons girls be mankind's first residents of the Red Planet?

Robert Pearlman
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posted 07-27-2017 09:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Jalopnik explores the reasoning "Deep Space Homer" featured a more Hermes-like space shuttle than the U.S. space shuttle in its depiction of the Corvair spacecraft.
What interests me here, though, is the spacecraft that took Homer into space. When the episode aired in 1994, NASA was still launching the Space Shuttle orbiters into space on a fairly regular basis. These spacecraft were very well known to Americans, and visually they had a distinctive look that most American television viewers would recognize and understand instantly. You'd think representing the Space Shuttle as it was known to most people would be the way to go for the episode.

For some reason, that's not what happened.

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