I kid, but you gotta admit an unfortunate design choice. All this retro Buck Rogers technology is "sick"!
Sick is in the eye of the beholder. Is the Empire State Building "sick"? I don't know, ask King Dong.... I mean Kong!
Am I sick if I say I prefer the thought of a penis lauched into the space of a vigina, or even other dark, preferably wet and warm spaces -- and preferably "Where no other man has gone before!"
Does anybody else remember a 1972 cartoon called Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space?
Once again, vintage science fiction has predicted future technology. I think Hanna-Barbera's aerospace engineering division may have been influenced by 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Didn't the porno spoof Flesh Gordon feature a giant penis shaped spaceship?
Yeah, I have a picture of that in Starlog Photo Guidebook: Spaceships (1977), which probably shouldn't have covered an "adult" film for such a youthful magazine audience.
Apart from being a metallic gold or bronze color, it looked pretty similar to the Blue Origins rocket.
