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Old Oct 7, 2014 | 7:03 pm
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Originally Posted by BearX220
After the movie "2001" came out (in which the orbital space shuttle was operated by Pan Am) PA began taking names for moon trips. They compiled quite a list and kept it up, semi-seriously, for years.
I remember hearing about that back in the day, I was just a kid then and of course thought we'd really be flying to the moon by this point...that and the flying cars that have never panned out

The ad for Hills department store is a blast from the past, too...
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