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Anybody else ever watch this? It's a two-season anime series about a pair of mountain climbing adventurers who finish climbing Everest only to decide that the logical next goal in their lives is to walk on the Moon. They both take different paths to pursue that goal, with one becoming a construction worker and eventually transferring into the new International Space Association, and the other becoming a Navy flier and getting recruited into the USAF's secret space wing.
It's a lot like a prequel to Planetes. The technology is realistic and most of the science and physics is sound. The ISS is portrayed as being much larger and more developed than it turned out. I'm not finished with the series yet, but so far there's been enough shuttle launches, spaceplanes, secret military space stations, updated Cold War-esque space races, and gratuitous pointless nudity to make any Orbiter fan happy.
Really, the least believable part of it is the USAF secretly building a station in geosync that would have taken 100+ Shuttle launches. :lol:
English audio available for the first season, but subtitle-only for the second.
It's a lot like a prequel to Planetes. The technology is realistic and most of the science and physics is sound. The ISS is portrayed as being much larger and more developed than it turned out. I'm not finished with the series yet, but so far there's been enough shuttle launches, spaceplanes, secret military space stations, updated Cold War-esque space races, and gratuitous pointless nudity to make any Orbiter fan happy.
Really, the least believable part of it is the USAF secretly building a station in geosync that would have taken 100+ Shuttle launches. :lol:
English audio available for the first season, but subtitle-only for the second.
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