I remember being a kid and seeing this ship on one of the quadrillion PBS shows I watched religiously. It struck me as both totally insane and completely aweso

I remember being a kid and seeing this ship on one of the quadrillion PBS shows I watched religiously. It struck me as both totally insane and completely awesome (regardless of its purpose, the idea of what it did was just cool to an 7-10 year old, on principle). Oddly, its still cool.