[C19fan]

Pan AM is gone and there is no "Space Clipper" but hey we have smart phones to troll with and watch cat videos; eat you heart out Kubrick and Clarke.

[rjsimmon]

So close...

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I still have the remains of a Pan Am flight bag my dad picked up at the SFCA airport in the early 60s.

[Yo-Yo]

I was 9 years old when 2001: A Space Odyssey was released, but even when I was in my 20's I thought the space flight, orbiting space station, and moon colony were believable, and would happen in my lifetime.

But I thought that the viewing tablets in the below image would never be possible:

Guess which one came true?

[Veto!]

No one misses PanAm more than I do. I was a travel writer back then, PanAM gave me assignment after assignment, as they liked my work. Traveled all over the world first class, stayed at the best hotels, ate at the best restaurants...all free, of course. I cried when they went out of business...after Lockerbie crash. I might have been on that flight, but by the grace of God, was not.

[ADemocratNoMore]

I’m a member of the “First Moon Flights Club”. I still have my i.d. card somewhere. Membership came with a Fisher “Space Pen”, the same one designed to write upside down in zero gravity, engraved with my membership number which was also my place in line for my ride. Still waiting for the 2,300 or so folks before me to go so I can. Also have to figure out where I’m going to get a few million dollars for the ticket.

[plain talk]

Ah ... the stewardesses

[ops33]

PanAm’s radio call sign was Clipper.