I always thought the tech on the salvage 1 show was on point. Nasa could learn a few things. https://youtu.be/HODkJABWo08
Joel Higgins was awesome
I loved that show at the time. One of the obvious questions was how they managed to get to orbit without running out of fuel, since their ship just seemed to climb at a slow, steady speed instead of accelerating to very high speed like actual rockets do.