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* CoolSpaceship: The ''Sun Probe'' rocket looks amazing, and it's a manned mission to the ''freaking sun''. Everything about it is cool. Especially the life support system (har har).
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* AwesomeButImpractical: A rocket mission to capture a sample of the solar corona is perfectly reasonable, and cool in its own right. Why on earth did it require three astronauts on board? They seem to do nothing but sit in their chairs the whole mission. Are they testing the effects of intense solar radiation on the human body?
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* CoolButInefficient: A rocket mission to capture a sample of the solar corona is perfectly reasonable, and cool in its own right. Why on earth did it require three astronauts on board? They seem to do nothing but sit in their chairs the whole mission. Humans massively add to the weight of a space mission, both in terms of their personal mass and the life support systems and supplies they will need to keep them alive, which exponentially increases the fuel needed to launch.
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The Sun Probe, a massive rocket built to retrieve solar matter directly from a coronal mass ejection, is launched without a hitch. Indeed, the whole mission goes swimmingly until it's time for the rocket to break solar orbit; the intense heat and radiation from the sun has jammed the controls as well as blocking override transmissions from Earth. Unless the Probe can break orbit, the heat and radiation will overwhelm and destroy the probe and the three astronauts inside.
Not so, cries International Rescue, launching a dual-pronged attempt. Thunderbird 2 flies to the Himalayas, armed with a mobile computer and a transmitter truck - because, you know, a massive dish mounted on a halftrack has to be more powerful than Houston's satellite farm - while Thunderbird 3 blasts off to attempt to get close enough to fire the Probe's rockets via a safety beam. The crew of [=TB3=] succeed, but are trapped themselves, due to their proximity to the sun! Fortunately, the transmitter truck is able to get their beam through to Thunderbird 3 and override their systems just in time.
Not so, cries International Rescue, launching a dual-pronged attempt. Thunderbird 2 flies to the Himalayas, armed with a mobile computer and a transmitter truck - because, you know, a massive dish mounted on a halftrack has to be more powerful than Houston's satellite farm - while Thunderbird 3 blasts off to attempt to get close enough to fire the Probe's rockets via a safety beam. The crew of [=TB3=] succeed, but are trapped themselves, due to their proximity to the sun! Fortunately, the transmitter truck is able to get their beam through to Thunderbird 3 and override their systems just in time.
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The Sun Probe, ''Sun Probe'', a massive rocket built to retrieve solar matter directly from a coronal mass ejection, is launched without a hitch. Indeed, the whole mission goes swimmingly until it's time for the rocket to break solar orbit; the intense heat and radiation from the sun has jammed the controls as well as blocking override transmissions from Earth. Unless the Probe ''Probe'' can break orbit, the heat and radiation will overwhelm and destroy the probe ''Probe'' and the three astronauts inside.
Not so, cries International Rescue, launching a dual-pronged attempt.Thunderbird 2 ''Thunderbird 2'' flies to the Himalayas, armed with a mobile computer and a transmitter truck - because, you know, a massive dish mounted on a halftrack has to be more powerful than Houston's satellite farm - while Thunderbird 3 ''Thunderbird 3'' blasts off to attempt to get close enough to fire the Probe's ''Probe'''s rockets via a safety beam. The crew of [=TB3=] ''[=TB3=]'' succeed, but are trapped themselves, due to their proximity to the sun! Fortunately, the transmitter truck is able to get their beam through to Thunderbird 3 ''Thunderbird 3'' and override their systems just in time.
Not so, cries International Rescue, launching a dual-pronged attempt.
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* BadassInDistress: After successfully rescuing the Sun Probe, Thunderbird 3's retro engines fail to fire, leaving Scott, Alan and Tin-Tin on collision course with the sun. They pass out from the heat before they can do anything to save themselves. It takes a radio signal from Virgil and Brains on earth to save them.
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* BadassInDistress: After successfully rescuing the Sun Probe, Thunderbird 3's ''Sun Probe'', ''Thunderbird 3'''s retro engines fail to fire, leaving Scott, Alan and Tin-Tin on collision course with the sun. They pass out from the heat before they can do anything to save themselves. It takes a radio signal from Virgil and Brains on earth to save them.
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* ContinuityNod - The Sun Probe rocket launch was seen earlier in ''The Perils of Penelope''. An odd example as this episode was filmed first (and so has the full launch sequence) but aired much later in the series.
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* ContinuityNod - The Sun Probe rocket ''Sun Probe'' launch was seen earlier in ''The Perils of Penelope''. An odd example as this episode was filmed first (and so has the full launch sequence) but aired much later in the series.
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** It's a good thing the team decided to try two different methods of rescuing the ''Sun Probe'', otherwise the Transmitter Truck would never have been in position in time to save ''Thunderbird 3''.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Virgil and Brains needed a mobile computer for their frequency calculation, but brought the wrong box. Thankfully, that wrong box still contained a computer of sorts in the form of Braman the robot.
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* TheTag: Braman beating Brains at chess.
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* ColdSnap: Until the 50th anniversary specials, this was one of [[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E25TheChamCham only two]] rescues to take place in a snowy environment. This one is of the "struggling to survive in the cold" variety.
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* ColdSnap: Until the 50th anniversary specials, this was one of [[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E25TheChamCham only two]] rescues to take place in a snowy environment. This one is of the "struggling to survive in the cold" variety.variety, and is only one half of the episode's rescue, with Brains and Virgil's thick coats and hats contrasting with the ''Thunderbird 3'' crew's collapsing from overheating.
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* ColdSnap: Until the 50th anniversary specials, this was one of only two rescues to take place in a snowy environment. This one is of the "struggling to survive in the cold" variety.
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* ColdSnap: Until the 50th anniversary specials, this was one of [[Recap/ThunderbirdsS1E25TheChamCham only two two]] rescues to take place in a snowy environment. This one is of the "struggling to survive in the cold" variety.
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* ColdSnap: Until the 50th anniversary specials, this was one of only two rescues to take place in a snowy environment. This one is of the "struggling to survive in the cold" variety.
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* TinCanRobot: Braman
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* TinCanRobot: BramanBraman (for no apparent reason Braman is the same or similar design to the Robots that guarded the plutonium store in episode seven.)
