Spaceships of the 1970s: A Gallery

Yesterday, I celebrated and enjoyed my 46th birthday (and didn't post a new review here, like I was supposed to -- d'oh!) 

But I did spend some of my birthday thinking about my childhood, and my favorite decade: the 1970s.  

That was my formative decade, I suppose you could conclude.

I grew up with Space:1999 (1975-1977), Space Academy (1977), Star Wars (1977), Battlestar Galactica (1978-1979), Alien (1979) and The Black Hole (1979).

I love the spaceships of this era, from TV and film, frankly. 

Thanks to 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968, designers had largely outgrown the "rocket" and "flying saucer" style of spaceship, and moved on to some amazing work for the disco decade.  The seventies brought us the utilitarian, modular Eagles of 1999, the haunted house in space, the Cygnus, of The Black Hole, the new (and improved) Star Trek ships in time for The Motion Picture, and even bio-organic ships, like the one seen in Alien.

 So far as spaceship designs go, I don't think any other decade, at least so far, can hold a candle to the 1970s.

Below are a few of my favorites from 1970 - 1979.  How many do you remember? (And heck, which ones did I forget?)

Identified by SGB: UFO ( Interceptors )

Identified by SGB: Silent Running (Valley Forge)

Identified by SGB: The Starlost (Earth Ship Ark)

Identified by SGB: Star Blazers (Argo/Yamato)

Identified by SGB: Dark Star.

Identified by SGB: Planet of the Apes (TV series)

Identified by SGB: Space:1999 (Eagle Transporter)

Identified by SGB: Space:1999 (Mark IX Hawk).

Identified by SGB: Antares (Into Infinity)

Identified by Pierre Fontaine: Star Maidens.

Identified by SGB Star Wars (Star Destroyer)

Identified by SGB: Star Wars (X-Wing and TIE Fighter)

Identified by SGB: Space Academy (Seeker)

Identified by SGB The Lost Saucer.

Identified by Pierre Fontaine: The War in Space (1977)

Identified by SGB: Jason of Star Command (Star Fire)

Identified by SGB: Salvage 1

Identified by SGB Project UFO.

Identified by SGB: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Identified by SGB: The Cat from Otuter Space.

Identified by Pierre Fontaine: Starship Invasions.

Identified by SGB: Laserblast.

Identified by Pierre Fontaine: Star Crash.

Identified by Piierre Fontaine: Message from Space.

Identified by Pierre Fontaine: Message from Space.

Identified by SGB: Battlestar Galactica.

Identified by Pierre Fontaine: Blake's 7 (Liberator)

Identified by Piierre Fontaine: Shape of Things to Come (Star Streak).

Identified by SGB Alien (Nostromo)

Identified by SGB: The Cygnus.

Identified by SGB: Buck Rogers (Starfighter).

Identified by SGB: Moonraker.

Identified by SGB: U.S.S. Enterprise (ST-TMP)

Identified by SGB: ST-TMP (K'tinga)