Paul's Spaceship Pictures

Philip Madoc, the Welsh actor who played Moonbase Alpha's Russian Commander Anton Gorski in "Breakaway", he looked a bit like Korolev.

1) Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Worship", 1943, published in the Saturday Evening Post, one of his "Four Freedoms" series;

2) Rockwell's "Apollo 11 Space Team" , commisioned by Look magazine, 1969;

3) NASA Artemis publicity video.

Moonbase 3's lunar shuttle seems inspired by the Phase B LM-B spacecraft.

The Welsh commander of Moonbase 3 was played by Donald Houston. Moonbase Alpha's commander prior to the arrival of John Koenig was also played by a Welsh actor - Philip Madoc as (the presumably not Welsh) Anton Gorski.

Special effects were by Mat Irving, doing his best with a BBC budget. The lunar transport craft seem to have been based on NASA's proposed LM-B space tug.

The final episode of the six-part series saw life on Earth wiped out by a nuclear accident, leaving the Moonbase personal isolated and adrift (but metaphorically).

The many lives of the Matt Jeffries-designed Leif Ericson model kit:

The OG Leif Erikson

The UFO Mystery Ship

The Pegasus from Gene Roddenberry's proposed but never made War Of The Worlds TV series

The INSS MacArthur from the Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle novel The Mote In God's Eye, as illustrated by Rick Sternbach

I reckon (with no evidence) that Chris Foss based this ship on the Leif Erikson

Bob Larkin book cover

Original art by Frank Hampson, Sydney Jordan, Cam Kennedy, Rons Turner and Embleton, Carlos Esquerra, Steve Dillon, Dave Gibbons...

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a postbox.

Then they zip-tied flags to lamp posts

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a lamp post

And anyway it's the Welsh flag, right,

Which genuinely is objectively the best flag in the world

It's got a dragon on it.