I'm jealous of the sixth-grade students at Gladstone Atwell Intermediate School 61 in Brooklyn, New York. Their teacher has a spaceship in his basement.
And it's not just any old spaceship. Jeff Story, a 36-year-old math teacher and founder of the Lost in Space fan network Alpha Control, has reconstructed the cockpit of Lost in Space's Jupiter 2 from the original props. He says he called "every prop house in Southern California" to find the components. Hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars later, the complete cockpit is installed in his basement, "with about an inch to spare."
"When you look at it, it's like walking onto the Fox soundstage in 1968," beams a proud Story. For information about Alpha Control, e-mail: alphacontrol@delphi.com.
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Lost in Jeff's Basement
