Vern Estes and his faithful horn-rims are ready to rocket you to the Moon

There’s something so trustworthy about the old NASA look. Even though Vern Estes’ province was model rocketry, not the real version, one look at those horn-rimmed glasses — which surely were accompanied by a short-sleeved white shirt and a thin black tie — and you’re ready for anything. What’s that? I have to repair a fuel line in my orbiting spacecraft with duct tape and dirty underwear? Whatever you say, Vern. In Vern I trust.