Wasn't this the inspiration for that terrible Joe E. Ross sitcom, "It's About Time?"

"It's about time
It's about space
About two men
In the strangest place
It's about Time
It's about Flight
Travel'n faster than the speed of Light
Here is their tail
Of the brave creoooooooooooooooooo!"

I'd post more but I don't want to risk you throw up on your keyboard. :D

That was one of those 1960 gimmick sitcoms were everybody tried and nothing worked. And, yeah, the theme song was annoying, but not as annoying as the one for My Mother The Car, which is a real Arrrggghh I-can’t-get-it-out-of-my-head earworm jingle.

Schirm are these actual designs from actual kids? If so where are the actual photos and articles cause Id LOVE to read about them!

I made them all up. This cartoon, though, was inspired by a kid-sized Mercury capsule my grandfather gave to me about 1961 or 62. The capsule was a premium made by Kodak , and it was big, standing upright about five feet tall, and you squeezed into it through a hatch in the side at the base. It was made out of thick corrugated cardboard held together with folding tabs, and the Mercury 7 details inside and out were printed on with greenish-silver ink. Little portholes were cut in the cardboard so you had light inside, and there was a flat printed cardboard control panel with a little flat cardboard earth in it that spun thanks to tiny battery powered electric motor, giving you the not very convincing illusion that you were orbiting the earth. It was fun to play in, but after about after a month of me and my friends pretending to be John Glenn, it fell apart and was thrown away.

God I remember those things. They were similar to those Submarines advertised in comic books. :)

Am I the only one who got a The Yellow Kid vibe from the little guy's outfit?

Actually, it's based on a Ben Cooper Halloween costume from the early ‘60s.

Oh, yeah, I had several...