This Space:1999 concept video sets the Eagle launch pads at a safe distance from the Alpha Base buildings, and replaces the extending boarding tube / "jetway" with the idea that a special Travel Tube car that is fitted with a docking ring wheels right up to the Eagle. The series' boarding tube didn't show any signs that it could articulate should the Eagle not land precisely in the center of the pad. Also, this concept better matches the interior scenes from the series where the Travel Tube interior is shown about 8' from the Eagle interior. And for those that would say the Travel Tube car travels down to the end of the board tube - it would not fit in the model work that was shown.
Though I love the Anderson's work, I did not like spacecraft launching or landing next to or into buildings. I would not want rocket thrust pounding on my roof or my walls!

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