1969 design patent - Apollo CM shelter on LM descent stage

Mike Flugennock wrote:

What I can't figure out is -- with the advances in high-density,
high-impact plastics that have given us all these bottles which look
and feel like glass, why the hell haven't they brought back that good
old-fashioned simple, elegant, just the right amount, classic
Coca-Cola bottle?

You know, the "tall boy" original Coke bottle, and my own favorite,
the 7oz "pony" original Coke bottle, which I remember as a kid being
just the right amount for when I needed just a quick drink of soda to
cool off at the ballgame.

And they really made sense from an energy usage point of view also; We
had a Coca-Cola bottling plant in town that took the empty bottles,
washed then out with boiling hot high pressure water to sterilize them,
refilled them, and back to the stores they would go. A bottle could be
refilled hundreds of times over a multi-decade lifetime, and possible
never move out of a five-mile radius distance from the bottling plant.
I once found a refillable beer bottle from 1939 in a case of beer
purchased during the late 1980's.
Disposable glass beer bottles are crazy; instead of refilling them, you
have to melt and cast all-new glass.

Pat