# Calling All "Lost In Space" Fans **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [February 11, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-lost-in-space-fans/959320 "2022-02-11T15:33:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-lost-in-space-fans/959320/1 "2022-02-11T15:33:34Z")
In this series of three seasons, the “Jupiter” spacecraft is often referred to as the Jupiter 2. Even in the first episode, they call the ship the Jupiter 2. Is this merely an inconsistency? Perhaps, we are to believe the Jupiter was a prototype, and Jupiter 2 was the first working ship? (In general, each episode is riddled with little inconsistencies, so this would just be one more.) ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-lost-in-space-fans/959320/2 "2022-02-11T15:44:29Z")
If you’re referring to the recent Netflix reboot, the “Jupiter” craft are the individual family craft attached to the colony ship. They have individual numbers rather than individual names. The Robinson’s assigned Jupiter happens to be the _Jupiter 2_. If you’re referring to the original series, the _Jupiter_ aka the _Jupiter 1_ aka the _Jupiter I_ was the first of the class, and was sabotaged and destroyed on launch. The _Jupiter 2_ aka the _Jupiter II_ was the second produced in the class, and the first to successfully launch - for some values of "successfully\*. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-lost-in-space-fans/959320/3 "2022-02-11T21:38:39Z")
I always thought it was because Jupiter 1 is a planet… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-lost-in-space-fans/959320/4 "2022-02-11T23:58:48Z")
If you’re talking about that nitwit movie with Major Don Tribbiani, the Jupiter 1 was the launch vehicle (which looked very similar to the 1965-TV Jupiter 2), then when they got to a certain altitude, that all blew away and the traveling ship inside was the Jupiter 2, one of the ugliest spaceships in all SF. And we will not speak of this again. Oh, the pain, the pain. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-lost-in-space-fans/959320/5 "2022-02-12T00:21:27Z")
Then there is the name for their ground vehicle, the Jupiter 2 electric buggy, Lou. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2022, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calling-all-lost-in-space-fans/959320/6 "2022-02-12T11:56:58Z")
The Chariot?!? 😲