In the animated series, the spaceship wasn like the “Icarus”, was it?
No. The animated series used a more ‘traditional’ space capsule which looked like a Mercury capsule only it was larger, big enough to sit three comfortably from side to side (hmmm. Just like the three seater “Icarus”…). The original Mercury capsules were doing good to seat one astronaut and all of his gear, but this spacecraft seems to be roomy inside, more so than even an Apollo command module. The Venturer was also equipped with some strange equipment, like a self destruct charge (why?), no reentry parachutes (at least we don’t see any when it splashes down in the first episode of the animated series), and a high powered, hand held laser drill which is little more than a portable laser gun (why did they need that in space?). There was also at least one set of self contained breathing gear which Allen uses when he sets the self destruct charge and retrieves the much utilized, later episode / plot saving laser drill from the stricken “Venturer”.
