wow i dont get it.
Space and Sci-Fi docus are dead ?
How come I search the whole net for scifi docus and info about whats wort watching
How come I never read about this one at all?
This is top interesting stuff!
And no matter how you gonna search for scifi docu stuff on the inet, you will find no useful material.
Also people don't seem interested in that kind of stuff anymore.
I dont get it...
First of all, this is isn't sci(ence)-fi(ction). It's FACT.
Besides the far better known "Apollo 13", I suggest you check out the documetary "In the Shadow of the Moon".
Stay away from the embarassing movie "The Right Stuff". Terribly inaccurate.
Interesting comment about The Right Stuff. Care to explain? Thanks,
shareFor one thing, Gus Grissom probably didn't blow the hatch on the Liberty Bell 7 capsule.
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I have to admit, it's been a while since I've seen either "From the Earth to the Moon", or "The Right Stuff", However, I wasn't aware that either movie had suggested that he had.
Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop
Actually, in "The Right Stuff", they don't say Gus did blow the hatch. They do point out that everyone blamed him for it, because they didn't want to admit that the bolts had blown on their own.
shareThe Right Stuff.See it if you haven't, i put it up there with 2001. Just my opinion.Edit: well maybe not but its better than apollo 13
shareThe Right Stuff is a good movie and is entertaining but it does take more than a few liberties with history.
For instance when Yeager takes his flight in the NF-104 you see him talk to (Jack) Ridley before hand. In reality by the time this flight took place Ridley had been dead for some years having been killed in Japan when the transport plane he was on crashed.
The film also makes out like Yeager just climbed into the X-1 for the first time and broke the sound barrier. In his book he states IIRC having flown the aircraft a number of times steadily taking it up to Mach 1.
My favourite documentaries on the moon missions are 'Moon Machines'. They do episodes on the Saturn 5, Lunar module, command/service module, Lunar Rover, Navigation Computer and (my favourite) the space suit (Did you know the contract to build it was awarded to Playtex?).
It's also good fodder for making moon hoaxers crinkle up and blow away, as it goes a long way to plainly show that a lot of effort and work by a huge body of people went into it to accomplish the goal.
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