There is a movie The Spacewalker about Leonov, who did the very first human space walk, a Russian Apollo 13 with all problems they had to face to return to Earth, highly recommended.
Dasha probably got a bit emotional. But it shows exactly why American men and Russian women (and to a similar extent East Europe, Columbia, etc) are so near to perfect matches. Our spirits, intellect and temperament's are remarkably closely aligned. By contrast the American culture nurtures and encourages extreme, fraudulent behavior, cynicism, entitlement and toxic narcissism in our women---rendering dating all but obsolete. It's mostly a hit or miss, minefield of garbage rarely ending well.
Dasha probably got a bit emotional. But it shows exactly why American men and Russian women (and to a similar extent East Europe, Columbia, etc) are so near to perfect matches. Our spirits, intellect and temperament's are remarkably closely aligned. By contrast the American culture nurtures and encourages extreme, fraudulent behavior, cynicism, entitlement and toxic narcissism in our women---rendering dating all but obsolete. It's mostly a hit or miss, minefield of garbage rarely ending well.
Me, a Dutchman, is watching a Russian, whilst in Switzerland, cheer while the Americans succeed in humanity's greatest achievement, reaching the Moon. How wonderful.
@@ErdTirdMans i love how you all take her "crying" as an actual fact , and not for a second does it cross your minds this is an act... like 90% of other reactors on youtube . Other people get called out for it , but she doesn't raise the eyebrows ? Must be the cute russian accent that makes you forget that possibility LOL
@@Dan_Kanerva I don't know who else you're talking about, but Dasha seems genuine. Do you just not believe that some people get emotional when they are watching movies?
It doesn't matter if you're American, Russian, Chinese. Just think of the type of person it takes to sit on top of a rocket and blast into the most dangerous and unforgiving darkness of space. Respect to all of those who have had the courage to do that for all humanity. Especially the pioneers of space flight.
I watched this event on TV as a child and the drama was real. They were radio silent upon re-entry and long past the time we were supposed to hear from them again. Many of us thought they were lost. Then all of the sudden we saw the parachutes. An amazing moment. For those who don't know, the number 13 is considered bad luck in America.
Gene Kranz always got a new vest as a good luck charm/tradition for each new mission. Hence the reason for the scene where he gets the new white one. He was one of the best, if not THE best, Flight Directors in the history of NASA.
Fun facts: Some people criticized the scene where Marilyn Lovell lost her ring in the shower for being overly dramatic. This actually did happen the night before the launch. Jack Swigert was an extremely competent CM pilot. Nobody had any doubt he would be able to dock the LEM. Even if he wouldn't have been able to, Jim Lovell had been a CM pilot on Apollo 8, he would've been able to take over so the mission was never in any danger. (Until the cryo-tank exploded that is). All three were consummate professionals. There was never any argument between them. The fight between Fred Haise and Jack Swigert was put in for dramatic purposes. Additionally, they had to perform the LEM burn twice, not just once. The orientation of the spacecraft would've been perpendicular to the trajectory so they would actually change their flight path. The way it was shown in the movie would've just sped up the spacecraft along its current trajectory. Lastly, the captain welcoming the crew aboard the naval vessel at the end was played by the real Jim Lovell. They wanted to make him an admiral in the scene, but he said, since he retired a captain, he would play a captain.
Fun fact addendum: At least 1 out of every 3 of the deep space astronauts got sick on the Apollo flights. They surmised that the power of the Saturn V caused some of them to experience a much more harsh form of space sickness related to the inner ear equilibrium. Not fun.
Fun fact addendum 2: Gene Kranz had already gone home when the explosion occurred. Plus, he was one of five Flight Directors that worked the Apollo 13 mission. The film simply made it easier for the audience to focus on one person rather than get wrapped up with five different managers.
@@thomast8539 _"They surmised that the power of the Saturn V caused some of them to experience a much more harsh form of space sickness."_ The Apollo missions were actually considered a much easier ride compared to the earlier Mercury and Gemini missions by those who flew on both. Mercury and Gemini launches went well past the maximum g-forces endured on Apollo launches.
@@Justin.Franks I don't know about that. In the When We Left Earth series when they interviewed Lovell, Borman and Anders about being the first men to be launched into space on a Saturn V rocket in Apollo 8 they all said the rocket shook so violently they all thought they were going to die. Lovell said he kept looking at Borman to see if his hand was on the abort handle and Borman said he would rather die than cause a false abort.
27:56 A funny thing is that Tom Hanks' "Bouncing off the walls for ten minutes (and end up right back where we started)" line is almost exactly what the real Jim Lovell said in a documentary when he explained why the real crew was able to keep their cool and not have any emotional outbursts. The outburst scene was put in the movie for dramatic purposes, but it never actually happened. That also reminds me that one of the astronauts (can't remember which) said that the two things you never talk about in space are being scared and how bad it smells in the spacecraft.
Sending Gary Sinise into space is a guarantee your mission will fail. 'Mission to Mars' is another one he's in. Things didn't go as planned there either.
So, the carrier ship in the movie, the U.S.S. Iwo Jima, was actually (in this movie) portrayed by the ship my father served aboard, the U.S.S. New Orleans. He was aboard when that ship ( the New Orleans) picked up Apollo 14.
An interesting fact. At the end of the movie, when Tom Hanks salutes the Naval officer on the ship, that is actually astronaut Jim Lovell. After making this movie, Tom Hanks also made a mini-series for HBO called "From the Earth to the Moon" that covers the entire space program and trips to the moon. I highly recommend you watch that too.
THE ACOUSTIC CAGE got to admit, amazing show. Hanks said in an interview, he wanted to make a show he could show his kids How we went to the Moon. The quality of the original film footage was not high enough.
@@Mark.Brindle Definitely the three best episodes "I think each LEM does have a soul. Its the soul of all those who built her, designed her,... first dreamed of her" - Spider "Apollo 12, Houston, try SCE to Auxiliary" "FCE to Auxiliary, what the hell is that?" - All There Is "Professor, I hope we can get you up here someday" "That would be... an amazing adventure. But I feel as though I've already been there, thanks to you" "No, you were with us, Professor. Every step of the way" - Galileo Was Right
Hey Dasha, don't discount your Russian comrades when it comes to the space race. The Soviet Union did some pioneering work in space flight and figuring out the scientific principles to get a man off the earth into space. Russians kicked our ass for a decade in the '50s all the way to the mid-'60s. Not until America committed the resources to get an American into space and then a man onto the moon. Without Russia nipping at our heels this may not have been possible.
Yes - and also the American's needed to bum rides from the Russians just to get into space for a decade because they had no way to do it themselves! American astronauts always talk about the respect and friendship they have for their Russian comrades.
@@sedawk That's because the only people who hate each other on both sides are politicians and inbred conservatives. The rest of us get along just fine with each other.
I think you captured the emotion of the scene, which is his mother's complete confidence in her son's abilities, but the actual quote is "If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it."
As a boy growing up in Michigan, I remember watching every single Apollo launch from Apollo 10 through 17. It never got old to me. When Apollo 13 had that accident I thought we were going to lose 3 astronauts. But they saved them.
@@sagnhill I think a Mars landing will 3-4 years away another Moon landing 5-6 years(NASA) are painfully slow and way out classsed by SpaceX, SpaceX is the best bet as it has parts made for another 7-8 Star Ships at the Boca site.... and a new build bay for upto 6 ships at once and total of 8 ships in both build bays...
@@sagnhill Ps SpaceX has about 100 engine on site also...each ship is going to have 33 engines... 1 launch site on land and 2 at sea on converted oil rigs(under construction) they are called Phobos and Deimos...
For the life of me, I cannot fathom how one could ever possibly become jaded to this stuff. Landing Human Beings on the Moon should have fundamentally changed what it meant to be Human.... but then it was shrugged off as "business as usual" or "just more of the same"... and I will never understand that feeling
Young lady. I am 71 years old and have never seen anyone have such an astute grasp of the events,compilations and implications of this mission. You are a treasure and have a new subscriber. Thank you.
The power of mathematics and science. Pity people don't realise its power and importance. Thanks for another amazing reaction. You're such an amazing soul. :)
What a wonderful reaction, Dasha. I also get pretty overwhelmed when I think of all the things the folks in the space program have accomplished. We should be a lot more proud of those folks than most people are.
Yes we should be, we put men on the moon, people do not think about it but we did it. We put people on another planet, only 12 people have walked on the moon, period. I will repeat again, we put people on another planet, even now it seems science fiction, and only 20 years prior this feat would have seemed impossible.
Dasha, Your reaction was so emotional and heartfelt. I started crying at certain points as you did. I love your reaction to "Apollo 13" I have watched this many many times, like 30 times. Watching this with you made me remember all the emotional intensity I felt when I first saw this. Thanks so much for such a great reaction.
Oh Dasha, you're a star reactor, already one of my favourites. Your understanding is so on point, and you feel everything so intensely. This was a difficult one to follow, but you sure don't miss much. May I also say your English is among the best of all the non-native speaking reactors. Am I serious? Yes, ma'am! Congratulations on this one, champ.
Reacting is something everyone does, it's not like you can flip a switch and react to something. You're reacting to this comment, so you are a "reactor". It's just called being a normal human.
@@OriginalPuro Creating reaction videos on UA-cam is not at all 'something everyone does'. It's time-consuming work and requires a special personality. Most of us have already experienced the subject matter and are interested in reliving that experience through another's eyes, for which we are grateful. In return the creator gets a following, and in many cases, sponsorship, enough to actually make a living from it. And good luck to them.
24:08 Dasha, it means you have Empathy; for what others are feeling and what they are going through and struggling with. Its why I'm a patron. Some in the U.S. see it as a curse or weakness, but it doesn't have to be. Compassion is what makes one human.
That's exactly what I was thinking when she said she was imagining what the lady was feeling. Based on that, I think she might be an empath, just based on how deeply she feels things.
Portions of this movie were filmed on the "Reduced Gravity Simulator" affectionately named "The Vomit Comet". It is a jet plane that does parabolic curves from high altitude that simulates Zero-G for 20-30 seconds.
Hey Dasha, the beauty of Tom Hanks as an actor is that his combination of determination, strength, and willingness to be vulnerable makes him perfect to portray so many stories. Someone once said, "We could have cast someone else to play his many roles, but would we have cared so much if it wasn't Tom Hanks."
Hey K2da _G, the beauty of Dasha as a reactor is that her combination of determination, strength, and willingness to be vulnerable makes her perfect to react to so many stories.
He's a great and underrated comedic actor as well. I remember him from Bosom Buddies with Peter Scolari (best known ad Michael Harris from Newhart). One of the first dressing in drag TV shows
@ 3:04 Hey Dasha, if you want more goosebumps you should watch the companion piece to Apollo 13 called "From The Earth To The Moon", a 12 part mini-series that was made a couple of years after this movie. It's about the Apollo missions mostly but has one Mercury and a couple of Gemini missions. And it's produced by Tom Hanks (who hosts each episode and stars in the last one), and produced by Ron Howard the Apollo 13 director. The series and Apollo 13 go very well together, however if you want another drama about the space race watch and do a reaction video of "The Right Stuff" (1983) a drama about breaking the sound barrier, the formation of NASA and the Mercury missions. The Right Stuff should be watched first because it ends where Earth To The Moon begins. @ 15:14 It was devastating to this 15 year old at the time! Actually, I couldn't find anyone who was bored watching the coverage. @ 40:26 The captain shaking Tom Hanks hand is the real Jim Lovell doing a cameo. Nice reaction, as always. ✌️😎
Fun fact, all weightless scenes were actually filmed in weightlessness. They used a NASA training aircraft nicknamed the Vomit Comet. It goes up, then dives fast enough the passengers are weightless for a short time.
Yep, filmed in 45 second increments at that! There's some great making of videos showing them cramming the LEM and capsule interiors inside the plane to get those shots.
One of my favourite films of all time. It's a little more dramatic than the actual Apollo 13 events with quite a few creative liberties to keep the story interesting and capable of being told within 2 hours, but all the major events described in the film actually happened. It's quite mind-blowing that these three guys survived.
An emotional , stressful , and epic journey to the moon and back ! Apollo 13 is a damn masterpiece. And with a top soudtrack by maestro James R. Horner. Dreams sometimes never go true ...like in this case. But surviving is more important from the moon. And faith is the instrument.
None of the yelling and screaming happened in real life this was done for the movie. The actual recordings of the astronauts are so calm you wouldn't even know they were in a fight for their lives these men were fighter and test pilots they were used to living in stressful life threatening situations. Pilots that can't handle stress don't stay pilots for very long their commanders weed them out... or gravity does. The YT channel "History Buffs" has a great video on this movie's historical accuracy this was one of the very few things he found wrong with the film.
Yeah, they were as cool as cucumbers. I've heard a story that after Neil Armstrong ejected from the LLRV he was in his office an hour or two later, calmly writing up the report. Astronauts are stone-cold badasses.
True. Tom Hank's line "Huston, we have a problem" is so iconic, I was excited to hear the recording of the actual announcement by Jim Lovell when I had the chance, and it sounds as emotionless as when you hear the intercom of an airplane the pilot saying to their crew "secure your stations for takeoff". Hearing the actual radio you would never guess they had a quadruple malfunction aboard the ship.
The entire mission's audio and transcripts are available online and quite accessible. I believe they uploaded them to the NASA UA-cam too. Genuinely fascinating. Howard did such a good job on this movie, but there are still the inevitably dramatic moments, so it's interesting to compare. As has been pointed out a number of times in the comments, the captain shaking Hanks hand near the end is the real Jim Lovell. That's at 40:27 in your reaction, though the moment is blurred (of course, you weren't to know the significance). As they said in the movie, he was also involved in Apollo 8 as the CM pilot. They made a really beautiful Christmas message for the world while in space which I highly recommend. You do not have to apologise for getting emotional. It's a true story, and even if it wasn't, it's very dramatic. I've watched this so many times and still get emotional.
I love the actor Gary Sinese (bad spelling sorry) the man who also played lieutenant Dan he is a huge activist for wounded soldiers raising millions to get our bravest the tools and assistance they Deserve!!.. a great human being
This movie really choked up my dad too. He was born in the late '50s, so same generation. I grew up in the 1980s but read a lot of space stuff so I knew how it ended too. The emotional impact of this movie still exists for those of us who knew all along it was gonna turn out all right.
I was a nine-year old in 4th grade when all this happened and I remember the teacher leading us in a prayer for the crew of that mission. Everyone in the world was glued to the story it seemed.
@@samueladams1775 Here's something fun: Examine the poster of the movie (Apollo 13)...See if you notice anything...strange about it. If you see what's odd about the poster, let me know.
Dasha your quickly becoming a staple in my UA-cam favorites. Dont apologize for your strong emotions in your reactions, it makes you so relatable. The way you marvel at certain movies almost makes me feel like it's my first time watching the movie too and it's awesome. Dont change and keep it up champ!
23:09 This guy with the glasses who eventually oversees the project of figuring out how to turn everything back on? The character he’s playing is John Aaron, a legend in American space flight. He basically saved the Apollo 12 mission when the spacecraft was struck by lightning right after launch. He was dubbed “a steely-eyed missile man,” and this became a traditional high compliment in NASA. (If you ever watch “The Martian” with Matt Damon, it’s used in that film.)
My dad was an engineer who helped design the Lunar Module. When the accident occurred my mom had to take my dad to the airport in the middle of the night so he could fly down to Houston from our home in New York. He was one of the guys who had to figure out how to use the Lunar Module as a life raft to get the astronauts home. After it happened I never really sat down with him to talk about what the whole experience was like. He is no longer alive and I always wish I had had a chance to have that conversation. Thanks for doing this reaction video.
@@Bill_Jones. after Apollo 13 came back someone had the idea of giving some kind of a plaque to all the people who were involved. So they cut up little pieces of webbing that were part of the lunar module that they used to Jerry rig the air filtration scrubbers. They glued a piece of this webbing to a little plaque that said thank you for everything and it was signed by all three of the astronauts on Apollo 13 I guess they gave out quite a few but I have the one my dad was given. When we were living in the house where I grew up it would sit up on the mantelpiece over the fireplace. Whenever somebody would come over I would show them that little piece of webbing and tell them how that had made its trip around the Dark Side of the Moon and was now sitting on our mantelpiece.
@24:10 I can explain it to you Dasha. In english its called empathy. Empathy means you feel what she would be feeling. Empathy allows us to feel what others experience without experiencing it yourself. Empathy is a rare thing nowadays. Empathy comes from caring for others. Caring for others comes from loving yourself. Its just one of the reasons you are such a beautiful person.
The two men that went to be with Lovell's mom in the film were the REAL Armstrong and Aldrin. Don't worry about the crying. It was great to watch the film through your eyes. Great reaction.
Lovell opened his eponymous restaurant in the uber wealthy town of Lake Forest right next to where I live in the Chicago area . He's out of the business now but his son continues to run it. Lots of space memorabilia decorate the place including the plaque they were supposed to have left on the moon.
Fantastic reaction - as always. This is one of my favourite movies of all time - Brilliant acting, amazing story (because its true), but mostly because, for me at least, you forget all the politics and nationality stuff, and just feel it from a human point of view. As one species I think the space program is an amazing adventure. Conservation of our planet, and exploration of the universe is so interesting, and important - and we need to do it as one world. Enormous respect for every man and woman that takes up that challenge (And infinite respect to those that gave the ultimate price in pursuit of that). Thank you Dasha for expressing how I think we all felt watching this movie - the world was behind the 3 astronauts, and all of the ground crew that put so much effort into getting them back alive. May the spirit of knowledge, adventure, and conservation continue in a united world. Looking forward to your next reaction 😊👍
The fact that a young Russian lady is watching and weeping over this story is something that I never expected when I was a kid. I grew up with duck and cover drills, fearing that there was a Soviet under every bed. This was truly beautiful to see. I never suspected we'd get here, but I'm certainly glad that we have.
This movie presents the events of Apollo 13 just as they happened, as I remember them. I’m talking about the things we heard on the news broadcasts and read in newspapers. What happened behind the scenes I can’t say.
I remember following the story in the news when I was a kid. The movie brought back a lot of memories about the incident, although in Mexico, where I lived at the time they probably didn't sound as worried in the news. The attitude was like "They're NASA, they're going to bring them back". Mexico had zero aerospace industry back then, thinking on building or manning these ships was out of our comprehension. The trust in the institution that placed a man in the moon was almost infinite, so, not so worried.
Lady Dasha of Russia, I lived it! I was 12 years old when this happened. My beloved Mom who spoke no English @ that point in time, I had to translate what they were saying on the News, live coverage. I still remember her crying like you are now, & lighting a candle in their honor & placing the candle next to our Catholics Saints in our humble Home & praying out loud in Spanish. Tears filled our eyes, & the screams we both let out when we saw the 3 Orange & White parachutes. We cried, screamed & hugged so hard. It took us a day to fully recover from those moments...
Dasha, your reaction to this has been wonderful to watch! You have such great insight and understanding for someone so young, very well done! I always look forward to your reactions more than most others i watch.
It’s amazing what humanity can do when it really tries. We are capable of everything and nothing. I can’t imagine the emotion involved with putting a ball into space, landing on the moon or preventing near certain death. Cosmonauts and Astronauts are the smartest people available and the craziest.
You've surpassed yourself again Dasha ... excellent movie / excellent reaction ... hope your parents watch your reactions, they should be so proud of you
Once again dear you show a lot of insight and common sense in what's going on in the movie.i grew up in the 1960's and early 70's.these guys were hero's to me and millions of others.Apollo 13 may truly have been NASA's finest hour.this is an incredible movie and reaction was great.you don't need to apologize for being so emotional it's a wonderful part of who you are
Dasha thank you form the bottom of my heart for reacting to this movie!! Your video was absolutely wonderful!! You just reacted to one of my top 10 films of all time!! Just to answer your question: Measles is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory system. A widespread skin rash is a telltale sign of measles. You asked about how to pronounce the word 'condensation'. Try this: con - den - say - shin. (To pronounce it accurately - Do it fast)
A lot of us are your fans because of how emotional you are with so many reactions. I personally love how passionate you are. Many of the movies you react to, I have seen more times than I can count. So sometimes my own emtions are not as passionate about a film as it used to be. But watching you react so passionately makes me so happy.
The thing I still marvel at is that the average age of the engineers in mission control at the time of the Moon landings was only about 28 years. So many were hired straight out of college. My father was working in unmanned spaceflight at the time, so I thought all the engineers would be...you know...old. Like him. (All parents are old in their children's eyes.) He was actually around Kranz' age (mid-30s).
I have seen Apollo 13 many times and as soon as the shot of the command module's opened parachutes comes up I always start bawling. One of the best casts ever assembled for an incredible movie which has stood the test of time.
This is a genuine masterpiece regarding space. The best part? The real Jim Lovell is still alive at 93 to tell the tale! He's still very energetic and enthusiastic about telling this story! He'll have a roll of duct tape on him since he says "to never leave home without it!" :)
Dasha, I Love this movie, I cry myself when I see stuff like this! I have been to 7 Space Shuttle Launches and every one of them was indescribable!!! It is an incredible feat of engineering! There is a mini-series from HBO called "From the Earth to the Moon"! It is a story of the beginning of the space program and shows the progression of NASA going to the Moon, all the setbacks and victories! It was produced and narrated by Tom Hanks and is a truly inspiring show!!!!!
I always thought it was great at the end of Forest Gump when Lt. Dan shows up to the wedding with his "magic legs." "Yeah, new legs, they're custom made. Titanium alloy, it's what they use on the Space Shuttle." Then the next year they're in Apollo 13 together. Little Easter Egg?
I'm old enough to remember the actual events. I hardly slept from when the news of the explosion came out to when they got back, and with half the world, held my breath for the re-entry comms blackout, which was genuinely much longer than expected, and felt like an hour, although in truth it was only a few minutes longer than expected. You also have to remember that the total computing power used to send the Apollo astronauts to the moon was less than in a modern smartphone, and that on-board less than in many digital watches available today. Transferring the flight data from the command to the lunar module was an arduous, manual, task, involving long strings of hexadecimal characters being read from one and manually input into the other. I still think their successful return was NASA's greatest triumph. The movie is far more accurate than I ever expected, taking only very minor liberties for artistic effect. It was emotional in real life and rightfully portrayed that way in the movie.
I *loved* your reaction here! It's great that you became so wrapped-up in the story, that you actually *felt* like it was happening, as you watched it! I'm sure that the fact that you didn't know that much of the history of NASA, let you become so *very* involved in what you were seeing on the screen! When this happened, I was old enough to follow what was happening, and I was a *serious* 'Space-fan', or 'Space-cadet'; I remember going outside and looking up, thinking about what was happening in space, and praying "Please God, let them come home safe!" I was so *very happy* when it turned out fine! If you'd like another *excellent* real-life space movie, try _"The Right Stuff"_ ... it gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the early years of NASA. *Seriously* good movie! But be warned: it's a very long movie! (Maybe you'd rather just watch it on your own, not try to do a reaction to it, 'cause it'd probably have to be a three-parter!) *Thanks for an excellent reaction!*
I listened to this as it happened - and later had a cassette tape of the communications. They were so calm, so controlled. Made me a space nut for life. The technology in 1070 was amazingly primitive compared to what we are so used to today - your phone would have blown NASA out of water! I love your genuine emotion and reaction to a truly incredible story. Go SpaceX!
She is seriously turning into one of my favorite reactors, I first started watching her because she's beautiful, but then I noticed how much she cries and, that's when I subscribed. It might sound cold but I think I actually like her crying videos better, it shows a genuine, kindhearted person. In a way, I'm living vicariously through her. I feel a lot of emotions all the time, but because I'm a guy and I have an old-school mentality, I never let myself lose it because I feel like it is a sign of weakness. Watching her allows me to get a lot of my feelings out, maybe it's because I am an empath I can feel what she feels. Whatever the case, I love how strongly she feels things. Never lose that Dasha.
Beautiful reaction, you understood everything they were trying to do with this movie. This is one of my favorite films to re-watch, it's just so incredibly well-made. (And it helps that I'm kind of a space geek, haha.) I wish more reactors would watch The Right Stuff (1983), but it is a *long* movie...
I took a friend to see "Apollo 13," and he loved it of course, but, science nerd that he was, he couldn't help pointing out that, when it was freezing in the LEM, the steam from the astronauts' breath shouldn't rise in zero gravity.
Thank you Dasha for a very heart felt reaction. I witnessed this mission in real time, and 54 years later this reenactment still stirs me. The entire world was praying for those courageous men's safe return.
Dasha, I'm always amazed by how good your English is and this may be the first time I've ever seen you not be sure of a word. The Russian and English words are very similiar. The Russian Конденсация is "Condensation" in English. Awesome reaction, as always!
Dasha, I was in college when it happened. EVERYONE was worried and praying. I remember a group of students had a candlelight vigil and walked through campus. Several churches held special services. If we weren't in class, we'd be glued to the TV coverage which was 24/7 then it became more scattered until something significant happened. The peak tension was sweating out whether the heat shield would hold. I mean, they had made that far back and if they burned up coming into the atmosphere it ... wouldn' seem fair. I remember watching the capsule on TV as it floated to Earth under its parachute. My lady and I hugged and her tears triggered mine. It was such a relief. Everyone had been very tense for days. I saw young women in their early 20's shaking from relief. Your reaction was more common than not. We all thought it was a miracle, at first not many gave them a chance of surviving. Hope and fear are difficult emotions to feel at the same time.
If you want to see Tom Hanks in some funny stuff, you have to look at his earlier work. Right around the time of Saving Private Ryan he started doing a lot more serious roles. But a LOT of his work in the 80s and the first part of the 90s were comedies. Turner and Hooch, Volunteers, The Money Pit, Splash, The Burbs, Dragnet. Incidentally, your mobile phone has more computing power than ALL of the computers used to run the Apollo landings. COMBINED. "What is the measles?" That you have to ask that question is because of modern medical science. LOTS of children died before a reliable vaccine for the measles was developed.
Dasha: "What is the measles?" Vaccines: "You're welcome." Seriously though, this was an incredible human achievement being emotional is totally 100% appropriate. To this day, Go/No-Go polls before launch give me goosebumps. Gene was absolutely the perfect leader. His attitude of "we are NOT losing these men. Failure is not an option" drove the teams at NASA to find the solutions and not give up in what appeared to be a hopeless situation. His calm, focused, process driven, step by step what can we do leadership is just incredible. Watching footage of the Shuttle Columbia disaster from mission control and you see the same from those teams. Instant professionalism and let's figure this out. Square peg in a round hole moment is one of my favorite engineering moments ever. "Okay, let's get some coffee going" and they just start sorting the pile to see what they got. Ken figuring out the power issue in the simulator... watching that needle bounce up little by little is one of the most stressful film scenes ever, and brings SO MUCH joy. And Russia deserves immense amounts of credit for humanity's push into space. Sputnik. Yuri Gagarin. Even things like the N1 which ultimately didn't work out pushed us forward and our understanding. Russian rocket engines are among the most powerful and reliable there are. Soyuz has an insane safety record with hundreds of launches.
I've heard NASA engineers in interviews say that the current Soyuz craft and rockets are "almost perfect". Like, the Russians came up with a design that worked so well that for it's entire life remains fundamentally unchanged. Like the M1911 pistol, AK47 and the MG42, weapons designed so well that they are pretty much the same as their original design to this day.
You don't have to apologize for crying. I cried watching you crying. Usually I don't cry watching a movie. I've watched so many movies and never cried. Love watching your reaction. Love your accent as well. Looking forward to see your reaction again.
The computers that ran the Apollo missions were as powerful as the chip in a musical greeting card. Disposable in our world. I've been to the launch facility in Florida. The Vehicle assembly building is so big it has it's own weather inside. The whole complex is surrounded by a wetlands preserve. On the bus ride in to tour the facility you could see alligators that were bigger than my car. Probably part of the security plan.
I saw an interview with one of the guys from Mission Control, who said they had the only computer in the world with one megabyte of memory (not sure if it was RAM or tape hard drive)!
@@mfree80286 I was guessing on the "tape hard drive." I knew it wasn't a tiny thing, like today's hard drives, and I've seen the giant reel-to-reel tape machines from old computers. It would make sense that a state-of-the-art mainframe from 1969 would be better than the 1950s and early 1960s models with the tapes.
Fun facts: Jim Lovell's mother in the movie is Ron Howard's grandmother, the flight control operator with the glasses is Ron Howard's brother, and the priest sitting on the couch at the end is Ron Howard's father.
I remember one of the high schools that I attended in the early 70's had a computer, it was huge. I was in a class ( for underachievers) right next to the computer room and the same 4 or 5 guys were always in there using the computer. Of course everyone in my classroom thought they were nerds, but i bet those 5 guys became rich when they grew up.
@@cesarnarro6013 That was me in school in the 80s. When I broke my arm in 1st grade, I learned to type in a cast on the Apple IIs in the back of the room. Any excuse to get to "play" on the computers was a good one.
@@cesarnarro6013 When I was in 5th grade (so approximately 1972?) my school got a desktop computer. (Can you believe it? A whole computer that actually fits on a desk! As long as it's a reasonably large and sturdy desk, and you don't plan to use the desk for anything else.) I was one of a few lucky students who got to learn how to program it, so I know exactly what its capabilities were. It could do basic arithmetic functions, simple loops, and in addition to the ability to store something like 100 programming steps it had about 5 user accessible memory registers. In other words, it was almost as powerful as my first programmable calculator, which I got about 6-7 years later. Comparing either of these to a modern smartphone is like comparing an oxcart to a modern Semi. (Actually, the more I think about that analogy the better it works. Right down to the Semi needing modern roads and other infrastructure in order to actually be a good replacement for the oxcart.)
Dasha, it is so, so refreshing to watch a movie reactor on UA-cam who can speak intelligently without resorting to the F-bomb every 15 seconds. Your reactions were real and your observations were spot on. Continued success here in the future. :-)
Nice reaction. I was 13 when this happened. You might like to know that they filmed the internal spacecraft shots with actual zero gravity by flying parabola maneuvers in an airplane called the vomit comet.
What a beautiful reaction! When I first saw this movie, I already knew the story of Apollo 13. But, even knowing how it was going to end, it was still an amazing journey. All I can do is guess at what an emotional ride it must have been for someone who didn't already know the story. It may interest you to know that the "zero g" scenes were not special effects. They were filmed in a set that was built inside a NASA training 'plane that flew a series of parabolic arcs that gave about 30 seconds of freefall in each arc. The plane is nicknamed the "vomit comet", because it makes everyone travel-sick. If you watch the movie again, you'll see that none of the "zero-g" shots is longer than 30 seconds. Speaking of travel sickness, it may also interest you to know that Valentina Tereshkova, the cosmonaut aboard Vostok 6, was space-sick for almost her entire mission. She hid this from ground controllers, though, because she didn't want the fact widely known (because it may have affected future opportunities for other female cosmonauts). Unfortunately, she was deeply criticised by ground controllers (and particularly by Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer) because her sickness meant that she was failing to follow communications protocols with the ground, and sometimes not responding on the radio at all.
I’ve only seen a few of your reactions, and I intend to watch more. I have now watched this one twice. It is one of my favorite movies. It is maybe one of the best stories that our planet has to offer. And from someone from the generation that this movie was released to, it’s great to see the reactions of people who are unfamiliar with these events.
I'm only 20 min into your reaction, and I just wanted to say....There was a huge push to defund NASA after we landed on the moon. The household I grew up in was always Pro Space Program. We watched every launch, every broadcast, ate up every news report involving the Space Program. You really remind me of my younger self watching those broadcasts (I was actually a good bit younger)...so much excitement and pride! It makes me so sad these days that many people don't seem to care about any kind of strides we've made in this field, and don't even know when a mission is happening. When these guys were coming back home, every class at school (I was in elementary school) had a tv in their room and were watching the re-entry. I remember being absolutely terrified that they wouldn't make it. You could hear the entire school cheering when they did.
You know what. I used to be quite embarrassed for crying (I am easily touched by sad or cute stuff), but I thought about why I don't mind seeing you showing your feelings, and I have begun to understand you aren't weaker for showing. You are stronger. Love it.
Watch “The Right Stuff”.. It’s glorious and IMO the best movie of the 80’s.. All-star cast, Ed Harris (who plays Gene Krantz in Apollo 13), Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn, Lance Hendrickson, Harry Shearer, Jeff Goldbloom, Veronica Cartwright, and Barbara Hershey..
I grew up during the cold war, did drills in school to get under the desk for nuclear attack, and later trained in the infantry to fight the USSR. For most of my life, the Soviets were the enemy. However, watching this lovely young woman's emotional response to an American cultural event like the moon landings and Apollo 13, provides me with a tangible reminder that we are all fundamentally the same throughout the world. We are all human, with similar reactions to the human condition. Dasha, your reactions give me hope that one day humans will not live in animosity towards one another, and that we can again recapture the worldwide unity that was on display while the Apollo 13 crew was in space.
It's really interesting to me to see your reaction to this. I grew up in the 80s, when in the US we were still very much worried about nuclear war with the USSR. The Space Race, particularly going to the Moon, was supposed to demonstrate our technological superiority in the cold war, to let the Soviets know that our missiles were good, so therefore not to try to nuke us first. It's crazy that in the process, humanity sort of realized how silly the whole thing was, and we did the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) with the USSR not too long after, to begin the process of nuclear weapons reduction. Not sure if you were aware of that global strategic background to all this, but in light of all of that, it's cool to me to see a Russian girl rooting for the NASA guys as they overcame what was almost the biggest disaster of our space program, and to get home safe and sound. This is one of my favorite movies because I work in nuclear power, and the jobs are similar; very technical, requiring logical and calm thinking to do safely. And some of the quotes are applicable to what I do. "Work the problem," "failure is not an option," and "you're a steely-eyed reactor man" get thrown around a lot. Anyway, glad you enjoyed it.
PBS interviewed Alexei Leonov and he said that he and the other cosmonauts prayed for the Apollo astronauts. I was really touched by what he said.
There is a movie The Spacewalker about Leonov, who did the very first human space walk, a Russian Apollo 13 with all problems they had to face to return to Earth, highly recommended.
Dasha probably got a bit emotional. But it shows exactly why American men and Russian women (and to a similar extent East Europe, Columbia, etc) are so near to perfect matches. Our spirits, intellect and temperament's are remarkably closely aligned. By contrast the American culture nurtures and encourages extreme, fraudulent behavior, cynicism, entitlement and toxic narcissism in our women---rendering dating all but obsolete. It's mostly a hit or miss, minefield of garbage rarely ending well.
Dasha probably got a bit emotional. But it shows exactly why American men and Russian women (and to a similar extent East Europe, Columbia, etc) are so near to perfect matches. Our spirits, intellect and temperament's are remarkably closely aligned. By contrast the American culture nurtures and encourages extreme, fraudulent behavior, cynicism, entitlement and toxic narcissism in our women---rendering dating all but obsolete. It's mostly a hit or miss, minefield of garbage rarely ending well.
The Spacewalker trailer
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@@odurandina
Friendly advice: See a therapist!
Me, a Dutchman, is watching a Russian, whilst in Switzerland, cheer while the Americans succeed in humanity's greatest achievement, reaching the Moon. How wonderful.
The internet is really changing the world. I just hope it balances out for the better.
@@Keleigh3000 As long as corporations stay out of the way of our relationships
Slight correction: you were watching a Russian living in CANADA!
Remember when Lt Dan told Forrest the day he becomes a shrimp boat Captain he’ll be an astronaut? Funny how that worked out huh? 🤣🤣
Mandela effect? Lol
Well DANG!!!! I hadn't even thought of that!!! Good one! :-)
@@Bill_pierre I don't think you know what the Mandela effect is.
Either that or you never saw the movie.
Just STFU.
@@eatsmylifeYT Not sure if this is a response sparked by poor reading comprehension, or just a failed troll attempt; in either case, bless your heart.
@@Bill_pierre That's the typical response of a person who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
Dasha, don’t apologize for crying, your emotion is a one of the main reasons your reactions are so good.
Hear, hear. Well said!
100% Dasha gets moved emotionally so easy. It's a joy to see someone so open
Yeah, there's no need to apologize for crying.
Also... any time you cry in a movie, chances are lots of other people did too.
@@ErdTirdMans i love how you all take her "crying" as an actual fact , and not for a second does it cross your minds this is an act... like 90% of other reactors on youtube . Other people get called out for it , but she doesn't raise the eyebrows ? Must be the cute russian accent that makes you forget that possibility LOL
@@Dan_Kanerva I don't know who else you're talking about, but Dasha seems genuine. Do you just not believe that some people get emotional when they are watching movies?
It doesn't matter if you're American, Russian, Chinese. Just think of the type of person it takes to sit on top of a rocket and blast into the most dangerous and unforgiving darkness of space. Respect to all of those who have had the courage to do that for all humanity. Especially the pioneers of space flight.
I had a dream once of sitting on top of a rocket going to space. It was terrifying! And that was only a dream. Has stayed with me ever since
@@robbyrob0723 nightmare*
I watched this event on TV as a child and the drama was real. They were radio silent upon re-entry and long past the time we were supposed to hear from them again. Many of us thought they were lost. Then all of the sudden we saw the parachutes. An amazing moment. For those who don't know, the number 13 is considered bad luck in America.
And in much of Europe.
In case you didn't know, the aircraft carrier captain in the white uniform is the real Jim Lovell. 😃
And the older woman sitting behind "Marilyn Lovell" during the launch scene, is the real Marilyn Lovell.
And the actress who played Jim Lovell's mother was Ron Howard's mother
And that's director Roger Corman talking to Hanks in the rocket building.
Lovell is still alive at 93 as is his partner on GEMINI 7/APOLLO 8 Frank Borman, Borman is a few days older than Lovell
@@karlsmith2570 Howard's younger brother Clint, is NASA engineer Sy Libergott in the movie
Gene Kranz always got a new vest as a good luck charm/tradition for each new mission. Hence the reason for the scene where he gets the new white one.
He was one of the best, if not THE best, Flight Directors in the history of NASA.
Ice cold in a crisis
Fun facts:
Some people criticized the scene where Marilyn Lovell lost her ring in the shower for being overly dramatic. This actually did happen the night before the launch.
Jack Swigert was an extremely competent CM pilot. Nobody had any doubt he would be able to dock the LEM. Even if he wouldn't have been able to, Jim Lovell had been a CM pilot on Apollo 8, he would've been able to take over so the mission was never in any danger. (Until the cryo-tank exploded that is).
All three were consummate professionals. There was never any argument between them. The fight between Fred Haise and Jack Swigert was put in for dramatic purposes.
Additionally, they had to perform the LEM burn twice, not just once. The orientation of the spacecraft would've been perpendicular to the trajectory so they would actually change their flight path. The way it was shown in the movie would've just sped up the spacecraft along its current trajectory.
Lastly, the captain welcoming the crew aboard the naval vessel at the end was played by the real Jim Lovell. They wanted to make him an admiral in the scene, but he said, since he retired a captain, he would play a captain.
Sounds like you covered everything. Good job. 👍
Fun fact addendum: At least 1 out of every 3 of the deep space astronauts got sick on the Apollo flights. They surmised that the power of the Saturn V caused some of them to experience a much more harsh form of space sickness related to the inner ear equilibrium. Not fun.
Fun fact addendum 2: Gene Kranz had already gone home when the explosion occurred. Plus, he was one of five Flight Directors that worked the Apollo 13 mission. The film simply made it easier for the audience to focus on one person rather than get wrapped up with five different managers.
@@thomast8539 _"They surmised that the power of the Saturn V caused some of them to experience a much more harsh form of space sickness."_ The Apollo missions were actually considered a much easier ride compared to the earlier Mercury and Gemini missions by those who flew on both. Mercury and Gemini launches went well past the maximum g-forces endured on Apollo launches.
@@Justin.Franks I don't know about that. In the When We Left Earth series when they interviewed Lovell, Borman and Anders about being the first men to be launched into space on a Saturn V rocket in Apollo 8 they all said the rocket shook so violently they all thought they were going to die. Lovell said he kept looking at Borman to see if his hand was on the abort handle and Borman said he would rather die than cause a false abort.
27:56 A funny thing is that Tom Hanks' "Bouncing off the walls for ten minutes (and end up right back where we started)" line is almost exactly what the real Jim Lovell said in a documentary when he explained why the real crew was able to keep their cool and not have any emotional outbursts. The outburst scene was put in the movie for dramatic purposes, but it never actually happened. That also reminds me that one of the astronauts (can't remember which) said that the two things you never talk about in space are being scared and how bad it smells in the spacecraft.
“Lt. Dan is in this movie?”
Well, he did say the day Forest Gump would be a shrimp boat captain, he would be a astronaut.
He was also in The Green Mile.
Sending Gary Sinise into space is a guarantee your mission will fail. 'Mission to Mars' is another one he's in. Things didn't go as planned there either.
@@chrismaverick9828 At least he doesn't die in every movie he's in like Boromir a k a Sean Bean lol
@@scipioafricanus5871 Keith David had a pretty good record going for a while there.
And his new legs were made of the Space Shuttle, material!😮
So, the carrier ship in the movie, the U.S.S. Iwo Jima, was actually (in this movie) portrayed by the ship my father served aboard, the U.S.S. New Orleans. He was aboard when that ship ( the New Orleans) picked up Apollo 14.
This movie has one of the best cast of all time.
An interesting fact. At the end of the movie, when Tom Hanks salutes the Naval officer on the ship, that is actually astronaut Jim Lovell.
After making this movie, Tom Hanks also made a mini-series for HBO called "From the Earth to the Moon" that covers the entire space program and trips to the moon. I highly recommend you watch that too.
Has to be one of the best shows made!
Episode Spider, Apollo 12 & Geology were my favorites. The quality is fantastic.
THE ACOUSTIC CAGE got to admit, amazing show. Hanks said in an interview, he wanted to make a show he could show his kids How we went to the Moon. The quality of the original film footage was not high enough.
Not to mention that the older woman behind "Marilyn Lovell" in the stands during the launch scene was the real Marilyn Lovell.
@@Mark.Brindle Definitely the three best episodes
"I think each LEM does have a soul. Its the soul of all those who built her, designed her,... first dreamed of her"
- Spider
"Apollo 12, Houston, try SCE to Auxiliary"
"FCE to Auxiliary, what the hell is that?"
- All There Is
"Professor, I hope we can get you up here someday"
"That would be... an amazing adventure. But I feel as though I've already been there, thanks to you"
"No, you were with us, Professor. Every step of the way"
- Galileo Was Right
Hey Dasha, don't discount your Russian comrades when it comes to the space race. The Soviet Union did some pioneering work in space flight and figuring out the scientific principles to get a man off the earth into space. Russians kicked our ass for a decade in the '50s all the way to the mid-'60s. Not until America committed the resources to get an American into space and then a man onto the moon. Without Russia nipping at our heels this may not have been possible.
Yes - and also the American's needed to bum rides from the Russians just to get into space for a decade because they had no way to do it themselves! American astronauts always talk about the respect and friendship they have for their Russian comrades.
@@sedawk That's because the only people who hate each other on both sides are politicians and inbred conservatives. The rest of us get along just fine with each other.
@Grant Le Bon Or how about skip the "race" and work together!
@Grant Le Bon I say let's get to Mars together. It's for the happiness of all mankind
For real people don't even know about most of the amazing mission the soviets did
"If they put wings on a washing machine my Jimmy could fly it." 😁
The best line in the whole movie!
I think you captured the emotion of the scene, which is his mother's complete confidence in her son's abilities, but the actual quote is "If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it."
As a boy growing up in Michigan, I remember watching every single Apollo launch from Apollo 10 through 17. It never got old to me. When Apollo 13 had that accident I thought we were going to lose 3 astronauts. But they saved them.
With some luck we will see humans land on mars... you`ll see a second landing on another planet :):):)
@@kylereese4822 I don't know. Im getting old and they keep putting back landing dates for Moon landings, little alone a Mars landing.
@@sagnhill I think a Mars landing will 3-4 years away another Moon landing 5-6 years(NASA) are painfully slow and way out classsed by SpaceX, SpaceX is the best bet as it has parts made for another 7-8 Star Ships at the Boca site.... and a new build bay for upto 6 ships at once and total of 8 ships in both build bays...
@@sagnhill Ps SpaceX has about 100 engine on site also...each ship is going to have 33 engines... 1 launch site on land and 2 at sea on converted oil rigs(under construction) they are called Phobos and Deimos...
For the life of me, I cannot fathom how one could ever possibly become jaded to this stuff. Landing Human Beings on the Moon should have fundamentally changed what it meant to be Human.... but then it was shrugged off as "business as usual" or "just more of the same"... and I will never understand that feeling
Young lady. I am 71 years old and have never seen anyone have such an astute grasp of the events,compilations and implications of this mission. You are a treasure and have a new subscriber. Thank you.
The power of mathematics and science. Pity people don't realise its power and importance.
Thanks for another amazing reaction. You're such an amazing soul. :)
Pity people don't realize ... we did not go to the Moon!!!!
@@dennismayhem4894 pity you made such an ignorant comment
Math runs the world. It is also the secret base code of the universe.
What a wonderful reaction, Dasha. I also get pretty overwhelmed when I think of all the things the folks in the space program have accomplished. We should be a lot more proud of those folks than most people are.
Yes we should be, we put men on the moon, people do not think about it but we did it. We put people on another planet, only 12 people have walked on the moon, period. I will repeat again, we put people on another planet, even now it seems science fiction, and only 20 years prior this feat would have seemed impossible.
He put his boots on. He took a face from the ancient gallery and he walked on down the hall. 😉🤫
Dasha, Your reaction was so emotional and heartfelt. I started crying at certain points as you did. I love your reaction to "Apollo 13"
I have watched this many many times, like 30 times. Watching this with you made me remember all the emotional intensity I felt when I first saw this. Thanks so much for such a great reaction.
Your expression to seeing Lt Dan was perfect. Your reactions throughout the movie were wonderful, made watching the movie even better.
Oh Dasha, you're a star reactor, already one of my favourites. Your understanding is so on point, and you feel everything so intensely. This was a difficult one to follow, but you sure don't miss much. May I also say your English is among the best of all the non-native speaking reactors. Am I serious? Yes, ma'am! Congratulations on this one, champ.
I agree with everything you said here. Dasha's intelligence and compassion frequently impress me.
@@jeremyfrost2636 Thanks, Jeremy (We meet again)
@@lifelover515 Yeah, I thought your name was familiar. Hope life's being awesome to you.
Reacting is something everyone does, it's not like you can flip a switch and react to something.
You're reacting to this comment, so you are a "reactor".
It's just called being a normal human.
@@OriginalPuro Creating reaction videos on UA-cam is not at all 'something everyone does'. It's time-consuming work and requires a special personality. Most of us have already experienced the subject matter and are interested in reliving that experience through another's eyes, for which we are grateful. In return the creator gets a following, and in many cases, sponsorship, enough to actually make a living from it. And good luck to them.
On the ship when Tom Hanks shakes hand with a Captain on the deck, that was the real Jim Lovell from Apollo 13.
24:08 Dasha, it means you have Empathy; for what others are feeling and what they are going through and struggling with. Its why I'm a patron. Some in the U.S. see it as a curse or weakness, but it doesn't have to be. Compassion is what makes one human.
Compassion and empathy are among Dasha's best traits, I agree and I plan to become a patron as soon as I have a method of electronic payment.
That's exactly what I was thinking when she said she was imagining what the lady was feeling. Based on that, I think she might be an empath, just based on how deeply she feels things.
I wouldn't want to live in a world without compassion.
Portions of this movie were filmed on the "Reduced Gravity Simulator" affectionately named "The Vomit Comet". It is a jet plane that does parabolic curves from high altitude that simulates Zero-G for 20-30 seconds.
The flew about 600 hundred parabolic arcs to get all the weightless scenes. Quite amazing.
I doubt 600 flights (because that would be almost daily flights for 2 years 😲) but yes.
@@rodentnolastname6612 they probably mean 600 parabolic arcs in all the flights combined.
Hey Dasha, the beauty of Tom Hanks as an actor is that his combination of determination, strength, and willingness to be vulnerable makes him perfect to portray so many stories. Someone once said, "We could have cast someone else to play his many roles, but would we have cared so much if it wasn't Tom Hanks."
Hey K2da _G, the beauty of Dasha as a reactor is that her combination of determination, strength, and willingness to be vulnerable makes her perfect to react to so many stories.
He's a great and underrated comedic actor as well. I remember him from Bosom Buddies with Peter Scolari (best known ad Michael Harris from Newhart). One of the first dressing in drag TV shows
@@helmedon I know ow Scolari best from the Honey I Shrunk the Kids tv show, haha! They even made a Bosom Buddies reference in it.
Jules Bergman was the reason I would watch ABC during the Apollo missions. He had insights no other network had.
@ 3:04 Hey Dasha, if you want more goosebumps you should watch the companion piece to Apollo 13 called "From The Earth To The Moon", a 12 part mini-series that was made a couple of years after this movie. It's about the Apollo missions mostly but has one Mercury and a couple of Gemini missions. And it's produced by Tom Hanks (who hosts each episode and stars in the last one), and produced by Ron Howard the Apollo 13 director. The series and Apollo 13 go very well together, however if you want another drama about the space race watch and do a reaction video of "The Right Stuff" (1983) a drama about breaking the sound barrier, the formation of NASA and the Mercury missions. The Right Stuff should be watched first because it ends where Earth To The Moon begins. @ 15:14 It was devastating to this 15 year old at the time! Actually, I couldn't find anyone who was bored watching the coverage. @ 40:26 The captain shaking Tom Hanks hand is the real Jim Lovell doing a cameo. Nice reaction, as always. ✌️😎
Fun fact, all weightless scenes were actually filmed in weightlessness. They used a NASA training aircraft nicknamed the Vomit Comet. It goes up, then dives fast enough the passengers are weightless for a short time.
Yep, filmed in 45 second increments at that! There's some great making of videos showing them cramming the LEM and capsule interiors inside the plane to get those shots.
A high school friend of mine joined the Air Force and actually got to pilot the Vomit Comet once. Pretty awesome.
Dasha
That "commander " is Gene Kranz, Flight Director on Apollo Missions played by Ed Harris.
One of my favourite films of all time. It's a little more dramatic than the actual Apollo 13 events with quite a few creative liberties to keep the story interesting and capable of being told within 2 hours, but all the major events described in the film actually happened. It's quite mind-blowing that these three guys survived.
I really liked Apollo 13 and I didn't even watch the first 12 movies.
Amazing how many episodes they got out of a side character from the Rocky franchise.
Ha!
What de fuca...Juan ? lol
An emotional , stressful , and epic journey to the moon and back ! Apollo 13 is a damn masterpiece. And with a top soudtrack by maestro James R. Horner. Dreams sometimes never go true ...like in this case. But surviving is more important from the moon. And faith is the instrument.
None of the yelling and screaming happened in real life this was done for the movie. The actual recordings of the astronauts are so calm you wouldn't even know they were in a fight for their lives these men were fighter and test pilots they were used to living in stressful life threatening situations. Pilots that can't handle stress don't stay pilots for very long their commanders weed them out... or gravity does. The YT channel "History Buffs" has a great video on this movie's historical accuracy this was one of the very few things he found wrong with the film.
Yeah, they were as cool as cucumbers.
I've heard a story that after Neil Armstrong ejected from the LLRV he was in his office an hour or two later, calmly writing up the report. Astronauts are stone-cold badasses.
True. Tom Hank's line "Huston, we have a problem" is so iconic, I was excited to hear the recording of the actual announcement by Jim Lovell when I had the chance, and it sounds as emotionless as when you hear the intercom of an airplane the pilot saying to their crew "secure your stations for takeoff". Hearing the actual radio you would never guess they had a quadruple malfunction aboard the ship.
The movie had to externalize what the pilots were sort of doing internally.
Roger that.
The actors voiced their displeasure to director Howard about that.
The entire mission's audio and transcripts are available online and quite accessible. I believe they uploaded them to the NASA UA-cam too. Genuinely fascinating. Howard did such a good job on this movie, but there are still the inevitably dramatic moments, so it's interesting to compare.
As has been pointed out a number of times in the comments, the captain shaking Hanks hand near the end is the real Jim Lovell. That's at 40:27 in your reaction, though the moment is blurred (of course, you weren't to know the significance). As they said in the movie, he was also involved in Apollo 8 as the CM pilot. They made a really beautiful Christmas message for the world while in space which I highly recommend.
You do not have to apologise for getting emotional. It's a true story, and even if it wasn't, it's very dramatic. I've watched this so many times and still get emotional.
I absolutely love the fresh innocent takes you do on these movie reviews. Thank you!
Another wonderful reaction from You, you always show great interest and enthusiasm and emotion and it is truly touching
You are quickly becoming on of the best reaction channels on UA-cam Dasha...Much Love from Scotland :)
I love the actor Gary Sinese (bad spelling sorry) the man who also played lieutenant Dan he is a huge activist for wounded soldiers raising millions to get our bravest the tools and assistance they Deserve!!.. a great human being
I've watched this movie probably a dozen times, and I still get choked up at the end. And I grew up in the 60's so I always knew how it ended.
This movie really choked up my dad too. He was born in the late '50s, so same generation. I grew up in the 1980s but read a lot of space stuff so I knew how it ended too. The emotional impact of this movie still exists for those of us who knew all along it was gonna turn out all right.
"I don't know why but when I see her" The word you were looking for was empathize. You can't help but empathize with her situation.
I was a nine-year old in 4th grade when all this happened and I remember the teacher leading us in a prayer for the crew of that mission. Everyone in the world was glued to the story it seemed.
It was just a hoax. All the Apollo missions were faked.
@@johnellizz this isn't the place for your idiotic beliefs.
@@samueladams1775 Apparently not because my reply to your reply keeps being removed. I'm heavily censored. But yeah no...Apollo was a hoax.
@@johnellizz if you say so slick lmao
@@samueladams1775 Here's something fun: Examine the poster of the movie (Apollo 13)...See if you notice anything...strange about it. If you see what's odd about the poster, let me know.
Dasha your quickly becoming a staple in my UA-cam favorites. Dont apologize for your strong emotions in your reactions, it makes you so relatable. The way you marvel at certain movies almost makes me feel like it's my first time watching the movie too and it's awesome. Dont change and keep it up champ!
Best reaction ever! Dasha-such a beautiful human and so sensitive and appreciative of American history and classic movies.
23:09 This guy with the glasses who eventually oversees the project of figuring out how to turn everything back on? The character he’s playing is John Aaron, a legend in American space flight. He basically saved the Apollo 12 mission when the spacecraft was struck by lightning right after launch. He was dubbed “a steely-eyed missile man,” and this became a traditional high compliment in NASA. (If you ever watch “The Martian” with Matt Damon, it’s used in that film.)
"Uh flight, have them set SCE to aux" is one of my all time favourite quotes. He basically told them to try turning it off and on again.
My dad was an engineer who helped design the Lunar Module. When the accident occurred my mom had to take my dad to the airport in the middle of the night so he could fly down to Houston from our home in New York. He was one of the guys who had to figure out how to use the Lunar Module as a life raft to get the astronauts home. After it happened I never really sat down with him to talk about what the whole experience was like. He is no longer alive and I always wish I had had a chance to have that conversation. Thanks for doing this reaction video.
Hats off to your dad for such an outstanding job in getting our guys back home. You should be very proud !!
@@Bill_Jones. after Apollo 13 came back someone had the idea of giving some kind of a plaque to all the people who were involved. So they cut up little pieces of webbing that were part of the lunar module that they used to Jerry rig the air filtration scrubbers. They glued a piece of this webbing to a little plaque that said thank you for everything and it was signed by all three of the astronauts on Apollo 13 I guess they gave out quite a few but I have the one my dad was given. When we were living in the house where I grew up it would sit up on the mantelpiece over the fireplace. Whenever somebody would come over I would show them that little piece of webbing and tell them how that had made its trip around the Dark Side of the Moon and was now sitting on our mantelpiece.
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I can explain it to you Dasha. In english its called empathy. Empathy means you feel what she would be feeling. Empathy allows us to feel what others experience without experiencing it yourself. Empathy is a rare thing nowadays. Empathy comes from caring for others. Caring for others comes from loving yourself.
Its just one of the reasons you are such a beautiful person.
The two men that went to be with Lovell's mom in the film were the REAL Armstrong and Aldrin. Don't worry about the crying. It was great to watch the film through your eyes. Great reaction.
Lovell opened his eponymous restaurant in the uber wealthy town of Lake Forest right next to where I live in the Chicago area . He's out of the business now but his son continues to run it. Lots of space memorabilia decorate the place including the plaque they were supposed to have left on the moon.
Fantastic reaction - as always. This is one of my favourite movies of all time - Brilliant acting, amazing story (because its true), but mostly because, for me at least, you forget all the politics and nationality stuff, and just feel it from a human point of view. As one species I think the space program is an amazing adventure. Conservation of our planet, and exploration of the universe is so interesting, and important - and we need to do it as one world. Enormous respect for every man and woman that takes up that challenge (And infinite respect to those that gave the ultimate price in pursuit of that). Thank you Dasha for expressing how I think we all felt watching this movie - the world was behind the 3 astronauts, and all of the ground crew that put so much effort into getting them back alive. May the spirit of knowledge, adventure, and conservation continue in a united world. Looking forward to your next reaction 😊👍
The fact that a young Russian lady is watching and weeping over this story is something that I never expected when I was a kid. I grew up with duck and cover drills, fearing that there was a Soviet under every bed. This was truly beautiful to see. I never suspected we'd get here, but I'm certainly glad that we have.
This movie presents the events of Apollo 13 just as they happened, as I remember them. I’m talking about the things we heard on the news broadcasts and read in newspapers. What happened behind the scenes I can’t say.
I remember following the story in the news when I was a kid. The movie brought back a lot of memories about the incident, although in Mexico, where I lived at the time they probably didn't sound as worried in the news.
The attitude was like "They're NASA, they're going to bring them back". Mexico had zero aerospace industry back then, thinking on building or manning these ships was out of our comprehension. The trust in the institution that placed a man in the moon was almost infinite, so, not so worried.
Lovell and Kranz both published their accounts of it.
Lady Dasha of Russia, I lived it! I was 12 years old when this happened. My beloved Mom who spoke no English @ that point in time, I had to translate what they were saying on the News, live coverage. I still remember her crying like you are now, & lighting a candle in their honor & placing the candle next to our Catholics Saints in our humble Home & praying out loud in Spanish. Tears filled our eyes, & the screams we both let out when we saw the 3 Orange & White parachutes. We cried, screamed & hugged so hard. It took us a day to fully recover from those moments...
Dasha, your reaction to this has been wonderful to watch! You have such great insight and understanding for someone so young, very well done! I always look forward to your reactions more than most others i watch.
Popcorn in Bed is also a wonderful reaction channel
It’s amazing what humanity can do when it really tries. We are capable of everything and nothing. I can’t imagine the emotion involved with putting a ball into space, landing on the moon or preventing near certain death. Cosmonauts and Astronauts are the smartest people available and the craziest.
You've surpassed yourself again Dasha ... excellent movie / excellent reaction ... hope your parents watch your reactions, they should be so proud of you
Once again dear you show a lot of insight and common sense in what's going on in the movie.i grew up in the 1960's and early 70's.these guys were hero's to me and millions of others.Apollo 13 may truly have been NASA's finest hour.this is an incredible movie and reaction was great.you don't need to apologize for being so emotional it's a wonderful part of who you are
Dasha thank you form the bottom of my heart for reacting to this movie!! Your video was absolutely wonderful!! You just reacted to one of my top 10 films of all time!! Just to answer your question: Measles is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory system. A widespread skin rash is a telltale sign of measles.
You asked about how to pronounce the word 'condensation'. Try this: con - den - say - shin. (To pronounce it accurately - Do it fast)
A lot of us are your fans because of how emotional you are with so many reactions. I personally love how passionate you are. Many of the movies you react to, I have seen more times than I can count. So sometimes my own emtions are not as passionate about a film as it used to be. But watching you react so passionately makes me so happy.
The thing I still marvel at is that the average age of the engineers in mission control at the time of the Moon landings was only about 28 years. So many were hired straight out of college. My father was working in unmanned spaceflight at the time, so I thought all the engineers would be...you know...old. Like him. (All parents are old in their children's eyes.) He was actually around Kranz' age (mid-30s).
I have seen Apollo 13 many times and as soon as the shot of the command module's opened parachutes comes up I always start bawling. One of the best casts ever assembled for an incredible movie which has stood the test of time.
This is a genuine masterpiece regarding space. The best part? The real Jim Lovell is still alive at 93 to tell the tale! He's still very energetic and enthusiastic about telling this story! He'll have a roll of duct tape on him since he says "to never leave home without it!" :)
First time watching your channel, with one of my favorite movies.
What a great reaction, I loved it. Not a dry eye.
Dasha, I Love this movie, I cry myself when I see stuff like this! I have been to 7 Space Shuttle Launches and every one of them was indescribable!!! It is an incredible feat of engineering! There is a mini-series from HBO called "From the Earth to the Moon"! It is a story of the beginning of the space program and shows the progression of NASA going to the Moon, all the setbacks and victories! It was produced and narrated by Tom Hanks and is a truly inspiring show!!!!!
Interesting side note. One of the scientists that worked on Apollo 13 was Jack Black's mother.
I always thought it was great at the end of Forest Gump when Lt. Dan shows up to the wedding with his "magic legs." "Yeah, new legs, they're custom made. Titanium alloy, it's what they use on the Space Shuttle." Then the next year they're in Apollo 13 together. Little Easter Egg?
Oh wow, and you made me realize that the real Ken Mattingly actually did fly on the Space Shuttle! Mind blown.
I'm old enough to remember the actual events.
I hardly slept from when the news of the explosion came out to when they got back, and with half the world, held my breath for the re-entry comms blackout, which was genuinely much longer than expected, and felt like an hour, although in truth it was only a few minutes longer than expected.
You also have to remember that the total computing power used to send the Apollo astronauts to the moon was less than in a modern smartphone, and that on-board less than in many digital watches available today. Transferring the flight data from the command to the lunar module was an arduous, manual, task, involving long strings of hexadecimal characters being read from one and manually input into the other. I still think their successful return was NASA's greatest triumph.
The movie is far more accurate than I ever expected, taking only very minor liberties for artistic effect.
It was emotional in real life and rightfully portrayed that way in the movie.
I *loved* your reaction here! It's great that you became so wrapped-up in the story, that you actually *felt* like it was happening, as you watched it! I'm sure that the fact that you didn't know that much of the history of NASA, let you become so *very* involved in what you were seeing on the screen!
When this happened, I was old enough to follow what was happening, and I was a *serious* 'Space-fan', or 'Space-cadet'; I remember going outside and looking up, thinking about what was happening in space, and praying "Please God, let them come home safe!" I was so *very happy* when it turned out fine!
If you'd like another *excellent* real-life space movie, try _"The Right Stuff"_ ... it gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the early years of NASA. *Seriously* good movie! But be warned: it's a very long movie! (Maybe you'd rather just watch it on your own, not try to do a reaction to it, 'cause it'd probably have to be a three-parter!)
*Thanks for an excellent reaction!*
I listened to this as it happened - and later had a cassette tape of the communications. They were so calm, so controlled. Made me a space nut for life. The technology in 1070 was amazingly primitive compared to what we are so used to today - your phone would have blown NASA out of water! I love your genuine emotion and reaction to a truly incredible story. Go SpaceX!
Dasha, you are a wonderful person and a much bigger deal than a trip to the moon. We all love you!
She is seriously turning into one of my favorite reactors, I first started watching her because she's beautiful, but then I noticed how much she cries and, that's when I subscribed. It might sound cold but I think I actually like her crying videos better, it shows a genuine, kindhearted person. In a way, I'm living vicariously through her. I feel a lot of emotions all the time, but because I'm a guy and I have an old-school mentality, I never let myself lose it because I feel like it is a sign of weakness. Watching her allows me to get a lot of my feelings out, maybe it's because I am an empath I can feel what she feels. Whatever the case, I love how strongly she feels things. Never lose that Dasha.
Beautiful reaction, you understood everything they were trying to do with this movie. This is one of my favorite films to re-watch, it's just so incredibly well-made. (And it helps that I'm kind of a space geek, haha.) I wish more reactors would watch The Right Stuff (1983), but it is a *long* movie...
I need to rewatch that as an adult and see what I make of it now. Parts of it were lost on child me.
Love the scene where Hanks tells Sinise he’s not in the flight. Two great actors at their best
I took a friend to see "Apollo 13," and he loved it of course, but, science nerd that he was, he couldn't help pointing out that, when it was freezing in the LEM, the steam from the astronauts' breath shouldn't rise in zero gravity.
Thank you Dasha for a very heart felt reaction. I witnessed this mission in real time, and 54 years later this reenactment still stirs me. The entire world was praying for those courageous men's safe return.
Ireccomend Hidden Figures an interesting story of some unsung heroes of the space program
Dasha, I'm always amazed by how good your English is and this may be the first time I've ever seen you not be sure of a word. The Russian and English words are very similiar. The Russian Конденсация is "Condensation" in English. Awesome reaction, as always!
The real story is much more amazing than the movie. The ground crew did several years of engineering in 3 days!
Also, Apollo 13 is the farthest humans have been from Earth.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver and they are still holding speed record in space relative to Earth. now for 50 years.
@@peterkorman9368 Also the only crew to do a lunar circumnavigation!
Dasha, I was in college when it happened. EVERYONE was worried and praying. I remember a group of students had a candlelight vigil and walked through campus. Several churches held special services. If we weren't in class, we'd be glued to the TV coverage which was 24/7 then it became more scattered until something significant happened.
The peak tension was sweating out whether the heat shield would hold. I mean, they had made that far back and if they burned up coming into the atmosphere it ... wouldn' seem fair.
I remember watching the capsule on TV as it floated to Earth under its parachute. My lady and I hugged and her tears triggered mine. It was such a relief. Everyone had been very tense for days. I saw young women in their early 20's shaking from relief. Your reaction was more common than not. We all thought it was a miracle, at first not many gave them a chance of surviving. Hope and fear are difficult emotions to feel at the same time.
I miss the age when countries would "fight" by flexing their scientific prowess against each other. Everyone actually wins.
There was never such an age.
Dasha... you are a beautiful soul. I loved watching this with you. See you on your next reaction.
If you want to see Tom Hanks in some funny stuff, you have to look at his earlier work. Right around the time of Saving Private Ryan he started doing a lot more serious roles. But a LOT of his work in the 80s and the first part of the 90s were comedies.
Turner and Hooch, Volunteers, The Money Pit, Splash, The Burbs, Dragnet.
Incidentally, your mobile phone has more computing power than ALL of the computers used to run the Apollo landings. COMBINED.
"What is the measles?" That you have to ask that question is because of modern medical science. LOTS of children died before a reliable vaccine for the measles was developed.
Loved him in Bridge of Spies. Serious movie with some touches of humor, like Hitchcock.
Batchelor Party was pretty good.
Dasha: "What is the measles?"
Vaccines: "You're welcome."
Seriously though, this was an incredible human achievement being emotional is totally 100% appropriate.
To this day, Go/No-Go polls before launch give me goosebumps.
Gene was absolutely the perfect leader. His attitude of "we are NOT losing these men. Failure is not an option" drove the teams at NASA to find the solutions and not give up in what appeared to be a hopeless situation. His calm, focused, process driven, step by step what can we do leadership is just incredible. Watching footage of the Shuttle Columbia disaster from mission control and you see the same from those teams. Instant professionalism and let's figure this out.
Square peg in a round hole moment is one of my favorite engineering moments ever. "Okay, let's get some coffee going" and they just start sorting the pile to see what they got.
Ken figuring out the power issue in the simulator... watching that needle bounce up little by little is one of the most stressful film scenes ever, and brings SO MUCH joy.
And Russia deserves immense amounts of credit for humanity's push into space. Sputnik. Yuri Gagarin. Even things like the N1 which ultimately didn't work out pushed us forward and our understanding. Russian rocket engines are among the most powerful and reliable there are. Soyuz has an insane safety record with hundreds of launches.
I've heard NASA engineers in interviews say that the current Soyuz craft and rockets are "almost perfect".
Like, the Russians came up with a design that worked so well that for it's entire life remains fundamentally unchanged. Like the M1911 pistol, AK47 and the MG42, weapons designed so well that they are pretty much the same as their original design to this day.
you do so well, I love your emotion you put in, great reaction for a great movie, by a great reactor
You don't have to apologize for crying. I cried watching you crying. Usually I don't cry watching a movie. I've watched so many movies and never cried. Love watching your reaction. Love your accent as well. Looking forward to see your reaction again.
The computers that ran the Apollo missions were as powerful as the chip in a musical greeting card. Disposable in our world. I've been to the launch facility in Florida. The Vehicle assembly building is so big it has it's own weather inside. The whole complex is surrounded by a wetlands preserve. On the bus ride in to tour the facility you could see alligators that were bigger than my car. Probably part of the security plan.
I saw an interview with one of the guys from Mission Control, who said they had the only computer in the world with one megabyte of memory (not sure if it was RAM or tape hard drive)!
@@JPMadden It was magnetic core, if I recall correctly. Millions of tiny little ferrous rings threaded in a matrix of three or four hair-thin wires.
@@mfree80286 I was guessing on the "tape hard drive." I knew it wasn't a tiny thing, like today's hard drives, and I've seen the giant reel-to-reel tape machines from old computers. It would make sense that a state-of-the-art mainframe from 1969 would be better than the 1950s and early 1960s models with the tapes.
Fun facts: Jim Lovell's mother in the movie is Ron Howard's grandmother, the flight control operator with the glasses is Ron Howard's brother, and the priest sitting on the couch at the end is Ron Howard's father.
What I always find amazing is the fact that your smartphone has more computing power than the computers used in the Apollo spacecraft...
A computer that can fit in a single room...
I remember one of the high schools that I attended in the early 70's had a computer, it was huge. I was in a class ( for underachievers) right next to the computer room and the same 4 or 5 guys were always in there using the computer. Of course everyone in my classroom thought they were nerds, but i bet those 5 guys became rich when they grew up.
@@cesarnarro6013 That was me in school in the 80s. When I broke my arm in 1st grade, I learned to type in a cast on the Apple IIs in the back of the room. Any excuse to get to "play" on the computers was a good one.
@@cesarnarro6013 When I was in 5th grade (so approximately 1972?) my school got a desktop computer. (Can you believe it? A whole computer that actually fits on a desk! As long as it's a reasonably large and sturdy desk, and you don't plan to use the desk for anything else.) I was one of a few lucky students who got to learn how to program it, so I know exactly what its capabilities were. It could do basic arithmetic functions, simple loops, and in addition to the ability to store something like 100 programming steps it had about 5 user accessible memory registers. In other words, it was almost as powerful as my first programmable calculator, which I got about 6-7 years later. Comparing either of these to a modern smartphone is like comparing an oxcart to a modern Semi. (Actually, the more I think about that analogy the better it works. Right down to the Semi needing modern roads and other infrastructure in order to actually be a good replacement for the oxcart.)
Dasha, it is so, so refreshing to watch a movie reactor on UA-cam who can speak intelligently without resorting to the F-bomb every 15 seconds. Your reactions were real and your observations were spot on. Continued success here in the future. :-)
This a true story how Jim Lovell's wife lost her ring the night before..
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Nice reaction. I was 13 when this happened. You might like to know that they filmed the internal spacecraft shots with actual zero gravity by flying parabola maneuvers in an airplane called the vomit comet.
What a beautiful reaction!
When I first saw this movie, I already knew the story of Apollo 13. But, even knowing how it was going to end, it was still an amazing journey. All I can do is guess at what an emotional ride it must have been for someone who didn't already know the story.
It may interest you to know that the "zero g" scenes were not special effects. They were filmed in a set that was built inside a NASA training 'plane that flew a series of parabolic arcs that gave about 30 seconds of freefall in each arc. The plane is nicknamed the "vomit comet", because it makes everyone travel-sick. If you watch the movie again, you'll see that none of the "zero-g" shots is longer than 30 seconds.
Speaking of travel sickness, it may also interest you to know that Valentina Tereshkova, the cosmonaut aboard Vostok 6, was space-sick for almost her entire mission. She hid this from ground controllers, though, because she didn't want the fact widely known (because it may have affected future opportunities for other female cosmonauts). Unfortunately, she was deeply criticised by ground controllers (and particularly by Sergei Korolev, the Chief Designer) because her sickness meant that she was failing to follow communications protocols with the ground, and sometimes not responding on the radio at all.
I’ve only seen a few of your reactions, and I intend to watch more. I have now watched this one twice. It is one of my favorite movies. It is maybe one of the best stories that our planet has to offer. And from someone from the generation that this movie was released to, it’s great to see the reactions of people who are unfamiliar with these events.
39:42 Dasha putting herself into the minds of and situations faced by the characters she watches is why she's awesome
I'm only 20 min into your reaction, and I just wanted to say....There was a huge push to defund NASA after we landed on the moon. The household I grew up in was always Pro Space Program. We watched every launch, every broadcast, ate up every news report involving the Space Program. You really remind me of my younger self watching those broadcasts (I was actually a good bit younger)...so much excitement and pride! It makes me so sad these days that many people don't seem to care about any kind of strides we've made in this field, and don't even know when a mission is happening. When these guys were coming back home, every class at school (I was in elementary school) had a tv in their room and were watching the re-entry. I remember being absolutely terrified that they wouldn't make it. You could hear the entire school cheering when they did.
You know what. I used to be quite embarrassed for crying (I am easily touched by sad or cute stuff), but I thought about why I don't mind seeing you showing your feelings, and I have begun to understand you aren't weaker for showing. You are stronger. Love it.
Watch “The Right Stuff”.. It’s glorious and IMO the best movie of the 80’s.. All-star cast, Ed Harris (who plays Gene Krantz in Apollo 13), Sam Shepard, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn, Lance Hendrickson, Harry Shearer, Jeff Goldbloom, Veronica Cartwright, and Barbara Hershey..
I grew up during the cold war, did drills in school to get under the desk for nuclear attack, and later trained in the infantry to fight the USSR. For most of my life, the Soviets were the enemy. However, watching this lovely young woman's emotional response to an American cultural event like the moon landings and Apollo 13, provides me with a tangible reminder that we are all fundamentally the same throughout the world. We are all human, with similar reactions to the human condition. Dasha, your reactions give me hope that one day humans will not live in animosity towards one another, and that we can again recapture the worldwide unity that was on display while the Apollo 13 crew was in space.
It's really interesting to me to see your reaction to this. I grew up in the 80s, when in the US we were still very much worried about nuclear war with the USSR. The Space Race, particularly going to the Moon, was supposed to demonstrate our technological superiority in the cold war, to let the Soviets know that our missiles were good, so therefore not to try to nuke us first. It's crazy that in the process, humanity sort of realized how silly the whole thing was, and we did the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) with the USSR not too long after, to begin the process of nuclear weapons reduction.
Not sure if you were aware of that global strategic background to all this, but in light of all of that, it's cool to me to see a Russian girl rooting for the NASA guys as they overcame what was almost the biggest disaster of our space program, and to get home safe and sound. This is one of my favorite movies because I work in nuclear power, and the jobs are similar; very technical, requiring logical and calm thinking to do safely. And some of the quotes are applicable to what I do. "Work the problem," "failure is not an option," and "you're a steely-eyed reactor man" get thrown around a lot. Anyway, glad you enjoyed it.