Great reaction. As a kind of prequel to this, I highly recommend the movie 'The Right Stuff', which begins with test pilots after ww2 and goes up into the earliest days of the US space program. The number 13 recurred quite a few times in the Apollo 13 flight. But, all things considered, it was an exceptionally *lucky* flight. If that specific malfunction had occurred at ANY other time, it would have doomed the crew without question. That it happened when it did, while the LEM was attached and unused, is what saved them. Also, Ken Mattingly having to stay behind proved very fortunate, as he was an acknowledged expert in the Apollo systems, and he played a vital role in helping his colleagues safely return. Flight Director Gene Krantz's vest deserves a mention. For one of the very early launches, his wife had made him a nice suit, with vest, that he wore. After that, it became an informal tradition that he would wear a white vest for each manned space mission he oversaw. This served as a way of singling him out in the crowd, and as a kind of good luck thing. Mrs Krantz carefully hand-made him a new white vest for every manned space mission he directed.
I did Security for Nichelle Nichols when she was filming a Star Trek Film. There is a lot of down time during a shoot and I got to talk to her on a couple of occasions. She was a lovely lady and had a Regal bearing She said that the thing she was proudest of in her life was inspiring so many women to become Scientists and Astronauts.
Nichelle was my secret love in 1968 when a buddy told me to watch the show. Star Trek would have just been a bunch of boring grown men playing like they were in space like a bunch of 12-year-olds without Uhuru.
You can thank Dr. Martin Luther King for some of that too. She was making plans to leave Star Trek when a chance encounter with MLK changed her mind. He reminded her that she was a great role model and that he, and many others, were watching her and she could not leave the show.
@@tvdroid22I remember her account of that! She described his reaction to her telling him as "You can NOT!!!". LOL. What's she gonna do after that?? Lol
THE BEST, most accurate depiction of any of the Apollo missions. They exaggerate a couple of things, and streamlined the story a bit, but this film is a masterpiece of historical filmmaking.
A few years ago I bought a copy of Gene Kranz' book "Failure Is Not An Option" at a thrift store. Got home, opened it up, and there was an autograph plate. It was a signed edition! I've since added a signed copy of "Lost Moon", by Jim Lovell.
I went to check my copy of "Lost Moon" and can't find it. So that's disappointing. I tracked Buzz Aldrin down at a Mars Society convention years ago and got his autograph in my copy of his book, "Men From Earth". I also have an autographed photo of Buzz shot by Neil Armstrong on the Moon. I always check the books at antique stores and used book stores. They are brought in by the families of people who die with a shelf of autographed books that nobody realizes is there. One time I brought a stack of my own books to a used book store. One of the books was "Silicon Snake Oil" by Clifford Stoll. While they were going through my books to decide how much they'd pay me for them, I saw a copy of that same book on the shelf. I opened it and discovered it was autographed. They wanted less than $10 for it. So I took what they gave me for my old books and bought an autographed copy of one of them. 🙂
Hi, Courtney. Fred Haise is 91 today. Jim Lovell is 96. Toward this film's conclusion in the scene on the recovery aircraft carrier one hears Tom Hanks narration as Jim Lovell. When you heard Hanks say, "The seven days of Apollo 13 would be my last in space" you also saw Tom Hanks shaking hands with and exchanging pleasantries with a Navy officer. That's Jim Lovell himself slipped into the film. Perhaps you can go back and look...
And it's not even hyperbole. These guys were not human when they were on a mission. Fear set to zero point zero. Can't even tell something's wrong by listening to the real audio of Apollo 13.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 That term isn't strictly reserved for astronauts. As evidenced by it being directed towards a member of the ground crew. John Aaron, a NASA engineer, was bestowed this praise after his suggestion helped save Apollo 12 after a mid-launch lightning strike. He was also instrumental in helping bring this mission back home safely...
I was 11 when this happened. I'll never forget that week. It seemed the entire world was in a state of tension and hope for 7 days and focused on them getting back safely.
I was 9 when it happened and I agree about the world being in a state of tension and hope until the astronauts returned to earth safely. It was such a state of relief and joy with everyone jumping up and down, clapping, shouting, crying and celebrating when the astronauts made it back to earth safely. Not only did it seem like the entire world was interested in the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts, objectively, the United States Information Agency characterized the television and radio coverage of the splashdown as “probably at its highest peak for any single event in history, apparently surpassing even that of the actual walk on the moon by Apollo 11. A New York Times article on April 18, 1970 titled "TV: Millions of Viewers End Vigil for Apollo 13" about the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts stated "The venture, which came so close to tragic disaster, in all probability united the world in mutual concern more fully than another successful landing on the moon would have." Public religious services and prayer vigils were held in various locations around the world to pray for the astronauts. For example, many people visited a special place for praying in Jerusalem; Pope Paul VI led prayer in the Vatican; people prayed together in St Peter’s Square in the Soviet Union, and at a religious festival in India. Dozens of countries offered help with tracking data and with the astronaut recovery by sending naval vessels to cover possible landing areas of the ocean, including the Soviet Union, France, Britain, Australia, Japan, etc. A team at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies in Canada was called in by Grumman Aerospace to calculate in less than four hours the pressure that would be needed to separate the lunar landing module from the crippled service module.
I think the biggest difference between the film and reality, is the argument the astronauts had in space. That argument never happened. In fact, the astronauts were pretty calm throughout.
@@ReelMeurik it's pretty much the only change Lovell objected, as he felt a little insulted since they were chosen for many reasons including being somewhat unflappable. He also wasn't too thrilled they made it seem like there was a doubt about Swigert. There wasn't. He was in no way a weak link, and the only concerns had to do with just being more used to Ken. In fact, I think he may have helped write the procedures for the LEM docking maneuver they were stressing about his ability to do at all in the movie.
@@pauld6967And rather than being a last minute inspiration, it was one of the first things they did, as part of the CM shutdown; they turned off pretty much everything, except the battery charger.
There were also no doubts on anyone’s part about Swigert’s ability to fly the mission. And when things went wrong, he was in many ways the best man to have on the scene. He literally wrote the manual on CM emergency procedures.
I like that the argument took place right before they learned about CO2. So while it never happened in real life it at least looks like iit happened because of the CO2.
I was working at Blockbuster when this hit the home video shelves. One morning shift, an older woman comes in to return her Apollo 13 rental, and tells us that she enjoyed watching it with her grandson, and at the end of it the grandson had observed "No wonder they had so much trouble, Forrest Gump was driving."
And Tom Hanks himself will be particular about it. He even has Gus Grissom (played by Bryan Cranston way back when, no less) correct someone during his appearance on the variety show in That Thing You Do. It's kinda subtle, but the host asks him a question and pronounces it eye, and Grissom replies pointedly pronouncing it eee.
It was a big deal in school as the events unfurled. Heck - NO ONE used "eye"for years and years. "We al knew." But later generations - and some adults - carried on and they probably bought tickets for a Pierce Brosnan James Bond film arguing, "See? It IS 'Eye'." uh huh
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Gene Krantz said he was relieved when the Apollo program was prematurely cancelled because he felt further flights would be tempting fate and that it was miraculous that all the crews made it back safely from the moon.
This was a memorable moment in history. The entire planet held its collective breath for 6 days. The flight ended with the most on-target splashdown before or since. The landed within visual range of the recovery ship, so they were able to capture the splashdown on film. They slipped in footage of the actual splashdown in the film.
I know it has nothing to do with the movie but since you mentioned Trek, you do remember Balok, the weird baby with the adult voice that offers Kirk tranya to drink? The baby was played by Clint Howard, Ron Howard's brother. Ron directed this movie and you can see his brother Clint as one of the people working at mission control. He's the one that... well... looks just like Balok would if her were a much older adult. lol
Sy Liebergot is the guys name he's playing, just for the record. The thing where they're watching the broadcast and Jack mentions he forgot to file his taxes, Sy chimes in "that's no joke, they'll jump on him." Clint Howard basically ad libbed that, because he had similar IRS troubles.
If you like this movie, might I suggest the HBO miniseries "From Earth to the Moon". Filming Apollo 13 sparked Tom Hanks' passion for this story and led him to help get that show made, where we cover the entire Space Race from Sputnik through the end of the Apollo program, each episode focusing on a single mission. To avoid repeating this movie, the Apollo 13 episode exclusively focuses on the ground team and scientists figuring out how to resolve the problem.
There's a context to the press ignoring the broadcast. Apollo 11 had been, of course, spectacular. (I stayed up and watched!) But Apollo 12 had a camera glitch; nothing but a nonsense screen filled TV sets everywhere. It's no excuse, but that is part of the reason the networks didn't want to give away any prime time minutes. Which they had to do anyway when the news pretty much took over everything.
A pleasure to see your smiling face again. Your reaction was ideal! 1:28 I remember seeing the Apollo 11 landing live on a hotel lobby TV in Israel when I was 15 and also remember Jim Lovell speaking from Apollo 8 on Christmas 1968 reading the scripture to us back on earth. 17:55 If Ken hadn't been down on earth, the crew might have not gotten home.
The "astronauts in the fire" Lovell´s son asks about refers to the Apollo 1 fire that killed all 3 astronauts during a ground test because of faulty equipment. One of it was the hatch design that prevented it from opening and escaping in time.
Gene Kranz is one tough guy (Korean war pilot), but, many years after the Apollo 13 mission, while being interviewed, he still choked up, when he described seeing those three parachutes carrying the capsule down to the ocean.
Saw this when it premiered in the theater, one of my favorites. That music was tense when the Saturn 5 rocket launched and everyone waiting for their return. Another one of my favorites you should react to is The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future.
Fun fact "consolation prize"...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon on their free return trajectory, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than all of the other flights to the Moon. So to this day, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled. Also., a terrific quote I encountered recently has to do with Apollo 13..."NASA is absolutely not superstitious, but you can bet they will never launch anything numbered "13" ever again." Not sure if that is a real quote...but it does not seem that NASA has sent anything into space with the number 13 on it ever since, though commercial satellite companies have. And, in case you were wondering...the number one reason why people have not returned to the moon to live/work/build a base there is the dust. You can 100 percent look up the harmful effects of lunar dust...but it is a serious issue that NASA and others have been working to address for many years. The dust is invasive and corrosive and it sticks to everything...which is a major issue when it darkens the surfaces that you need to be reflective, and all of a sudden you are absorbing a ton of heat from the sun instead of reflecting it. And that is not even to mention all the health issues of breathing in the dust...so figuring out how to deal with it has been a huge impediment to returning to the moon.
@@CourtReacts-zm9yvif you listen to the actual audio you would think those guys were just ordering take out or something with how calm they stayed. It’s incredible how calm and professional they stayed the whole time. That’s how I know I’m not built to be an astronaut because my anxiety would have me freaking out!
Court, the reason for the delay in response after the reentry blackout was that the Apollo crew had some concerns that there wouldn't be enough power in the batteries to make the parachutes deploy so they waited to make sure they deployed before chancing using power to broadcast on the radio.
I wanted to be on a starship as a kid, yes, but I was very prone to motion sickness (still am lol) and I knew I wouldn’t be able to handle liftoff or re-entry 😅
When they are on the far side of the moon Jim Lovell says that he has already seen it. He was one of the first three people to go around the moon, the two others being Frank Borman and William Anders. The Apollo 8 mission, a test mission without the lander, flew from 21 of December to 27 og December 1968. The next mission to go around the moon without landing was Apollo 10, but this time they brought a lander that they tested in lunar orbit. It must have been exciting times.
I believe Ron Howard was quoted in saying, "There's only so many shots of rockets flying and engineers sweating that we can put in the film"... Most certainly paraphrased, but the intent holds true. He was approached by many involved, who were confused with all of the on-screen drama, the self-doubt amongst the crew, etc. By all accounts, most of these folks remained cool as cucumbers, and that the on-screen drama was added in...for what it's worth.
For those that saw Real Genius, have you noticed Mitch Taylor (well, Gabe Jarrett, the actor) is in Mission Control? He's pretty much the youngest guy there and if you know it's him all grown up, you'll spot him. He looks pretty much the same, just not awkward.
The first suggestion for playing Jim Lovell was Kevin Costner because, at the time of making the movie, it was felt he looked like Jim Lovell looked, in 1970.
I watched a documentary about this event where they interviewed a lot of people, and one of them was the flight director Gene Krantz (here played by Ed Harris). You could tell Gene Krantz was of the old school of men who probably last cried when he was four years old and then never again, but in the documentary when he talks about the relief he felt when he realized the crew was safe, his voice breaks and he tears up. 💔
FYI - Ron Howard the director, was a child star playing "Opie" on the Andy Griffith Show 1960-68. Happy Days 1974 to about 1981 0r 2. His brother Clnt , also child actor first, plays the bald guy with the thick glasses in the control room. His mother, retired actress, plays "grandma" or Tom Hanks' character Jim Lovell's mother.
Much of TV news reports used in the film were the REAL reports. The first voice you hear in he beginning of the film is the famous Walter Cronkite and you see him later.
For more astronauts, check out The Right Stuff (1983) where we follow the selection and training of the first US astronauts of the Mercury program, the space program that preceeded the Apollo program, with the space race vs the Soviet Union as its backdrop. Starring basically everyone, but funnily enough Ed Harris who played the flight director Gene Krantz here in Apollo 13. :)
Just a small point, but they were not in "zero gravity" at any time. They were in free fall during the entire mission except when accelerating. Even then, they were only changing the rate at which they were falling, either toward the Earth or the Moon. The entire Apollo 13 (and 8 and 10) could be accurately described as being in a complex orbit around the Earth-Moon system. Gravity is how we describe the effects of the curvature of spacetime on objects moving through it. It is present even in interstellar and intergalactic space. In free-fall, when astronauts feel weightless, they are simply taking the shortest path from one point to another on the curved surface of spacetime. They are continuously in the presence of gravity. In particular, the Sun is "pulling" them toward itself at about .6cm/sec/sec. And at the point where they cross from being primarily influenced by the Earth's gravity to the Moon's (the Lagrange point), they are being pulled toward the Earth (or toward the Moon) at .2cm/sec/sec. But... yes... good movie. And a good reaction to it. I'll have to check out more of your reactions.
The whole thing with the single astronaut working on his own was telescoped; he was one of a team of Astronauts working through that sequence, and they were up there for days. kerk
Jim Lovell's Mom Blanche was played by Ron Howard's Mom. The Balding Guy wearing Glasses at Mission Control is played by Clin t Howard (Ron's Brother). Clint is also known for his role as Balok theTranya drinking Alien from the TOS Episode The Corbonite Maneuver. The Priest with the Lovell family in the Re-entry screne is Ron's Dad, Rance Howard,
The world was watching during this incredible event once the media started reporting to us. This was of course after the problem occurred. The world was glued to their TV's and praying for the crew until they returned. Listening to the media though, they had us all believing that it was next to impossibe for them to return safely. Thank God they did.
Great reaction to a great movie! I'm glad you enjoyed it. You might also like the movie "The Right Stuff" (1983) about NASA's early days and the Mercury Seven - the seven military pilots who were selected to be the astronauts for Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight by the United States. "The Right Stuff" received widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 56th Academy Awards, four of which it won - Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and Best Sound Effects.
First of all, I remember the Apollo one fire. So awful. And then for Apollo 13 I was 15 years old and our school was cancelled that Friday of splashdown. I can’t remember why and some friends and I were playing pool in a friend’s basement and we had the radio on and we’re listening for the splashdown. And when they were blacked out, we were just standing there waiting Like millions, literally millions, of people around the world. When they called Houston, We were so so happy! We were jumping up and down yelling. This was in Canmore Alberta Canada. We don’t have those kind of global collective experiences anymore, maybe we will again someday. We actually wondered what the year 2000 would be and we were pretty certain there would be hotels on the moon lol. I love your reactions. I was only disappointed with one thing. I thought you only called Chekov pumpkin . 😊
On April 10, 1970...Paul McCartney announced in so many words that the Beatles had broken...which is what the teen girl was so upset about. I lived that history, and Apollo 13, and the May 4 Kent State University massacre by the National Guard in Kent Ohio at age 14. That was really too much for kids at the time to deal with but we did somehow.
NASA engineers watching this film said “I didn’t know we had cameras there!” And were told, “No, that’s an effects shot.” Though for some spectacular real footage, you should watch Todd Douglas Miller’s _Apollo 11_ which is put together using film and recordings from NASA’s archives.
Gene Kranz never actually said "failure is not an option" in real life, but he liked it so much when he saw the movie that he used it as the title of his autobiography
The famous quote missed an A. It should have been , That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. I can’t recall if Neil forgot it, or if it was a radio transmission error. NASA communications during the early space years were so so.
Armstrong flubbed the line. NASA tried to claim that it was transmission dropout for a long time, but there is no time gap between the “for” and “man” to fit in an “a.”
The reason why radio contact took so long to reestablish during return was because they still entered at a shallow angle and therefore needing more time to descent.
wrt the pronunciation of Gemini: That's a good catch. It caught my ear too when I first watched this film. Kevin Bacon in that scene is pronouncing it JEM-in-ee, which was the classical "first" pronunciation. Prior to the Gemini program, it was the common usage; and it was actually a result of NASA's mission broadcasts wherein astronauts mispronounced it that the now more common pronunciation of JEM-in-eye came into widespread use. Whether this was an intended detail from the actor/director/writer or a happy accident, I don't know, but I always found it interesting. It gives you a piece of Bacon's character here to know that he would have known about the pronunciation issue and was therefore making a choice to use the og pronunciation (as he'd be much more likely to use the "eye" version given the history and the demographic to which he pertains).
You see them driving Corvettes, that's because a dealership in Florida Rathman Chevrolet teamed up with General Motors to lease the Astronauts Corvette for $1.00 😊
The complete irony about Apollo 1 fire is the door. During a previous mission the door kept blowing before it was suppose to so for Apollo 1 they made sure the door was well bolted in place. They had no way to get out quickly if they had too. They would have had better chance at surviving with the previous door. The irony about Apollo 13 they were always taking parts from other ships. They took one from Apollo 13 for an earlier mission and replaced it with a better part. But they didn't remember to see if the wires and other stuff could handle a better model.
NASA pronounced it Jeminy. Everyone else pronounced it gem-in-eye. Hitting the water at hundreds of miles an hour is what killed the shuttle astronauts.
A little bit of trivia about the making of this movie, most of the zero g scenes in the Apollo spacecraft were real, not Hollywood fakery. They filmed those scenes in an aircraft doing parabolas to create up to 30 seconds of weightlessness at a time, similar to the "Vomit Comet" used by NASA to train astronauts.
If u enjoy stuff abt the American space program, consider reacting to "The Right Stuff." From breaking the sound barrier to the Mercury 7 program. All-star cast. Gus Grisson (who died on Apollo 1 launchpad) featured heavily as well as Deke Slayton (who you saw in Apollo 13). Different actors of course, but you'll learn a lot more abt the early days of the space program.
For a couple of years growing up, like you, I also wanted to be an astronaut. What changed my mind? The Challenger disaster. Yup, ambitions did a big about face when that happened. Anyway, Ron Howard is an amazing director, you might want to check out: Splash (1983), Cocoon (1985), Willow (1988), Parenthood (1989), Backdraft (1991), Ransom (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), CInderella Man (2005), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008) and Rush (2013). In fairness I skipped The Grinch, because I don't like it, but a lot of others do so you might want to consider it also.
2:00 Science. Engineering. Effort. Elbow grease. If we had waited for a miracle to get to the Moon, we'd still be waiting. 5:52 Yep, that's how they move them. Go back and watch again. Take a look at how godawfully big those treads are. That is one huge vehicle. Engineering, baby. 18:00 The thing about having Newton in the driver's seat: he's reliable. 22:00 "If they don't get one, I don't get one" may sound good. But it's not smart. You can't save someone if you're not functioning yourself.
If you want a _real_ treat related to the Apollo program, watch the documentary _In the Shadow of the Moon_ (2007) and all the extras on the DVD. It's beautiful. I'd love to see you see it. (Watch out: other works, from other years, have the same title as the 2007 documentary's.)
Love your reaction too this movie! I like to recommend the movie ”Hidden figures” from 2016. It’s another true story movie about NASA. I really think you’ll enjoy it.
Another good movie you would like is October Sky. It's about some high school kids that get interested in rocket technology and build their own rockets and the difficulties they encounter. It's another movie based on a true story.
One thing, especially these days, is the difference in technology. Your smartphone has more computing power than the entire ship that took them to the moon. Showing them trying to calculate the procedures by hand is dead on. Everyone calculating and rechecking numbers .
I absolutely love the movie but it does two things for dramatic purposes that irk me having more than average knowledge of the mission. First, they do Mattingly dirty with the whole sulking thing. He didn't go off and sulk, he still had a job to do. He was at Mission Control when the explosion occurred. The second was to make John Aaron, the original steely eyed missile man and the head of the EECOM division, in to someone who needs basic electrical engineering explained to him to make Mattingly look good in the simulator scenes. Which is weird since the reason they're in there is because Kranz didn't hesitate to listen to Aaron when he spoke up about the power problem in the first place.
@@klopferator to a lesser degree because I can understand the reasoning for doing so for dramatic purposes, movie structure wise. They really didn't need to do the other two, and even if you wanna keep the Mattingly stuff at least don't make Aaron look like an errand boy to make Mattingly look better. It's just kinda sloppy writing when the rest is fairly tight, it's why it irks me.
The HBO Mini-Series From The Earth to the Moon made shortly after this is an excellent watch. Sadly some executive had many of the award winning practical effects replaced by awful CGI for any version available in high def.
"Have I been saying 'Gemini' wrong?" Hah! No, Gemini-the-astrological-sign is still "gem-in-eye." It's just a weird historical quirk that everyone at NASA referred to Gemini-the-space-program as "gem-in-ee." It's just one of those things.
As far as military affiliation the VA hospital screwed up “treating” my stepdad and cut off his leg when they should’ve saved it. Then the nursing home killed him. That caused my mom to go crazy and now she’s dead from the stress and worry.
If you haven't seen it already, you definitely want to see the HBO series From The Earth to the Moon. Covers 10x as much ground as this, and includes the Gemini program. But the movie The Right Stuff first.
Factually accurate except the real astronauts didn't fight or panic, that was put in for dramatic effect, they were total professionals who worked the problems.
The captain shaking Tom Hanks's hand on the carrier was the real Jim Lovell.
And Marilyn is in the stands in front of Kathleen Quinlan during the launch sequence.
Makes sense. Lovell's nickname was Shaky! He was anything but, though.
Great reaction. As a kind of prequel to this, I highly recommend the movie 'The Right Stuff', which begins with test pilots after ww2 and goes up into the earliest days of the US space program.
The number 13 recurred quite a few times in the Apollo 13 flight. But, all things considered, it was an exceptionally *lucky* flight. If that specific malfunction had occurred at ANY other time, it would have doomed the crew without question. That it happened when it did, while the LEM was attached and unused, is what saved them. Also, Ken Mattingly having to stay behind proved very fortunate, as he was an acknowledged expert in the Apollo systems, and he played a vital role in helping his colleagues safely return.
Flight Director Gene Krantz's vest deserves a mention. For one of the very early launches, his wife had made him a nice suit, with vest, that he wore. After that, it became an informal tradition that he would wear a white vest for each manned space mission he oversaw. This served as a way of singling him out in the crowd, and as a kind of good luck thing. Mrs Krantz carefully hand-made him a new white vest for every manned space mission he directed.
Also worth watching is the BBO series From The Earth To The moon.
I did Security for Nichelle Nichols when she was filming a Star Trek Film. There is a lot of down time during a shoot and I got to talk to her on a couple of occasions. She was a lovely lady and had a Regal bearing She said that the thing she was proudest of in her life was inspiring so many women to become Scientists and Astronauts.
Nichelle was my secret love in 1968 when a buddy told me to watch the show. Star Trek would have just been a bunch of boring grown men playing like they were in space like a bunch of 12-year-olds without Uhuru.
You can thank Dr. Martin Luther King for some of that too. She was making plans to leave Star Trek when a chance encounter with MLK changed her mind. He reminded her that she was a great role model and that he, and many others, were watching her and she could not leave the show.
@@tvdroid22I remember her account of that! She described his reaction to her telling him as "You can NOT!!!". LOL. What's she gonna do after that?? Lol
@@brentfugett2700 Yeah, I mean, really. And he was right.
@@tvdroid22 I'm glad of that chance encounter. Wish I could have met him.
THE BEST, most accurate depiction of any of the Apollo missions. They exaggerate a couple of things, and streamlined the story a bit, but this film is a masterpiece of historical filmmaking.
A few years ago I bought a copy of Gene Kranz' book "Failure Is Not An Option" at a thrift store. Got home, opened it up, and there was an autograph plate. It was a signed edition!
I've since added a signed copy of "Lost Moon", by Jim Lovell.
I never find cool stuff like that at the thrift store, it's mostly smut or old copies of "Chicken Soup for the Soul"
I went to check my copy of "Lost Moon" and can't find it. So that's disappointing. I tracked Buzz Aldrin down at a Mars Society convention years ago and got his autograph in my copy of his book, "Men From Earth". I also have an autographed photo of Buzz shot by Neil Armstrong on the Moon.
I always check the books at antique stores and used book stores. They are brought in by the families of people who die with a shelf of autographed books that nobody realizes is there. One time I brought a stack of my own books to a used book store. One of the books was "Silicon Snake Oil" by Clifford Stoll. While they were going through my books to decide how much they'd pay me for them, I saw a copy of that same book on the shelf. I opened it and discovered it was autographed. They wanted less than $10 for it. So I took what they gave me for my old books and bought an autographed copy of one of them. 🙂
The only real inaccuracy in this movie is the fighting amongst the 3 of them, that never happened.
Hi, Courtney. Fred Haise is 91 today. Jim Lovell is 96. Toward this film's conclusion in the scene on the recovery aircraft carrier one hears Tom Hanks narration as Jim Lovell. When you heard Hanks say, "The seven days of Apollo 13 would be my last in space" you also saw Tom Hanks shaking hands with and exchanging pleasantries with a Navy officer. That's Jim Lovell himself slipped into the film. Perhaps you can go back and look...
"Steely-eyed missile man" is one of the highest praises you can get from NASA
And it's not even hyperbole. These guys were not human when they were on a mission. Fear set to zero point zero. Can't even tell something's wrong by listening to the real audio of Apollo 13.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 That term isn't strictly reserved for astronauts. As evidenced by it being directed towards a member of the ground crew.
John Aaron, a NASA engineer, was bestowed this praise after his suggestion helped save Apollo 12 after a mid-launch lightning strike.
He was also instrumental in helping bring this mission back home safely...
I was 11 when this happened. I'll never forget that week. It seemed the entire world was in a state of tension and hope for 7 days and focused on them getting back safely.
I was 9 when it happened and I agree about the world being in a state of tension and hope until the astronauts returned to earth safely. It was such a state of relief and joy with everyone jumping up and down, clapping, shouting, crying and celebrating when the astronauts made it back to earth safely.
Not only did it seem like the entire world was interested in the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts, objectively, the United States Information Agency characterized the television and radio coverage of the splashdown as “probably at its highest peak for any single event in history, apparently surpassing even that of the actual walk on the moon by Apollo 11.
A New York Times article on April 18, 1970 titled "TV: Millions of Viewers End Vigil for Apollo 13" about the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts stated "The venture, which came so close to tragic disaster, in all probability united the world in mutual concern more fully than another successful landing on the moon would have."
Public religious services and prayer vigils were held in various locations around the world to pray for the astronauts. For example, many people visited a special place for praying in Jerusalem; Pope Paul VI led prayer in the Vatican; people prayed together in St Peter’s Square in the Soviet Union, and at a religious festival in India.
Dozens of countries offered help with tracking data and with the astronaut recovery by sending naval vessels to cover possible landing areas of the ocean, including the Soviet Union, France, Britain, Australia, Japan, etc.
A team at the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies in Canada was called in by Grumman Aerospace to calculate in less than four hours the pressure that would be needed to separate the lunar landing module from the crippled service module.
I was 12 !!!!
I think the biggest difference between the film and reality, is the argument the astronauts had in space. That argument never happened. In fact, the astronauts were pretty calm throughout.
A close second is the reversal of the power line. The astronauts had to do a LOT of modifications to make that power transfer work.
@@ReelMeurik it's pretty much the only change Lovell objected, as he felt a little insulted since they were chosen for many reasons including being somewhat unflappable.
He also wasn't too thrilled they made it seem like there was a doubt about Swigert. There wasn't. He was in no way a weak link, and the only concerns had to do with just being more used to Ken. In fact, I think he may have helped write the procedures for the LEM docking maneuver they were stressing about his ability to do at all in the movie.
@@pauld6967And rather than being a last minute inspiration, it was one of the first things they did, as part of the CM shutdown; they turned off pretty much everything, except the battery charger.
There were also no doubts on anyone’s part about Swigert’s ability to fly the mission.
And when things went wrong, he was in many ways the best man to have on the scene. He literally wrote the manual on CM emergency procedures.
I like that the argument took place right before they learned about CO2. So while it never happened in real life it at least looks like iit happened because of the CO2.
I was working at Blockbuster when this hit the home video shelves. One morning shift, an older woman comes in to return her Apollo 13 rental, and tells us that she enjoyed watching it with her grandson, and at the end of it the grandson had observed "No wonder they had so much trouble, Forrest Gump was driving."
Everybody else pronounce it "Gemeneye," but NASA pronounces it "Gemenee."
And Tom Hanks himself will be particular about it. He even has Gus Grissom (played by Bryan Cranston way back when, no less) correct someone during his appearance on the variety show in That Thing You Do. It's kinda subtle, but the host asks him a question and pronounces it eye, and Grissom replies pointedly pronouncing it eee.
I think Swigert pronounces it Geminee when he's wooing that girl during the Apollo 11 landing scene
It was a big deal in school as the events unfurled. Heck - NO ONE used "eye"for years and years. "We al knew." But later generations - and some adults - carried on and they probably bought tickets for a Pierce Brosnan James Bond film arguing, "See? It IS 'Eye'." uh huh
@@vincentsaia6545 As kid I knew it was an Astronomical Sign and aways pronounced it 'Jem-ah-nye
Correction: Americans pronounce it as if it rhymes with eye. Other people say gemin-ee.
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Gene Krantz said he was relieved when the Apollo program was prematurely cancelled because he felt further flights would be tempting fate and that it was miraculous that all the crews made it back safely from the moon.
This was a memorable moment in history. The entire planet held its collective breath for 6 days.
The flight ended with the most on-target splashdown before or since. The landed within visual range of the recovery ship, so they were able to capture the splashdown on film.
They slipped in footage of the actual splashdown in the film.
I know it has nothing to do with the movie but since you mentioned Trek, you do remember Balok, the weird baby with the adult voice that offers Kirk tranya to drink? The baby was played by Clint Howard, Ron Howard's brother. Ron directed this movie and you can see his brother Clint as one of the people working at mission control. He's the one that... well... looks just like Balok would if her were a much older adult. lol
Sy Liebergot is the guys name he's playing, just for the record.
The thing where they're watching the broadcast and Jack mentions he forgot to file his taxes, Sy chimes in "that's no joke, they'll jump on him." Clint Howard basically ad libbed that, because he had similar IRS troubles.
One of my patrons on Patreon pointed it out to me 😊 I knew that face looked familiar.
@@CourtReacts-zm9yv He was the guy who told the Flight Director (Gene, played by Ed Harris), to shut down the fuel cells near the start of the crisis.
And Jean Speegle Howard, Ron and Clint's mother, played Jim Lovell's mother, Blanche Lovell, in this movie.
@@luminiferous1960 and their father, whose name escapes me, was the priest comforting the Lovells during reentry.
If you like this movie, might I suggest the HBO miniseries "From Earth to the Moon". Filming Apollo 13 sparked Tom Hanks' passion for this story and led him to help get that show made, where we cover the entire Space Race from Sputnik through the end of the Apollo program, each episode focusing on a single mission. To avoid repeating this movie, the Apollo 13 episode exclusively focuses on the ground team and scientists figuring out how to resolve the problem.
@@VegetaLF7 The Apollo 13 episode of FtEttM focuses on the media circus of news coverage of the incident.
There's a context to the press ignoring the broadcast. Apollo 11 had been, of course, spectacular. (I stayed up and watched!) But Apollo 12 had a camera glitch; nothing but a nonsense screen filled TV sets everywhere. It's no excuse, but that is part of the reason the networks didn't want to give away any prime time minutes. Which they had to do anyway when the news pretty much took over everything.
Thanks for sharing! I appreciate it.
A pleasure to see your smiling face again. Your reaction was ideal! 1:28 I remember seeing the Apollo 11 landing live on a hotel lobby TV in Israel when I was 15 and also remember Jim Lovell speaking from Apollo 8 on Christmas 1968 reading the scripture to us back on earth. 17:55 If Ken hadn't been down on earth, the crew might have not gotten home.
This was great in the theaters, and still great now...enjoyed your reaction Courtney.
It was a well done film. Good to see you have a chance to watch it and post your reaction. 🙂 (R.I.P. Bill Paxton.)
The ultimate Star Trek prequel.
You can also try 2001 and 2010.
The "astronauts in the fire" Lovell´s son asks about refers to the Apollo 1 fire that killed all 3 astronauts during a ground test because of faulty equipment. One of it was the hatch design that prevented it from opening and escaping in time.
Impressed you know your history when you said " Ah, Nixon...Mr. Watergate himself..." lol
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Gene Kranz is one tough guy (Korean war pilot), but, many years after the Apollo 13 mission, while being interviewed, he still choked up, when he described seeing those three parachutes carrying the capsule down to the ocean.
Saw this when it premiered in the theater, one of my favorites. That music was tense when the Saturn 5 rocket launched and everyone waiting for their return. Another one of my favorites you should react to is The Final Countdown (1980) The U.S.S. Nimitz goes back to December 6th, 1941. It's filmed on the Nimitz. It's like Top Gun meets Back to the Future.
Hi Court , a fun fact , your smart phone is 100 thousand times more powerful than the computers on the spacecraft
Your reactions are alway authentic...thank you! Good journey :) Peace!
Fun fact "consolation prize"...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon on their free return trajectory, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than all of the other flights to the Moon. So to this day, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled.
Also., a terrific quote I encountered recently has to do with Apollo 13..."NASA is absolutely not superstitious, but you can bet they will never launch anything numbered "13" ever again." Not sure if that is a real quote...but it does not seem that NASA has sent anything into space with the number 13 on it ever since, though commercial satellite companies have.
And, in case you were wondering...the number one reason why people have not returned to the moon to live/work/build a base there is the dust. You can 100 percent look up the harmful effects of lunar dust...but it is a serious issue that NASA and others have been working to address for many years. The dust is invasive and corrosive and it sticks to everything...which is a major issue when it darkens the surfaces that you need to be reflective, and all of a sudden you are absorbing a ton of heat from the sun instead of reflecting it. And that is not even to mention all the health issues of breathing in the dust...so figuring out how to deal with it has been a huge impediment to returning to the moon.
The astronauts really didn't quarrel with each other during the flight. That was done for dramatic effect.
I had a feeling since films like to exaggerate.
@@CourtReacts-zm9yvif you listen to the actual audio you would think those guys were just ordering take out or something with how calm they stayed. It’s incredible how calm and professional they stayed the whole time. That’s how I know I’m not built to be an astronaut because my anxiety would have me freaking out!
Court, the reason for the delay in response after the reentry blackout was that the Apollo crew had some concerns that there wouldn't be enough power in the batteries to make the parachutes deploy so they waited to make sure they deployed before chancing using power to broadcast on the radio.
FYI, Lovell and Haise are both still alive. Lovell is 96, Haise is I think, 92.
I wanted to be on a starship as a kid, yes, but I was very prone to motion sickness (still am lol) and I knew I wouldn’t be able to handle liftoff or re-entry 😅
When they are on the far side of the moon Jim Lovell says that he has already seen it.
He was one of the first three people to go around the moon, the two others being Frank Borman and William Anders.
The Apollo 8 mission, a test mission without the lander, flew from 21 of December to 27 og December 1968.
The next mission to go around the moon without landing was Apollo 10, but this time they brought a lander that they tested in lunar orbit.
It must have been exciting times.
I believe Ron Howard was quoted in saying, "There's only so many shots of rockets flying and engineers sweating that we can put in the film"...
Most certainly paraphrased, but the intent holds true. He was approached by many involved, who were confused with all of the on-screen drama, the self-doubt amongst the crew, etc.
By all accounts, most of these folks remained cool as cucumbers, and that the on-screen drama was added in...for what it's worth.
I'm old enough to remember the tail end of the Gemini shots. You and I pronounce the word Gemini the same as the news broadcasters at the time.
Love your honest reaction!!
For those that saw Real Genius, have you noticed Mitch Taylor (well, Gabe Jarrett, the actor) is in Mission Control? He's pretty much the youngest guy there and if you know it's him all grown up, you'll spot him. He looks pretty much the same, just not awkward.
He's one of the ones who checks Jim's math during the beginning of the emergency.
The first suggestion for playing Jim Lovell was Kevin Costner because, at the time of making the movie, it was felt he looked like Jim Lovell looked, in 1970.
In fact, Tom Hanks would love to be in a Star Trek production, he's a huge Trekkie.
I watched a documentary about this event where they interviewed a lot of people, and one of them was the flight director Gene Krantz (here played by Ed Harris). You could tell Gene Krantz was of the old school of men who probably last cried when he was four years old and then never again, but in the documentary when he talks about the relief he felt when he realized the crew was safe, his voice breaks and he tears up. 💔
FYI - Ron Howard the director, was a child star playing "Opie" on the Andy Griffith Show 1960-68. Happy Days 1974 to about 1981 0r 2. His brother Clnt , also child actor first, plays the bald guy with the thick glasses in the control room. His mother, retired actress, plays "grandma" or Tom Hanks' character Jim Lovell's mother.
Much of TV news reports used in the film were the REAL reports. The first voice you hear in he beginning of the film is the famous Walter Cronkite and you see him later.
"We've never lost an American in space, we're not going to on my watch, failure is Not an option!"
One of my all time favs!!
For more astronauts, check out The Right Stuff (1983) where we follow the selection and training of the first US astronauts of the Mercury program, the space program that preceeded the Apollo program, with the space race vs the Soviet Union as its backdrop. Starring basically everyone, but funnily enough Ed Harris who played the flight director Gene Krantz here in Apollo 13. :)
Just a small point, but they were not in "zero gravity" at any time. They were in free fall during the entire mission except when accelerating. Even then, they were only changing the rate at which they were falling, either toward the Earth or the Moon. The entire Apollo 13 (and 8 and 10) could be accurately described as being in a complex orbit around the Earth-Moon system.
Gravity is how we describe the effects of the curvature of spacetime on objects moving through it. It is present even in interstellar and intergalactic space. In free-fall, when astronauts feel weightless, they are simply taking the shortest path from one point to another on the curved surface of spacetime. They are continuously in the presence of gravity. In particular, the Sun is "pulling" them toward itself at about .6cm/sec/sec. And at the point where they cross from being primarily influenced by the Earth's gravity to the Moon's (the Lagrange point), they are being pulled toward the Earth (or toward the Moon) at .2cm/sec/sec.
But... yes... good movie. And a good reaction to it. I'll have to check out more of your reactions.
I absolutely love this movie.
Jim Lovell wasn't at home, during Neil Armstrong's "One small step".
He was in Mission control.
The whole thing with the single astronaut working on his own was telescoped; he was one of a team of Astronauts working through that sequence, and they were up there for days. kerk
Jim Lovell's Mom Blanche was played by Ron Howard's Mom. The Balding Guy wearing Glasses at Mission Control is played by Clin t Howard (Ron's Brother). Clint is also known for his role as Balok theTranya drinking Alien from the TOS Episode The Corbonite Maneuver. The Priest with the Lovell family in the Re-entry screne is Ron's Dad, Rance Howard,
The world was watching during this incredible event once the media started reporting to us. This was of course after the problem occurred. The world was glued to their TV's and praying for the crew until they returned. Listening to the media though, they had us all believing that it was next to impossibe for them to return safely. Thank God they did.
Great reaction to a great movie! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
You might also like the movie "The Right Stuff" (1983) about NASA's early days and the Mercury Seven - the seven military pilots who were selected to be the astronauts for Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight by the United States.
"The Right Stuff" received widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, at the 56th Academy Awards, four of which it won - Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound, and Best Sound Effects.
Hear the song playing in the background when Swaggert gets the call? Remember that song, because it's important in a Star Trek movie...
First of all, I remember the Apollo one fire. So awful.
And then for Apollo 13 I was 15 years old and our school was cancelled that Friday of splashdown. I can’t remember why and some friends and I were playing pool in a friend’s basement and we had the radio on and we’re listening for the splashdown. And when they were blacked out, we were just standing there waiting Like millions, literally millions, of people around the world.
When they called Houston, We were so so happy! We were jumping up and down yelling. This was in Canmore Alberta Canada.
We don’t have those kind of global collective experiences anymore, maybe we will again someday.
We actually wondered what the year 2000 would be and we were pretty certain there would be hotels on the moon lol.
I love your reactions. I was only disappointed with one thing.
I thought you only called Chekov pumpkin . 😊
I grew up during the last Apollo flights and wanted to be an astronaut too.
My life has been APOLLO 13 bad lately and all I hear is “Duhh I don’t know what to tell ya.” At least these guys had backup
On April 10, 1970...Paul McCartney announced in so many words that the Beatles had broken...which is what the teen girl was so upset about. I lived that history, and Apollo 13, and the May 4 Kent State University massacre by the National Guard in Kent Ohio at age 14. That was really too much for kids at the time to deal with but we did somehow.
The manual burn was only 14 seconds in real life, but they made it 39 seconds for the movie, to make it more dramatic.
I always wanted to see a real launch and this was the best I could do. Did tear up in the theater.
NASA engineers watching this film said “I didn’t know we had cameras there!” And were told, “No, that’s an effects shot.”
Though for some spectacular real footage, you should watch Todd Douglas Miller’s _Apollo 11_ which is put together using film and recordings from NASA’s archives.
Gene Kranz never actually said "failure is not an option" in real life, but he liked it so much when he saw the movie that he used it as the title of his autobiography
The famous quote missed an A. It should have been , That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. I can’t recall if Neil forgot it, or if it was a radio transmission error. NASA communications during the early space years were so so.
Armstrong flubbed the line. NASA tried to claim that it was transmission dropout for a long time, but there is no time gap between the “for” and “man” to fit in an “a.”
The reason why radio contact took so long to reestablish during return was because they still entered at a shallow angle and therefore needing more time to descent.
This was great modern docu-drama. One of my top 10 non star wars or star trek space movies.
For pure fiction, a great space movie is Space Cowboys.
wrt the pronunciation of Gemini:
That's a good catch. It caught my ear too when I first watched this film. Kevin Bacon in that scene is pronouncing it JEM-in-ee, which was the classical "first" pronunciation. Prior to the Gemini program, it was the common usage; and it was actually a result of NASA's mission broadcasts wherein astronauts mispronounced it that the now more common pronunciation of JEM-in-eye came into widespread use. Whether this was an intended detail from the actor/director/writer or a happy accident, I don't know, but I always found it interesting. It gives you a piece of Bacon's character here to know that he would have known about the pronunciation issue and was therefore making a choice to use the og pronunciation (as he'd be much more likely to use the "eye" version given the history and the demographic to which he pertains).
All the early astronauts got Corvettes from Chevy
I recommend the HBO series, “From The Earth To The Moon.” Tom Hanks did it. It’s like “Band of Brothers,” but with NASA instead of WW II.
You see them driving Corvettes, that's because a dealership in Florida Rathman Chevrolet teamed up with General Motors to lease the Astronauts Corvette for $1.00 😊
I was acquainted with Swigert's identical twin sons when we were in 9th grade together. That was shortly after these events.
The complete irony about Apollo 1 fire is the door. During a previous mission the door kept blowing before it was suppose to so for Apollo 1 they made sure the door was well bolted in place. They had no way to get out quickly if they had too. They would have had better chance at surviving with the previous door.
The irony about Apollo 13 they were always taking parts from other ships. They took one from Apollo 13 for an earlier mission and replaced it with a better part. But they didn't remember to see if the wires and other stuff could handle a better model.
During a previous mission, "the door kept blowing"???
What mission?
@@codymoe4986 Project Mercury 4 the hatch blew when it hit the water. The astronaut almost drowned. Ironically it was Gus Grissom.
Jim Lovell's final career...move star.
He's they guy with four bars on his shoulder greeting Tom at the end there :)
Netflix has an excellent documentary about this.
A great movie that captures SOME of the drama n salient events!!
You might appreciate the movie 13 Hours: the secret soldiers of Benghazi
NASA pronounced it Jeminy. Everyone else pronounced it gem-in-eye.
Hitting the water at hundreds of miles an hour is what killed the shuttle astronauts.
A little bit of trivia about the making of this movie, most of the zero g scenes in the Apollo spacecraft were real, not Hollywood fakery. They filmed those scenes in an aircraft doing parabolas to create up to 30 seconds of weightlessness at a time, similar to the "Vomit Comet" used by NASA to train astronauts.
If u enjoy stuff abt the American space program, consider reacting to "The Right Stuff." From breaking the sound barrier to the Mercury 7 program. All-star cast. Gus Grisson (who died on Apollo 1 launchpad) featured heavily as well as Deke Slayton (who you saw in Apollo 13). Different actors of course, but you'll learn a lot more abt the early days of the space program.
For a couple of years growing up, like you, I also wanted to be an astronaut. What changed my mind? The Challenger disaster. Yup, ambitions did a big about face when that happened. Anyway, Ron Howard is an amazing director, you might want to check out: Splash (1983), Cocoon (1985), Willow (1988), Parenthood (1989), Backdraft (1991), Ransom (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), CInderella Man (2005), The Da Vinci Code (2006), Frost/Nixon (2008) and Rush (2013). In fairness I skipped The Grinch, because I don't like it, but a lot of others do so you might want to consider it also.
2:00 Science. Engineering. Effort. Elbow grease. If we had waited for a miracle to get to the Moon, we'd still be waiting.
5:52 Yep, that's how they move them. Go back and watch again. Take a look at how godawfully big those treads are. That is one huge vehicle. Engineering, baby.
18:00 The thing about having Newton in the driver's seat: he's reliable.
22:00 "If they don't get one, I don't get one" may sound good. But it's not smart. You can't save someone if you're not functioning yourself.
If you want a _real_ treat related to the Apollo program, watch the documentary _In the Shadow of the Moon_ (2007) and all the extras on the DVD. It's beautiful. I'd love to see you see it.
(Watch out: other works, from other years, have the same title as the 2007 documentary's.)
Very astute commentary. Well done!
"Old-school projector"? Sigh...those things were a staple of my school years. 😞
Love your reaction too this movie! I like to recommend the movie ”Hidden figures” from 2016. It’s another true story movie about NASA. I really think you’ll enjoy it.
Another good movie you would like is October Sky. It's about some high school kids that get interested in rocket technology and build their own rockets and the difficulties they encounter. It's another movie based on a true story.
One thing, especially these days, is the difference in technology. Your smartphone has more computing power than the entire ship that took them to the moon. Showing them trying to calculate the procedures by hand is dead on. Everyone calculating and rechecking numbers .
The movie added YELLING that didn't actually happen; everyone involved was very professional throughout.
GREAT MOVIE nonetheless.
I absolutely love the movie but it does two things for dramatic purposes that irk me having more than average knowledge of the mission. First, they do Mattingly dirty with the whole sulking thing. He didn't go off and sulk, he still had a job to do. He was at Mission Control when the explosion occurred. The second was to make John Aaron, the original steely eyed missile man and the head of the EECOM division, in to someone who needs basic electrical engineering explained to him to make Mattingly look good in the simulator scenes. Which is weird since the reason they're in there is because Kranz didn't hesitate to listen to Aaron when he spoke up about the power problem in the first place.
Thank you for sharing these details!
@@CourtReacts-zm9yvmy pleasure. Gotta use my propensity for trivia somehow or it feels like a complete waste of time. 😁
Wait, so it didn't irk you that they painted Jack Swigert as a less capable rookie everyone doubted?
@@klopferator to a lesser degree because I can understand the reasoning for doing so for dramatic purposes, movie structure wise. They really didn't need to do the other two, and even if you wanna keep the Mattingly stuff at least don't make Aaron look like an errand boy to make Mattingly look better. It's just kinda sloppy writing when the rest is fairly tight, it's why it irks me.
Did you notice Clint Howard who played Balok in The Corbomite Maneuver. He should have had a drink of Trania
See also;
‘The Right Stuff’
‘Hidden Figures’
‘Apollo 11’ (Documentary made from actual NASA archive footage)
Space camp is another great 80s classic you should check out 😊
I saw tis live by myself in 1970 on tv.
Amazing what people can do. Amazing story this :-)
I was in Catholic school at the time and during the reentry the nuns made us say the rosary for these guys… I guess it worked.
On the pronouncement of “Gemini,” NASA people pronounced it weirdly.
Having quite a bit to do with the fact that they were based in the deep south, and the heavy accents of the local populace, hired to work there...
The HBO Mini-Series From The Earth to the Moon made shortly after this is an excellent watch.
Sadly some executive had many of the award winning practical effects replaced by awful CGI for any version available in high def.
1:40 it was meant to be “One small step for A man...”
It's just lost in his drawl.
"Have I been saying 'Gemini' wrong?" Hah! No, Gemini-the-astrological-sign is still "gem-in-eye." It's just a weird historical quirk that everyone at NASA referred to Gemini-the-space-program as "gem-in-ee." It's just one of those things.
As far as military affiliation the VA hospital screwed up “treating” my stepdad and cut off his leg when they should’ve saved it. Then the nursing home killed him. That caused my mom to go crazy and now she’s dead from the stress and worry.
If you haven't seen it already, you definitely want to see the HBO series From The Earth to the Moon. Covers 10x as much ground as this, and includes the Gemini program. But the movie The Right Stuff first.
Factually accurate except the real astronauts didn't fight or panic, that was put in for dramatic effect, they were total professionals who worked the problems.