[pabianice]

How is this different in 2018, where people are acting insane in their hatred of Trump and conservatives?

[gibsonguy]

As I recall the movie was pretty close except the depiction of the Astronauts. Howard turned them into his typical Hollywood piers. In actually they were very conservative and never used any course language not because they were prudes but because they were professionals.

[Ezekiel]

How is this different in 2018, where people are acting insane in their hatred of Trump and conservatives?

Apollos 11 and 13 had the entire world's eyes and ears directed to the heavens.

April 13, 1970. 4/13.

Landing sequence of Apollo 11 (July 20, 1969):

"Four thirteen is in".

“Shutdown!” called Armstrong, punching the Engine Stop button. Meanwhile, Aldrin began reciting each step of his post-landing checklist and they jointly took the requisite actions to shut down now-unneeded systems – “ACA out of detent – Mode controls: both auto – Descent engine command override: off – Engine arm: off.” And then Aldrin added, “413 is in”, which told Eagle’s Abort Guidance System to remember the attitude of the vehicle on the surface.

Just thought I'd toss that in. There's more to these moon missions than what bounces along on the surface.

[noiseman]

As a kid, I was riveted to Jules Bergman’s descriptions of every Apollo mission, but then we had no other sources of information. This topic is making me nostalgic for my childhood, when we would watch something like Apollo and it would spark our imaginations. I remember building models of the command module and the lunar module, and wondering what it must be like to go to the moon. Sadly, I see very little of that patience and quiet contemplation in today’s youth. They’re just tossed into a hellish cacophony of 24-hour per day insane drivel fired at them from every direction, and as a result they have zero attention span, zero patience, and zero ability to reflect and reason.

I soloed in a sailplane when I was 15, and got my private sailplane rating at 16. I often look around at kids that age today, asking myself the question of whether I think the kids I see at those ages or even a little older are mature enough to be able to do something like that, and the answer is almost always, “not even close.” There are, of course, some great kids out there, usually raised by two parents (and yes, a male and a female), who have been given a solid upbringing in a “traditional” and nurturing family. We need to encourage those kids, because unless we can figure out how to keep them between the guardrails, and hopefully create more like them, we will never be able to embark on something as ambitious as Apollo ever again.

[Portcall24]

If you like that movie you might like a TV series from a few years ago entitled, “The Astronaut’s Wives Club”. It is fairly close overall and a great perspective from the people who waited at home.

[namvolunteer]

Almost nobody was watching Apollo 13. I was driving northward from Eureka, CA when the radio interrupted around midnight PDT to alert us about the crisis.
Almost all of the USA was unaware. There was a great calculus test that night: Mission Control told the astronauts to figure the angles of three stars so they could slingshot the back of the Moon to get back to Earth otherwise they would go to the end of the solar system.
I’ve never heard another person remember that facet.

[mrsmith]

“Salyut 7” is a better movie than Howard’s. Maybe just a better story for a movie.

I’d followed other space shots fanatically but by Apollo 13 I’d “discovered girls” so barely remember it.

[Daffynition]

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