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Many of us knew the story from books, or even the Tom Hanks Apollo 13 film, but the detail here is fascinating.
by josefritzishere 2y ago
Many of us knew the story from books, or even the Tom Hanks Apollo 13 film, but the detail here is fascinating.
- hinkley 2y agoThe triumph of the movie, as described at the time, was making people care about a story they already knew the ending to. Opie sure turned out good.
- JadeNB 2y ago> The triumph of the movie, as described at the time, was making people care about a story they already knew the ending to. One could, I think, argue the same about any movie about a historical event. I think that it would seem strange, for example, to say that that was the main achievement of Sands of Iwo Jima.
- hinkley 2y agoI think it’s different when you’re talking about an army versus three people in that army. We don’t know if Private Ryan or any of the other characters make it. We can assume most of the actors make it off the beach at the beginning, but that’s about it.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoI mean it was also way better than the first 12 prequels
- tenpies 2y agoAlso for anyone interested, some of Flight Director Gene Kranz's recordings are available online. Here's the first part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfnY9cRXO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfnY9cRXO4 The comments have time stamps for some particularly interesting moments, but the incident occurs 8 minutes in, and the infamous "Houston, we've had a problem" remark happens at 9:20. The blog post talked about how everything had to be communicated verbally because you could not share images, but since we're so used to Hollywood adaptions or documentaries, I find the recordings really drive the point home.
- acadavid79 2y agoAnd there’s also a site with replays of some Apollo missions. Several audio, video and data feeds. https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/mobile/ https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/mobile/