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An utter shame that he never got a chance to actually touch down on the moon. IMO, he, and everyone involved with Apollo 13 after it left the ground, truly repr
by Rooster61 1y ago
An utter shame that he never got a chance to actually touch down on the moon. IMO, he, and everyone involved with Apollo 13 after it left the ground, truly represent the peak of NASA personnel. Listening to the calm, cool manner in which Jim and everyone else conducted themselves with while their spacecraft was literally falling apart around them give me chills.
Godspeed sir
- pjmorris 1y ago> IMO, he, and everyone involved with Apollo 13 after it left the ground, truly represent the peak of NASA personnel. Agreed. One of the best books I've read on Apollo was 'Apollo: Race to the Moon', by Murray and Cox. It spends a lot of time on the engineering and management challenges behind what they accomplished then. One of the book's best chapters was on the enormous team(s) on the ground behind the troubleshooting and problem-solving for Apollo 13.
- GlennFarrant 1y agoMy favourite book of all time. It also covers how audacious Apollo 8 was....the other Lovell mission. Blue skies and tailwinds Capt Lovell.
- seabass-labrax 1y ago> cool manner in which Jim and everyone else conducted themselves I find it interesting that the argument briefly depicted in the 1995 film was added for dramatic effect. The real crew didn't even raise their voices! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_(film)#Technical_and_historical_accuracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_(film)#Technical_and...