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The best Apollo era movie is Apollo 11 
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Mar 16, 2021 15:57
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But all that's available are terrible screencam bootlegs. The most widely seen lost film.
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Mar 16, 2021 19:34
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Roumba posted:But all that's available are terrible screencam bootlegs. We are talking about the same 2019 Documentary?
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Mar 16, 2021 19:50
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lol no I forgot about that. I thought you were quipping that the actual Apollo 11 footage was better than any movie.
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Mar 16, 2021 20:22
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Roumba posted:lol no I forgot about that. I thought you were quipping that the actual Apollo 11 footage was better than any movie. well that's pretty much what it is, plus a bunch of goofy dressed people looking up. I have it on as background noise now and then. I wish someone would make Mike Collins' book into a movie.  The funniest astronaut memoir.
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Mar 16, 2021 20:28
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If you have Twitter/Facebook, Mike Collins is a pro-follow. He posts about all sorts of stuff and is just a really interesting guy. I met Buzz at a book singing here a few years back. He rambled for about an hour. It was like your drunken grandpa telling fishing stories on Thanksgiving but replace fishing with "The Moon". It was actually kinda fun. Supposedly though he is having issues with dementia, which is sad. There was an anecdote from the Challenger hearings where apparently Neil would, after the day was over, pour a glass of scotch and just talk about the moon landings to whomever wanted to listen. He was on the committee that investigated the accident.
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Apr 12, 2021 19:47
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That commission also had Sally Ride, Richard Feynman, and Chuck Yeager on it. That last one is funny. I wonder if he contributed anything other than curmudgeonly sour grapes. Edit: That reminds me - "Truth, Lies, and O-rings" by Allan McDonald, one of Thiokol's senior engineers for the shuttle SRB program, is technically very interesting if it weren't for the constant distraction of McDonald bleating that it wasn't his fault and nobody listened to him. It does have some details on the Rogers Commission. Disclaimer: I 'read' that as an audiobook and it's possible that it was just terrible, whiny narration. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Apr 12, 2021 19:58
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Burning Beard posted:If you have Twitter/Facebook, Mike Collins is a pro-follow. He posts about all sorts of stuff and is just a really interesting guy. Iirc he's basically in a fight with his children to prove he's still lucid.
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Apr 12, 2021 20:07
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Sadly we lost another Apollo era astronaut today. https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1387441107911446528?s=20
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Apr 28, 2021 17:46
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 You did good buddy.
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Apr 28, 2021 18:03
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RIP funniest Apollo astronaut 
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Apr 28, 2021 18:51
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https://twitter.com/important_celeb/status/1387483801010511878
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Apr 29, 2021 16:39
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Of all the astronauts, Mike Collins was, perhaps, the most... human.
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Apr 29, 2021 17:22
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https://twitter.com/playingwithdust/status/1387647562010742785?s=19
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Apr 29, 2021 18:20
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He’s also like the only astronaut that hadn’t been absolutely crushed by his post-space life and lack of direction.
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Apr 29, 2021 22:15
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I'll go with either Lovell or Collins, but the true hero of the Apollo program is Bruce McCandless's sweater during the EVA on Apollo 11 Oh! The inspiration for Star Trek, the motion picture. Reminds me of Rendezvous with Rama. Early on there's a scene with the protagonist saying women make terrible astronaut companions for the men, what with the boobs in zero-g and all.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Gene Cernan and he was an awesome crotchety old man and I loved talking with him.
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