Apollo 13 program on CH5 20:00 28/2
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Who knows. Don't watch it then. It was just a heads up.....
I suspect there was a bit of drama on this one and not 14?
Edit, maybe not all are across it anyway and it might be new for them. I secretly suspect the interest in the shuttle launches on the news in recent years was more just in case something happened.
Edit. I did put a smile in the reply, did not come out in the wash.
I suspect there was a bit of drama on this one and not 14?
Edit, maybe not all are across it anyway and it might be new for them. I secretly suspect the interest in the shuttle launches on the news in recent years was more just in case something happened.
Edit. I did put a smile in the reply, did not come out in the wash.
Edited by jmorgan on Tuesday 28th February 19:40
It's a series that compares films to the historical events they are supposed to be based on. The Braveheart one was quite interesting, but showed the film to be pretty far from the truth. I doubt you will learn much if you are already familiar with the histories, but if you are fan of the films they are featuring it's worth watching to see where the ideas come from.
It actually wasn't bad at all.
There was some drama on Apollo 14 - they couldn't dock the Command Module with the Lunar Module at the begining of the mission for a start. It took five or six attempts to get the latches to fire and grab.
They then had problems in lunar orbit which nearly caused the landing to be aborted.
Shepard took some golf shots on the lunar surface.
Shepard and Mitchell got lost on the surface,
Mitchell conducted some wacko ESP esperiments on the way home.
Granted, not quite as life or death as Apollo 13 - but fairly eventful.
There was some drama on Apollo 14 - they couldn't dock the Command Module with the Lunar Module at the begining of the mission for a start. It took five or six attempts to get the latches to fire and grab.
They then had problems in lunar orbit which nearly caused the landing to be aborted.
Shepard took some golf shots on the lunar surface.
Shepard and Mitchell got lost on the surface,
Mitchell conducted some wacko ESP esperiments on the way home.
Granted, not quite as life or death as Apollo 13 - but fairly eventful.
Interesting getting the views of the participants on the day.
Slightly related, there was a radio interview a while ago and I forget who with. But he owned up to chatting to a US gent when waiting at an airport for a flight somewhere. He explained about rockets and how they worked etc etc, might even have been about Saturn. On parting he found out he was chatting to Jim Lovell.
Slightly related, there was a radio interview a while ago and I forget who with. But he owned up to chatting to a US gent when waiting at an airport for a flight somewhere. He explained about rockets and how they worked etc etc, might even have been about Saturn. On parting he found out he was chatting to Jim Lovell.
They were never "lost... lost".
They just couldn't work out exactly where they were on occasions. Famously, they never made it to a particular crater they were supposed to do some work on. They found the topography confusing and couldn't line up the landmarks with the maps and photos they had of the site. There is a famous photo of Mitchell consulting his map - trying to work out where they are.
They just couldn't work out exactly where they were on occasions. Famously, they never made it to a particular crater they were supposed to do some work on. They found the topography confusing and couldn't line up the landmarks with the maps and photos they had of the site. There is a famous photo of Mitchell consulting his map - trying to work out where they are.
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