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To: dp0622
Was that the Apollo mission that went south?

Yes, this is the one where Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz gave his most famous directive; "Failure is not an option!" Called the World's most successful failure, it was a case book of improvisation and grit. I do recommend the Ron Howard / Tom Hanks movie of this name, not completely accurate but very close.

What I hated from that time was that the Apollo Program was killed 4 landings later. Lovell never made it to the surface and that was a crime. The Vietnam War soaked up the money and anything smacking of military was denigrated. Here we are 50 years late and no one has been back to the surface since Eugene Cernan left the last footprints in December of 1972!

19 posted on 04/11/2020 7:53:05 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SES1066

It is incredible that we never set foot again since 1972.

I bet people at the time though we’d be playing basketball up there by now :)

I do recall seeing the movie and some guys being handed a plastic bag, a rubber band and a paper clip and being told to make a respirator :) I’m exaggerating of course, but I do remember being VERY shocked that they made what they need to!!


28 posted on 04/11/2020 8:33:03 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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