[dp0622]

lol

Was that the Apollo mission that went south?

[Captain Walker]

No, it went to the moon.

(All of the Apollo missions went to the moon.) :p

[SES1066]

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!

[jmcenanly]

Thanks the Ron Howard movie from 1994, it is probably the other flught, aside from Apollo 11, that most Americans are familiar with.