[Finny]

He screwed up Apollo 13 in two other ways, too:

1. He implied that there remains lingering doubt as to whether or not Gus Grissom "scrwed the pooch" with regard to the exploding hatch that sunk the capsule. According to Gordo Cooper, in his autobiography, Grissom was rather quickly cleared of all culpability, and if there was any question as to that, Cooper said, folks needed to realize that proof was in the fact that Grissom was assigned to later missions; if there had been any doubt as to his reliability, he would NEVER have been on another project or mission.

2. The movie completely ignored Gordo's strong Christian faith, leaving the impression that he was a godless hedonist! Cooper doesn't complain about it in his autobiography, but reading it one becomes very aware of how important religion was in Gordo's whole make-up.

[Pyro7480]

Are you thinking of "The Right Stuff?"

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1. He implied that there remains lingering doubt as to whether or not Gus Grissom "scrwed the pooch" with regard to the exploding hatch that sunk the capsule.

2. The movie completely ignored Gordo's strong Christian faith, leaving the impression that he was a godless hedonist!

Wow. You really watched this closely. Like I said, I've only seen it once. ;)

I saw that when they recovered Liberty Bell 7, they found that the hatch malfunctioned just as Grissom said it did.