I would argue that Jim Lovell & his crews' actions, the book Lovell wrote, and NASA's loaning of the Vomit Comit was the cause of this movie's success. All the ingredients were there, Opie just had to not screw it up.
14 posted on 05/16/2006 6:30:44 PM PDT by Yossarian
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