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To: Hegewisch Dupa
Apollo 13 shows Americans overcoming very American-type problems,

I second this - It's a wonderful movie showing how we improvise, adapt, and overcome.

34 posted on 07/02/2004 6:39:50 AM PDT by Chemist_Geek ("Drill, R&D, and conserve" should be our watchwords! Energy independence for America!)
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To: Chemist_Geek

And that parts without duct tape were cool too!


35 posted on 07/02/2004 6:40:59 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Chemist_Geek

Apollo 13 (the real one) was probably the greatest technological achievement ever. Not because we got the ship into space, but that when everything went wrong, we got it and the crew back.

Jim Lovell, Mission Commander wrote an exceleltn book about it entitled "Lost Moon." The movie script was an adaptation of the book.


74 posted on 07/02/2004 8:09:40 AM PDT by cyclotic (Cub Scouts-Teach 'em young to be men, and politically incorrect in the process)
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