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To: bootless; skeeter
I really didn’t want to know how ignorant Hanks was of history. I know there’s a lot I don’t know, but please... And I really, really enjoy Apollo 13. (sigh)

And yet, even in that, he deliberately and dishonestly rewrote history. Jim Lovell was not the astronaut who said "OK Houston, we've had a problem here ". It was Jack Swigart.

47 posted on 03/06/2010 11:05:02 AM PST by tarheelswamprat
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To: tarheelswamprat
And yet, even in that, he deliberately and dishonestly rewrote history. Jim Lovell was not the astronaut who said "OK Houston, we've had a problem here ". It was Jack Swigart.

Really? Wow. I had no idea. Where can I read more about that? I had the privilege of listening to the REAL Jim Lovell speak in the media tent at Oshkosh a few years back. He spoke more of general aviation than space - a really delightful man.

75 posted on 03/06/2010 1:41:45 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget. Never Again. (www.PursuingLiberty.com))
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