EARLY ACCESS: Apollo 13
Added 2024-04-25 14:00:12 +0000 UTCcan't decide if I wanna keep the pun in the title or not.. lol
is it too corny?
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Being a space enthusiast, this is obviously one of my favorite movies. I remember the night Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I was sent to bed (I was 5) and snuck out of bed to peek around the corner of the hallway to watch the pictures coming in. Those guys had it tough, but the wives went through hell, never knowing what might happen to their husbands. Those ladies deserve medals just as much as the guys do. Most astronaut marriages ended in divorce because the stress just killed them. However, Jim Lovell was still married to his high school sweetheart Marilyn who passed late last year. Jim Lovell was in the movie at the end when they were on the carrier. Tom Hanks shook his hand. Ron Howard wanted him in the movie as an Admiral, but Lovell insisted that he remain a Captain and wore his old Navy uniform in the movie. They filmed the Zero G sequences was they built the sets inside the airplane known as the "Vomit Comet." It's an airliner sized transport used to train the astronauts in Zero -G. The pilot climbs to about 30,000 feet, then noses over to dive. You get about 30-40 seconds of Zero G. Then at the bottom, like a roller coaster, the plane pulls up and you get some heavy Gs as the plane pulls up. Throughout the flight, Fred Haise was suffering from a bad UTI, which later turned into a bad kidney infection. He was hospitalized after the flight but recovered. The whole movie was a family affair for Ron Howard. Ron directed, his brother Clint played the bald flight controller who was in charge of the oxygen tanks (EECOM). Ron's father played the priest who was at Marilyn Lovell's side at the end of the movie. Ron's mother played Blanche Lovell. Clint and Ron were early child stars on television. Ron was in Andy Griffith and Clint was on a show called Gentle Ben about a boy and his bear. Clint was also in one of the first Star Trek episodes playing an alien. Ron went on to do Happy Days but has found greater success as a director. I grew up in Joplin, MO where they made the batteries for Apollo at Eagle-Pitcher. My 3rd grade teacher's husband worked at the plant. We were proud of our small contribution to the space program, I just hope we keep going.
Stephen Koehler
2024-04-26 10:54:29 +0000 UTCrgw zero gew parts were filmed on the vomit cement
Jason Skeans
2024-04-26 06:39:22 +0000 UTC
