[SOT] Movies

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:55:20 +0000, Jonathan Silverlight
wrote:

There's something called "Apollo 11" which is regularly shown on the
Sci-Fi Channel here, but I've never seen it.

....Is that the one with Xander Berkeley playing Armstrong as Matt
Frewer would have played him - ie, Max Headroom on methodone?

OM

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Ste Kearney wrote:


There's 'Out of the Present' - movie about Mir I think, made in space.
Features an actual Soyuz landing! Everyone rolling it upright! Why do
they always end up on their sides?


I think it's the parachute pulling it over in the wind before it gets
jettisoned; I've got a photo of one that's been dragged through the snow
for a hundred feet or so by its parachute.


Pat

James Nicoll wrote:

Are there any good films about the Soviet program?


I've never seen it, but there is supposed to be one called "Steep Road
To The Stars" that is a somewhat fictionalized version of it.
On our side, "Toward the Unknown" has X-planes in it; and "X-15" is
about- you guessed it, the X-15.
There is also one about the "Man High" Skyhook balloon flights, but I
can't remember the name of it.


Pat

"James Nicoll" wrote in message
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Are there any good films about the Soviet program?

Of course. They were all made by a little old lady in Leningrad.

"James Nicoll" wrote in message
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1: Another thing that struck me is that for no reason I can defend, I
find modern aircraft a lot uglier than WWII planes. I freely admit
"not falling out of the air" and "doing their job better" are much
better metrics than "pretty".

I've always said the Concorde is the only plane I've seen in flight that
actually looks like it was MEANT to fly.

And then of course there's the A-10 Warthog... a plane so ugly the ground
repels it. :-)


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On 10 Jan 2005 07:11:58 -0800, wrote:

An interesting old one, if you can manage to get hold of it, is called
"Countdown", released in 1968.

One plus to this one is that it shows what I think are actual hardware
and NASA facilities.

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On 10 Jan 2005 07:11:58 -0800, wrote:

but is based on
a genuine hypothetical plan at the time to land on the Moon using a
Gemini mated with a LM descent stage.

That's what is in the movie, but wasn't the actual possible plan to do
a figure 8 with a Gemini around the moon, launched with a Titan III?

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:34:00 -0500, Jud McCranie
wrote:

That's what is in the movie, but wasn't the actual possible plan to do
a figure 8 with a Gemini around the moon, launched with a Titan III?

....IIRC, the plan called for two Titan II launches - one with a
Gemini, one with an uprated Centaur with an ADTA on the end. The
Gemini would dock with the Centaur, and Pete Conrad and whoever got
lucky enough to tag along would get shot backwards into a Circumlunar
trajectory.

OM

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:23:35 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

I've always said the Concorde is the only plane I've seen in flight that
actually looks like it was MEANT to fly.

....Distant second only to the Habu and the Valkyrie, in that order.

OM

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Jud McCranie wrote:

That's what is in the movie, but wasn't the actual possible plan to do
a figure 8 with a Gemini around the moon, launched with a Titan III?

That was one plan, but there also was a Gemini based lander..but not the
way the movie shows it, with a Gemini sitting on a LM descent stage:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/gemcraft.htm
The crashed Soviet lander in the movie is based on the upper stage of a
Vostok rocket, BTW.

pat