CFI: Canonical List of Sci-Fi "Real" Astronauts

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:09:29 GMT, (Derek Lyons)
wrote:

Darren J Longhorn wrote:

I like that idea, but Footfall features a fictional spacecraft with
strap-on non-fictional spacecraft.
http://www.up-ship.com/apr/michael.htm

It would help if he read the book. The rifles from the BB's were used
as recoilless rifles that formed the propulsion/weapons systems for
auxiliary craft, not as turrets.

Original questions remain though. Do the shuttle pilots qualify?
Does the crew of Michael qualify?

"Ami Silberman" wrote in message
...
Major Tom -- from David Bowie's "Space Oddity", "Ashes to Ashes", and
Peter
Schilling's "Major Tom". Appears to have flown a MA-10b type mission with
a
solo space walk.


Well, are we sure Major Tom was American? May have been an ill-fated Soyuz
flight.

(and i've always wondered if Soyuz 1 influenced Bowie in this song.)

"Ami Silberman" wrote in message
...
I'm confining my contribution to half-remembered books set in the 20th
century.

Autopsy for a Cosmonaut by Jacob Hay -- extra Gemini mission with a
forensic
pathologist aboard to determine cause of death in an Almaz-like Soviet
space
station.

Chain of Chance by Stanislaw Lem -- former Astronaut turned Private
Investigator solves mysterious "crime" in Naples.

if it hasn't been mentioned before, the TV Show "Northern Exposure" had a
former Mercury Astronaut as a character.

I believe it was, and I believe he was in fact an Apollo astronaut.

Ami Silberman wrote:

if it hasn't been mentioned before, the TV Show "Northern Exposure" had a
former Mercury Astronaut as a character.



Anybody gotten Jack Nicholson as Apollo LM crewmember Garrett Breedlove
from "Terms Of Endearment" and "The Evening Star" yet?

Pat

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:53:14 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:



Ami Silberman wrote:

if it hasn't been mentioned before, the TV Show "Northern Exposure" had a
former Mercury Astronaut as a character.



Anybody gotten Jack Nicholson as Apollo LM crewmember Garrett Breedlove
from "Terms Of Endearment" and "The Evening Star" yet?

Pat

Wasn't there also a Martin Sheen movie where he played an astronaut
who had walked on the moon and found some alien artifact? I can't
recall the movie or the character's name, but I think it had Christian
Slater in it too.

Dante

Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
"Ami Silberman" wrote in message
...
if it hasn't been mentioned before, the TV Show "Northern Exposure" had a
former Mercury Astronaut as a character.

I believe it was, and I believe he was in fact an Apollo astronaut.

In that case, how about Garrett Breedlove, played by Jack Nicholson, in
'Terms of Endearment'?

Do any of the space-going characters in the Turtledove
WW2-interrupted-by-aliens series count? I would think not since the
point of divergence is a bit far back.

How about the Goodies in their Big Bunny episode?
--
Hugh - to reply, don't c me

Hugh McGuinness wrote:


In that case, how about Garrett Breedlove, played by Jack Nicholson,
in 'Terms of Endearment'?


All great minds think alike, I see ;-)

Pat

In message , Dante Scott
writes
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 21:53:14 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:



Ami Silberman wrote:

if it hasn't been mentioned before, the TV Show "Northern Exposure" had a
former Mercury Astronaut as a character.



Anybody gotten Jack Nicholson as Apollo LM crewmember Garrett Breedlove
from "Terms Of Endearment" and "The Evening Star" yet?

Pat

Wasn't there also a Martin Sheen movie where he played an astronaut
who had walked on the moon and found some alien artifact? I can't
recall the movie or the character's name, but I think it had Christian
Slater in it too.

Dante

"Beyond the Stars". Character name is Paul Andrews and the IMDB review
describes him as "first man on the moon", but I can't recall if that's
in the film.

Where Are The Russians, by John Bentley...Manfred Luckner Galt, Cdr.,
Roy Smith, CMP, William Norlund, LMP........crewing Apollo 469, the
first American lunar landing attemp.

In message , OM
om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org writes
...After exchanging a couple of e-mails with Mark Wade over an
addition I think needs to be made to the "Phantom Astronauts" page on
EA, I've suddenly come up with an idea for a "Canonical List" of said
Phantoms.

Gavin Lewis - ex-astronaut (Peter Graves)
Hardy Smith (John Ericson)

in "The Invaders" episode "Moonshot". Without watching it, I can't work
out the names of the other two astronauts.
I'm mildly surprised the network passed a story about dead astronauts in
1967.