What are Armstrong and Collins Up To These Days?

Re Apollo-11 -- I know what Buzz is busy with,
but are there any public projects that
neil and mike are currently involved in?

jim O

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:10:33 GMT, "Jim Oberg"
wrote:

Re Apollo-11 -- I know what Buzz is busy with,
but are there any public projects that
neil and mike are currently involved in?

jim O


Well Mike is doing a lot of fishing and basically separated from
Pat........married in name only, I hear

Re Apollo-11 -- I know what Buzz is busy with,
but are there any public projects that
neil and mike are currently involved in?


Armstrong is cooperating with an authorized biography being written by a
historian -- the book is supposed to be complete by the end of 2004. It's
already been bought for the movies by Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Productions.

Michael Cassutt

On 13 Jul 2004 15:08:45 GMT, (Michael Cassutt) wrote:

Armstrong is cooperating with an authorized biography being written by a
historian -- the book is supposed to be complete by the end of 2004. It's
already been bought for the movies by Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Productions.

....I can see it now:

"So, I bet you're thinking, did I say 'one small step for man', or
'one small step for A man'? So which is it, punk? You feeling lucky,
punk?"

....or:

"Neil, Buzz called George Low, and he seems to think there's a problem
about who gets out of the LM first. What's your opinion on that?"

"It's a cluster ****."

....Of course, if Clint's going to play Neil, Tommy Lee Jones has to
play Buzz for that scene :-)

OM

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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:59:42 -0500, OM wrote:

On 13 Jul 2004 15:08:45 GMT, (Michael Cassutt) wrote:

Armstrong is cooperating with an authorized biography being written by a
historian -- the book is supposed to be complete by the end of 2004. It's
already been bought for the movies by Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Productions.

...I can see it now:

"So, I bet you're thinking, did I say 'one small step for man', or
'one small step for A man'? So which is it, punk? You feeling lucky,
punk?"

...or:

"Neil, Buzz called George Low, and he seems to think there's a problem
about who gets out of the LM first. What's your opinion on that?"

"It's a cluster ****."

...Of course, if Clint's going to play Neil, Tommy Lee Jones has to
play Buzz for that scene :-)

OM


LOL! Good post OM!

In article , cass54
@aol.com says...
Armstrong is cooperating with an authorized biography being written by a
historian -- the book is supposed to be complete by the end of 2004. It's
already been bought for the movies by Clint Eastwood's Malpaso Productions.

Is it going to be better than One Giant Leap?
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work
for test pilots. -- Mike Collins

Is it going to be better than One Giant Leap?

We'll just have to wait and see. The author is James Hansen, nominated for a
Pulitzer Prize. That's all I know.

Michael Cassutt

"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
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In article , cass54
@aol.com says...
Armstrong is cooperating with an authorized biography being written by a
historian -- the book is supposed to be complete by the end of 2004.
It's
already been bought for the movies by Clint Eastwood's Malpaso
Productions.

Is it going to be better than One Giant Leap?
--
It would be hard not to be. One Giant Leap is an OK book. It gave me a lot
more insight into Armstrong's life, his background etc., but is light on his
actual astronautic career.

In article , says...
"Kevin Willoughby" wrote in message
...
Is it going to be better than One Giant Leap?
It would be hard not to be. One Giant Leap is an OK book.

You are more generous than me. The book is just a notch above "lousy,
sorry I wasted my time reading it".


It gave me a lot
more insight into Armstrong's life, his background etc.,

But little insight to the man and what makes him tick.


but is light on his
actual astronautic career.

Quite light. He seems to have just decided to, one fine day, fly the X-
15. No training needed. Just strap it on and go.

How can someone write a biography of a NASA astronaut without ever
mentioning time in the simulator? Wasn't Armstrong's experimental work
in manual flight control of the Saturn V worth at least a paragraph??

Although better than Moon Shot, there are enough factual errors that the
book can't be used as a historical reference:
"One last chore [after Apollo 11's EVA] on the moon was dumping more
gear to lighten ascent weight load, including the portable life-support
backpacks [...] Through the open portal, they bade the moon farewell,
wondering if they would ever return, and chucked the two backpacks.
Perhaps the accident was caused by the lack of sleep, or just luck
catching up with men who had worked a long complex 'daisy chain' with
nothing going wrong. The huge television audience watched it happen. The
second of the backpacks flew out of the narrow hatch, seemed to catch
momentarily on the door, and, in slow-motion, cleanly sheared off what
looked to be a switch of some sort. It was in fact the circuit breaker
through which the power was to flow the ascent engine."
--
Kevin Willoughby lid

Imagine that, a FROG ON-OFF switch, hardly the work
for test pilots. -- Mike Collins