thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) (02/26/90)
I was not sure what to expect from this film -- or even if I was going to
watch it at all. As with many of you, my interest in shuttle activities
is more than passing. And so the events during and after the flight
affected me more emotionally than maybe most people who said, "Yeah, that
was the one with the teacher on it, wasn't it."
As far as the film goes, I kept thinking that this was a dramatization, and
except for facts which we all know from the reports and press, there was
really no way of knowing the intimate details of the astronauts or their
families. So the film didn't show a lot of the details of their families.
I read a book (called "I touched the sky"?) which was published the year
after the accident and concentrated on Christa's experience. I saw nothing
in the film that I hadn't already read in that book.
Did I like the film? Well, I certainly liked the NASA shots -- the lifting
of the orbiter from horizontal to vertical in the VAB was impressive.
They played up on the lives of the people much more than the scientific
aspects of it. Some parts of some of the astronauts' lives were played a
little negatively, so I can see how some of the families wouldn't like to
have a film made of them -- I wouldn't either. But at least as far as I
could tell, they didn't stretch credibility of the facts.
What I thought was at least as interesting was that this was shown the same
evening as the actual events are/were taking place in FL for the next
Shuttle mission. There are more than one resemblance of this mission to
the Challenger mission -- although I hope that things aren't the same as
they were.
(apologies to anyone on the West Coast who is trying to watch the show and
read Usenet at the same time and sees this posting before the program is
over).
- tom
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The UUCP Mailerhmueller@neuron.tamu.edu (Harold E Mueller) (02/26/90)
In article <174.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) writes: >(apologies to anyone on the West Coast who is trying to watch the show and > read Usenet at the same time and sees this posting before the program is > over). Shame on you for posting and giving away the ending! Hal Mueller hmueller@cssun.tamu.edu n270ca@tamunix (Bitnet) Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science Research Assistant, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Science Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) (02/28/90)
> > In article <174.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> thomas@mvac23.UUCP (Thomas Lapp) writes: > >(apologies to anyone on the West Coast who is trying to watch the show and > > read Usenet at the same time and sees this posting before the program is > > over). > > Shame on you for posting and giving away the ending! > But I didn't give away the ending! I was all ready to see that classic shot of the shuttle exploding, but it never came. I think I liked it that way better. - tom -- internet : mvac23!thomas@udel.edu or thomas%mvac23@udel.edu uucp : {ucbvax,mcvax,psuvax1,uunet}!udel!mvac23!thomas Europe Bitnet: THOMAS1@GRATHUN1 Location: Newark, DE, USA Quote : Virtual Address eXtension. Is that like a 9-digit zip code? -- The UUCP Mailer