The movie "Hidden Figures" (about African-American women who worked in the space program) has some great views of Mercury Redstone, Atlas, and Vostok (?) rockets.
Excellent movie for the scale rocketeer.
Excellent movie for the scale rocketeer.
I would rather see a movie about Apollo 12. Just like Ron Howard made Apollo 13 in 1995 he should make an Apollo 11. That would be a movie to see.
Hidden Figures is a movie to see. Well acted and a wonderful story. Just like in the movie Apollo 13 (and in real life) it shows hw the human spirit can overcome obstacles.
I didn't like the fact that it made most of the engineers look like idiots, like the fact that no-one seemed to know that a redstone couldn't put a capusle in an orbit, they would have figured that out long back, and like the fact that they were two weeks away from a launch and had no idea about orbital mechanics or a way to calculate a return point from orbit....
and a few other things like exploding rockets supposed to be redstones that were not, most of the explostions they had were not redstones anyway, were early atlas tests etc...
Frank
+1. They took a few historical and technical liberties, but otherwise it told a relatively unknown story not only about the 3 AA women, but other back-office people who worked on the space program at the dawn of both the space age and the computing age. (there aren't too many other movies about practicing mathematicians, for example, unless they are breaking secret codes or doing other spy-movie stuff)
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