Apollo 13 (Netflix) (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

I watched this tonight on a flight - at the end I was literally a quivering pile of goo, an absolute mess.

It’s a brilliantly edited archival piece, not a documentary in the traditional sense. None of the video or audio was made for the film (apart from a few demonstrative graphics) - but they took 7,000 hours of video, mostly from the coverage of the mission itself laid over with contemporary audio and interviews from a time more closely associated with the event.

It’s simply incredible. It has to be one of the greatest stories ever in the history of mankind. I say this objectively - both because it is unique/unprecedented in its context and absolutely incredible in how it unfolded.

It’s hard to imagine how this incredible story could be any more perfectly told than this.

Watch Apollo 13: Survival | Netflix Official Site

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.

www.netflix.com

 

[saints4eva]

I watched this tonight on a flight - at the end I was literally a quivering pile of goo, an absolute mess.

It’s a brilliantly edited archival piece, not a documentary in the traditional sense. None of the video or audio was made for the film (apart from a few demonstrative graphics) - but they took 7,000 hours of video, mostly from the coverage of the mission itself laid over with contemporary audio and interviews from a time more closely associated with the event.

It’s simply incredible. It has to be one of the greatest stories ever in the history of mankind. I say this objectively - both because it is unique/unprecedented in its context and absolutely incredible in how it unfolded.

It’s hard to imagine how this incredible story could be any more perfectly told than this.

Watch Apollo 13: Survival | Netflix Official Site

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.

www.netflix.com

Thanks for the endorsement Chuck. I will definitely check it out

 

[Optimus Prime]

Wish I had Netflix

Very interested in this

 

[0rion]

Yeah....I will make sure to watch this. Right up my alley. Kid friendly I take it because my 11 year old shares my interest in this kinda stuff.

 

[efil4stnias]

Watched it. And I even "rated I love this" at the end, which I rarely do.

I liked the time spent with Mrs Lovell that tells more about the stress on family.

I also liked how it was pretty accurate with Ron Howard's movie. Ken wasn't ill, rhey really did have to do a manual piloted burn WITHOUT the guidance computer just using Earth in window as a guide, the air scrubber issue was real etc.

Definitely recommend.

 

[efil4stnias]

Yeah....I will make sure to watch this. Right up my alley. Kid friendly I take it because my 11 year old shares my interest in this kinda stuff.

Absolutely kid friendly

 

[superchuck500]

Watched it. And I even "rated I love this" at the end, which I rarely do.

I liked the time spent with Mrs Lovell that tells more about the stress on family.

I also liked how it was pretty accurate with Ron Howard's movie. Ken wasn't ill, rhey really did have to do a manual piloted burn WITHOUT the guidance computer just using Earth in window as a guide, the air scrubber issue was real etc.

Definitely recommend.

Yeah when you’re watching them solve the mathematics to get the lander module to do something completely unintended - to orbit the moon and return - and all with 1960s technology, it’s mind blowing.

Like you said, a Hollywood movie is one thing but watching it all on contemporary video and news broadcasts just hits differently.

 

[efil4stnias]

Yeah when you’re watching them solve the mathematics to get the lander module to do something completely unintended - to orbit the moon and return - and all with 1960s technology, it’s mind blowing.

Like you said, a Hollywood movie is one thing but watching it all on contemporary video and news broadcasts just hits differently.

It was the manual burn to get them back into the 2 degree return envelope that completely threw me.

Lovell was on the "up down ( pitch ) /throttle" and Fred Haise was on the " left/right ( yaw )" and they had to be almost PERFECT to get the ship BACK to a trajectory and entry to Earths atmosphere within 2 degrees- WITH NO COMPUTER AND MOVING AT 15,000 mph LOL.

Even the Brits were sweating on live tele.

Im a doc freak and i found this one to be one of the best ones by Netflix ( ive been partial HBO/MAX doc )

 

[tenordas]

I gave up on Netflix years ago because their content was just nothing. Of course, they come up with something I have to see. Maybe I'll do a trial or something...

 

[2009ring]

Yeah when you’re watching them solve the mathematics to get the lander module to do something completely unintended - to orbit the moon and return - and all with 1960s technology, it’s mind blowing.

Like you said, a Hollywood movie is one thing but watching it all on contemporary video and news broadcasts just hits differently.

I watch stuff like this and I wonder how they changed a light bulb with 1960's technology sometimes.

 

[SystemShock]

I watched it a couple weeks ago. You know it's a great piece when you know the outcome of the history, but still feel the tension and wonder how/if they are going to make it back.

Of all the little inconsequential details that most people don't know or have forgotten, the one that stood out for me was the use of the word "mathematics", not "math", the mark of a serious engineer pre-internet.

And being a computer engineer myself, listening to them send just numbers back and forth... that was something else, that was a wow moment for me. You always hear how NASA landed on the moon using computers less powerful than a modern pocket calculator, but actually watching them "do the math", sorry, "do the mathematics", that was something else.

 

[superchuck500]

I watched it a couple weeks ago. You know it's a great piece when you know the outcome of the history, but still feel the tension and wonder how/if they are going to make it back.

Of all the little inconsequential details that most people don't know or have forgotten, the one that stood out for me was the use of the word "mathematics", not "math", the mark of a serious engineer pre-internet.

And being a computer engineer myself, listening to them send just numbers back and forth... that was something else, that was a wow moment for me. You always hear how NASA landed on the moon using computers less powerful than a modern pocket calculator, but actually watching them "do the math", sorry, "do the mathematics", that was something else.

Arithmetic!

They said it like 10 times. Definitely not a word we use much anymore.

 

[porculator]

I read Lost Moon (Lovell's book) and watched the movie a million times growing up. And just watched the doc.
I guess the biggest surprise to me was how un-surprising any of it was. The 90's movie really nailed it with no exagerration.

They also used some movie footage which made it a little corny to me - like after the O2 tank explodes and it shows the gauges lowering and then cutting to the "ABORT" button. The only thing missing was sweaty Tom Hanks looking back and forth at them

 

[efil4stnias]

I read Lost Moon (Lovell's book) and watched the movie a million times growing up. And just watched the doc.
I guess the biggest surprise to me was how un-surprising any of it was. The 90's movie really nailed it with no exagerration.

They also used some movie footage which made it a little corny to me - like after the O2 tank explodes and it shows the gauges lowering and then cutting to the "ABORT" button. The only thing missing was sweaty Tom Hanks looking back and forth at them

as much as Hollywood likes to take "licensing" ( aka embellish for dramatic effect ) - i said same thing during doc and after- how close Ron Howards film was to the actual events.

One other takeaway - the cigarette smokers, my word. They had to have their own "cloud" near the ceiling of just about every room in Houston.

 

[superchuck500]

One other takeaway - the cigarette smokers, my word. They had to have their own "cloud" near the ceiling of just about every room in Houston.

Yeah I was thinking “man, I doubt any of these Mission Control guys lived to he old!”