Today, my wife and I were talking about the greatest scene in cinematic history: the moment in Apollo 13 when the engineers dump plastic sheeting, wires, tools and duct tape onto a table with the instructions that they have to figure out how to get the astronauts aboard the damaged space capsule back on the ground alive using only those items -- because that's all the astronauts have to work with.
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Today, my wife and I were talking about the greatest scene in cinematic history: the moment in Apollo 13 when the engineers dump plastic sheeting, wires, tools and duct tape onto a table with the instructions that they have to figure out how to get the astronauts aboard the damaged space capsule back on the ground alive using only those items -- because that's all the astronauts have to work with.
Coincidentally, we crack open the daily paper and there's this: "Ed Smylie, Engineer Who Helped Save Apollo 13 Crew, Dies at 95"
I thought you were going to cite the scene in which all the engineers whipped out their notepads and pencils to solve an equation.
That NASA ran a successful space program with the tech available then never ceases to amaze me. When did we stop dreaming big?
I taught myself how to type using a manual typewriter that we had around the house and one of my mother's old textbooks.
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