>>In Apollo 13 the astronauts were just unfortunate victims. On their own >>they'd have died. The heroes were the back room guys like "Mad Don" Arabian >>and his mates who figured out how to power down the spacecraft so the >>batteries would last.
The Apollo cosmonauts also made mistakes and failed to follow instructions from the ground. That's what made the story into a drama. The film was just silly. >>Well you may point out to your son the fact that Sully achieved the only >>successful ditching of a commercial airliner in the history of aviation where >>not one person was killed and only 5 were injured. Yes, but as he said, isn't that what they are paid for? But by the above accounts, that's not what the film is about. D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
