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Topic: Countdown - UK TV
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Jacqueline
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Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-11-2001 02:19 AM
   
On Monday morning at 10.40am on ITV there is a film called "Countdown" about the race to the moon. Looks good. I'll have to set my video to record it.Anyone out there seen it? Jacqueline |
tegwilym
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posted 08-11-2001 11:53 PM
Is that a 4 part series? There was a series about 10 years ago with the same name which was really great! I still have them all on tape.
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Jacqueline
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posted 08-12-2001 09:16 AM
As far as I am aware it is a film.Jacqueline |
Keith Barber
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posted 08-12-2001 09:53 AM
It was made in 1968 and reflects that time in tv!.Americans where trying for a very quick moonshot(Russia launched) using a Mercury capsule, as I remember but I was only one at the time!!. |
paulR22
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posted 08-12-2001 12:54 PM
Pretty good film for it's time-featuring a very young James Caan & Robert Duvall. The Lander is a strange Gemini/Lunar Module hybrid! the film's also got some interesting shots in and around the Manned Spacecraft Center of 1967. The book that it's based on is called "The Pilgrim Project" witten by Hank Searls in 1964.
Looks good for it's day. |
Keith Barber
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posted 08-13-2001 04:46 AM
have to agree with paul!.it`s better than I remember,having just finished work it was worth the watch on a monday morning. The Lunar shots were pretty good and very good qualilty shot film. |
nasamad
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posted 08-13-2001 06:15 AM
that Gemini spacecraft with the LM descent stage cracked me up ! Especially when the astronaut had to hang from a pole to get out onto the top of the descent stage. :-) |
tegwilym
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posted 08-13-2001 10:46 AM
Oh yeah, that movie. Hmm...I don't think I have seen that one yet. |
Jacqueline
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Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 08-13-2001 11:13 AM
I've yet to watch it. I had 5, yes I said 5 children to look after today, and there was no way I would be left in peace to watch it so I videoed it. Will let you know my thoughts when I get some free time to watch it!Jacqueline |
CPIA
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posted 08-13-2001 03:27 PM
It was based upon the premise that the man would land and wait for pickup in two years! All the while being supplied by robot supply vessels.
It was fun to watch, because it was so serious back then. Now we laugh.
But you know a similar idea was brought up by Dick Ruttan (Voyager aircraft designed and pilot) about sending a man to Mars. Only he suggested a one way trip and no resupply ships. The idea did not go very far.
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paulR22
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posted 08-14-2001 06:33 PM
Wow-I know Dick is an innovator with some fantastic ideas, but i never heard about that one.
When did this come out and how did he propose to do it??
Paul |
Jacqueline
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posted 08-22-2001 03:10 PM
Well I finally sat down and watched the movie. Really strange senario! I could never imagine NASA sending a man to the moon in the 1960's and making him wait for a year to return! How bizarre. Other than that it was OK. Just OK.Jacqueline |
paulR22
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posted 08-23-2001 02:44 PM
Well the original story was written in 1964! |
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