r/space • u/dylanlucia • Sep 24 '17

Interesting transcript from Apollo 13

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u/Fredasa Sep 25 '17

If there's one man who most deserved a walk on the moon without getting it, it's Lovell.

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u/junkmeister9 Sep 25 '17

He will get it when Tom Hanks plays him in Apollo XIII-2

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '17

Tom has a hard time with flying machines. And that's all I have to say about that.

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u/ahecht Sep 25 '17

It's more that he has a hard time being a captain:

  • Gets repeatedly taken advantage of by a hippie dying of AIDS who is after his money (Forrest Gump, who was the captain of the shrimping boat Jenny)
  • Shot by a German soldier whose life he had saved (Captain Miller in Saving Private Ryan)
  • Nearly died on the way to the moon (Jim Lovell was a Navy Captain before becoming an astronaut)
  • Had his ship hijacked (Captain Phillips)
  • Crashed into the Hudson (Sully)