And Now For Something Completely Different: I'm A Space Nerd
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I'm a space nerd. I've got piles of technical books on space flight and I can't help but watch every video that drops in my feed on YouTube and elsewhere about rockets.
But one that popped up recently was this original post-flight press conference with the astronauts of Apollo 13 and if you have seen the film Apollo 13, you'll know the story. Apollo 13 was the mission which famously "had a problem" on the way to the moon.
Watching this video I was struck by how obvious it is that this material served as the basis for a great deal of the specifics of the film Apollo 13. The dialogue in the film which took place over the radio between the spaceship and mission control was placed into the movie pretty much word for word. That I knew.
But what I learned from this press conference was just how much of the background details came from things spoken about it in this press conference.
The press were different
At around 43m the video moves to questions from reporters in the room and what strikes me is how many of the questions display a significant grasp of some quite technical details of both the flight and the specific problems which caused them to "lose the moon". I just can't help but compare it to today's universally dumb reporting from the mainstream media.
And another thing:
Apollo 13 splashed down on April 17, 1970. The exact time of the splashdown was 18:07:41 UTC.
This press conference happened on the 21st of April, barely 4 days later! The fact finding mission and reports which arrived at a reasonable explanation of what caused the problem were completed fast enough to keep the rest of the Apollo missions on track.
In other news, Elon Musk
And of course, I just have to record here for posterity that last night Elon Musk liked one of my tweets. I don't expect anyone to care but I do. And the tweet he liked was a picture of 
https://twitter.com/brianoflondon/status/1660337935550382081
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https://twitter.com/elon_alerts/status/1660721595235573795
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