Re: Voyage to the Planets and beyond... Discovery Channel

After seeing the marathon showing on the Discovery Channel, I whole
heartedly agree. Solo landing on Titan, a solo space walk into
Saturn's rings, comet fragments blasting the ship's hull that should
have left that spacecraft in a million pieces.
To even go to Jupiter and conduct an aero-brake is risky with all
that radiation it's dumping out. Astronauts disobeying instructions
and cutting communications to Mission control was done on Skylab and
as one other person indicated on Amazon.com on Apollo 7.
This wasn't the first time comm was willing cut as the film
indicated. If this all really happened, this would be the first and
last manned missions to the planets.
I wonder if there was a hidden agenda to show the hazards of manned
missions and the benefits of robotic missions.
In the end, not to continue the mission and to run home with their
nose bloody and their tails between their legs was also a
disappointment. The film gave me the feeling that man was not meant
to explore the planets in person. That manned missions wasn't worth it. Love the CGI shots. Too bad the story ruined it.











Orion wrote:
Bad sci-fi at it's worst. The laundry list is so long, it's hard to know where to begin... First the good.. Some good cgi images.... so much for that... Now the bad.... A truly horrible mix of 20th and near 22 century technology.. I guess this takes place 50 -100 yrs from now... Naturally, they still have to use the Shuttle Atlantis to get to LEO!!!! Guess we just can't retire
the damn shuttle... It was clear the producers found that , in terms of crew selection, political correctness was far more important than anybody having the "Right Stuff'... What a bunch of losers! The cast of Gilligan's island would have been a better
choice... Every time they land somewhere, within minutes, disaster strikes at every turn... In the far future, they still use plantronics headsets (like the one Nasa and I currently use),
and they still have the same quality of communications that the Apollo mission had, with that pesky beep between broadcasts, VOX,
but, amazingly, they solved that nagging little problem of the speed of light, and Communication from Jupiter to Earth is real-time....no delays for c on this show... naturally they have to set foot on Venus, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... at nearly every turn, a
robot would have been a better choice... The crew has all the physical conditioning of a group of lymy accountants...But I guess as long as they have British accents, that makes them good choices..... The landing vehicles all look similar to the Mars Lander Estes models rocket I built in the 60's... Since the "astronauts" have the physically conditioning of Stephen hawkings
with a bad hang-over, of course they are going to make them crawl up a 30 foot Lander with a 200 lb suit on just in the nick of time to blast off....so many more flaws, but I'll let others through the 2 cents in... If you want to see how not to do human missions in space, this is the show to watch... Glad Stanley Kubrick missed this one...wish I had... Orion



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