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Post by laurel on Jul 6, 2009 20:25:28 GMT -4
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Post by LunarOrbit on Jul 6, 2009 21:50:41 GMT -4
That's a new one for me. There is no way Michael Collins could have seen the crash site in enough detail to see the cosmonaut, never mind the flag in his hand. The Apollo landers were just barely visible to the astronauts in orbit.
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Post by Kiwi on Jul 7, 2009 6:17:05 GMT -4
And as for the Russians landing on the moon "about" 1959, at least 15 months before Yuri Gagarin's flight... One of the guys who replied (Michael) needs correcting. He says: Not true -- he's implying they landed at full moon. The Apollo 11 landing occurred a little before first quarter, therefore a bit less than half of the near side was sunlit and a bit more than half of the far side was sunlit.
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Post by PeterB on Jul 7, 2009 8:34:20 GMT -4
Jed Mercurio's novel "Ascent" ends with a lone cosmonaut on the far side of the Moon with no hope of rescue, but in 1969, not a decade earlier.
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Post by Jason on Jul 7, 2009 12:05:01 GMT -4
I recall seeing an old movie of the first moon land with an American astronaut going over a hill and finding two dead cosmonauts, one with a Soviet flag hanging in his hand and the other just out the door of their Mercury-looking capsule, completely suppressed by their country after they had proven unsuccessful.
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Post by sts60 on Jul 7, 2009 13:21:42 GMT -4
Countdown, made in 1968. A pretty good space-race flick. The U.S. tries to win the race to the Moon by sending a habitat followed by a lone astronaut, who will live there until follow-on crews and resources can be sent. Not surprisingly, he has problems on the way, and can't find the shelter. He does, however, find the Soviet crew and IIRC inters them. He is almost out of oxygen, can't find the shelter's beacon, gets ready to lie down and wait for the end, and... Not a major movie but notable for featuring James Caan and Robert Duvall, as well as being directed by Robert Altman.
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