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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Listening to the actual Apollo 13 communications recordings is wild. Maybe it's just the recording, but they sound so focused and professional that the film characters seem panicky by comparison!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

There's a whole scene in the film where they're freaking out and Tom Hanks asks something like "are we on vox?!" and then is chill once he actually calls in to Houston. I get the idea of artistic license for dramatic effect, but I always thought it was such a slight on the professionalism of that crew to even claim there was such a breakdown.

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