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Conference 7.286::space

Title:Space Exploration
Notice:Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6
Moderator:PRAGMA::GRIFFIN
Created:Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:974
Total number of notes:18843

440.0. "The Rocket Pilots" by GARY::HUGHES () Tue Jul 12 1988 12:33

    This week, Arts & Entertainment are again showing 'The Rocket Pilots',
    a very interesting documentary on the planes and pilots of the 'X'
    series, especially the X-1, X-2 and X-15. It runs for about 90 minutes
    and is very interesting.
    
    I think it is Wednesday at 9pm, but I read the guide BC (before caffeine)
    so I advise anyone interested to check for themselves. A&E typically
    repeat their nightime lineup early in the following am, so there
    should be two chances to tape it.
    
    gary
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440.1An excellent documentaryMTWAIN::KLAESKnow FutureFri Jul 15 1988 17:2514
    	I liked this show very much, and I'm very grateful you alerted
    us to it.  Though I found the music a bit overwhelming on occassion,
    the information and film clips were great, much of which I had never
    seen before.
    
    	I would say that Chuck Yeager and Scott Crossfield have to be
    two of the best pilots who ever lived.  Their almost inhuman casualness
    about life-threatening situations is to be admired.  It is a real
    shame that politics had to stick its ugly nose into the X-15 program
    and keep us from having an early Shuttle system in the early 1960s.
    THAT was the way to proceed into space.
    
    	Larry
440.2Buck Rogers rides again ...TRCO01::FINNEYKeep cool, but do not freeze...Sat Jul 16 1988 16:3614
    One of the interesting things about this program is its attempt
    to show everyone that the the Mercury , Gemini, Apollo, Skylab,
    Shuttle and Russian astronauts were not the only humans to go into
    space. They do this very niftily ( is that a word ? ) by saying
    things like - " on March X, 19XX, Joe Testpilot took his modified
    X-15n up for a x minute flight. Joe flew his X-15 into space, and
    flew it back again ..."
    
    I thinks it's high time more credit was given to these original
    'astronauts' for their accomplishments.
    
    Good show.
    
    Scooter