Talk:When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

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[edit] Kranz on Grissom

Gene Kranz is in the first episode talking about seeing the rescue of Gus Grissom - the helicopters and Gus in the water and saying "Get Gus!" There was no live TV coverage of the rescue of Grissom. We were watching TV and they showed supposed video of the capsule being recovered. Soon we found out that the spacecraft sank. My father (and many others) called the TV station to complain. Afterwards, they were always careful to state when something was simulated or whatever. But there was no live TV of Grissom's recovery, the footage you see is film, probably 16mm. Bubba73 (talk), 16:03, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. That was actually a pretty big scare for NASA ... Gus came close to drowning - on the second US human spaceflight. Apparently, according to From the Earth to the Moon, a proposed (but rejected) redesign of the hatch design used on American spacecraft could have increased the potential for the Apollo 1 astronauts to have survived. Not sure whether that's true (just about everything in From the Earth to the Moon is)... --J. Atkins ^{(talk - contribs)} 19:57, 10 June 2008 (UTC)