We Want A Window

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 07/25/2015 at 10:02 • Filed to: Spacelopnik

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Some Right Stuff for a Saturday morning. A great movie and one of the iconic scenes.

Bad Idea Hat > f86sabre 07/25/2015 at 10:44

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I was outvoted in my attempt to watch this. Now watching Shrek the Third.

davedave1111 > f86sabre 07/25/2015 at 10:54

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I have to admit to considerable sympathy for the engineers. Whole thing should have been done by remote control ;)

wafflesnfalafel > f86sabre 07/25/2015 at 12:18

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Ed Harris is just perfect in that scene

f86sabre > davedave1111 07/25/2015 at 17:52

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I think Gordo Cooper would disagree. Flew his home manuals due to a systems malfunction and had the most accurate landing of the program

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-A…

GTCL > f86sabre 07/25/2015 at 20:38

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I love the “what Gus is saying.....” Scene. Have loved that movie for a long time.

f86sabre > GTCL 07/25/2015 at 20:53

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boxrocket > f86sabre 07/25/2015 at 23:26

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How the hell have I not heard of this before?!

davedave1111 > f86sabre 07/26/2015 at 06:54

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I wasn’t being serious. I’m pretty sure that scene in the movie is entirely apocryphal, because it makes no sense. Of course the engineers wanted to send up an unmanned rocket, and that would have worked fine - except for one thing, which is that the whole point was to send men up there.