Yes. I’ve had it for years. I’d really like an e-version though. It's the best book on the program. It is really strange that its never come out.

YES YES YES. I’ve worn out the pages on my copy and I’m furious that it’s not in Kindle format yet. Probably the seminal book on the Apollo program. Don’t know what the roadblock is, especially since Slayton and Shepard’s hagiographic book has had multiple digital reissues in the interim.

One of the things I love about this movie is its protrayal of scientific and engineering proficiency. The astronauts and NASA staff don’t have natural gifts, or super powers and they don’t stand as guardians of hidden esoteric lore. Rather, their skills are the result of dedicated professionalism. This depiction of…

I love this movie a lot, but most particularly that scene you specified, with the box of junk tossed on the table that they need to use to literally fit a square peg into a round hole. Problem solving at its best. Also, Ed Harris in a waistcoat. 

That is a bit of a problem with a lot of these dramatizations involving Hanks, although I like them. A more recent example is “Sully”. The film makes it out that Sully is upset and insulted that there is an FAA investigation of the Hudson River incident, but in real life Captain Sully understood fully that everything…

I’ve been rewatching “From the Earth to the Moon” lately. A real shame that Chaikin’s book still hasn’t come out digitally.

This is a great movie and a good write-up, but fails to mention one of the most amazing aspects of the film, which is that they are able to wring genuine suspense out of the landing when we all knew going in that they survived!

I always leaven my criticisms of this film with the admission that I saw this 12 times in the theaters when it first came out (I grew up during the Apollo missions and my entire childhood was shaped by moon shots). Since its release, I’ve had a few things spoil the experience a bit for me (like discovering whole…

Speaking of failed missions, I still can’t believe no one has made a film about Project Azorian, in which the CIA, using Howard Hughes’s corporation as a cover, built a tanker ship with a concealed moon pool and grappling arm and attempted to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine in the Pacific Ocean.  The sub was a few…

Being a real story rather than science fiction makes Apollo 13 more compelling though. Although it is interesting that Marooned predicted a similar case of astronauts in danger of suffocation before a real such situation occurred.

Cat vs Sheep in a checkers deathmatch, officiated by a chicken... My money's on the cat.

Obviously the “MORTAL KOMBAT!” line is undefeated, but I’m rather fond of “TEST. YOUR MIGHT.”

That’s Midway sound engineer Dan Forden.  Have no idea how the bosses didn’t make them take out that inside joke. 

This track was a mainstay when I was in high school. Which was so weird. You’d be at a school dance and kids would be dancing and shit and then a dude would scream “Mortal Kombat!!!” and you’d just... dance through it. It always made me laugh.

OT a bit, but this really is one of the coolest openings to a movie, ever.

I wanna meet the guy who yells toasty.

The Happy Crasher presaged what literally everybody who played RollerCoaster Tycoon would do eventually.

This was definitely my most-watched movie of 1992. I got a copy just a few weeks after it came out - My Dad (possibly grandmother) bought it for me on our way back from seeing my Mom and newborn brother in the hospital. One of those “presents” you give to older siblings to occupy them for a few weeks while the rest of…

Oddly enough, Jesus wasn’t a help because he wasn’t there. Although Kumail Nanjiani’s still in the credits, he’s been in only a couple episodes this season. Unfortunately way too much time was spent with Betty being on her bullshit, which worked in small doses because Maya Rudolph is a fucking goddess, but as the…

See also: this article from The Onion circa 2009: