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I'm willing to bet Yeager did "mess around". In his autobiography which included pages from other people, his wife Glennis talked about pilot husbands who "stray". She was implying, in my opinion, that her own husband probably cheated on her while away from home.
Actually Lovell wanted Mattingly on the mission, even if he had the measles. The flight surgeon did not hesitate and bumped him. Lovell had no say in keeping him. This is what was claimed in the book anyway.
That scene along with another scene questioning Swigert's ability to dock with the LM after TLI were inventions of the script writer. While this was a decent movie, for some reason the writer and director felt they needed to make up crap to make it their own project instead of going with the more interesting real story.
Read Lovell's book Lost Moon, for more details.
In the book, after he obtained an android body he started to design/manufacture organs to make himself more human. These organs were also marketed to humans as replacements for their own failed body parts. This made him rich.
100's of millions at least considering their wasted a MAV on his rescue. But his activities on Mars far exceeded the entire planned five missions of the Ares program put together. Better explained in the book than the movie.
His character was much funnier in the book. The scene was not cringe worthy either.
However, the gravity assist method should have been one of the first things they considered, not something that only one person thought of.
The book explained it much better.
The Chinese rationalized the offer to help with; We will be publicly rescuing the Americans, Chinese tech will be seen to be the equal of American tech, the Americans will put a Chinese astronaut on Mars for us. If Chinese and NASA administrators were able to arrange the deal before hand, then it is likely that the two governments would play along. The Chinese space official mentioned that his government ministers would trade their mothers for the chance to help the Americans in this fashion.
Understand that this movie takes place about 30 years in the future.
The movie merely shows an asian astronaut appearing in the final scene on the launch of an Ares mission.
Some people in the military deploy alone, it affects their marriages, but they still stay married.
The book explained that the extreme cold and lack of oxygen killed the potato plants and bacteria in the soil needed to farm them. The only reason he was able to start the farm to begin with it that he had fresh (ish), not frozen, viable potatoes to start with as seed. With everything frozen for the time it took to restore the HAB, he no longer had anything to start over again with.
I watched the movie. Your post says much more about you than the film.
As far as I could tell, the film was marketed as a movie about a reporter who interviews Rogers. If the movie poster was the sole source of marketing for this film that you were exposed to, then you might think it is about Fred Rogers for the most part.
Everything I read and watched indicated it was not a biopic about Rogers. I'm not sure why you're confused.
I've read that she would have possibly passed as white but chose not to.
The film covers dates that spanned NACA and NASA agencies early times. When NACA was expanding during and after WWII, they had to comply with the obscene segregation laws of Virginia even though they were a federal agency. So yes, they had white and colored restroom.
Costner's character (fictional) most likely did not have anything to do with removing any colored bathroom signs. Even then, how they did it in the film was stupid. It should have shown him removing the "white women" signs instead.
The book Hidden Figures does have several amusing anecdotes about the women resisting the stupid segregation rules. Miriam Mann kept on stealing the "colored computors" signs in the back of the cafeteria; it was her way of protesting. Eventually the signs were not replaced.
Katherine Johnson used the white women restrooms when she was transferred to work directly with the engineers because she did not know of any other restrooms. When she learned that she was to be using the colored restrooms only, she ignored the rule and no one ever complained.
Parsons is part of the main cast, but has less time then Henson, Spencer, Monae, Costner and Dunst. His character starts out as typical racist, but in the end is portrayed as one who works well with his colored co-worker.
Parsons does not play a version of Sheldon Cooper in this film.
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A graphic noted the Japanese had slaughtered a quarter of a million Chinese for assisting Doolittle and his squadron.
I can only recommend that you read a book about the Doolittle Raid then. Here is the Wikipedia article on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
You're referring the the tribute to the Chinese people at the end of the film? How would it not be relevant?
Cons; too many scenes that were figments of the screen writers imagination. It made it seem like Shelby and Miles nearly made the GT-40 by themselves.
That said, I enjoyed the movie
Buying a LeMans victory by the method described above was not much different than trying to buy Ferrari in the first place.
But yeah, the movie did make Ford management look like back stabbing pussies.
I didn't get any anti-Trump vibe at all from the movie. Families squabble about politics all the time; just made this bunch look petty.