First Man?

I saw the movie 'First Man' at the cinema on Friday, only because I popped into the cinema randomly to see what I could watch at that time of day to escape the heat and cool down after walking through the Brisbane City CBD in 36-degree heat (that's Celsius to you American readers out there, or 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit in your language).

I thought the release date of the movie turned out rather synchromystic considering this news story happening the same week that the movie came out.
Not that I think NASA ever got a man through the Van Allen radiation belt to walk on the moon, but hey, maybe one day they might.
"Spaceflight is hard. And we must keep trying for the benefit of humankind."

Maybe I've just read one too many really thought provoking books about the Apollo missions, seen a few too many really thought provoking videos about Apollo and wondered why a mostly honest man like Armstrong (apart from the fact he probably had to keep a national security secret like not actually walking on the moon) wouldn't take that sucker's money who offered him $5000 to go to his favourite charity, to swear on the Bible that he had actually walked on the moon?

I know that if I was a believer of the Good Book like Armstrong was, I would have done it just to take that smug reporter's money.
Of course, if I was trying to keep a national secret and did believe in the Good Book I would probably be caught between a rock and a hard place and avoid that bet at all costs.
But that's just me I suppose.
And why didn't those pesky Ruskies ever go up there to rip that flag out, or take a piss on it?
OK, pissing on it would probably be as dumb as flying through a radiation belt that would fry you alive like a dog;-)  

"Lakia's true cause of death was not made public until October 2002; officials previously gave reports that she died when the oxygen supply ran out.

At a Moscow press conference in 1998 Oleg Gazenko, a senior Soviet scientist involved in the project, stated "The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it.

We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog..."

She died between five and seven hours into the flight from stress and overheating."

It was not a bad movie Damien, but it's hard to make a good moon picture these days now Kubrick is gone;-)

No use giving yourself a heart-attack over making a movie Damien, right?-)
Ah ... maybe I'm just imagining dragons when it comes to Apollo 11, 12, 13 ...?

Nearly up to 237 dislikes I noticed;-)

A least the cinema seat I saw 'First Man'
in gave it a spacey 2001 feel

I preferred 'La La Land #1' to 'La La Land #2' to tell the truth Damien, but what can you do with a script like that one I guess?-)

I liked the new 'Halloween' I saw the night before a lot better.

Trick or treat?-)