Astronaut Jim Lovell, seen here during a 1970 training session, decried the first movie made about the Apollo 13 rescue.. The studio explained the changes by saying the network would never have accepted a documentary-style project. It also emphasized the added disclaimers that to point out the...
After World War II, Siddiqi explained, the U.S. was feeling on top as the country's economy grew. "There's an expectation that if anything's going to happen in science and technology, America's going to be first," Siddiqi said. But this expectation was not realized in the space race...
Though Gene Kranz worked on Apollo 1 inFly Me to the Moon's true story,he wasn’t directly in charge when the fire broke out, nor was he at the sight of the fire when everything was opened up.According to Kranz’s interview withClick2Houston, he explained that he was the flight dire...
We quickly responded, yes, yes, a science fiction convention, the World Science Fiction Convention. She asked what a science fiction conference was, and we explained it for a long time. We had never explained it in this way before, and I don’t know if she understood it. Then she asked...
One of the first things that Robbins ever explained to me was his observation that the eye will follow an object moving in an arc without looking back to its point of origin, but that when an object is moving in a straight line the eye tends to return to the point of origin, the vie...
This was all explained to Jun’ichi Yaoi and his Japanese film crew just after the end of production at the studio in 1980 when they were given a tour of the studios used forThe Shining. Yaoi had a particular interest in the paranormal and UFOs, and although It is not clear that he ...
By the end of the book, there is a sense that not everything has been fully explained. The poster forLong Live Love(1938) bears the signature of the artist Gassour, who was born in 1925. Unless he was a particularly precocious 13-year-old, he must have done it later (but when and...
Robert explained that originally Milverton Lodge and the adjoining house (called Mapesbury) were linked, having been built andowned by two sisters. Hearing that, DSP’s thoughts immediately went to the images inThe Shiningof the two girls in their blue party frocks, asking Danny to“Come and pl...