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> I was thinking about this last night as I watched Apollo 13
> for the first time. Yes, the idea of losing three astronauts is
> terrible, but more than three people die all the time in
> accidents - car wrecks, fires, plane crashes. I think it's
> interesting that when it's a space flight situation, the
> country gets more excited than when it's soldiers in Iraq or
> strangers on the freeway.
>
> Luisa

I had the good fortune to watch Apollo 13 when it was real and live on TV. It was a great story and I was sitting there saying, "This will make a great movie!" It took forever for them to get around to making the movie, but when they did, it was indeed great. They followed the story very carefully. No screen writer could have written anything better than the true story.
Howard