One-Way Ticket

Benji · Post by **Benji** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:23 pm

Interesting idea for one-person, one-way trip to Mars over at Universe Today.

Mercergl · Post by **Mercergl** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:15 pm

Thisnds me of a scene from the series "From the earth to the moon" where they are trying to figure out what the apollo mission's spacecraft will be like. Several men say that it would be quickest to "put a man on the moon, then keep sending him supplies until we can figure a way to get him back." I believe the nasa official said, "I'm sorry gentlemen, but there is no way on God's green earth that we would ever try something like that."

But you know, aside from the whole stuck there forver thing, a trip to mars would be awesome

bnaivar · Post by **bnaivar** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:05 pm

eeeeeeeehhhhh, no.

There was a movie (can't remember it's name, starred James Cann) back in the 60's about doing this to the moon.

You'd just go buggy. It's one thing to do this where the radio delay to other human beings is 4 seconds or so. It's something entirely different even normal conversation is impossible.

rkolker · Post by **rkolker** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:29 pm

The movie was called Countdown. It was based on a book called The Pilgrim Project.

One of my favorite things about the movie was the shots of "Houston" with the mountains in the background (although they did shoot some of it at JSC).

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:44 pm

Isn;t that alsothe one where they launch a modified Gemini capsule on a Saturn V though the rocket shown was still a titan 2? By the way sending a modified Gemini capsule to the moon was an idea that was actually considered by NASA at one point.

bnaivar · Post by **bnaivar** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:49 pm

Yep. That was it. I always get a kick out of the stock footage that Hollywood uses for launches and such. Especially when they show launches of manned spacecraft with unmanned rockets.

Mercergl · Post by **Mercergl** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:17 pm

I believe Armageddon had a scene where a digitally altered shuttle (modified from stock footage) accidentally reverted back to the normal one. Oops

Boomerang · Post by **Boomerang** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:59 pm

Stock footage is always intresting in sci fi. i remember a few episodes of the twilight zone and outer limits that used atlas rockets for astronauts going to mars.

What is really bad is when the documentaries screw up stock footage. My personal favorite was a program on history channel that at the time was talking about apollo 11 playing the audio of the launch and everything but it was not video of a saturn v, or a saturn 1 or even a titan, atlas or redstone or any other vehicle capable of launching a man. It was video pf a Nike surface to air missile launch the only thing those 2 rockets have in common os they are painted black and white.

gt0163c · Post by **gt0163c** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:16 am

Mercergl wrote:I believe Armageddon had a scene where a digitally altered shuttle (modified from stock footage) accidentally reverted back to the normal one. Oops

Yeah, I caught that too. If I'm remembering it right, I think it looked a lot like they used the footage from the launch from The Dream is Alive.