Wasn't Mir also in Armageddon?
There was a 'rotating Russian space station' that looked like Mir.
Wasn't Mir also in Armageddon?
There was a 'rotating Russian space station' that looked like Mir.
Someone who ran out of fuel I'd imagine.
Is this the first non-documentary film to depict a modern-day crewed spacecraft that wasn't American?
I can't remember what it looked like, but my recollection of that movie makes me think it was probably made up just like all the physics in the film.
*SPOILERS BELOW*
I'd say one thing that bugged me slightly was the scene where George Clooney lets go of Sandra Bullock and drifts off. What is pulling him away from her? If she just lightly pulled him, he would start moving in her direction and he would be saved.
Then I told myself that his spacesuit had a thruster that was stuck "on" and was pulling him away from her, and we just didn't see it. Then I got over it. :lol:
My assumption was that the parachute tethers would have let go slightly before his momentum was cancelled, and he didn't want to risk it. :shrug:
I'd say one thing that bugged me slightly was the scene where George Clooney lets go of Sandra Bullock and drifts off. What is pulling him away from her? If she just lightly pulled him, he would start moving in her direction and he would be saved.
But isn't strange that the same cables which support the 3000 kg SA at ~1g would break in that situation?
My assumption was that the parachute tethers would have let go slightly before his momentum was cancelled, and he didn't want to risk it. :shrug:
Uh. Yeah, technically she's right.
But her criticism reminds me of people who deride...
Crewmembers really don’t fly around using a jetpack like that. The jetpack (called SAFER) is just an extra safety measure and has just enough gas to quickly fly back to structure if one was ever to come off.
In reality, we have two Soyuz spaceships for six people of ISS. If we have to leave, we use them both.
a rendezvous involves firing the engine multiple times in burns of extremely precise orientation and duration. No “aim and fire” here!
Agreed. It's the same as criticizing hard science for not being fun, or an astronaut by having an expensive training.
You shouldn't review a movie as if it was a space enciclopedia or monograph.
The same way as you should not judge a scientist's work when comparing it to a performer.