I was so glad to read that Deke Slayton finally got his chance to fly with the Apollo-Soyuz mission. It was really a shame he had to wait so long. It wasn't the moon, but I'll bet he had a blast.
In other words: one of the men in this room will achieve immortality and have his name and accomplishments be known to every educated man woman and child for the rest of human history. And the rest of you will achieve immortality among hard core space geeks!
And at least one flight will have problems that will completely change the mission profile from that of exploration to survival. And one will have a little gremlin that will drive everyone nuts until someone out-thinks the computers.
Not too many of us, mere mortals, are around to witness history in the making. The guys who were in that room - the astronauts - were. And that makes it so inspiring.
This episode kinda makes me feel for Deke Slayton, knowing that he won't be one of the ones landing on the moon because of medical issues, he has to just suck it all in and make this speech to these guys. That took courage for him to do that.
@@dalethelander3781 Also, kinda funny how the American side was basically Deke, boss of the astronauts (because he wasn't able to be one when he was selected), Tom Stafford, assistant boss who took over after Al Shepard was able to move from that position and back into flight status for _Apollo 14_ (quite possibly exploiting his high position and the sympathy of boss and fellow grounded astronaut Deke in doing so), and rookie Vance Brand (probably for his multiple support roles, particularly as backup for Skylab missions).
I specifically signed up with HBO so that I could watch this series when it first came out what some 20 odd years ago; and this particular scene immediately becomespecial and emotional to me because of the historical significance and the futureheroism of the participants. They were Hero's all to me, especially Borman, Lovelland Anders. They were the first Three to leave the environs of the Earth and with only ONE Engine, no less.
As we witnessed the Artemis -1 launched yesterday. I wonder, if would be cool that one those meetings. The Head of the Astronaut Office would say.. The men or a woman on this room will one day walk in the Moon and Mars. And he or she is looking at me right now. Love this scene.
@@JohnHillRSNStudios The only entity that is pulling off something comparable is SpaceX, and no this is not Elon Musk fan-wanking. The Apollo program was about more than just building the Apollo spacecraft, or even the Saturn V booster. It was developing the massive research, production, launch, and communications infrastructure to support it, which NASA still leverages today, and so do most commercial US launch providers, including SpaceX. But the SpaceX Starship program is building a lot of their infrastructure from scratch. They need a spacecraft production line, something that's never been done before. They need launch infrastructure to support a vehicle as massive as a Saturn V, but which can operate at far higher launch cadence. And they need it as an off-shore platform, something that's only been done for small launch vehicles. They are not just improving on the existing state of the art, they are breaking new ground, just as Apollo did. So it shows it can be done today, as you said, but as you also said, not as a national project. Considering the current state of things, I can't believe the US government could agree on a purchase order for paper clips.
Well people are too concerned w/identity politics, hyphenated names, identifying as a toaster, social media, are easily duped into believing nonsense (flat earth, anti-vaccer, 9/11 conspiracies), supporting an orange faced draft dodging insurrectionist and playing zero-sum games w/each other. Back then we had leadership with a clear cut mission, vision and objective along w/an obvious peer foe. We also used to be, for the most part, civil in our disagreements.
This speech Deke Slayton gave the the astronauts really happened, but it happened AFTER the Apollo 1 fire, not before it as was shown in the From The Earth To The Moon miniseries.
During the Artemis 2 Astronaut presentation, they had the other astros present as well and lined up over on the side. We saw the first woman to land on the moon that day, even if we don't know which one was her. Made me remember this scene. (Based on where they were standing, my bet is either Nicole Mann or Jessica Watkins. We'll see!)
Jonny kim will probably be the first Korean/ Asian American to walk on the moon, and my korean mother will have even more "disappointment ammo" to volley my way. "Why cant you be like Johnny Kim!?! He Navy Seal, doctor, Astronaught, moon walker! If he can do it why cant you!" 😂😂😂😂😂
I love how shots like that show how the astronauts were tight with their earlier flight crewmates (as were their wives) and would have to deal with learning how to work without them and with different astronauts on later missions.
Such an inspirative scene. From The Earth To The Moon is filled with scenes like this. Flying in space is already an unique experience but imagine yourself receiving the news that you might be the first human being to walk on another world; that gotta hit your guts with full might!
I just wish the Apollo 13 episode didn't focus on a fictional news group, and instead focused on actual history. Perhaps focus on the flight controllers. Give an episode to John Aaron, as he damned sure deserved it. He deserved it for "SCE to AUX" alone.
“The men in this room, will be making moon landings” I scanned the faces and it was bittersweet for those that didn’t. Gus, Roger, Walt, Frank, Jim, Bill, Tom, CC, Jim McDivitt and of course Deke (Especially Roger and CC who didn’t make orbit)
And there were several men that were not even in the room when this speech was made. Alan Bean, Ken Mattingly, Fred Haise, Stu Roosa, Edgar Mitchell, Al Worden, Jim Irwin, Charlie Duke, Jack Swigert, Ron Evans, Harrison Schmidt, Joe Engle and Vance Brand.
I watched this series probably hundreds of times. For me is one the best shows ever made. I don't know if this scene of the men is real or not, but I give you a fact. All the men in the room who they portraying in the show actually went to the moon. They even included the fatal Apollo 1 members and the crew of Apollo 7.
@@brucetucker4847 There's a joke amongst some of the NASA personnel. How everyone calls former Nazis scum, and bastards, and monsters. "Well, what do you imagine they call von Braun?" "Sir"
Suddenly a stowaway bursts out from his hiding place on the lunar lander and jumps out the hatch, becoming the first person on the Moon. Armstrong: wtf?
I dont know a soul whos butthole wouldnt pucker up at the possiblity of walking on the moon. The collective hold your breath moment by all those actors was a great scene!!
I feel fortunate to have been able to see the first man walk on the moon. I don't know if I'll be around to see the first humans on Mars, but I'll try.
Don't forget- this moment actually happened, basically as shown, in real life. The script is pretty much verbatim quotes. People got to sit in that room and hear Deke say those words. To them.
How creepy if he said "Some of you will be dead, so others could succeed. I don't know who that would be, but I do know that men are looking at me right now".
*The interesting thing is, this meeting in real life happened AFTER the Apollo 1 tragedy, so Gus, Ed, and Roger wouldn't've been there to possibly hear Deke say that.*
Where can I find the entire series on line? I have seen parts and pieces of this series for years but can't ever seem to find the whole thing all in one place. Does anybody know?
I would imagine that if you had the HBO streaming service that you could watch it there. But I instead just a copy of the Blu Ray off of Amazon. I still had the VHS box set for years but with no longer having a working VCR in quite a while I decided to upgrade to Blu Ray and then donated my VHS to goodwill.
This is the one series of Tom Hanks that has not been carried to live stream on Prime. Not sure why. Suggest you get the old box set on the cheap..not the remastered one from a few years ago.
Yes, it was meant as a morale booster after the fire. My favorite reaction to it was Neil's, who later wrote that his first thought upon hearing Deke say "The men in this room will be making moon landings" was something akin to "Duh."
It was a good way to endcap this first episode, even though it was wrong chronologically. Gus would not have been there, for example. It would not have worked in the Apollo 1 episode,... but I would like to have seen Gene Kranz's "Tough and Competent" speech to the flight control team. I'm just not sure if Bulldog would have been able to pull it off like Ed Harris otherwise would have.
@@Wired4Life2 True, and I love that moment so damn much. Unfortuantely, documentaries will never be as mainstream as even HBO miniseries', as much as we may wish otherwise.
@@k1productions87 _Failure..._ and Nova’s _To the Moon_ are my go-tos when it comes to the Space Race, as is the Vintage Space YT channel. Also, _Apollo 11_ remains my favorite film of 2019 and one of my favorite films of the 2010s, full stop.
"Two of you will be first." (angle on the crew of the near-disastrous Gemini 8, pilot Dave Scott and-I'm sure we've never heard of this next guy-command pilot Neil Armstrong)
it is true White, Chaffee, and Grissom died on Apollo 1 and Basset, See, Williams, and Freeman all died in T38 accidents and Apollo 10 and 15 were their backups.
During Mercury in Liberty 7, in which the capsule was lost after splashdown. White was the first American to walk in space during Gemini 4. Chaffee never got to go to space, but he flew in crucial flights over Cuba gathering reconnaissance photos.
2:16 Why wasn't Wally Schirra (portrayed by Mark Harmon of NCIS fame in Ep. 3 "We Have Cleared The Tower," which concerned the pre-launch procedures for his command of Apollo 7) in the room during this scene when he probably was in the actual "all-hands" meeting?
He probably was, just not played by Mark Harmon. Pete Conrad was played by two different actors in different episodes. Maybe Jolly Wally was being played by another actor here.
I'm afraid you'll have to ask the director for that info. It might have something to do with the fact that Schirra was technically not one of the astronauts who would be making the moon landings, as he chose to retire from the astronaut corps after his Apollo 7 flight just nineteen days before the Apollo 11 landing. Of course, there was no way that Deke would have known that at the time of the meeting, but the segment director had benefit of hindsight, and by removing Wally from the scene, he conveniently trimmed off a loose plot thread. I have to agree though, it was a powerful scene.
Frank Roberts I suppose so, although Schirra probably didn't have such plans yet during the latter months of 1966. Oh well. In any case, it makes the reveal of Mark Harmon as Schirra (of whose casting the real Schirra quite approved) in Ep. 3 a bit more exciting.
Most likely Harmon had a scheduling conflict, and his unavailability wasn't seen as a show stopper for filming this scene. (He was working full time starring in "Chicago Hope" at the time From the Earth to the Moon was being filmed.)
Always wondered about this. But just think for a moment. Gus commands the first C mission. Skips D and E , serves as back up CDR for first F mission, then the G mission and landing occurs with who knows. The crew rotations as above were how Deke usually organised the crews. If Mcdivitt and crew flew the original Apollo 8, Conrad was back up CDR. Apollo 9 Borman in high earth orbit Apollo 10 Stafford in lunar orbit Apollo 11, Conrad and landing (the first G mission). It was argued that Conrad had the best shot at the first landing, but when Apollo 8 and 9 crews swapped around when the LEM wasn’t ready for the D mission, Bormans back up CDR had the best shot of the first landing- Neil Armstrong. And now I have a headache thinking through the permutations
They were the second NASA astronaut group, the group after the Mercury Seven, also called the "Original Seven". They were Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jim Lovell, James McDivitt, Elliot See, Thomas P. Stafford, Ed White and John Young.
@@melodycjefferson1323 Apparently, they didn't replace him at all. There were six manned Mercury flights. All of the others flew. Deke stayed on as Chief Astronaut and Director of Flight Crew Operations before eventually flying on Apollo-Soyuz in 1975.
And sadly, 3 of you in this room will not make it off the launchpad, but will be remembered as pioneers.
One of the most fantastic scenes ever filmed. “The men in this room will be making the Moon Landings.”
Oh yeah!! I love this series!!
I was so glad to read that Deke Slayton finally got his chance to fly with the Apollo-Soyuz mission. It was really a shame he had to wait so long. It wasn't the moon, but I'll bet he had a blast.
He actually slated himself as Commander, but NASA gave him the DMP role.
Grissom, meanwhile, was the only astronaut to fly multiple times yet log less than a day of cumulative time up there--the Grim Reaper saw to that.
In other words:
one of the men in this room will achieve immortality and have his name and accomplishments be known to every educated man woman and child for the rest of human history.
And the rest of you will achieve immortality among hard core space geeks!
if you ask me the latter is more desirable. You get to make your mark but not suffer the consequences of fame.
And at least one flight will have problems that will completely change the mission profile from that of exploration to survival.
And one will have a little gremlin that will drive everyone nuts until someone out-thinks the computers.
And after July 20,1969 it will be known forever that mankind has walked on the moon, specifically Neil Armstrong.
This is such an incredible series. Had the whole set on DVD, watched it I don't know how many times.
Hay, you stole one of my fake names.
DVD? I had the VHS - then DVD later
@@markvonschlieder6032
As a member of the firm of Dewy Chetem & Howe, I suggest a law suit. :-)
Not too many of us, mere mortals, are around to witness history in the making. The guys who were in that room - the astronauts - were.
And that makes it so inspiring.
One of my favorite scenes in the whole series.
This episode kinda makes me feel for Deke Slayton, knowing that he won't be one of the ones landing on the moon because of medical issues, he has to just suck it all in and make this speech to these guys. That took courage for him to do that.
@Nature and Physics “...that’s why you’re such a great boss Deke “
@Nature and Physics “.....and a lens”
He got a mission in the 70s the joint is Russian mission, not a moon mission though
@@jimmy2k4o Still historic.
@@dalethelander3781 Also, kinda funny how the American side was basically Deke, boss of the astronauts (because he wasn't able to be one when he was selected), Tom Stafford, assistant boss who took over after Al Shepard was able to move from that position and back into flight status for _Apollo 14_ (quite possibly exploiting his high position and the sympathy of boss and fellow grounded astronaut Deke in doing so), and rookie Vance Brand (probably for his multiple support roles, particularly as backup for Skylab missions).
I specifically signed up with HBO so that I could watch this series when it first came out what some 20 odd years ago; and this particular scene immediately becomespecial and emotional to me because of the historical significance and the futureheroism of the participants. They were Hero's all to me, especially Borman, Lovelland Anders. They were the first Three to leave the environs of the Earth and with only
ONE Engine, no less.
Nice to know there was a Borman(n) to save the name from the trashheap of history.
You've got a Kryptonian, a drug kingpin, Robocop, a Colonial Marine, the Dread Pirate Roberts, and others in this scene.
Buffalo Bill, and Tarzan.
And Walter White
@@nox_chan That was the drug kingpin. :)
And a serial killer who cuts off women’s skin.
And a president who had an affair with an aide.
I love this series...I've watched it at least three or four times, and it may be time to watch it again.
As we witnessed the Artemis -1 launched yesterday. I wonder, if would be cool that one those meetings. The Head of the Astronaut Office would say.. The men or a woman on this room will one day walk in the Moon and Mars. And he or she is looking at me right now. Love this scene.
We accomplished 51 years ago what we could never do today,
We could but we just don’t have the national will to do it.
@@JohnHillRSNStudios Amen John, AMEN !
Speak for the US, Russia, China, India, they are all sending things and plans for the moon and mars
@@JohnHillRSNStudios The only entity that is pulling off something comparable is SpaceX, and no this is not Elon Musk fan-wanking. The Apollo program was about more than just building the Apollo spacecraft, or even the Saturn V booster. It was developing the massive research, production, launch, and communications infrastructure to support it, which NASA still leverages today, and so do most commercial US launch providers, including SpaceX.
But the SpaceX Starship program is building a lot of their infrastructure from scratch. They need a spacecraft production line, something that's never been done before. They need launch infrastructure to support a vehicle as massive as a Saturn V, but which can operate at far higher launch cadence. And they need it as an off-shore platform, something that's only been done for small launch vehicles.
They are not just improving on the existing state of the art, they are breaking new ground, just as Apollo did. So it shows it can be done today, as you said, but as you also said, not as a national project. Considering the current state of things, I can't believe the US government could agree on a purchase order for paper clips.
Well people are too concerned w/identity politics, hyphenated names, identifying as a toaster, social media, are easily duped into believing nonsense (flat earth, anti-vaccer, 9/11 conspiracies), supporting an orange faced draft dodging insurrectionist and playing zero-sum games w/each other. Back then we had leadership with a clear cut mission, vision and objective along w/an obvious peer foe. We also used to be, for the most part, civil in our disagreements.
Best scene in the entire series....I watch this one more than any....Im so glad Deke finally got a flight
This speech Deke Slayton gave the the astronauts really happened, but it happened AFTER the Apollo 1 fire, not before it as was shown in the From The Earth To The Moon miniseries.
During the Artemis 2 Astronaut presentation, they had the other astros present as well and lined up over on the side.
We saw the first woman to land on the moon that day, even if we don't know which one was her. Made me remember this scene.
(Based on where they were standing, my bet is either Nicole Mann or Jessica Watkins. We'll see!)
Jonny kim will probably be the first Korean/ Asian American to walk on the moon, and my korean mother will have even more "disappointment ammo" to volley my way.
"Why cant you be like Johnny Kim!?! He Navy Seal, doctor, Astronaught, moon walker! If he can do it why cant you!"
😂😂😂😂😂
The Apollo One fire had already occurred when this meeting took place. Grissom, White and Chaffee would not have been there.
I hadn't heard that.
I can't imagine being in a meeting where I was told I may walk on the moon.
what a lot of famous actors they had in this scene
Just imagine this being your Monday morning meeting to start the week.
Buffalo Bill and Bogs Diamond in the same room.
and Walter White.
And the Dread Pirate Roberts
and the writer of Cleaver.
The only Mercury astronaut to walk on the moon was Alan Shepard,the first American in space.
Men in this room, will be making moon landings
*Shows Neil armstrong and David scott*
I love how shots like that show how the astronauts were tight with their earlier flight crewmates (as were their wives) and would have to deal with learning how to work without them and with different astronauts on later missions.
Didn't Aldrin become the second person to walk on the moon?
@@The_Kirk_Lazarus First and only person to date to walk on the moon and then punch a moon hoax idiot.
Yep! And Scott the 7th
Such an inspirative scene. From The Earth To The Moon is filled with scenes like this. Flying in space is already an unique experience but imagine yourself receiving the news that you might be the first human being to walk on another world; that gotta hit your guts with full might!
If you ever get a chance, read Deke! by Deke Slayton, the guy giving the speech.
@@MarvelousLXVII I'm aware of this book, but I've never read it.
I just wish the Apollo 13 episode didn't focus on a fictional news group, and instead focused on actual history. Perhaps focus on the flight controllers. Give an episode to John Aaron, as he damned sure deserved it. He deserved it for "SCE to AUX" alone.
@@k1productions87 I think because there was also the movie, Apollo 13, plus they had to have an episode that wasn't just focused on the mission.
@@kbanghart i just wish the episode wasnt focused on a fictional newsroom
“The men in this room, will be making moon landings”
I scanned the faces and it was bittersweet for those that didn’t.
Gus, Roger, Walt, Frank, Jim, Bill, Tom, CC, Jim McDivitt and of course Deke
(Especially Roger and CC who didn’t make orbit)
And Gordon Cooper, but he made his own bed.
@@dalethelander3781 I’ll watch the clip again to see if the guy who played Gordo was there (I think he was in the Apollo 14 and 16 episodes)
And there were several men that were not even in the room when this speech was made. Alan Bean, Ken Mattingly, Fred Haise, Stu Roosa, Edgar Mitchell, Al Worden, Jim Irwin, Charlie Duke, Jack Swigert, Ron Evans, Harrison Schmidt, Joe Engle and Vance Brand.
I watched this series probably hundreds of times. For me is one the best shows ever made.
I don't know if this scene of the men is real or not, but I give you a fact. All the men in the room who they portraying in the show actually went to the moon. They even included the fatal Apollo 1 members and the crew of Apollo 7.
It's really amazing what human beings can do when we manage to take a break from killing each other and arguing over money and power.
I mean in fairness, the rockets/missiles we used to reach the moon were, uh, basically testbeds for the ICBM engines..
@@RaptorJesus True, and the rockets we used to get to orbit were based on German ballistic missiles.
@@brucetucker4847 There's a joke amongst some of the NASA personnel. How everyone calls former Nazis scum, and bastards, and monsters. "Well, what do you imagine they call von Braun?"
"Sir"
Suddenly a stowaway bursts out from his hiding place on the lunar lander and jumps out the hatch, becoming the first person on the Moon.
Armstrong: wtf?
"If we call this in, they'll abort the mission"
"I didn't see anything"
One of the men in this room was like “Nah - think I’ll become a meth kingpin instead”
Great Scene
Thanks!
Two of these actors were in Apollo 13, playing Pete Conrad and CAPCOM 1.
James Frank also the actor who played John Young in Apollo 13 plays Roger Chaffee in this
Greg Probst always thought James Frank was a dead ringer for John Young in Apollo 13
The men in this room ...
... are all ones where you say, "Hey, I know him, he was in that thing, remember?"
go back in the bathroom
I dont know a soul whos butthole wouldnt pucker up at the possiblity of walking on the moon. The collective hold your breath moment by all those actors was a great scene!!
I feel fortunate to have been able to see the first man walk on the moon. I don't know if I'll be around to see the first humans on Mars, but I'll try.
Bogs Diamond, Jame Gumb and J.T. Dolan, along with Whatley
This is an excellent example of how a single scene is used to drive forward the main plot.
Don't forget- this moment actually happened, basically as shown, in real life. The script is pretty much verbatim quotes. People got to sit in that room and hear Deke say those words. To them.
That is how you set an agenda.
Tim Whatley from Seinfeld is in this scene
How creepy if he said "Some of you will be dead, so others could succeed. I don't know who that would be, but I do know that men are looking at me right now".
*The interesting thing is, this meeting in real life happened AFTER the Apollo 1 tragedy, so Gus, Ed, and Roger wouldn't've been there to possibly hear Deke say that.*
Woah it's that dude from monk. And also breaking bad guy.
And the yellow eyed demon.
And the guy who played Pete Conrad in Apollo 13.
....unless you get burnt to a crisp like Grissom, White & Chaffee.
The things left unsaid are often the loudest truths
Where can I find the entire series on line? I have seen parts and pieces of this series for years but can't ever seem to find the whole thing all in one place. Does anybody know?
I would imagine that if you had the HBO streaming service that you could watch it there. But I instead just a copy of the Blu Ray off of Amazon. I still had the VHS box set for years but with no longer having a working VCR in quite a while I decided to upgrade to Blu Ray and then donated my VHS to goodwill.
This is the one series of Tom Hanks that has not been carried to live stream on Prime. Not sure why. Suggest you get the old box set on the cheap..not the remastered one from a few years ago.
We went to the moon...and then we stopped and made TV reality shows and rearranged rubble with bombs for the next 50 years
I would have liked it very much if I was in that room.
Shepard and Grissom wanted to be first so badly
This scene actually happened after Apollo 1.
Yes, it was meant as a morale booster after the fire. My favorite reaction to it was Neil's, who later wrote that his first thought upon hearing Deke say "The men in this room will be making moon landings" was something akin to "Duh."
It was a good way to endcap this first episode, even though it was wrong chronologically. Gus would not have been there, for example. It would not have worked in the Apollo 1 episode,... but I would like to have seen Gene Kranz's "Tough and Competent" speech to the flight control team. I'm just not sure if Bulldog would have been able to pull it off like Ed Harris otherwise would have.
@@k1productions87 Kranz reenacted his speech well enough in the _Failure Is Not an Option_ documentary. :)
@@Wired4Life2 True, and I love that moment so damn much. Unfortuantely, documentaries will never be as mainstream as even HBO miniseries', as much as we may wish otherwise.
@@k1productions87 _Failure..._ and Nova’s _To the Moon_ are my go-tos when it comes to the Space Race, as is the Vintage Space YT channel. Also, _Apollo 11_ remains my favorite film of 2019 and one of my favorite films of the 2010s, full stop.
"Two of you will be first."
(angle on the crew of the near-disastrous Gemini 8, pilot Dave Scott and-I'm sure we've never heard of this next guy-command pilot Neil Armstrong)
seven of the men in that room would die before they would go to space.
that sad :-(
it is true White, Chaffee, and Grissom died on Apollo 1 and Basset, See, Williams, and Freeman all died in T38 accidents and Apollo 10 and 15 were their backups.
Grissom made it into space.
yes but he would die in the Apollo 1 fire along with White who also went to space once.
During Mercury in Liberty 7, in which the capsule was lost after splashdown. White was the first American to walk in space during Gemini 4. Chaffee never got to go to space, but he flew in crucial flights over Cuba gathering reconnaissance photos.
As well as the new nine or the next nine or whatever you guys call yourselves.
One does not simply walk into moon
Apollo was a really, really, really big deal.
It should have been Gus
Thats not alan alda is it?
2:16 Why wasn't Wally Schirra (portrayed by Mark Harmon of NCIS fame in Ep. 3 "We Have Cleared The Tower," which concerned the pre-launch procedures for his command of Apollo 7) in the room during this scene when he probably was in the actual "all-hands" meeting?
He probably was, just not played by Mark Harmon. Pete Conrad was played by two different actors in different episodes. Maybe Jolly Wally was being played by another actor here.
Frank Roberts Then why wasn't there an insert of him when Deke was referring to his fellow remaining Mercury astronauts?
I'm afraid you'll have to ask the director for that info. It might have something to do with the fact that Schirra was technically not one of the astronauts who would be making the moon landings, as he chose to retire from the astronaut corps after his Apollo 7 flight just nineteen days before the Apollo 11 landing. Of course, there was no way that Deke would have known that at the time of the meeting, but the segment director had benefit of hindsight, and by removing Wally from the scene, he conveniently trimmed off a loose plot thread. I have to agree though, it was a powerful scene.
Frank Roberts I suppose so, although Schirra probably didn't have such plans yet during the latter months of 1966. Oh well. In any case, it makes the reveal of Mark Harmon as Schirra (of whose casting the real Schirra quite approved) in Ep. 3 a bit more exciting.
Most likely Harmon had a scheduling conflict, and his unavailability wasn't seen as a show stopper for filming this scene. (He was working full time starring in "Chicago Hope" at the time From the Earth to the Moon was being filmed.)
Back when Americans had Gonads.
My god Gus would have been the first. It’s known now. What a tragedy!
That was kind of, sort of, Slayton's plan, although nothing was set in stone
Not necessarily, but he would have been in a good position.
Always wondered about this. But just think for a moment.
Gus commands the first C mission.
Skips D and E , serves as back up CDR for first F mission, then the G mission and landing occurs with who knows.
The crew rotations as above were how Deke usually organised the crews.
If Mcdivitt and crew flew the original Apollo 8, Conrad was back up CDR.
Apollo 9 Borman in high earth orbit
Apollo 10 Stafford in lunar orbit
Apollo 11, Conrad and landing (the first G mission).
It was argued that Conrad had the best shot at the first landing, but when Apollo 8 and 9 crews swapped around when the LEM wasn’t ready for the D mission, Bormans back up CDR had the best shot of the first landing- Neil Armstrong.
And now I have a headache thinking through the permutations
Nature and Physics swap Grissom for Shepard and I know where you’re going with that quote sir
@@abbaszaidi8371 It's been said that Neil earned the first man position because of his quick thinking and piloting skill on Gemini VIII.
Can anyone tell me just exactly who the new nine were??
They were the second NASA astronaut group, the group after the Mercury Seven, also called the "Original Seven". They were Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jim Lovell, James McDivitt, Elliot See, Thomas P. Stafford, Ed White and John Young.
Thank you,Ian. Looks like they include the first and third men to walk on the moon and two of the first three to go to the moon.🇺🇸🚀🚀🌔❤️
@@IanRubin2 So who did they replace Deke Slayton with? I'm confused, because you remember Deke couldn't go because of a heart murmur.
@@melodycjefferson1323 Apparently, they didn't replace him at all. There were six manned Mercury flights. All of the others flew. Deke stayed on as Chief Astronaut and Director of Flight Crew Operations before eventually flying on Apollo-Soyuz in 1975.
@@IanRubin2 But Deke Slayton was in the original seven, correct? Not the new nine?
Walter White and Buffalo Bill.
And Drake, and Superman, and Robocop, and Wesley.
Great scene, but I could never believe Nick Searcy as Deke Slayton. Deke seems a lot tougher than this.
You're right. They should've cast the actor who played Deke in Apollo 13.
@@dalethelander3781 I always thought that Chris Ellis looked a bit too old for Deke. He was grounded, not borderline ancient.
@@Wired4Life2 Yet, he hadn't seemed to have aged in The Dark Knight Rises.
@@Wired4Life2 Deke was about 45 while Chris Ellis was about 41.