July 2009
22 posts
“Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.”
– Robert Frost
choice snippet from Apollo 11 transcripts
(INT. Apollo 11 Spacecraft. Command module pilot Michael Collins was holding the camera but has lost it. It has floated away.)
Michael: That pisses me off. Hasselblad (the camera) gone. Find that mother before she or I ends the... Everybody look for a floating Hasselblad. I see a pen floating loose down there, too. Is anybody missing a ballpoint pen?
Buzz: Got mine. Is it ballpoint, or is it ...?
Michael: Yes, ballpoint. Here it is. I mean felt tip. [...] Neil, could you look around over there?
Neil: Yes, I'll look.
Michael: I don't know if we want to go through any wild contortions looking for it--Do we have to throw some other switches? Buzz, you don't see the Hasselblad anywhere down below? Let me go on a little expedition here. Has somebody ...?
Buzz: I've looked already.
Michael: Ah! Here it is.
Neil: Find it?
Michael: It was floating in the aft bulkhead.
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