• Soooo many movies still feature the Shuttle

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 3 01:30:05 2022
    Latest one I've seen, "Moonfall." I wonder why they don't show some Space-X tin can or Russkie TAXI in those movies?
    Better days...

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  • From Chris L Peterson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 3 07:49:10 2022
    On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 01:30:05 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rander3128@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Latest one I've seen, "Moonfall." I wonder why they don't show some Space-X tin can or Russkie TAXI in those movies?
    Better days...


    Because they're bad movies.

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  • From Quadibloc@21:1/5 to Chris L Peterson on Sun Apr 3 18:52:12 2022
    On Sunday, April 3, 2022 at 7:49:13 AM UTC-6, Chris L Peterson wrote:
    On Sun, 3 Apr 2022 01:30:05 -0700 (PDT), RichA <rande...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    Latest one I've seen, "Moonfall." I wonder why they don't show some Space-X tin can or Russkie TAXI in those movies?
    Better days...

    Because they're bad movies.

    Is stock footage of the Shuttle cheaper? Or are more digital 3-D models of the Shuttle
    available online?

    Or, given that the _first_ manned spacecraft were ordinary rockets, perhaps it is
    assumed that the Shuttle _was_ an inherently more advanced type of craft - so, eventually, the current ships being used now will become obsolete, and be replaced
    by something that somewhat looks like the Space Shuttle.

    Or perhaps a Space Shuttle _atop_ a big rocket booster, so that it could, say, deliver
    payloads of the same size that the Shuttle delivered to LEO... all the way to an orbit
    around the Moon.

    John Savard

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