The third day of the near-disaster of the Apollo 13 moon shot.
Everyone involved has been doing everything they can to save the crew: frantically trying to think and improvise their way through a minefield of potentially lethal problems, using only the materials at hand on the damage spacecraft to stave off catastrophe.
And everyone involved is exhausted.
The whole world is watching, worried, riveted, hungry for any scrap of reliable information, not knowing how this will end.
Except this time roughly half of our own country is openly rooting for Lovell, Swigert and Haise to crash and burn.
No Half Measures
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Good morning, DG and BG.
Breath, brotherman. I can't tell you everything will be all right, because the Doctor isn't handy to take me a few days into the future and find out.
But I think it is. I've got a good feeling. I think VP Harris takes the Oval convincingly; I think Dems retake the House solidly; and I think we even hold the Senate, if by an unfortunately slim margin. (I'd love to be wrong in the positive direction on that last one!)
But either way - we'll all still be here, all still supporting one another, and all working for a better tomorrow. Whatever that looks like.
We got this.
(Also, I think it's more like 30-32%, not half... they're loud assholes, but not a near-majority.)
Keep on keeping on. Stay safe.
I remember that very well. I was nine years old and a huge rocket nerd.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"Is it AM or PM?"
"AM...very, very AM."
Although I may not have been around for the real-life event, I saw Apollo 13 in the theater over the July 4th weekend in 1995. One of the best movies of the decade. Tom Hanks once said in an interview that he was such a space geek if he had lost out on the role of Jim Lovell he would have gotten right back in line to audition for the role of Fred Haise :)
That was quite a gut-punch ending to your post. I thought you might be heading for the “we’re putting Isaac Newton in the driver’s seat” of this election and just maybe everything will turn out okay. But I know you’re right; a hell of a lot of our fellow citizens seek the flames.
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