Have any of you read this book, or watched the miniseries based on it? What did you think? How technically accurate was it? What about characterization?PS. This is my first NSF post. I've been reading this forum for about 4 years and I think it's pretty cool.
They don't make "good TV" like they used to with this series, just reality garbage now days...
Quote from: Rocket Science on 08/05/2016 01:47 amThey don't make "good TV" like they used to with this series, just reality garbage now days... Well, the upcoming Ron Howard effort "Mars" sounds like it will be quite good, and won't be another example of reality garbage, or worse, pseudoscience.I do recall seeing the miniseries, though I never got the interest level up enough to tackle the very thick novel. Michener in all was a fine storyteller, and the miniseries was relatively accurate. There was a lot of soap opera in between the cool space scenes, though, which kind of left me a little bored, to be honest.I recall they used very good recreations of the CM and LM interiors -- perhaps a set of the intact simulators served the function. The earlier parts, with Mercury and Gemini, were relatively accurate but seemed simplified, to me. And the earliest parts, with their von Braun character-by-a-different-name escaping to the Americans, seemed to plod a bit.Of course, that's how it hit me at the time. As always, YMMV.