Saturday, July 26, 2008

Capricorn One (1978)




Apollo 13 (1995)

51 TVLANDP: Saturday, July 26 5:00 PM

1995, PG, ***1/2, 02:20, Color, English, United States,

Astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) try to return to Earth, after an explosion aborts the April 1970 moonshot.

Cast: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, David Andrews, Xander Berkeley, Christian Clemenson, Brett Cullen, Loren Dean, Clint Howard, Ben Marley, Marc McClure, Tracy Reiner, Joe Spano, Chris Ellis Director(s): Ron Howard Producer(s): Brian Grazer Executive Producer(s): Todd Hallowell










http://www.cswap.com/1995/Apollo_13/cap/en/25fps/a/00_16

Apollo 13


:16:24
I was looking at the kids'
school schedule coming up.

:16:26
Yeah?

:16:28
'- It's a very busy week.
'- Yeah.

:16:31
I'm thinking about
not going to the launch.

:16:37
Huh.

:16:39
The kids need me at home, honey.

:16:42
Marilyn, we've had
these kids for awhile now.

:16:46
They've never kept you from
comin' to the other launches.





http://www.cswap.com/1995/Apollo_13/cap/en/25fps/a/00_25

Apollo 13


:25:40
Princess, you look beautiful.

:25:45
Jack!

:26:03
Well, hey, that looks
like Marilyn Lovell.

:26:06
But it can't be.
She's not coming to the launch.

:26:09
I heard it was gonna be
a hell of a show.

:26:11
Who told you that?

:26:12
Some guy I know.





http://www.cswap.com/1995/Apollo_13/cap/en/25fps/a/02_01

Apollo 13


2:01:59
'- Mommy, you're squishing me.
'- Oops, sorry, sweetie.









From 12/24/1968 ( I was Apollo 8 astronaut in orbit of Earth's moon ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is: 4492 days

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/2/1975 ( I launched from Earth by myself to intercept Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system ) is: 4492 days



From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is: 6480 days

From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 11/28/1976 ( I launched from Jupiter moon Callisto for Earth and home ) is: 6480 days



From 2/12/1973 ( Operation Homecoming begins and I was one of the C-141A pilots transporting home the American POW's ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is: 2981 days

From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 5/1/1967 ( my first flight by myself as jet pilot ) is: 2981 days


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1

Launch: April 12, 1981
Landing: April 14, 1981



The first Space Shuttle mission, STS (Space Transportation System)-1, was launched April 12, 1981, and returned April 14. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the earth 36 times in this 54.5-hour mission.


Not only was this the first launch of the Space Shuttle, but it marked the first time that solid fuel rockets were used for a U.S. manned launch. It was also the first U.S. manned space vehicle launched without an unmanned powered test flight.










http://gallery.phoebe-cates.com/v/movies/fast_times/fast_times125.jpg.html

"Linda Barrett

Attending college
in Riverside.

Now living with her
Abnormal Psych Professor."





From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is: 8075 days

http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_1_results.jsp

ZIP Code™ Matches in RIVERSIDE, NJ

08075





http://www.cswap.com/1982/Fast_Times_at_Ridgemont_High/cap/en/25fps/a/00_46

Fast Times at Ridgemont High


:46:57
I sent a letter to Doug today.
Can't wait 'til he gets out here.

:47:01
- What's Doug doing in Chicago?

- He works for the airline.
You'll meet him.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Aircraft

The Douglas Aircraft Company was an American aerospace manufacturer, based in Long Beach, California. It was founded in 1921 by Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. and later merged with the McDonnell Aircraft in 1967 to form McDonnell Douglas.

During World War II, Douglas joined the BVD (Boeing-Vega-Douglas) consortium to produce the B-17 Flying Fortress.

A-4 Skyhawk (1954)





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas

McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturer and defense contractor, producing a number of famous commercial and military aircraft.

Through the years, McDonnell Douglas also produced many successful military aircraft, including the F-15 Eagle (1974) and the F/A-18 Hornet (1975)





http://www.cswap.com/2000/Gladiator/cap/en/2_Parts/b/00_11

Gladiator


:11:52
Why doesn't the hero reveal himself
and tell us all your real name?

:11:58
You do have a name?

:12:00
My name is Gladiator.










From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is: 5849 days

From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 7/26/1995 ( U.S. President Bill Clinton presents The Congressional Space Medal of Honor for Apollo 13 commander ) is: 5849 days


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Space_Medal_of_Honor

Congressional Space Medal of Honor

As of 2006, 28 astronauts have been honored with the award, which is presented by the President of the United States in Congress's name.


July 26, 1995 James Lovell

Apollo 13 (Commander)










http://www.cswap.com/1986/Ferris_Bueller's_Day_Off/cap/en/25fps/a/00_38

Ferris Bueller's Day Off


:38:06
- You want to get married?
- Sure.

:38:10
Today?. I'm serious.

:38:14
- I'm not getting married.
- Why not?

:38:18
- Think about it.
- Besides being too young ...

:38:23
Having no place to live ...

:38:26
You being the only cheerleader
with a husband ...

:38:29
- Give me one good reason why not?










From 9/2/1965 ( my first day as student at Princeton University where I earned degree as medical doctor ) to 6/11/1986 ( premiere US film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" ) is: 7587 days

7587 = 1 + 3793 + 3793

From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 7/21/1969 ( I was Apollo 11 Eagle astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) is: 3793 days


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Release Date: 11 June 1986 (USA)

Tagline: One Man's Struggle To Take It Easy

Plot Outline: A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that.





From 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) to 2/28/1987 ( premiere Japan film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" )(Saturday) is: 3607 days

3607 = 1 + 1803 + 1803

From 3/4/1959 ( my birth date UK ) to 2/9/1964 ( I was multiple Olympic gold medalist during Innsbruck Olympics ) is: 1803 days



From 10/9/1971 ( I am board-certified surgeon ) to 2/28/1987 ( premiere Japan film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" )(Saturday) is: 5621 days

5621 = 1 + 2810 + 2810

From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 11/11/1966 ( I was Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut ) is: 2810 days



From 6/7/1976 ( my first landing Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to me ) to 2/28/1987 ( premiere Japan film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" )(Saturday) is: 3918 days

3918 = 1959 + 1959

'1959 March 3' ( my birth date US )


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/releaseinfo

Release dates for

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

Japan 28 February 1987





From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 2/20/1987 ( premiere UK film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" )(Friday) is: 2771 days

2771 = 1 + 1385 + 1385

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 5/1/1967 ( my first flight by myself as a jet pilot ) is: 1385 days


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/releaseinfo

Release dates for

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

UK 20 February 1987










http://www.cswap.com/1995/Apollo_13/cap/en/25fps/a/00_23

Apollo 13


:23:04
Trajectory is holding steady.
We're right on the line.

:23:08
We're into program 64. We're in 05 Gs,
so we're feeling that gravity now.

:23:13
Houston, we are at 400,000 feet
passing entry interphase.

:23:17
About to lose signal.

:23:19
Reentry data is nominal,
and we have radio blackout.

:23:26
What's the story here?

:23:29
I got a corridor light.
We're comin' in too shallow.

:23:33
I'm goin' to manual.

:23:39
'- Houston, switching to S.C.S.
'- Roger, Thirteen.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corridor

A corridor is a path or guided way


Air Corridor, a designated travel path for aircraft to follow










http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/hotelcalifornia.html

EAGLES LYRICS

"Hotel California"


There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...










http://www.cswap.com/1995/Apollo_13/cap/en/25fps/a/00_45

Apollo 13


:45:14

'- Do they know they're not on the air?

:45:18
We'll tell them
when they get back.










http://www.cswap.com/1995/Apollo_13/cap/en/25fps/a/00_46

Apollo 13


:46:03
Well, folks, as you can
probably tell...

:46:06
the Aquarius isn't much bigger
than a couple of telephone booths.

:46:09
The skin of the LEM
in some places...

:46:11
is only as...

:46:13
as thick as a couple of layers...

:46:16
of tinfoil, and that's all that
protects us from the vacuum of space.

:46:19
We get away with this because the LEM is
designed only for flight in outer space.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_comet

Vomit Comet is a nickname for any airplane that briefly provides a nearly weightless environment in which to train astronauts, conduct research, and film motion pictures. Versions of such airplanes have in the past been operated by NASA's Reduced Gravity Research Program since 1973, where the unofficial nickname originated. NASA then adopted the official nickname Weightless Wonder, for publication.

The airplane produces weightlessness by following a parabolic vertical flight path. A parabolic flight path is the same path that would be taken by an object in free fall, such as a cannonball fired into the air. As a result, the aircraft does not exert any g-force on its contents, so the contents have zero apparent weight relative to the aircraft.

The aircraft heads upward at an angle of 45 degrees. As soon as the pilot begins the rotation into the parabolic trajectory, weightlessness is achieved. This lasts all the way "up-and-over the hump", until the craft reaches a declined angle of 30 degrees. At this point, the craft has lost a significant amount of altitude, and must begin to pull into a hard upward turn. The forces are then roughly twice that of gravity on the way down, at the bottom, and up again. This lasts all the way until the aircraft is again halfway up its upward trajectory, and the pilot again initiates the zero-g parabola.[2]

In general, this aircraft is used to train astronauts in zero-g maneuvers, giving them about 25 seconds of weightlessness out of 65 seconds of flight. This often produces nausea due to airsickness, especially in novices, giving the plane its nickname. Astronauts training for the moon missions practiced walking with 1/6 of their weight to simulate the level of gravity on the moon.


NASA has flown parabolic flights on various aircraft for many years. In 1959, Project Mercury astronauts trained in a C-131 Samaritan aircraft, which was dubbed the "Vomit Comet".

Twin KC-135 Stratotankers were used until December 2004 and have since been retired. One, a KC-135A known as NASA 930, was also used by Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment for filming scenes involving weightlessness in the movie Apollo 13; that airplane was retired in 2000 and is now on display at Ellington Field, near the Johnson Space Center. It is estimated to have flown over 58,000 parabolas.










From 11/26/1976 ( my first landing Jupiter moon Callisto ) to 10/19/1994 ( Re-released in USA on video 1978 film "Capricorn One" ) is: 5 days, 933 weeks

'59-33' ( my birth date US )



From 11/8/1970 ( my first ascent to Mount Everest summit ) to 10/19/1994 ( Re-released in USA on video 1978 film "Capricorn One" ) is: 8746 days

8746 = 4373 + 4373

From 1/31/1964 ( I was Innsbruck Olympics gold medalist on this day ) to 1/21/1976 ( my first landing on planet Mars and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of planet Mars ) is: 4373 days



From 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) to 10/19/1994 ( Re-released in USA on video 1978 film "Capricorn One" ) is: 5569 days

From 4/21/1972 ( I was Apollo 16 Orion astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) to 7/21/1987 ( formal wedding ceremony for my wife Phoebe and me ) is: 5569 days



http://www.inbaseline.com/project.aspx?project_id=25360

Capricorn One (1978)


Re-released in USA on video October 19, 1994.


The first manned space flight to Mars is a hoax put on by the U.S. government.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One

Capricorn One is a 1978 thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax.


The setting is the late 1970s, and the first manned mission to Mars is on the pad ready to launch. NASA authorities (Holbrook) realize that a faulty life support system has doomed any chance of a successful flight, so for political and financial purposes they decide to fake the landing rather than scrub the mission.

Minutes before launch, the bewildered crew (Brolin, Waterston, and Simpson) are removed from the capsule and flown to an old abandoned United States Army Air Corps base deep within the desert. The televised launch proceeds on schedule, but the public is unaware that the spacecraft (Capricorn One) is unmanned.

At the remote base, the astronauts are informed they will fake the television footage from Mars and it is their patriotic duty to participate. Initially they refuse, but authorities imply their careers and the lives of their families are at stake if they do not cooperate.

The astronauts remain in captivity for a period of several months and are filmed "landing on Mars" within a studio located at the base. The conspiracy is known to only a select few NASA officials, but alert technician Elliot Whittier (Walden) stumbles across something absurdly impossible. The television transmissions are arriving ahead of the spacecraft telemetry. He speaks to a journalist friend Robert Caulfield (Gould) about his concerns.

When Whittier mysteriously disappears, Caulfield becomes suspicious and begins investigating the Mars mission, resulting in several attempts upon his life. Meanwhile back at the abandoned military base, the astronauts begin to realize that if the conspiracy is to remain intact, they will eventually have to be eliminated. The astronauts' suspicions become reality when their empty capsule burns in space during reentry. The captive astronauts immediately stage a daring escape and attempt to evade military forces in order to expose the conspiracy. Stranded in the desert, they try to make their way back to civilization while being pursued by a pair of helicopters.

In the end, Colonel Brubaker (Brolin) is the only crew member to avoid capture. Caulfield's investigation leads him to the desert, where he finds the military base and the set, and with the help of a cropduster pilot (Savalas), he manages to rescue Brubaker. The film ends with Caulfield and Brubaker arriving at the astronauts' memorial service, exposing the conspiracy in dramatic fashion.










From 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) to 7/21/1979 ( my wife Phoebe and I are married ) is: 828 days

828 = 414 + 414

From 4/14/1977 ( I returned to Earth after successfully diverting the comet in the outer solar system ) to 6/2/1978 ( premiere US film "Capricorn One" ) is: 414 days



From 10/9/1971 ( I am board-certified surgeon ) to 6/2/1978 ( premiere US film "Capricorn One" ) is: 2428 days

2428 = 1214 + 1214

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/11/1966 ( I was Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut ) is: 1214 days



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/

Capricorn One (1978)

Release Date: 2 June 1978 (USA)


James Brolin ... Col. Charles Brubaker
Brenda Vaccaro ... Kay Brubaker










From 11/11/1966 ( I was Gemini 12 spacecraft astronaut ) to 12/11/1972 ( I was Apollo 17 Challenger astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) is: 2222 days

From 12/11/1972 ( I was Apollo 17 Challenger astronaut walking on Earth's moon ) to 1/11/1979 ( premiere UK film "Capricorn One" ) is: 2222 days



From 5/1/1967 ( my first flight by myself as jet pilot ) to 1/11/1979 ( premiere UK film "Capricorn One" ) is: 4273 days

4273 = 1 + 2136 + 2136

From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 5/21/1969 ( I am Princeton University medical doctor degree graduate ) is 2136 days



From 10/11/1976 ( Public Law 94-479, General Of The Armies, approved by President Gerald Ford ) to 1/11/1979 ( premiere UK film "Capricorn One" ) is: 822 days

From 1/11/1979 ( premiere UK film "Capricorn One" ) to 4/12/1981 ( I was the commander aboard the STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is: 822 days


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/releaseinfo

Release dates for

Capricorn One (1978)

UK 11 January 1979










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One

Capricorn One is a 1978 thriller movie about a Mars landing hoax. It was written and directed by Peter Hyams and produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company for Warner Bros.

Although thematically Capricorn One is a typical 1970s government-conspiracy thriller with similarities to Hyams's subsequent film Outland, the story was inspired by allegations that the Apollo Moon landings were a hoax.










http://www.snpp.com/episodes/4F07.html

Hurricane Neddy

Original Airdate in U.S.: 29-Dec-96



Dr. Foster decided to put Ned on the "University of Minnesota Spankological Protocol", which is nothing less than straight spanking for eight months in line. As time passes, Dr. Foster's attire changes to suit the current occasion and season -- while still spanking Little Ned. He changes into: a sweater (reading while spanking) during the Autumn, a Santa Suit during the Winter, a sportsshirt and party hat for Ned's birthday (Little Ned opens a birthday present), a summer shirt and shorts during the Summer, and finally back into his coat.

At the end, the treatment worked too well, making Ned unable to express anger by flooding it under waves of "nonsensical jabbering." Dr. Foster decides to delve into the heart of the problem, requiring someone who can upset Ned. Of course, Homer is called.


Homer: Yello? ... Yes? ... Mental hospital? ... Well I don't know any Ned Flanders.

Marge: The man who lived next door until his house blew down?

Homer: Oh, him!

-- How soon we forget, "Hurricane Neddy"


The family, wearing "Sane" tags, visits Ned at the mental hospital.


You folks are free to roam the grounds. Uh, just remember, one of our patients is a cannibal. Try to guess which one! I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.