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Oct 26, 2020 - 2:27 PM
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Grecchus
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According to the film, it also had something to do with going into the airlock either head or feet first (if memory serves). Probably the only exciting sequence in the whole dreary film (which, btw, is VERY low on actual space action, in case you expected that).
Considering the airlock aperture looks to have been washing machine sized, head-first or feet-first would be the only option. It reminds me of Leia's comment during the cell detention rescue: "when you came in didn't you have a plan for getting out?"; except, in reverse. And, oh yeah, someone somewhere has to be the brains behind every half-cocked idea - good or bad. The funny thing is, the astronauts, who can sometimes appear to be the monkeys in the experiment are always the ones to HAVE TO find real-time solutions to unexpected life and death situations as and when they crop up, they themselves having volunteered to be the piggy-in-the-middle. Whether or not that leaves them enlightened to any great extent after the event is something only they really know.
It hinges on whether or not you think that what goes up must come down is a glass half-full or glass half-empty thingy. If Leonov had not been able to get back into the capsule through the airlock, I wonder what his final thoughts on that matter might have been? It's not the first time a 'Mae West' situation has caused problems. I refer to Jim Lovell's first problem on the way to the Moon, not the second although the latter does tend to take the lion's share of the biscuit.
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LC, even if the the above imagery is OT, it appeals to me in an infinite number of ways.
Can't help but agree with this. And she looks like my favourite martian.....
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