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Originally Posted by onevoice
Maybe, but probably not. Why didn't he ever mention it in his book.
The general idea of a single person being the go-no go determination flies in the face of everything NASA did, especially if it is asking a person who does calculations, not the person who actually DEVELOPED THE EQUATIONS  Those types of calculations were done by teams of people, and took lots of time.
There were a lot of unsung heroes in the space program, this movie, like most, mixes a lot of interpretation and politics into the "facts" |
It is exactly how NASA did things back then. The computer was new and they used people to verify the numbers. She would have done the same calculations the computer did, no need to ask the person that developed the equations.
We saw it in the theaters when it came out. Overall it was a good movie. I was very glad it wasn't a Michael Bay or JJ Abrams film.