I would not work with either AB as a producer or GR as an armorer.
They have both shown they lack the toughness to admit to where things went wrong.
AB has lied, possibly so strongly to himself that he doesn't realize it.
Whatever success he may have as an actor didn't translate into being a good safe producer.
The filmcrew walk out was a "Stop!"
And things kept on anyway.
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Originally Posted by Gene Kranz
"Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.
Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design,
build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it.
We were too gung-ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the
problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program
was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working,
Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and
test procedures changed daily. Nothing we did had any shelf life. Not
one of us stood up and said, 'Dammit, stop!'
I don't know what Thompson's committee will find as the cause, but I
know what I find. We are the cause! We were not ready! We did not
do our job. We were rolling the dice, hoping that things would come
together by launch day, when in our hearts we knew it would take a
miracle. We were pushing the schedule and betting that the Cape
would slip before we did.
From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words:
'Tough' and 'Competent.' Tough means we are forever accountable for
what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our
responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know
what we stand for.
Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will
never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission
Control will be perfect.
When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the
first thing you will do there is to write 'Tough and Competent' on your
blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the
room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom,
White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the
ranks of Mission Control."
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It's chilling to me that multiple guns on set had live ammo.
Some other actor could have been the one to pull the trigger.
If the film crew hadn't left the job, perhaps that is how it would have been.