Re: [IRCA] [NRC-AM] Apollo 13

[Sheldon Harvey <ve2shw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was talking to someone just the other day about that very scene in the movie.  The speaker you see is actually the external speaker for the old Radio Shack/Realistic DX-160.  I had one, so I recognized it immediately.  All they did was stick a NASA sticker on the front of it! Another Hollywood blunder.


 
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 From: Ira Elbert New III <ien3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, November 3, 2012 9:22:59 PM
Subject: [NRC-AM] Apollo 13
 

 
     Here's a question for those of you who are a lot smarter than I am...I'm watching Apollo 13 during the commercial breaks tonight while the ALA - LSU game is on. They show a couple of scenes in the movie where Jim Lovell's wife is listening to the transmissions from the spacecraft. It's a grey speaker, with a NASA logo on it, but it never appears to be attached to a radio. Anybody know anything about this? Did the families have access to the communications? It puzzles me every time I see it.


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Ira Elbert New, III
Watkinsville, Georgia
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