"Favorite moon mission" is not a trivia question I've thought of being asked. Well, I've always felt sorry for Apollo 10 because it usually gets overlooked - a dress rehearsal doesn't fit well in the dramatic narrative.
But if I have a favorite Apollo flight, it may be one that didn't go to the moon at all: Apollo 9, the Earth-orbit test of the lunar module. One might consider that to be disappointing, but what appeals to me about this one is Jim McDivitt's attitude towards it: he was a test pilot, and here he was getting to take an entirely new kind of vehicle on its first flight ever. What a dream!
Of the moon landings, I think the one best treated in the miniseries is Apollo 15, where the astronauts first learned to be geologists rather than tourists on the surface. Most of the astronauts had not found geology training very interesting, with a few exceptions like Roger Chaffee, who sadly never got the chance to do anything about it.
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But if I have a favorite Apollo flight, it may be one that didn't go to the moon at all: Apollo 9, the Earth-orbit test of the lunar module. One might consider that to be disappointing, but what appeals to me about this one is Jim McDivitt's attitude towards it: he was a test pilot, and here he was getting to take an entirely new kind of vehicle on its first flight ever. What a dream!
Of the moon landings, I think the one best treated in the miniseries is Apollo 15, where the astronauts first learned to be geologists rather than tourists on the surface. Most of the astronauts had not found geology training very interesting, with a few exceptions like Roger Chaffee, who sadly never got the chance to do anything about it.