>>13079661>>13079675https://spaceflightblunders.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/near-disaster-on-the-very-last-apollo-splashdown/The very last Apollo crewmembers were awoken for their trip home by a future member of the very first Space Shuttle mission.
Commander Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton heard the song “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother” in their headsets to wake them up on their final day on orbit, piped up to them by CAPCOM Bob Crippen.
“Good morning, gents. Party’s over. Time to come home,” Crippen said.
Handler went at the Soviets in May 1970 in a more frank manner, calling them out on their reticience. But then he pulled out his trump card. He discussed the plot line of an American space-disaster film called Marooned, where an Apollo-style crew is unable to re-enter and is threatened with suffocation.
What distinctly shocked the Soviets about Handler’s discussion of the film was that it portrayed a Soviet cosmonaut as a hero, making a rendezvous with the stricken crew to give oxygen, buying time for the crew before an American rescue ship was able to arrive.
That broke the ice. By 1971, the Soviets and the Americans began to hammer out a plan.
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