Oh, look Apollo 13 is on!

[cowbell88]

Hot damn!

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I'll take disasters milder than our football team for 400, Alex

 

[TBone.sixpack]

Starkville we have a problem.

 

[MarkDallas]

Spoiler: they make it back.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Spoiler: they make it back.

Clarification: The Astronauts not the Bulldogs.

 

[EngDawg]

Need some Gene Kranz style leadership in the football program

 

[PineGroveBully]

The Saturn V carried us a long way but was replaced after Apollo 17, Correct?

You can't make this **** up

 

[EngDawg]

You can't make this **** up

The last Saturn V was launch in 1973 to lift the US's first space station, Skylab, into orbit. Next came the shuttle, which was flashier and cooler, but offered no benefits in terms of performance. In fact it was a step backwards, but it was new and brought more energy to the program. Some say if we had only painted the shuttles black with chrome wings, we could have attracted more talented, 5 star, engineers and astronauts who would have then been able to achieve greater things.

 

[PineGroveBully]

Yea I know, I'm a space nut

I was just trying to find a funny parallel to our football program. I'm a space nut, Apollo 13 has been my fav movie since I was 13. I've watched it and the right stuff probably 100 times each and read Lovell's "Lost Moon" and Krantz's "Failure is not an Option" each multiple times. I should have thrown in a dales or yeti reference since I left off the sarcasticks.

 

[EngDawg]

Oh I get it Apollo 17

 

[RocketCityDawg]

I worked on the Apollos...after I left MSU with my MBA in 1966 and was a technical writer with IBM. I lived my dream, and we went to the moon. Don't diss...It was an awesome time. Just 50 years ago in my life.

 

[PineGroveBully]

It'd be an honor to call you a steely-eyed missile man.