Group: sliderule Message: 10347 From: Fred Kiesche Date: 31/08/2001
Subject: From the Earth to the Moon...
Greetings:

I spotted a SR during the chapter called "Spider" of HBO's "From the
Earth to the Moon".

I was watching this chapter as it is about Tom Kelly, one of the
engineers/designers of the Lunar Module. I'm also reading "Moon
Lander" by Kelly, a very detailed account of the design of the LM.

Interestingly there's a slide rule (white Pickett???) on his desk
during the early part of this chapter (where they are waiting for a
call on whether they got the contract to build the LM or not). It
bounces around when he reacts to the call...

No mention of SR's in the book, though.

I posted this sighting in the database. If I spot any more, I'll let
you know.

Fred Kiesche