Small people also need to look up at the stars

Alta 2022-09-11 15:38:55

Many shots and scenes were shot from the perspective of astronauts, and in their senses, what they saw was not the grandeur that we felt, but the countless instruments and numbers that shook and rotated as they took off, It makes people dizzy; what I hear is not majestic music, but a "creaky" sound full of mechanical horror; what I feel is not the lofty ambition of leaping to the peak of the human body, but being confined in an extremely small space and unable to move , monotonous, boring, excrement, sweat all mixed together, smelly; the point is full of unknowns, sitting on a rocket with an equivalent of hundreds of tons, no one knows what will happen next, danger is everywhere and It could happen at any time (the film revealed a mechanical failure when docking with the unmanned space capsule, the crash of the plane during training killed 2 astronauts, the fire during the lunar module experiment killed 3 astronauts, and Armstrong also once In the experiment, he was forced to skydive and fell to the ground), and sometimes he could only take measures by instinct, and in fact he was very helpless at high altitude and could only rely on himself. Human beings have come step by step in this kind of self-defeating and daring sacrifice. The empty and lonely beauty of the lunar surface displayed is also shocking, and it is estimated that watching the movie will feel more profound. And it's funny to think that I'm still worrying about my current situation. I feel that I still have to control myself to do something, maybe this is the feeling this holiday brings to me.

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First Man quotes

  • Neil Armstrong: I don't know what space exploration will uncover, but I don't think it'll be exploration just for the sake of exploration. I think it'll be more the fact that it allows us to see things. That maybe we should have seen a long time ago. But just haven't been able to until now.

  • Deke Slayton: Why do you think space flight is important?

    Neil Armstrong: I had a few opportunities in the X-15 to observe the atmosphere. It was so thin, such a small part of the Earth that you could barely see it at all. And when you're down here in the crowd and you look up, it looks pretty big and you don't think about it too much. But when you get a different vantage point it changes your perspective.