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·2025, February 26 American actor Eugene A. Hackman passed away...
We'll remember him for amazing roles in detective movies but also for the 1969 SciFi movie "Marooned, the Sage of Ironman One !"
In that movie, Hackman was an astronaut, named Buzz Lloyd, who after five months in the space station, began to perform erratic and substandard so NASA decided to bring the crew home. The Command Module "Ironman One" thrusters failed and the crew was effectively marooned in orbit.
Not giving the plot away, it's an interesting movie involving the mission controllers, military personnel and even the astronauts' wives.
Wristwatch-wise interesting as at least half-a-dozen Omega Speedmaster "Ultraman" 145.012-67 chronographs can be spotted as both the astronauts and the mission controllers (Gregory Peck) wore such an "Ironman" Speedmaster with distinctive red chronograph hand !
(Photos: Columbia Pictures)
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We'll remember him for amazing roles in detective movies but also for the 1969 SciFi movie "Marooned, the Sage of Ironman One !"
In that movie, Hackman was an astronaut, named Buzz Lloyd, who after five months in the space station, began to perform erratic and substandard so NASA decided to bring the crew home. The Command Module "Ironman One" thrusters failed and the crew was effectively marooned in orbit.
Not giving the plot away, it's an interesting movie involving the mission controllers, military personnel and even the astronauts' wives.
Wristwatch-wise interesting as at least half-a-dozen Omega Speedmaster "Ultraman" 145.012-67 chronographs can be spotted as both the astronauts and the mission controllers (Gregory Peck) wore such an "Ironman" Speedmaster with distinctive red chronograph hand !
(Photos: Columbia Pictures)
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