The Astronauts (TV Series) Countdown (2020) User Reviews

Standing ovation.

[agent-23044 · 10/10 · 15 November 2020]

A standing ovation to the producers, writers, cast and crew for an outstanding show/season premiere. Everything, from the writing to the cinematography, casting and delivery is impressive. It's a Nickelodeon show for young minds of all ages.

Not Accurate

[dncorp · 2/10 · 16 November 2020]

Ever since the creation of Space Programs of the U.S. and U.S.S.R., there was always the Human Interface because of The Limited Capabilities of On Board (in spacecraft) Computers due to size and weight. The Limited Capabilities of Remote Computers, those huge kinds of Computers that were the size of a building, with many reel to reel magnet tapes, today a smartphone, iPhone, Cellphone has more computer processing power and memory than the largest fastest computer then, example the U.S. Apollo Series that got the U.S. to the Moon was only 16 Kilobytes, with everything having to be constantly updated from Mission Controls Computers by slow radio transmissions, when they went behind the Moon they lost all Communications, as they did not send up a Communications Satellite to the other side of t he Moon to solve that "Communications Blackout", like the U.S.S.R. did so that they could send up a Satellite that then used that Communications Satellite to send photographs of the other side of the Moon back to Earth,

Recent Episodes of the 2020 TV Series The Right Stuff.

There was the ideas of a Computer becoming abnormal, like 2001 A Space Odyssey, Colossus the Forbin Project, other Problems like Fail Safe, Andromeda Strain, the Matrix, Skynet of the Terminator Series, so the idea of not being able to "pull the (electrical) plug" was Always there, with either a backup computer, and or manual overrides, manual flight and navigation.