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[Mike Fowler]

TheReluctant Astronaut is a 1967 American comedy film produced and directed by Edward Montagne and starring Don Knotts. It is the second film Knotts made as part of his five-film contract with Universal Pictures, following The Ghost and Mr. Chicken and preceding The Shakiest Gun in the West.

The film follows Roy Fleming (Knotts), an extremely acrophobic man working as a carnival ride operator in his hometown of Sweetwater, Missouri. His father, a proud World War I veteran who wants better things for his son, signs him up for a job at the Space Center in Houston. Once arriving in Houston, Fleming finds out he was hired for a janitor position, unbeknownst to his family and neighbors back home. After struggling to keep up the charade, Fleming is is eventually sent into space as a Cold War Space Race stunt to one-up the Russians by sending an untrained civilian into orbit.

Tropes for the film: Accidental Astronaut: A non-spacecraft variant occurs when Fleming accidentally launches himself on a rocket sled while trying to fool his visiting father and his friends into believing he's a real astronaut. Everytown, America: Sweetwater, Missouri, Roy's hometown, is this, with its local carnival and close-knit community (Roy's father is close friends with the town's barber). Loser Protagonist: Roy Fleming is deathly acrophobic, still lives with his parents at age 35, and has a crush on a woman with little to no interest in him. Phony Veteran: Roy's father eventually admits to him that he was never a soldier like he claimed: he was a librarian, and even his "war wound" was just the result of an on-the-job injury. Since Roy has inadvertently been trumped up as an astronaut even though NASA simply hired him as a janitor, this amounts to Oblivious Guilt Slinging. Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Roy Fleming, the eponymous reluctant astronaut (sensitive), and Fred Gifford, a real astronaut who Roy becomes acquainted with while working at NASA (manly).

Yes, the spacesuit worn by Howard "Froot Loops" Wolowitz can now be yours, courtesy the Hollywood prop house that fabricated it for the engineer-turned-reluctant astronaut, as portrayed by actor Simon Helberg on the CBS sitcom "The Big Bang Theory." [Behind the Scenes with Real-Life Astronaut on TV's 'Big Bang Theory']

"Global Effects normally does not sell items, since we are in the business of renting things, but we recently had to move our 12,000 square-foot facility, so we made an exception," said Chris Gilman, president and founder of the replica and costume company, in an interview with collectSPACE.

The Sokol KV-2 spacesuit costume was donned by Helberg for the Season 5 episode, "The Countdown Reflection," which had Wolowitz "launch" alongside real-life astronaut Mike Massimino (playing himself) and cosmonaut Dimitri Rezinov (actor Pasha Lychnikoff) aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft (replica) bound for a stay at the International Space Station. According to Nielsen TV Ratings, the episode was watched by more than 13 million people when it first aired on May 10, 2012.

"They were not real suits but they were pretty close replicas as far as how they looked," Massimino said. "They weren't as heavy as a real suit, but they were still concerned about us getting overheated under the lights and everything, so they gave us a cooling water bag to wear on our chests to help keep us cool."

The Wolowitz spacesuit, which opened for auction at $10,000, also includes a framed poster of Helberg wearing the costume. The same image, which is styled after a NASA astronaut portrait, has appeared in smaller format as part of the set decoration on "The Big Bang Theory," as a nod to Wolowitz's storyline.

In 2001: A Space Odyssey music was used as a major plot device. However, director Stanley Kubrick decided to not have a new score written for the film but rather use already existing classical music. The main theme song of this movie is the opening movement "Sunrise" of the tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. The final scene of the film is based on engineer Max Matthew's rendition of A Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Bell) which was the earliest song sung by computer synthesis. (1) The movie had the computer system/artificial intelligence Hal perform the same song to replicate this.

The music for Star Wars was composed by John Williams and is played by a symphony orchestra. The music commonly uses leitmotifs-over 60 of them- to represent different characters or events that are introduced throughout the franchise. He composed over 20 hours of music that was used in the 9 movies of the saga. In the music, you can hear influences from composers such as Wagner, Holst, Tchaikovsky, and Korngold. The Star Wars score is considered to be one of the best film scores ever composed.

Hans Zimmer wrote the score for this movie and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. In Zimmer's compositions, he likes to use a hybrid orchestral approach which heavily uses synthesizers and sampling (1). When composing the score, director Christopher Nolan only gave Zimmer a one-page manuscript that online the major themes of the movie.

The Planets is a seven-piece orchestral work composed by Gustav Holst. He began composing the work in 1913 but didn't finish until 1917. Each movement is named after a different planet and based on their astrological character. Holst said, "the character of each planet suggested lots to me, and I have been studying astrology fairly closely". Interestingly, he did not order the movements in the astrological order closest to the sun but rather emphasized the musical difference between the characters. (1)

"Song to the Moon" is an aria from Dvořk's opera Rusalka. The opera is similar to the fairy tale of "The Little Mermaid" as it is about a water nymph becoming human and losing her voice in order to be with the Prince she loves. This aria is sung by the title character Rusalka, where she begs the moon to tell the Prince that she loves him. (1)

"A Hundred Thousand Stars" is an aria from Jake Heggie's two-act opera Out of Darkness. The opera is based on the true story of two Holocaust survivors. In this aria, the character sings about members of the LGBTQ community who died during the Holocaust and compared them to stars in the night sky.

"O du mein holder abendstern" is an aria from Wagner's opera Tannhauser. It translates as "Song to the Evening Star" and is sung by Wolfram and is a homage to Venus as he asks the stars to guide his deceased beloved to heaven. (1)

"E lucevan stelle" is an aria from the opera Tosca by Puccini. It is sung by the character Cavradossi when he's in jail and forced to write a goodbye letter to his lover, Tosca before he is executed. In this aria, he sings about missing the time in his life when "the stars were brightly shining" and he could be free with Tosca. (1)

After many missions, psychologists realized that playing music in orbit improved the well-being of astronauts on long voyages (1). Astronaut's will sometimes bring their own instruments, although there is always some provided on board.

In 2005, this reporter interviewed Cal Fowler, then 76, who since has died. When America launched its second, third and fourth manned orbit missions, Fowler pushed the button. And it really was a button.

In fact, UCF professor Lori Walters, working with the U.S. Space Walk of Fame Foundation, has recorded some 200 oral histories with the pioneer space workers and is preserving documents detailing the space program's early days.

The idea is to hear from not just the revered astronauts, but also from the tens of thousands of retired Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center workers as well as their relatives and the residents who watched the space program arrive in their small coastal towns in the 1950s and 1960s.

Disappearing fast are the inanimate objects that are as much a part of the space program's wild early days: the launch pads, service towers, and control rooms. They've fallen to sea spray and the Florida sun or been cut up for scrap.

Old instruments, rocket parts, rocket models, and other items that helped make that history, and thousands of photographs, are faring better, but they sit boxed up in the special collections department of the UCF library.

In 2005, the UCF program virtually created two launch complexes at Cape Canaveral as they were in the 1950s and 1960s. Visitors to a website were able to see launch pads and control rooms then and now, and in some cases fade between the two images.

Launch Complex 14, from where John Glenn became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the earth, was torn down in 1977 as a safety hazard. Still there is the concrete ramp on which an 18-wheeler, with the rocket lying in it, backed up to the gantry, where cables righted the ship for launch. Rust-stained tips of rebar jut out from the now-crumbled concrete that was poured around them. Weeds and vines grew through the support beams. Metal plates have crumbled to rusty shavings. Old pieces of pipe lie where they broke off. The only sounds come from breaking waves and hordes of crickets.

Not far away Launch Complex 13 stood, some 160 feet tall. It launched 51 unmanned missions from 1958 to 1978. Its tower was the last of the original Atlas-ICBM gantries at the Cape and one of six towers or complexes named National Historic Landmarks in 1984. It was taken down in August 2005.

The towers were never built to last. The space program was in a hurry to catch up to the Soviets and not just to boldly go where no man had gone before. Putting a man in space means you could also put an atomic bomb in space and perhaps bring it back down on Washington. Cape Canaveral had been picked as a launch center so an errant rocket would drop in the Atlantic Ocean instead of a city, and so the pads stand just a few hundred yards from the beach, which leaves them vulnerable to sea spray. The people who built them weren't thinking that historians would be coming back more than a half century later.

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