It's fairly accurate except that many of the fixes they came up with in the movie were actually developed much earlier in the program, and not after the accident. It's not quite as dramatic to just read the solutions out of a handbook.
Cute idea. Not sure how it’ll pan out, but I wish them luck. That building has been sitting gutted for nearly a decade, good to see someone trying to put it to use.
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It's fairly accurate except that many of the fixes they came up with in the movie were actually developed much earlier in the program, and not after the accident. It's not quite as dramatic to just read the solutions out of a handbook.