Talk:The Dream Is Alive

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By one calculation, The Dream Is Alive is the highest grossing documentary in the U.S., with box office of U.S.$125.9 million.[1]

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The shuttle landing we see in the opening, I think it might have been from mission 51-A (Discovery's second landing) rather than 41-B. Challenger had at least one T-38 chase plane nearby during its fourth landing, but none were visible in the video. I don't know. Maybe it was off camera. And the shuttle doesn't have the characteristic additional black tiles on the tail that Challenger did, at least not that I see. Can anyone verify? Space Craze (talk) 20:40, 14 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Have finally pinpointed where all of this confusion has stemmed from: the footage appears to be 51-A, but the audio is from 41-B. The radio calls are clearly Vance Brand and Hoot Gibson.Twoenginetal (talk) 11:45, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

By my reckoning, that's a total of 5 missions featured throughout the documentary.

The major sequences from STS-41-D and STS-41-C as well as the filler from STS-41-G. In addition, the initial landing from STS-51-A and the middle launch from STS-51-C. I believe the first launch is also from 51-C, but I don't have enough evidence to back that up as of just now. Twoenginetal (talk) 11:58, 2 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]