Originally Posted by
tdracer
Probably editorial reasons - there were three teams of flight controllers with alternating eight hour shifts - it would have been too confusing to show all three in the movie.
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I'm sure you're right....but it's kind of a shame IMHO..then again, it's the movies...
The Murray/Cox "Apollo" book has a wonderful description of Lunney in action that evening, comparing his task of keeping all the Flight Controllers in his team on task and focused with that of keeping a load of plates on sticks spinning, and just managing to get around the loop in time to stop any of them hitting the floor...if you listen to tapes from the control room, and especially the EECOM channel you can really get the feeling of how terribly close they were to running out of electricity and oxygen before they got things anything going in the LM and it demonstrates what a heck of a job Glyn Lunney did..
For those that don't know the audio channels and more are available here:
https://apolloinrealtime.org/