The Power of Teamwork.The film Apollo 13 centres on Jim Lovell and Gene Kranz. It has to, in order to present a complex real-life drama with the confines of the movie format. But it was not for nothing that the panel at the celebration event consisted of multiple astronauts and flight ...
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Two days after the launch, an explosion in an oxygen tank turned the mission from one of exploration into one of survival. The movie Apollo 13 deals with the drama of the return of the damaged spacecraft to Earth. During the past two years, this Academy Award-nominated film has been ...
Two days after the launch of Apollo 13, an oxygen tank exploded, depleting the astronauts’ Command Module, named Odyssey, of power and oxygen. “Ah, Houston, we’ve had a problem,” Lovell grimly remarked, kicking off a dramatic rescue more than 200,000 miles from Earth that—thanks to...
Swigert was a last-minute addition to the Apollo 13 crew, replacing Ken Mattingly, who had been exposed to German measles just 48 hours before the 1970 launch. The Denver, Colorado native served in the United States Air Force from 1953 to 1956 and was assigned as a fighter pilot in Japan...
6. In the film, the Apollo 13 crew plays "Spirit in the Sky" after their successful launch, but in reality they played the theme from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey—which had just come out in 1968 and also inspired the name of their command module, Odyssey (also so named ...
Apollo 13 was Swigert's first trip to space, at age 38. He had been part of the support crew for Apollo 7 and was initially Apollo 13's backup command module pilot. He was asked to join the crew 48 hours before launch time after the original command module pilot,Ken Mattingly, was ...
On the big screen, Lovell was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie "Apollo 13," which tells the story of that harrowing NASA mission. One of Lovell's primary motivations in the film is that he orbited the moon as part of Apollo 8 but was denied the chance to step foot...
Apollo 13(Ron Howardmovie) NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. See more▼ Vote! Apollo 13 (1995) ...
“Perhaps his most dramatic role at NASA was after exposure to rubella just before the launch of Apollo 13. He stayed behind and provided key real-time decisions to successfully bring home the wounded spacecraft and the crew of Apollo 13 – NASA astronauts James Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fr...