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The so-called "right stuff" manifests rather differently in "Apollo 13". Sure, this generation of astronauts knows the final ...
The way Ron explained it to me when we started was, 'Look, I'm not making a documentary. I'm making an entertaining movie ...
Lovell was played by Tom Hanks in the movie that was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. "Apollo 13," ...
The winners of the Best Supporting Actress Oscar belong to an exclusive club. But Apollo 13 star Kathleen Quinlan can boast ...
Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and ...
Kluger, who has written about the Apollo Program, talks about his new book: 'Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, The Untold ...
On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft launched with astronauts Jack Swigert, 38, Jim Lovell, 42, and Fred Haise, 36. Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third moon-landing mission, howe… ...
Spaceflight Everyone's heard of Apollo 11 and 13, but do you know about other missions in the historic space program? Each Apollo mission served an important purpose in an an effort to get humans ...
Never leave home without duct tape!’,” chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970. ­After an onboard explosion left their ...
Tom Hanks' Apollo 13 turns 30 and still stands tall among space films with gripping realism, powerful drama, and ...
Ken Mattingly, Astronaut Bumped From Apollo 13, Is Dead at 87 He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was scrubbed from the Apollo flight after being exposed to German measles.
Discover details about 'Apollo 13' and what retired astronaut Chris Hadfield said of the 1995 space movie's historical accuracy.