_**Cinematic account of the ill-fated Apollo mission**_ In April, 1970, the Apollo 13 mission to the moon is aborted after an explosion causes internal damage. The three astronauts and Mission Control must now focus on merely surviving and getting back alive, if possible. Directed by Ron Howard, “Apollo 13” (1995) is a solid account of the real-life events and obviously influenced “The Martian” twenty years later, which is even better, albeit not based on historical events. I suppose ...
Read Full ReviewThis does take a while to get going, but once space-bound, it proves to be quite a compelling tale of three astronauts who find themselves stranded in their spacecraft after an oxygen tank blows up. Ron Howard now presents us with a potently claustrophobic couple of hours and the men - Lovell (Tom Hanks); Haise (Bill Paxton) and Swigert (Kevin Bacon) must work with their ground control colleagues led by Mattingly (Gary Sinese) and Kranz (an excellent Ed Harris) to try to calculate some way of ge...
Read Full Reviewby James Horner
by James Brown
by Small Step (From Apollo 13 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Walter Cronkite,Neil Armstrong
People at Jim's house watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon
by The Young
by Jefferson Airplane
Jim tells to Marilyn that he got promoted to fly Apollo 13
by The Mavericks
by es (Remix)The Who
by Steppenwolf
Jack screams in excitement after a surprise phone call revealed that he had been chosen as Ken's replacement
by To Apollo
by Original Motion
Kranz gives the go-ahead to launch