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• country - USA
• creator - Jeffrey Kluger
• Ron Howard
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• Actor - Tom Hanks
• 2 h, 20 Minutes

 

 

There is no sound when I play this on my TV. The sound works for other Youtube programs, but not this. Very Frustrating. Welp... I'm crying. YouTube. Astronauts well done. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2016 Format: Prime Video Verified Purchase I worked at the Johnson Space Center when the Apollo 13 movie was originally released. The director, Ron Howard, considered filming in the Apollo Mission Control Center (MCC), but decided to duplicate the room on a Hollywood sound stage to give him better control over lighting and camera angles. The set designers extensively photographed the MCC and duplicated it down to the last detail including stenciled lettering on the walls, and the layout of the Ford Aerospace video display consoles. It is virtually impossible to tell that the move WAS NOT shot in the actual MCC. The details that were changed in the movie were for the most part insignificant to the story. Large teams of people working behind the scenes on the actual Apollo 13 mission were consolidated down to a few characters in the movie. The flight controllers work rotating shifts, yet only the primary team was depicted in the movie. Adding the other flight control shifts would have been more accurate, but could have been confusing. Sacrifices need to be made to squeeze nearly 6 days of mission in to 2 hours. Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2016 Format: Prime Video Verified Purchase This movie is my favorite movie. It puts a lump in my throat every time I watch it. And I have watched it a lot. What I love about it, is the hero's have slide rules and short sleeve shirts and glasses. No car chases. No gun fights. Just guts and the spirit to keep trying in the face of what seems hopeless situations. Probably my favorite movie by Hanks and Howard. And it makes me smile to hear NASA loved it so much, they wanted to use frames of the lift off. Way cool. Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2017 Format: DVD Verified Purchase What a great movie. Ron Howard said this was his favorite movie that he directed. I remember as a kid watching this whole thing unfold. We would watch tv not for the shows, but we'd just be waiting for Apollo 13 updates. After watching this movie a couple times I looked up the astronauts to see if they were still around and how old they are. Lovell is 88 now. We still haven't gone back to the moon. I would suggest that young people familiarize themselves with this movie, because it's a true story. These guys were lucky that they were able to get back to a Earth- of course they had some of the smartest people in the USA working to get them home. Great American movie and story. Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2017 Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase Hadn't seen this movie since it was in theaters. Not only does it hold up after all these years, it also outshines most modern movies of its type. There are no lazy plot twists such as characters going crazy or trying to sabotage the rest of the team. Like the Martian, this tells the story of a group of smart, determined people pulling together to save stranded astronauts. What is even more amazing, this story is true. If you liked The Martian, you might love Apollo 13. Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2018 Format: Prime Video Verified Purchase Whatever you have heard about "fake news" has NOTHING to do with this dramatic and true event. Both the US and the former Soviet Union have had near disasters in space. This movie very clearly and accurately chronicles the events of what was meant to be a "typical" flight to the moon in April of 1970, less ten months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's historic moon landing (and, also the unsung here of that trip, Michael Collins, who orbited the moon as the others went on their historic trip on the Eagle to the lunar surface). If you want to see NASA during her "finest hour" then you will certainly not want to miss this epic video. Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2018 Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase This two disc 4K Ultra HD/HDR/Blu-Ray, arrived on time and undamaged. Picture, sound and features playback is superb, especially now that this Ron Howard movie has been given a glorious makeover in 4K UltraHD/HDR and its soundtrack is now available in stunning Dolby Atmos X, which brings the movie alive gives me the viewer the ultimate in viewing pleasure and the ultimate in movie watching experience. I am so pleased that I made the move over to 4K UltraHD/HDR, with Dolby Atmos X for sound and vision. 10 out of 10. Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2017 Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase Apollo 13 is my favorite movie of all time, so I had to get this when we got a 4K TV. However, be aware that as this is film-based source material, you get a LOT of film grain. Not really sure it is a big improvement over the Anniversary Blu-ray edition we already had, but does have better dynamic range (it is HDR even though the product image does not show this) and better color & contrast overall. Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2016 Format: Prime Video Verified Purchase I had forgotten how great this movie was and, talking to my grandson who had just come back from a trip in which he visited Cape Canaveral, I told him about Apollo 13. I downloaded it from Prime Video and we spent a very pleasant (and educational) afternoon together. It isn't scary for 7-year olds as long as you reassure them that they all survived, and it teaches them values such as courage, ingenuity, creative thinking, and grace under pressure. He (and I) look forward to seeing it again together. Top international reviews 5. 0 out of 5 stars Sight and sound that will impress Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2018 Verified Purchase This is a superior 4k release despite the fact that it was released some years ago. Sharp, detailed images. Some scenes have amazing depth of field. The sound was amazing, especially during the launch sequence. 12 people found this helpful Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Report abuse still epic, after all these years, the 50th anniversary (20/07/2019) prompted me to enjoy it again. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2019 Verified Purchase I remember enjoying this in the cinema, back when it first came out. But I couldn't remember the plot, it was just the feelings of excitement and suspense that had stuck with me - particularly as I'm a huge fan of the main cast. I bought this because of the 50th anniversary, and I'm so glad I did. Great writing, great performances, and it helped me to understand what all the fuss was about with the space programme. Also, it gives a context to the wonderful 2015 song "Go! " by Public Service Broadcasting (PSB). I know its about a different flight - "Go! " is Apollo 11 - but its still an ace track. Btw, if you haven't seen PSB's late night Prom of their album, "The Race For Space" on the BBC (22/07/2019, at the Royal Albert Hall), definitely give it a watch! Hopefully, they'll also put it up on youtube at some point in the future. I'm probably going to pick up Jim Lovell's book "Lost Moon", but unfortunately the "For All Mankind" documentary is a bit too pricey for me. Likewise Christopher Kraft's book "Flight: My Life In Mission Control" has sadly become over-priced since his recent passing. 2 people found this helpful Superb film, brilliant Blu-ray. And cheaper than streaming! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2019 Verified Purchase I loved Apollo 13 when I watched it at the cinema when it was released in the 90's, and I still own a VHS copy of it. Amazingly, in a collection of close to 1000 DVDs and Blu-Rays, I don't own it on disc. With the recent celebrations of the moon landings, I had a hankering to watch it again for the first time in years. No longer rocking a VHS player in my home cinema line-up, I went looking for it on Amazon Prime Video, Sky Cinema or any of the catch up services, but only Amazon had it on a pay to watch basis. I did a quick search on Amazon and found that I could buy the full remastered Blu-Ray copy for less money, delivered in a couple of days. I went for that option, so I can watch it again and again. Bargain. As for the film, it stands the test of time very well. Armed these days with the internet it's easy to fact check, and while there's obvious creative license used throughout, it remains true to the story and one that was a remarkable moment in space travel and human ingenuity. Phenomenal Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2019 Verified Purchase Apollo 13 is a tremendous film. And because it is a true story of calamitous errors and inept design, but on the other side of the coin a fantastic dedication and perseverance by the ground based staff to work on every issue till they found the answers they needed and helped the three astronauts to find a way to get back to earth. And then the final moments of the re-entry silence for what seemed like a disaster lasting far too long to be good news had us all on the edge of our seats willing them to get home safely 50 years since the real journey took place. One person found this helpful 4. 0 out of 5 stars We have a problem Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 12, 2019 Verified Purchase A very good film about something that was true. I had read some not good reviews about this Disc, but I had no problems at all. I don't know why I read these really bad reviews, even on well known films, and I know the films are great. Some people just like to bad talk about films no matter what others say No audio upgrade on BD Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2019 Verified Purchase We all know this film so no point in reviewing that. This score is for the overall package. The 4K disc has great picture and fantastic sound. Disappointingly, the BD is the standard 5. 1 audio with no upgrade to Dolby Atmos or DTS-X. The very first 4K disc that I bought (Deepwater Horizon) has Dolby Atmos on both discs. Shame. Could have been a 5 star movie... Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2019 Verified Purchase While making a big fuss about dedication to historical and technical accuracy this film contains many inaccuracies and some sadly gratuitous emotional conflict (non-existent in the real events of Apollo 13). It is the false emotional conflict between the astronauts, as if the story itself was not dramatic enough, that forced me to drop a star. That said, this is still a brilliant film, so much so that I've watched it several times. Worth getting the special edition DVD with JIm Lovell's commentary if you want to separate truth from fiction. 1. 0 out of 5 stars No bonus material, no subtitles Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2019 Verified Purchase The film itself is fine - but I did buy this in part for the bonus material - and I prefer to have subtitles on as I am slightly hard-of-hearing - there are no subtitles. Have returned it and thank you to Amazon for prompt response - giving low score as these are (along with the high scores) the ones that are read, so if someone's looking for the extras, they know this doesn't have them. Great Movie in a Superb Format Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2019 Verified Purchase The film is already an excellent piece of work telling the history of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission but the UHD version adds superb audio, great detailing on the pictures and improves the atmosphere and involvement in the film with the overall quality of the upgrade to UHD. Enjoy the experience. An incredible story. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2020 Verified Purchase Bought this for my daughter as we were watching the film on tv late one night. She kept nodding off but was adamant she was going to finish it. I sent her to bed and purchased the dvd. It came within 4 days from the seller and was greatly received. She has now watched the film and has played it again and again when her friends or cousins are around. A superbly-produced, directed and well-acted movie. Truly inspirational Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 16, 2019 Verified Purchase The story-line is faultless, being based on fact. Ed Harris as Gene Krantz - perfect casting - delivering the one -liner put-down of the NASA doom-mongers: "With all due respect, Sir, I believe this will be NASA's finest hour" Damn right. Interesting price for 3 movies Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 25, 2012 Verified Purchase Charlie Wilson's War/Philadelphia/Apollo 13 DVD UK release Sony/Universal Apollo 13 Audio: english 5. 1 + german, italian, french, spanish 2. 0 Stereo Subs: Czech, danish, dutch, english, finnish, french, german, norwegian, polish, portug, swed Ratio: it's written 1. 33 on the DVD box, but it's not (luckily! ): it's the original 1. 78 Region 2 Charlie Wilson's War Audio: english 5. 1 Subs: english SDH, arabic, danish, finnish, icelandic, norwegian, swedish Ratio: 1. 85 Regions 2, 4, 5 Philadelphia Audio: english 5. 1 + english 2. 0 Stereo Subs: cantonese, czech, english, hungarian, hebrew, italian, polish, russian Ratio: 1. 85 Region 2 Dolby, DVD case 14mm, 3 discs 5 people found this helpful However old this film is; even when you know the ending. It's excellent and draws you in. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2019 Verified Purchase Every time I see this I get engrossed with it. Bought for elderly couple who don't watch hardly any TV. Both were gripped by it. Lending it to Pilot relative who wants to watch it again. Got hooked years ago. All helped by Tom Hanks who is a talented and diverse actor. Amazing Film Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2011 Verified Purchase This film is truly breathtaking, this is a must see for anyone whether you know anything about the story or not. Tom Hanks is once again sublime and makes the film inspirational. The film also shows the genius of the guys working in mission control to bring the boys home. The acting has you sitting on the edge of your seats and the gripping storyline creates and tense atmosphere in the room. Even though you know the ending you still feel all sorts of emotion as you watch the astronauts struggle to make it back safely home in their destroyed spaceship. Another must is the Apollo 13 book that compliments the film but also adds a little bit more information around other sections that the film skips over. Overall a truly special film that I would advice anyone to buy or make sure they watch. Apollo 13: Anniversary Edition 3 people found this helpful Has you sitting on the edge of your seat! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2019 Verified Purchase A truly suspenseful film. It is a wonder that the crew of Apollo 13 ever made it home! Had me sitting on the edge of my seat and holding my breath in places. Loved the music as well. A great film. Report abuse.

I was referencing this movie when I saw first man I love both movies. Jeez! It's scary. James Burke the Connections historical genius. A delightful man indeed. A BBC commentator here on this event. The narrarater needs speech lessons. Starts off sounding like the 1917 space mission. This historical recounting of the failed NASA mission that succeeded in so many ways is a magical recreation of space flight into that final frontier. Ron Howard pulls the viewer heartstrings that previously limited his critical success. We're reminded of the lost trait of American ingenuity as inspirationally seen through the determined NASA team where failure was not an option. Just like the mission, this was not about individual performances and energized American pride. The Jim Lovell story comes to life through strong performance and a clear vision that remains as awe inspiring as space travel itself was in its youth. Retake a ride into American determination.

I don't care about what anything was DESIGNED to do, i care about what it CAN do. Tim McGraw. The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America’s third Moon landing mission. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA’s flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely. Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA’s technical assistance in astronaut and flight controller training for his cast, and even obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the “weightlessness” experienced by the astronauts in space. PLOT: On July 20, 1969, veteran astronaut Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) hosts a party for other astronauts and their families, who watch on television as their colleague Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Lovell, who orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, tells his wife Marilyn (Kathleen Quinlan) that he intends to return, to walk on its surface. On October 30, while giving a VIP tour of NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building, Lovell is informed by his boss Deke Slayton that he and his crew will fly the Apollo 13 mission instead of Apollo 14. Lovell, Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) begin training for their new mission. Days before launch, it is discovered that Mattingly was exposed to measles, and the flight surgeon demands his replacement with Mattingly’s backup, Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), as a safety precaution. Lovell resists breaking up his team, but relents after Slayton gives him the choice of either accepting the switch, or else being bumped to a later mission. As the launch date approaches, Marilyn’s fears for her husband’s safety manifest in nightmares, but she goes to Cape Kennedy the night before launch, to see him off despite her misgivings. On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 Flight Director Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) gives the go-ahead from Houston’s Mission Control Center for launch. As the Saturn V rocket climbs into the sky, an engine on the second stage cuts off prematurely, but the craft successfully reaches Earth orbit. After the third stage fires, sending Apollo 13 on a trajectory to the Moon, Swigert docks theCommand/Service Module Odyssey with the Lunar Module Aquarius, and pulls it away from the spent stage. Three days into the mission, the crew send a live television transmission from Odyssey, but the networks, believing the public now regards lunar missions as routine, decline to carry the broadcast live. Swigert is told to perform a standard housekeeping procedure of stirring the two liquid oxygen tanks in the Service Module. When he flips the switch, one tank explodes, emptying its contents into space and sending the craft tumbling. The other tank is soon found to be leaking, prompting Mission Control to abort the Moon landing, and forcing Lovell and Haise to hurriedly power up Aquarius as a “lifeboat” for the return home, while Swigert shuts down Odyssey before its battery power runs out. On Earth, Kranz rallies his team to do what is necessary to get the astronauts home safely, declaring “failure is not an option. ” Controller John Aaron recruits Mattingly to help him figure out how to restart Odyssey for the final return to Earth. As Swigert and Haise watch the Moon passing beneath them, Lovell laments his lost chance of walking on its surface, then turns their attention to the task of getting home. With Aquarius running on minimum systems to conserve power, the crew is soon subjected to freezing conditions. Swigert suspects Mission Control is unable to get them home and is withholding this from them. In a fit of rage, Haise blames Swigert’s inexperience for the accident; the ensuing argument is quickly squelched by Lovell. When the carbon dioxide exhaled by the astronauts reaches the Lunar Module’s filter capacity and approaches dangerous levels, an engineering team quickly invents a way to make the Command Module’s square filters work in the Lunar Module’s round receptacles. With the guidance systems on Aquarius shut down, and despite Haise’s fever and miserable living conditions, the crew succeeds in making a difficult but vital course correction by manually igniting the Lunar Module’s engine. Mattingly and Aaron struggle to find a way to power up the Command Module with its limited available power, but finally succeed and transmit the procedures to Swigert, who successfully restarts Odyssey by transmitting extra power from Aquarius. When the Service Module is jettisoned, the crew finally see the extent of the damage and prepare for re-entry, unsure whether Odyssey’ s heat shield is intact. If it is not, they will burn up. They release Aquarius and re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere in Odyssey. After a tense, longer than normal period of radio silence due to ionization blackout, the astronauts report all is well and splash down in the Pacific Ocean. The three men are brought aboard the aircraft carrier USS Iwo Jima. As the astronauts are given a hero’s welcome on deck, Lovell’s narration describes the events that follow their return from space—including the investigation into the explosion, and the subsequent careers and lives of Haise, Swigert, Mattingly and Kranz—and ends wondering when mankind will return to the Moon.

Dad was 9-years-old when the real Apollo 13 was launched. I was 9-years-old when I first saw this movie. I just take after my dad. That astronaut helmet looks ugly when full open. E ighteen months ago, I was combing through the Apollo 11 mission logs, looking at the timelines and events for something unique that we might focus on to celebrate the 50th anniversary of humankind’s first landing on the moon. Last year, that idea became the BBC World Service podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon. As the series drew to a close, it became clear that there was unfinished business. Some of the flight controllers who had been present for the Apollo 11 landing had also worked on another, arguably more dramatic, endeavour – the ill-fated flight of Apollo 13. That mission was crippled by an explosion while en route to the moon and nearly 200, 000 miles from Earth. The story was popularised in 1995 in a Hollywood film starring Tom Hanks, but I knew that there was much more behind the narrative than the movie had managed to tell. So for the new series of the podcast I wanted to get under the skin of the thing and focus not just on the crew who flew the mission, but also on those who saved it – the incredible team of flight controllers who worked round the clock in shifts for 87 hours. We were after more than the story, gripping though it is. I wanted to understand what lessons we all might learn from what became arguably Nasa’s finest achievement: the recovery from catastrophe in deep space and the rescue of a crew from what looked like certain death. How do you lead a team through that? How do you keep yourselves going in the face of something so hopeless? It felt to me like there should be something all of us might learn. Apollo 13 leader Jim Lovell’s wife Marilyn (far right) and their children watch as the mission lifts off. Photograph: Yale Joel/The Life Picture Collection via Getty Images Apollo 13 was the United States’ third mission to land humans on the moon. Launched on 11 April 1970, it followed less than a year after Neil Armstrong’s successful first lunar landing and famous small step. Commander Jim Lovell, a former US navy test pilot and spaceflight veteran, led a crew of two rookie astronauts, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise. Things had gone awry even before launch. Swigert was a late inclusion in the crew, having been swapped in at the last moment to replace his colleague Ken Mattingly who had been exposed to a case of German measles. But this drama in the buildup to the mission drew only moderate interest from the media. To the American public, sending people to the moon, a feat that had existed only at the limits of their imagination just 12 months earlier, had now taken on the air of something almost routine. There was much less press hoopla about the launch itself and television networks across America declined the opportunity to interrupt their schedules and include live inserts of Apollo 13’s early inflight broadcasts. The view of the editorial teams back on Earth was clear: astronauts had landed on the moon not once but twice already and, with much of the novelty gone, the Apollo 13 mission deserved little attention, or so they thought. Fifty-six hours in, with the crew nearly 200, 000 miles from Earth, an explosion in one of Apollo 13’s two oxygen tanks left the command module Odyssey fatally damaged. Coasting in space, with alarms flashing all around them, bleeding oxygen and losing electrical power, Lovell, Swigert and Haise were suddenly in deep trouble. The Apollo 13 rocket lifts off from launch pad A of the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 11 April 1970. Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images The lunar landing was called off and over the next four days, the crew and mission control would find themselves fending off deadly threats over and over again. They would solve problems one day, only to discover a host of new complications that might kill the crew the next. But they kept working together, across hundreds of thousands of miles of empty space, with everything against them, until they got the crew all the way back. On 17 April 1970, with the world watching, Apollo 13 reached Earth again. The capsule, surrounded by an inferno created by the heat of re-entry into the atmosphere, became impossible to contact by radio. At mission control, they watched and waited in silence. We tend to mythologise these stories of outrageous survival to the extent that it becomes difficult to tease fact apart from fiction. This is doubly true of Apollo 13. The popular retelling goes something like this: Apollo 13 was rescued by an elite team led by flight director, Gene Kranz, for whom failure was “not an option”. The rescue was executed calmly and deftly without any doubts that it would succeed. But you only have to listen to the opening hours of the mission control recordings and the space-to-ground radio transmissions to know that was not the case. After the rupture of the oxygen tank, both the crew and their flight controllers struggled to make sense of what was happening. That the mission control team was caught flat-footed in the opening phase of the accident is strangely reassuring. Nobody, not even the exhaustively drilled Nasa flight controllers, is able to glide swan-like through chaos like that. Initially there was no structure. There were misdiagnoses and mistakes. The vehicle had failed so totally that it fleetingly crossed the mind of at least one flight controller that he should simply pack up and go home. Exemplary leadership is what got them through that first hour. Kranz kept his team and the vehicle together masterfully, buying time enough to start solving the problem. When reviewing the response to sudden crises, we often overlook that chaotic period, simply because it has little real structure and doesn’t appear to move things forward. But preventing a team from disintegrating in the face of an apparently overwhelming challenge is a feat in itself. The average age of the flight control team was 27; some were freshly graduated from university. During routine mission operations you would never guess that; their statements are so clear and confident, their knowledge so deep. But immediately after the accident there are times when, listening to the mission audio loop, you hear a hint of fearful youth. After a torrid hour of failed troubleshooting, a new shift of flight controllers arrived, as well as a new flight director, waiting to take their turn. They were at this point still in the thick of the fight and the temptation for Kranz to keep going and refuse to relinquish control must have been enormous. Nevertheless he passed the baton to the incoming team, recognising that fresh eyes and minds were what was needed. This is the true spirit of teamwork – the ability to know when your part is done, when someone new can bring something better than you can. That ability to relinquish control and delegate authority didn’t stop there. The Apollo missions were complex endeavours. Nobody could be across it all and Nasa knew that in mission control it had a team of people who, as a whole, were far greater than the sum of their individual parts. In approaching this crisis, their delegation of authority and deference to expertise is almost total. In the face of high-stakes scenarios, it is tempting to wrest control from more junior colleagues. But in 1970 the approach of mission control was quite different. They empowered their most junior team members, giving them total ownership of their specialist stations. They would interrogate their recommendations but not second-guess them. It is a lesson that industry and wider society has largely failed to heed. The other aspect of the Apollo 13 mission that I found fascinating during our interviews with the team was the depth of Nasa’s preparation. I had always imagined Apollo 13 to be a feat of wall-to-wall improvisation. After all, the rupture of the oxygen tank had torn the heart out of the command module, leaving it dead, forcing the astronauts to use the lunar module as a lifeboat and means of propulsion. Jack Swigert (right) and one of the other two crew members work an improvised CO2 scrubber made from parts found aboard the Apollo 13 lunar module. Photograph: AFP via Getty Images But what surprised me was how little of the response to the accident demanded improvised solutions. Nasa had learned to be wary of creativity and inventiveness in the heat of the moment. That doesn’t mean it refused to improvise, nor that it wasn’t capable of doing it well – only that it knew plans hatched in the heat of battle often harbour hidden flaws. Incredibly, Nasa had already rehearsed many of the contingency and fallback plans required to rescue Apollo 13. In earlier missions, it had experimented with using the lunar module’s engines to drive both it and the command module. It had a checklist ready to manage the sudden powering down of the command module that was required to save dwindling battery power. Nasa even had a procedure for flying the spacecraft without their primary navigation and guidance computer. And then, when finally it had no choice but to improvise, it did it with same obsession and attention to detail it brought to everything else. Finally, we should turn to the things we think we know about the mission through retellings in popular culture. The best quotes are often misquotes. For example nobody ever said: “Houston, we have a problem. ” The precise words were: “Houston, we’ve had a problem. ” That is just a glitch in tense. More significant is the mission’s other catchphrase – “Failure is not an option” – which we have taken to characterise Nasa as the sort of steel-willed organisation that steadfastly refuses to entertain the possibility of failure. But in truth nobody uttered those words during the mission. The quote itself derives from a line of script in the 1995 movie and Kranz then borrowed it as the title for his autobiography, published in 2000. The scene at mission control minutes after the recovery of the Apollo 13 crew. Flight director Gene Kranz is on the far right. Photograph: Bettmann Archive And while the flight controllers enjoyed regurgitating that particular strand of mythology to us, it was clear that the possibility of failure remained very real throughout the mission. Fifty years later, several of the flight controllers were still moved to tears when describing the moment when Apollo 13 finally reappeared after the communications blackout. Despite their protestations, it became obvious that they all must have known how perilous the scenario was. But, importantly, what they didn’t do was devote any time to contemplating disaster. As flight director Glynn Lunney, who relieved Kranz’s first shift told me: “If you spend your time thinking about the crew dying, you’re only going to make that eventuality more likely. ” • The second series of 13 Minutes to the Moon starts on the BBC World Service at 11. 30am on Wednesday 11 March. It will be available on BBC Sounds from Monday 9 March.

I find a peaceful moment where the sun is setting below the horizon whenever I listen to the end theme of Apollo 13. It's like myself surrounded by mother nature of the Earth as a sole place where every life can be. アポロ13のエンドテーマを聴いてると地平線に沈む太陽がみえる穏やかな光景が浮かびます. すべての生命が存在できる唯一の場所である地球の母なる自然に包まれた自分をイメージする感じです. 1970 the Apollo 13 launched Apollo 11 launched 1969.

 

 

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