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'Apollo 13' is coming to IMAX: What to know about the real-life mission behind the movie

Houston ... we have an IMAX release. More than 55 years ago, three NASA astronauts had to abort their mission to the moon after a life-threatening malfunction aboard ...
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Apollo 13 astronaut Ken Mattingly, who helped crew safely return to Earth, dies at 87

Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.
Forbes

5 Management Lessons From An Apollo 13 Astronaut, Part 3: How Large Teams Solve Critical Problems

Mission controllers discuss the Apollo 13 mission during some point during the last 24 hours before the successful landing on April 17, 1970. How close was Hollywood to depicting a real-life space ...
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Apollo 13: What Actually Happened On NASA’s Near-Disaster Moon Mission

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
AOL

What Happened to Apollo 13? Inside the Near-Fatal 1970 NASA Mission — And Exactly What Went Wrong

The Netflix documentary 'Apollo 13: Survival' gives a rare look at Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise’s time in space Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise pose for a ...
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“Failure Is Not an Option”: An Oral History of ‘Apollo 13’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In April 1970, the crew of the Apollo 13 became the most talked-about people on Earth after a malfunction en route to the moon ...
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Apollo 13 - The Epic Re-Entry and Splashdown (Tom Hanks)

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) and his crew brace for re-entry after days of near disaster, with every second of radio silence stretching out the tension. Buy/Rent Apollo 13! Amazon: <a ...
The Cheat Sheet

Ron Howard Used Real Mission Control Transcripts When Writing ‘Apollo 13’

Movies are usually a nice escape. They provide viewers with a way of immersing themselves in entirely fictional universes or historical eras. However, biographical movies are usually more accurate ...
Decider

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Apollo 13: Survival’ on Netflix, a Documentary Rich with Archival Footage and Terrifying Suspense

Apollo 13: Survival (now on Netflix) tells a story so many of us already know, albeit in a new, vital manner. Ron Howard’s 1995 nine-times Oscar-nominated Tom Hanks vehicle Apollo 13 rather famously ...
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“Apollo 13” turns 30: See what the A-list cast of Ron Howard's Oscar-winning docudrama has been up to the last 3 decades

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton led the cast, each playing the real-life astronauts who manned the mission. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including two acting nominations for ...
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Apollo 13 moon mission leader James Lovell dies at 97

James Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13 who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering, has died. He was 97.Lovell died Thursday in Lake Forest, Illinois, NASA ...