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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 ...
Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and ...
On Ron Howard's 'Apollo 13,' Tom Hanks' space nerd credentials made him a guiding force for the other actors in striving for ...
It's been three decades since Ron Howard's space masterpiece 'Apollo 13' was released, and it remains an acclaimed visual spectacle.
The propeller that helped thrust the USS Shangri-La aircraft carrier and figures into a pivotal scene from the Apollo 13 ...
The curious minds at ColdFusion revisit the harrowing Apollo 13 mission that came dangerously close to disaster.
Apollo 13's 'traverse map' for the astronauts. NASA Who would have walked on the moon? The lunar landing and moonwalks would have been done by Lovell and Haise.
Space industry insiders have a love-hate relationship with Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13. On one hand, the movie depicted many aspects of NASA’s Apollo program with an extremely high degree ...
The propeller that helped thrust the USS Shangri-La aircraft carrier and figures into a pivotal scene from the Apollo 13 movie has a home in Delaware.
On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 explosion, the NASA astronauts and Mission Control flight directors involved shared their thoughts and lessons learned in a new NASA documentary and podcast.
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, however ...