His commentary track on the 1995 movie is an absolute delight, effectively turning the film from an historical drama into a semiautobiographical documentary. And the way he struggles with how to refer to himself in the third person while being portrayed by another is utterly charming. "Oh, here's the bit where Tom... I mean Jim... I mean I..."
I had the opportunity to see Jim Lovell and Gene Kranz speak live nearly 20 years ago, and even though we all knew the story, it was still captivating to hear them tell it in person.
I met Jim Lovell in 1997, at a talk he did at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins CO. My dad snagged us tickets the very afternoon he learned of it, and pulled me out of school so we could go to it. I was in 4th grade. After Commander Lovell's talk about the challenges of Apollo 13, there was a meet and greet but only for Lincoln Center donors. They saw my dad and I walking away, and all but grabbed us and pulled us into the room. At that exact moment, a sea of people parted in front of me, leading directly to Apollo 13 Commander James Lovell. I walked up to him and told him he was my hero. And I have never forgotten it.
@@jeremysmith9694 We do. All of them were astronauts too. Deke Slayton was medically grounded in Mercury and later flew on ASTP. Young, Mattingly, Duke were backup on Apollo 13 and flew on 16 (yeah, Mattingly swapped with Swigert), Joe Kerwin flew on Skylab 2 and was the first physician in space
Fun Fact: In the Tom Hanks film, near the end when the Apollo 13 crew land on the aircraft carrier deck, the admiral in full dress uniform who shakes hands with Tom Hanks is Jim Lovell.
I agree! I have seen over one hundred documentaries on the Apollo missions and I was so surprised to see new footage with " homemade documentaries". Top-notch watch.
As a preview to this documentary, BBC podcast 13 Minutes to the moon Season 2. It tells this story of Apollo 13 saga in details, with interviews with Jim Lovell, Gene Krantz and others. Season 1 of course is about Apollo 11.
Well you can't have 70 year old aerospace engineers when aerospace engineering is only like a 10 year old profession lol. Every new field is always dominated by young people. There's also actually a lot of data that points to scientists and engineers doing their best work very young in life. Einstein was in his 20's when he published special relativity, as an example.
The part where they were venting a gas into space, and they showed everyone in mission control's face and the one dude just goes "jesus christ" was epic
I`m not old enough (surprisingly) to remember Apollo 13 but I love learning things about space exploration, I`m very much looking forward to this as I`ve also seen the Challenger documentary several times
I hope they will go into the details of every single thing they had to figure it out and solve to make it come home safe! Apollo 13 movie made a great effort but still there were so many problems and difficult decisions to take that if explained well will make people way more impressed on what they achieved by bringing it home! Please Netflix don’t let us nerds down!
I had the chance to see it in advance, unfortunately it leans too much to the movie again instead of dealing with details, also takes quotes out of context, uses cut sentences from later interviews like they were spoken on-board. For me as a "nerd" who knows Apollo 13 inside out really disappointing.
Many documentaries have already been made about Apollo 13. Will be interesting to see if there is anything new here. Capt. Lovell is now 96 years old. Fred Haise is 90. Memories don't improve with age. Unfortunately Jack Swigart is long gone. If would have been interesting to interview him in depth regarding Apollo 13. The Lovell quote of “We were like three school kids looking through a candy store window.” is from Apollo 8. Hope the producers put that quote in proper context.
I'm having a Mandela effect moment, in that I remember the death of Fred Haise 4-5 years back. And I wonder if Jack Swigart actually died of AIDS back then...
@@Soniti1324 Fred Haise is still alive although he did survive an horrific plane crash where he suffered bad burns. Jack Swigert died of prostate cancer which is the most deadly form of cancer for men. He wasn’t that much of a man slag.
Unfortunately they did this with quite a lot of quotes, taken out of context, others from later interviews cut in a way that should make them sound like spoken on-board, Flight Director's quotes put in the wrong place in the timeline. I had the chance to see it in advance and was really disappointed.
@@ksracing8396 Thanks. I assume there is not anything new in this documentary. No missing NASA films or interviews. An interview with TK Mattingly and Jack Swigert would have been interesting. But, that interview never happened.
Lovell had a prime team, but i still credit this save with his exceptional Naval aviation experience. The same way that Robert "hoot" Gibson returned in one piece in Shuttle mission STS-27.
I'm watching this because I know Elan is watching it❤ I sure wish that the astronauts would have supported Elon and all his achievements. He wanted them to be proud of him because they inspired him. He had tears in his eyes on the interview. If something doesn't make sense there's a book in it somewhere. Sounds suspicious to me why they wouldn't support such a great great accomplishment that elan has done and is doing. 👍
A team effort in a time the US was still a team. Aka an internally recognized nation by everyone in it. Nationalism is just a team building effort on a larger scale. It’s not evil. Get your sh*t together America 🇺🇸
Yes we do. The space program went backwards after the Saturn rocket was retired, Except the rocket motors. They were used for the shuttle program and now the sls program. So shameful and lazy people at NASA. Spacex will be on the moon before NASA with starship. No one can own property on the moon, but they can own the facilities they put on the moon.
Can someone answer this question for me. Jack Swigert actually helped write the emergency procedures for the Apollo program. If he hadn't replaced Ken Mattingly last minute, can it be argued that Swigert was more qualified to help NASA bring the astronauts than Mattingly? I know in the film, it shows Mattingly almost single handed write the re-entry procedure, when in fact there were many people working on it. But would Swigert have been a better member of the ground team?
it almost doesn't seem real. Like the Saturn 5 was so FREAKING HUGE how did it not explode? Just the sheer size of it propelling a small tine tip of the entire thing. It must have been unimageable the power of being inside it. The materials technology was super advanced at the time but i woulden't trust it if I was asked to et on it today.
There's some solid docs on this here machine itself that are top notch. As much as we have heard this story and know the outcome, I can't get enough of hearing about this. A successful failure.
In high school, I had to do a presentation on anything I wanted to. I chose Apollo 13. I explained, at the age of 15, the sheer logistics of getting them back home, and all the variables they had to think about. I compared it to hitting a football, being thrown by an NFL player, with a bow and arrow, whilst riding a horse backwards, during an earthquake. People forget they came home a couple of days early, so the Earth was not where it should be, in relation to the sun; it was a moving target. Plus it is spinning; they could have hit the Sahara Desert (although they actually trained for that!). All of this, using computers with less computing power than the calculator I held in my hand. My classmates and teacher was astonished. I still am to this day how they did it.
@@tonychan8558Could you please elaborate high level, how did they return from the moon? That part seems to be unclear to me considering all the struggles we have to launch the rocket from the earth even today, let alone from the moon back to earth in the 60s
@@nemomilo333 They used what was called a "free return trajectory" to swing around the moon and loop back toward Earth using the lunar gravity. The descent engine on the Lunar Module was also used to fine-turn their course and speed to get them aimed exactly where they needed to go.
While this Soon to be Released Show, might be good, I doubt it will reveal anything that is New, but will simply be a Summation of a lot of the Info about Apollo 13 that is quite easy to find.
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I've seen countless of documentaries about Apollo 13, and I never tire of listening to Jim Lovell.
His commentary track on the 1995 movie is an absolute delight, effectively turning the film from an historical drama into a semiautobiographical documentary. And the way he struggles with how to refer to himself in the third person while being portrayed by another is utterly charming. "Oh, here's the bit where Tom... I mean Jim... I mean I..."
@@KevReillyUK ...........I didn't know this even existed
I had the opportunity to see Jim Lovell and Gene Kranz speak live nearly 20 years ago, and even though we all knew the story, it was still captivating to hear them tell it in person.
or Gene Kranz - iconic voice in Mission Control.
I met Jim Lovell in 1997, at a talk he did at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins CO.
My dad snagged us tickets the very afternoon he learned of it, and pulled me out of school so we could go to it. I was in 4th grade.
After Commander Lovell's talk about the challenges of Apollo 13, there was a meet and greet but only for Lincoln Center donors. They saw my dad and I walking away, and all but grabbed us and pulled us into the room. At that exact moment, a sea of people parted in front of me, leading directly to Apollo 13 Commander James Lovell. I walked up to him and told him he was my hero.
And I have never forgotten it.
I'm glad they used a lot of historical footage here. You can easily see Deke Slayton, John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke, and CAPCOM Joe Kerwin
As if anyone knows or cares who any of them are
@@jeremysmith9694 We do. All of them were astronauts too. Deke Slayton was medically grounded in Mercury and later flew on ASTP. Young, Mattingly, Duke were backup on Apollo 13 and flew on 16 (yeah, Mattingly swapped with Swigert), Joe Kerwin flew on Skylab 2 and was the first physician in space
@@jeremysmith9694we all do buddy
jeremysmith9694 - Did that make you feel important?
@@UzayiKesfet I don't
Gotta be the first time a documentary has to live up to a movie, not the other way around lol. Really psyched for this.
Movie? You mean the historic documentary they shot onboard? Still not sure how they fit Ron Howard in that little capsule...
The Movie was Full of Errors and tons of Artistic License
@@pjimmbojimmbo1990 and history is written by the victorious.
@@pjimmbojimmbo1990 Still a great movie, but nothing compares to the real thing of course.
@@FrankyPi
As long as you don't take it as Gospel, it is based on a True Story, but Ron Howard took a Lot of Artistic License, when making it.
I’m glad that they are using actual footage because this is history not something that needs to be made up nor made fun of.
Who plays Tom Hanks?!
😂
:) jim Lovell
Fun Fact: In the Tom Hanks film, near the end when the Apollo 13 crew land on the aircraft carrier deck, the admiral in full dress uniform who shakes hands with Tom Hanks is Jim Lovell.
Tom Hanks does his own Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
just youtube home made documentaries, his work on the apollo is world class.
they're really really good
Agreed.
yes, his documentaries such as the ones on Voyager were great, Very detailed and not superficial at all.
I agree! I have seen over one hundred documentaries on the Apollo missions and I was so surprised to see new footage with " homemade documentaries". Top-notch watch.
really looking forward to when Jackson covers Skylab & ASTP
As a preview to this documentary, BBC podcast 13 Minutes to the moon Season 2. It tells this story of Apollo 13 saga in details, with interviews with Jim Lovell, Gene Krantz and others. Season 1 of course is about Apollo 11.
Gene Kranz’s book is really good as well
Great podcast, highly worth a listen for anyone who wants to know more
Fantastic podcast I’ve listen to it many times over.
Yes! It is great podcast , a must to listen !
Apollo 12 standing out in the hallway waiting for their turn... forever
"We gotta find a way to make this, fit into the hole of this, using nothin' but that." - Apollo 13 movie
@@TheMalibuDar … that’s what she said! 🥂
One of the things the movie made up -- they had those contingency plans long before the ship launched.
I don't care what something was designed to do, I care about what it CAN do.
This genuinely looks so good
This promises to be THE documentary about this incredible story. CAN'T WAIT to see this!!🙂👍
Wow, that was a great documentary. Highly, highly recommended.
ITS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!!
God's gift to marching bands everywhere.
ninoninooooo ninoninoniiiiiiiiiii ninoninoooooooooo ninoninoninoniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
I love space shit!
Think I'll just watch the movie for the 50th time
Only 50 times? 😅
Those are rookie numbers
The average age of NASA engineers during the Apollo programme was 28 years old 😳
Well you can't have 70 year old aerospace engineers when aerospace engineering is only like a 10 year old profession lol. Every new field is always dominated by young people. There's also actually a lot of data that points to scientists and engineers doing their best work very young in life. Einstein was in his 20's when he published special relativity, as an example.
Someone needs to start everything
I love these old space type docs especially Apollo 13 docs. Truly amazing!!!!
Very cool, a while ago we had the Apollo 11 documentary with some new footage , and now a same kind of movie is made from the Apollo 13 mission!
Damn Netflix!! You're such a killer platform to get hooked up to! Way to go! Can't wait to watch this!
The part where they were venting a gas into space, and they showed everyone in mission control's face and the one dude just goes "jesus christ" was epic
Seeing the facts of the mission and the people involved, it's a miracle they came back.
Great trailer edit. Held tension. Great sound design. Bravo.
It is still pretty cool that this crew are the humans with the record of "furthest from home"
I`m not old enough (surprisingly) to remember Apollo 13 but I love learning things about space exploration, I`m very much looking forward to this as I`ve also seen the Challenger documentary several times
I hope they will go into the details of every single thing they had to figure it out and solve to make it come home safe! Apollo 13 movie made a great effort but still there were so many problems and difficult decisions to take that if explained well will make people way more impressed on what they achieved by bringing it home! Please Netflix don’t let us nerds down!
I had the chance to see it in advance, unfortunately it leans too much to the movie again instead of dealing with details, also takes quotes out of context, uses cut sentences from later interviews like they were spoken on-board. For me as a "nerd" who knows Apollo 13 inside out really disappointing.
Finally something to look forward to
Many documentaries have already been made about Apollo 13. Will be interesting to see if there is anything new here. Capt. Lovell is now 96 years old. Fred Haise is 90. Memories don't improve with age. Unfortunately Jack Swigart is long gone. If would have been interesting to interview him in depth regarding Apollo 13. The Lovell quote of “We were like three school kids looking through a candy store window.” is from Apollo 8. Hope the producers put that quote in proper context.
I'm having a Mandela effect moment, in that I remember the death of Fred Haise 4-5 years back.
And I wonder if Jack Swigart actually died of AIDS back then...
Ken Mattingly is gone as well. He died in 2023.
@@Soniti1324 Fred Haise is still alive although he did survive an horrific plane crash where he suffered bad burns. Jack Swigert died of prostate cancer which is the most deadly form of cancer for men. He wasn’t that much of a man slag.
Unfortunately they did this with quite a lot of quotes, taken out of context, others from later interviews cut in a way that should make them sound like spoken on-board, Flight Director's quotes put in the wrong place in the timeline. I had the chance to see it in advance and was really disappointed.
@@ksracing8396 Thanks. I assume there is not anything new in this documentary. No missing NASA films or interviews. An interview with TK Mattingly and Jack Swigert would have been interesting. But, that interview never happened.
Lovell had a prime team, but i still credit this save with his exceptional Naval aviation experience. The same way that Robert "hoot" Gibson returned in one piece in Shuttle mission STS-27.
The film version was pretty danged good. Arguably the best space movie ever. But the documentary could be equally, if not more, compelling.
I'm watching this because I know Elan is watching it❤ I sure wish that the astronauts would have supported Elon and all his achievements. He wanted them to be proud of him because they inspired him. He had tears in his eyes on the interview.
If something doesn't make sense there's a book in it somewhere.
Sounds suspicious to me why they wouldn't support such a great great accomplishment that elan has done and is doing. 👍
Almost makes me wish I'd never seen the film.
The only reason I could imagine myself wishing I hadn't seen the movie is so I could watch it again for the first time.
Just ALMOST. The film is so dang good!! Fun to watch at least once a year.
Just remember the movie is pretty inaccurate in many, many ways, primarily because it is meant to be entertainment, not a documentary..
A team effort in a time the US was still a team. Aka an internally recognized nation by everyone in it. Nationalism is just a team building effort on a larger scale. It’s not evil. Get your sh*t together America 🇺🇸
Houston, we have a problem.
Tell me i will solve the problem
"Houston, we've had a problem".
We've had a Main B Bus undervolt
You do have a problem, and don't call me Houston. Sorry...poor Airplane! reference.
Yes we do. The space program went backwards after the Saturn rocket was retired, Except the rocket motors. They were used for the shuttle program and now the sls program. So shameful and lazy people at NASA. Spacex will be on the moon before NASA with starship. No one can own property on the moon, but they can own the facilities they put on the moon.
I'm watching this!
Great era, i was so impressed as a kid, glad the astronauts made i thru 🙏🏼
I'm hoping Grumman's infamous "roadside assist and towing" invoice makes an appearance! 🤣
True Heroes!
Awesome job!
The film about that of Ron Howard with Tom Hanks is great!
The greatest commercial for omega ever.
I'll download it. Thanks for letting me know about it.
jeez did they get back ok ?? gonna have to watch this and find out...looks awesome !!
I'm gonna go to Times Square and watch the news ribbon until it gives us the news.
Finally there's a documentation about that. I've never heard of that incident before.
🤭
Omega Speedmaster and its accuracy saved them.
Men in short-sleeved white shirts and skinny ties, solving problems. Damn, I miss those days.
Yes men, not furries.
Surviving on Black Coffee and Camels!
@@moretoknowshow1887 Oh, hell yeah. Those boys got it done, didn't they?
With slide rules
@@robertlongenecker3318 And pocket protectors.
This is a damn good edited trailer
Can someone answer this question for me. Jack Swigert actually helped write the emergency procedures for the Apollo program. If he hadn't replaced Ken Mattingly last minute, can it be argued that Swigert was more qualified to help NASA bring the astronauts than Mattingly?
I know in the film, it shows Mattingly almost single handed write the re-entry procedure, when in fact there were many people working on it. But would Swigert have been a better member of the ground team?
another classic starring Tim Honks. 👍🏼
Whatever they do, even with their budget, I doubt it'll be better than Homemade Documentaries ❤ Look it up if you don't know.
I just watched First man and it was awesome. This should be good. ❤
Loved it
Here’s hoping they mention John Aaron “steely-eyed missile man”
Wow I'm excited!
"APOLLO 13: To The Edge And Back" needs a check.
Looking forward to this!
Cant wait to see it!
How can you not love them? Those who recognize their mistakes deserve my consideration beyond the GADU decoration.
**THANK YOU USA**
The three astronauts on Apollo 13 were James Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise.
Houston , We're DOOMED!
But they weren’t were they !
can't wait to watch this and see if they made it...
History belongs to the brave!! 🙏
That’s what we want ❤❤❤❤❤
I remember the movie used to be the sci-fi section of my video store. I think a lot of people didn't know this was real.
I've seen the Apollo 11 documentary film in 2019. This looks very similar.
In my opinion, Apollo 13 was a greater engineering achievement than Apollo11
everything is coming out in September ahhhh
Interesting timing consider 2 astronauts are stuck in the space station.
This reminds me a lot of Apollo 11
there's already a great documentary called Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back(1994).
From india i always intrested such a scientific movies
Remembering the First Man, who permanently left Earth on this day in 2012.
it almost doesn't seem real. Like the Saturn 5 was so FREAKING HUGE how did it not explode? Just the sheer size of it propelling a small tine tip of the entire thing. It must have been unimageable the power of being inside it. The materials technology was super advanced at the time but i woulden't trust it if I was asked to et on it today.
YES! YES! YES!!!!!!!!!! CANT WAIT
Houston, We Have a Problem! - Jim Lovell
Gosh, I hope they make it...
Didn’t we already have a movie about this?!?
Gene Kranz's leadership during Apollo 13 was on the level of Ernest Shackleton, if not more so.
It wasn't just him, though. He only led one of the shifts.
I feel like we've seen this before. Several times.
the CLOCK IS RUNNING!!!!
I want someone to cut a trailer like this to my next bowel movement.
Exciting dramatic tension!
Awesome!
We didn't need this. We already had a movie. It was excellent.
There's some solid docs on this here machine itself that are top notch. As much as we have heard this story and know the outcome, I can't get enough of hearing about this. A successful failure.
The only true doco on the Apollo space programe, for Apollo 13 never went to the moon !
What they did to bring them home was nothing short of astonishing.
In high school, I had to do a presentation on anything I wanted to. I chose Apollo 13. I explained, at the age of 15, the sheer logistics of getting them back home, and all the variables they had to think about. I compared it to hitting a football, being thrown by an NFL player, with a bow and arrow, whilst riding a horse backwards, during an earthquake.
People forget they came home a couple of days early, so the Earth was not where it should be, in relation to the sun; it was a moving target. Plus it is spinning; they could have hit the Sahara Desert (although they actually trained for that!).
All of this, using computers with less computing power than the calculator I held in my hand. My classmates and teacher was astonished. I still am to this day how they did it.
@@tonychan8558Could you please elaborate high level, how did they return from the moon?
That part seems to be unclear to me considering all the struggles we have to launch the rocket from the earth even today, let alone from the moon back to earth in the 60s
@@nemomilo333 They used what was called a "free return trajectory" to swing around the moon and loop back toward Earth using the lunar gravity. The descent engine on the Lunar Module was also used to fine-turn their course and speed to get them aimed exactly where they needed to go.
I wonder if the cast of Apollo 13 (1995) will watch this.
I wouldn't be surprised if Tom Hanks helped make this doc, he's such an Apollo nerd! I'm checking the credits after the doc to find out.
Gene Krantz killed it..
Let's goo
Let's goo? Um, no thanks.
Damn, Jim's still alive
Wish it was an actual movie or show instead of another documentary
Apollo 13 stands at the same level as Apollo 8 and Apollo 11.
Houston, we‘ve had a problem!
I want to see it. Six days to go...
While this Soon to be Released Show, might be good, I doubt it will reveal anything that is New, but will simply be a Summation of a lot of the Info about Apollo 13 that is quite easy to find.
I cant wait for this fictional Documentary
I hope they make it back okay.
Kind of ironic, with a pair of astronauts, currently stranded in space.
Man, these doco’s need the Peter Jackson treatment, restore them like the wwi footage.
This series is redundant. Tom Hanks and the movie Apollo 13 is already perfect
Netflix execs : Quick, we need to capitalize on this starliner situation.