99% true. There was never any personal drama on the mission. They stayed completely focused and calm the whole way. There was also never any doubt about Swigert's readiness to fly (that's the whole point of a backup crew). And in the engineer scenes, they have only a few people working on the problem so the audience can connect with them, but there were actually a lot. And some other, smaller things.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 yeah 100% was a little strong. Probably 95% lol. Even “Houston, we have a problem” was actually, “Houston we’ve had a problem.” Also, the end wasn’t exactly the same. But all the technical stuff was true.
@@A23457 Actually, Swigert radioed "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here". Houston asked them to repeat the message. Lovell responded "Uh, Houston, we've had a problem."
You know it's a good film when you knew all about the history of the story and you're STILL on the edge of your seat at the end. Great film by director Ron Howard.
Yes indeed! I was about twenty years old at the, have seen this film many times and the suspense is always there. My hats off to the cast, crew and of course, Ron Howard!
Indeed. Two strong points for the movie: They manage to make the engineering and technical jargon comprehensible to the layman without resorting to pedantic overt exposition, and they manage to keep the drama and suspense up despite the fact that most viewers already know how it ends.
I am an engineer. Gene Kranz, who was "Chief Flight Director" of mission control for Apollo 13 and many other missions, is my ultimate hero. "Failure is not an option" is his famous quote. Met him once at a simulator conference. Amazing man. Tidbit of trivia in the movie: The real Jim Lovell was one of the dignitaries welcoming the three astronauts back - when they came out of the helicopter and being welcomed back onto the carrier.
Jim Lovell wasn't exactly a "dignitary" welcoming them back. He was playing the Captain of the aircraft carrier. For the movie, they wanted to make him an Admiral. But he said "No.. I retired a Captain, a Captain is what I'll be." I believe he also wore his own uniform for it.
Funny enough, it's a case of "Beam Me Up, Scotty", as the real Kranz never actually _said_ "Failure is not an option". But given that that was also the title of his autobiography, it's obvious he had that sentiment during the mission.
Phrases like "failure is not an option", or "winning isn't everything, it's the *only* thing" are fine when, by skill or luck, things work out. It's seen as manifesting success. But otherwise, they are hollow platitudes at best, and at worst, invitations to irrational certainty in a project or cause. The sixth day of January 2021 being a prime example.
@@Hexon66 I hope you feel better in the morning. This man's drive to get three men home from a failed moon mission with that of insurrectionists willing to overthrow government to get what they want is indeed a comparison - but a bad one.
While many things were made more dramatic for the movie, a friend who is a NASA project manager told me that Kranz really was idolized throughout the agency for being the epitome of what they all strived to be.
My father was one of the engineers who designed that heatshield. We watched this on TV live, and all my dad kept saying during that 3 minutes of silence was "The shield'll hold. The shield'll hold". He was right. Dad passed away in 2013.
The first news event I watched on tv was Apollo 1; January 1967. They on the ground in capsule practicing. A fire broke out inside. 3 Astronauts died. They had no chance bc the door opened towards the Inside. That’s what Hanks told his boy “we fixed it” I always cry at the end of this film; every person did their absolute best, to save the brave crew. Inspiring! (For Marion: every Apollo mission had 3 men). I recommend the Right Stuff and First Man (for Joy: every successful Apollo landing, 6 times, they returned to Earth w moon rocks; NASA has nearly all of them. The space ship had 3 parts: the service module (looks Iike a cylinder;) LEM (looks like a spider;) and the capsule (it does 1 thing: enters the atmosphere and lands in the ocean). This is a Completely true event. 12 men walked on the moon; last time was 1972. Update: I knew this yesterday but I couldn’t find the info for my proof: Gus Grissom’s near drowning cost the lives of 3 men (including Gus himself) in Jan 1967 (Apollo 1) Y? When Gus landed in 1961, his door opened outward and the bolts exploded and the capsule went to the bottom. So for Apollo 1, the door opened inwardly only. Therefore our 3 heroes couldn’t open the door when it caught fire inside
@@dougquade1023 Not exactly! The 100% oxygen environment was normal for that particular test they were conducting. The problem was the recently invented Velcro, which was proving to be so handy for the engineers, reacts to pure oxygen when used in too large a quantity, and a large piece of it which was used under one of the seats spontaneously combusted in that pure oxygen environment.
In addition to your excellent recommendations, may I also suggest 'Hidden Figures' (2016), and the documentary 'Apollo 11' (which was made entirely from NASA Archive footage from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission)
LEM - Lunar Excursion Module. The young man they kept showing was Jim Lovel's son. He was in school in Wisconsin, watching with his classmates. This is a true story.
The Apollo spacecraft carried a crew of 3...Commander, Command Module Pilot, and the Lunar Module Pilot. That was the crew on every Apollo series mission, as far as I know. Interesting fact...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than the other flights...so to this day, the crew of Apollo 13 hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled. ✌
a very true story and quite an accurate one too. the only real deviation was the tension between the astronauts during the ordeal. there wasn't any of that. Lovell, Haise and Swigart were as calm and professional as could be even after suffering the disappointment of missing the moon, being sick, cold, tired and just plain miserable - they never once complained, cast blame or turned on each other.
Yep. And when they show Mattingly watching the blast-off with a Corvette behind him: General Motors offered a free car to the new American sensations-- the Astronauts. They all chose Corvettes.
When I read about Apollo 13, I was surprised how many of the problems they put in the film were real -- but they couldn't explain most of them to the audience. The mention of "shallowing out" at the very end meant the capsule took longer to pass through the atmosphere -- which was why radio silence lasted 4 minutes instead of 3. The tiny maneuvering jets went crazy because they were meant to push the ship back on course if it varied from its flight -- expected to be only a fraction of one degree at any time. The explosion pushed the ship way off -- the jets were shooting off trying to move it farther than anyone ever expected they would have to. There was a mention that the round hatch between the Odyssey and Aquarius wouldn't close -- the tunnel was torqueing so much, the hatch opening was no longer perfectly circular, and thus literally the wrong shape for the hatch to fit! Some critics thought the "13/bad luck omens" in the film were ridiculous attempts to build tension, especially Marylin Lovell losing her wedding ring down the drain. The DVD of APOLLO 13 has commentary by the Lovells, and Marylin Lovell insists that that actually happened.
Just a few things: 1. Swigert was as experienced and as well trained to pilot the Apollo 13 mission as Mattingly. He was even THE Apollo program's expert for emergency procedures for accidents like the one that happened during the mission. 2. When you listen to the real radio recordings of the mission, you'll hear how calm and focused they all were right after the explosion. You'd think nothing actually bad has happened. 3. The three astronauts never had a fight on board. 4. They already knew how to connect the LEM's filter with the filters from the command module. They just rebuilt it to make sure it would really work. 5. Same thing with Mattingly in the simulator. They already had all the procedures ready to restart the command module, they just wanted to make sure it'll work and that they get all the things right.
"Houston, we have a problem" just should make the final edit IMO. It's the one quote the whole world knows and sets the stage for the rest of the movie.
Indeed. I must admit that I did not find this one of MJoy4Fun's best reactions. Actually, it was the worst I've seen from them. I felt a little uncomfortable, bordering on embarrassed for them. I won't unsubscribe as someone wrote below but yes, disappointed.
@@janescribner8258 my sentiments exactly, which isn't the norm for them at all, so just chalk it up as a 'bad day at the office' and look for the next one I guess.
I was 8 years old when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Anybody who had a television was glued to the television. If you didn't have a TV, you listened on your radio. If you lived in a village where there was only one radio, the whole village was listening at that radio. It really was a giant leap for mankind. We Americans only had the good fortune to be the ones who took that step for everyone. It was a human achievement, not just an American one.
I still impressed with the amount of effort the film makers poured into making this film completely accurate. Even all of the switches, gauges and so on, and the way the astronauts use them, is 100% correct.
There are three parts to the spaceship. The capsule is the part which can return to Earth. I holds three. The Lunar Excursion Module, LEM, is the part which lands on the Moon. It holds two. The Sevice Module is the part which exploded. It has all the extra power and life support. It's only attached to the capsule. There is no way to get inside it, it's just an add-on.
I was a kid in the 1960's and of course like every period in History , It was the best of times and it was the worst of times . But once President Kennedy decided we would go to the Moon , unless you were alive at the time you Cannot imagine how new and exciting it was. For those who do not know the road to taking that First Step on the Moon was done in 3 phases. Mercury 1 man capsule Gemini 2 man Apollo 3 man Joy the reason we didn't work with the Russians was the cold war , Nukes were close to flying a few times. 13 Days / is a great Movie starring Kevin Costner and it shows how close we were during the Cuban Missile crisis.
The number 13 is considered unlucky in American culture. I remember watching the re-entry on TV. The tension was real. Communications from the crew were minutes past the time we expected to hear from them. We all thought they were lost. All of the sudden we saw the parachutes open and everyone started cheering.
As in real life, the reason the crew passed the three minute period without contact while landing was because their descent was a little shallow, therefor spending more time in the atmosphere. It would have been around 3 minutes in 'normal' circumstances.
Hi, Yes, this was definitely based on the real events. The real Jim Lovell is shown at the end shaking Tom Hanks hand when they returned. Apollo 13 would have been the third landing, since Apollo 12 landed in Nov 1969. After Apollo 13, there were several more: Apollo 14, 15, 16 and 17. All were made with 3 astronauts- two to land and one to stay in the capsule circling the Moon, to link up when they returned. The trip takes approximately between 3 and 4 days since the missions follow slightly different routes depending on where they land, on the season and orbits of Earth and Moon, etc.
L.E.M. = Lunar Expeditionary Module, the part that lands on the moon. The base with the legs is left on the moon, and the top part returns to lunar orbit to dock with the Command module. C.M. = Command Module. The cone-shaped capsule. 1 astronaut stays in the CM and the other 2 descend to the moon in the LEM. This part returns to Earth from orbit with all 3 astronauts. S.M. = Support Module. The cylinder-shaped part behind the CM. Contains supplies and life support for the mission. Detaches from CM before CM returns to Earth from orbit.
If Mattingly wasn’t forced to remain earth, and work out the sequence in the simulator, the astronauts may not have made it back. Just like Lovell’s story of the cockpit light shorting out, you never know what will get you home.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 its is great as a dramatic element for the movie. But in real life, Mattingly didn't spend time in a simulator trying to figure out a power-up sequence. He was involved in many different things with all the other astronauts. NASA already had most of the emergency procedures figured out in the movie. In real life they practiced doing them over and over to see if they could make the instructions simpler for a bunch of exhausted, freezing colleagues in space.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 you know, I just realizes my last post made me sound like a know it all wise ass. So I'll admit that I just found that out in an interview I read with Ken Mattingly
@@izzonj It's also worth noting it didn't need to be Mattingly doing that. He was a convenient and excellent choice, but Swigert would have been even better, had he not been the one in space piloting the Odyssey, since he wrote the emergency procedures manual that included those routines...
On Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin was getting back inside the LEM from the moon surface, he accidentally broke off the switch that starts the LEM engine to get off the face of the moon with his foot. At the time they were to leave the moon, Buzz jammed a ball point pen into the slot where the switch was and the engine fired.
I was talking about the circuit breaker incident on social media and someone questioned whether it the incident was true. We can believe so many incredible things, but people forget the amazing things we did 50+ years ago. A shame too, since it was only a quick google away to check.
It's "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Which means, it was just one small step for him to get off the ladder and touch the moon, but the fact they are able to even do it is amazing and means mankind has achieved enough technology to do it. Yes the USA did do it first, but that is not what the quote is about, it's about humans achieved it, not the US. They didn't work together because of the cold war, instead of fighting a war they just had a space race which was a better use of time although it translated into missile improvement among other war weapons. In reality if not for the cold war, we may have never had this type of a space program or even satellites. Who knows.
A beautiful documentary was released in 2006 called ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ and it goes into more detail about the fire that killed the astronauts of Apollo 1 in 1967.
There's more technology in your cell phone than was in the Mercury or Apollo spacecraft's. I was 10 year's old when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. My mom let me stay up late that night to watch it on TV. People do not realize how many invention's that we use all the time. Next time you use a "glass" baking dish, which is really Pyrex. It was made and used as the window's in the space craft. L.E.M. means Lunar Excursion Module.
I want to share with you both - how much I enjoy your channel! I think what I like most - is when your are commenting and speaking, you are not commenting to a YT audience, you are talking to each other. And what is most cool? When you talk to/with each other - you always do it with respect. Neither of you dominates. I have watched a great many of your reviews - always noticed the way you respect each other!
I saw this in the theater at the Mall of America when this came out. I had never before been in a theater with such a powerful surround sound system. During the launch sequence, the power of the engines rumbling you could feel throughout your whole body and it really felt like you were in that rocket yourself.
The reason for the radio blackout during reentry is they are enshrouded in a wall of plasma and a radio signal can't get through until they have slowed down enough for it to dissipate. The USA is still the only country to have people walk on Luna but now several other countries have had orbiters and such, there have been a number of robotic survey missions to Mars that have collected a lot of data. Both the USA and the USSR did send a few probe to the surface of Venus but it is an EXTREMELY harsh environment so none of them lasted long with the best result being one that managed to transmit for 110 minutes. when I say harsh I mean 467 °C for a surface temp, surface air pressure being the same as being under 900 meters of water on Earth, and it is covered in clouds of sulfuric acid. In other words, unless we come up with some sort of miracle technology there will be no manned missions to Venus but reading up on the different probes that were launched is an interesting branch of the space race most people never learned about.
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing. It's the incredible true story of Astronaut Jim Lovell and his fellow companions try to make it back to Earth during their failed mission to the moon in 1970.
Funny other thing, the girl who plays the oldest daughter, was also in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I was working as a bank teller in the 90s, and she came into the branch I was working at one day. I immediately recognized her, and the key thing was, I said, "Weren't you in Gilbert Grape?" She was flattered. Apparently everyone around her was all about Apollo 13, but she was struck by me recognizing her from Gilbert. Funniest thing, like a week later, she came in, saw me and almost kind of blushed. And I was like, why the ef is she blushing seeing me? lol She's the star of this interaction. :)
In case you're wondering: NASA and its European, Japanese, and Canadian partners are currently working on the Artemis program to return to the moon. The uncrewed Artemis 1 was successfully tested in late 2022. Artemis 2 in 2024 will be a manned flight to test additional systems. Artemis 3, planned for 2025, is expected to be a manned lunar mission.
In the scene onboard the carrier near the end of the film, "Jim Lovell" (Tom Hanks) shakes hands with the Captain of the ship, that Captain is the real Jim Lovell, who held the naval rank of Captain upon his retirement.
To me, the most amazing piece of technology is the heat shield. Made by hand, like a bee honeycomb. 10,000 degrees on one side, room temp on the other! The chemical substances they used, the had to make by hand, and by hand, individually fill each honeycomb!😮😮😮
Apollo 11 was the most watched televised event ever. The world stopped to watch that. Americans put people on the moon, but it was a moment for humanity. Apollo 12 landed and it got lot of press, but ultimately by the time of Apollo 13 it was "just another mission." The breakdown on the spacecraft is: CSM (Command Service Module) Designation: "Odyssey." The CSM has two pieces, the nose portion is the habitat section, the cylinder is where all of the power and fuel is. LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) Designation: "Aquarius." The LEM also has two sections, the portion with the legs, and the odd shaped pod on top where the two crew reside. After finishing its mission on the surface the astronauts would launch the upper half back into Lunar orbit to dock with the CSM, under normal circumstances. Of course, during Apollo 13 all of its abilities were repurposed to save the astronauts. "People ask me if we were scared. We didn't have time to be scared. If we had taken the time to be scared we would have died." - Jim Lovell. NASA actively mocked the superstition of the number 13 in a bit of an ad campaign involving a black cat, a ladder, and a broken mirror. Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) actually makes a subtle nod to this when he mentions to the press that someone suggested they "take a pig with them for good luck." It is truncated in the film to just one, but in reality they had to perform multiple corrective burns on their way home. The need for an emergency plan involving the CO2 scrubbers is entirely accurate to the spirit of genius at NASA in the 60s and 70s, but in reality they had already thought of this potential issue occurring and had multiple plans ready to go. NASA literally had thousands of back ups and contingencies in case things went wrong. They paid people to think of ways for things to go horribly wrong and to prepare for them, just in case. A car spontaneously exloded near the launch vehicle days before the launch. A lot of the dialogue you hear from Gene Kranz (Played by Ed Harris) is taken from the documentary footage/mission log tapes. Including "Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.) The movie does Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) a little dirty. He was not a rookie, he was just as qualified as Jim Lovell and Fred Haise. He actually wrote a lot of the manual for the CSM. All of the Gemini/Apollo Astronauts were highly trained, many with military experience as pilots. Jim Lovell was a combat veteran pilot. Of the original teams he had the most experience in space. Jim is a real legend, and if you ever want to hear a man who emodies courage and humility at the same time, it is Jim Lovell. The final shot we see of Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) sitting in the chair silently crying, is based on an actual shot of the real Gene Kranz from the actual footage. It's nearly identical. If you guys enjoyed this, i'd also like to suggest the HBO miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon." It's basically the "Band of Brothers" to Apollo 13, and covers the beginning of the space program, right up to the end of the Apollo era, and features a really strong cast... Including a very young Bryan Cranston. Produced by Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg, and featuring opening and closing exposition from Tom Hanks. Great stuff.
On the subject of Elon Musk, he is the only reason that NASA is putting astronauts on the ISS. For years we were relying on the Russians to ferry our astronauts. He hopes to launch vehicles to the moon, and he ia also working on a spacecraft called "Starship" which is designed to launch large numbers of people to Mars. SpaceX has done a lot to make space travel cheaper and easier, namely, being able to safely recover pieces of craft used to boost things into space, and reuse them.
This was absolutely a true story. Happened exactly like that. The newscasts were ACTUAL -with Walter Cronkite and everything. Every newscast you saw in the movie were actual. One of the best movies of all time. Ron Howard's brother, Clint Howard played the role of flight controller Seymour Liebergot. His father played a priest, his mother played Jim Lovell's mother, and his wife and daughter were crowd members. His daughter is the girl from Jurassic World. Jim Lovell, himself, was even in the movie as the Captain of USS Iwo Jima. Lots of buildings dropped the 13th floor from their buildings after this mission. Elevators went straight from 12 to 14
this movie is just a rollercoaster of emotions from my point of view they dont land in the moon but they already are heros for trying and also show mankind like the crew and the people in earth can be kind and supportive like true human beings.That's the point of the movie i think there still good in us.
To everyone involved, astronauts, scientists, technicians, administrators, families and anyone I didn't mention, thank you ❤ How humbling to even be able to learn of such pioneering bravery and genius. I detest von Braun for his V1 and V2 rockets and his participation in WW2 but the Apollo missions wouldn't have happened without him. How privileged, not just me, but all of us are in recent times to be able to witness The International Space Station, SpaceX's astounding developments, especially reusable rockets, The Hubble Telescope and now The James Webb Space Telescope and Artemis 1 and so many more I could mention. What an honour to be witness to such creations that bring me joyous tears. Thank you, whichever project you work on, truly ❤
The boy at the military academy is Tom Hanks’s character Jim’s oldest son. He has three kids. The oldest, who’s at the military Academy, the daughter, and the young boy.
I only stumbled onto your channel just now for this video, and I just wanted to say that watching ya'll watch this movie was like I was watching it with friends. I'll be looking for more videos to watch.
"If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it." This movie is definitely based on a true story. It's more accurate than most docu-dramas. There was no way politically for the U.S. and the Soviet Union to cooperate on the moon landing. The two countries were ideologically opposed to each other. They began cooperating when tensions between the countries eased several years later. It was significant that the U.S. didn't claim the moon as American territory when they achieved the first landing. How did they get the internet from there? There was no internet back then. That was good old radio waves. The bit where the NASA engineers had to figure out how to fit the parts together was fiction. In fact, they anticipated the problem long before the flight and had already solved the problem. It's less dramatic, but the truth shows how thoroughly the mission had been thought out.
Me too. Ed Harris's portrayal brings tears to my eyes every time I watch this frickin' movie. "Begging your pardon, but I believe this is going to be our finest hour."
1:42 Because it was the height of the Cold War. You know...Soviet Union, "We will bury you," Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Khmer Rouge, all that fun stuff? 🙄 Kids these years.
9:17 Radio Waves 6:34 yes.. I can. The ground shakes when you're miles away... the air shakes! I got to see a launch when I was 12. It was at night and it was almost like the biggest camp fire against the largest background forest! It was glorious!
20:02 Super simple question by people who have no clue what it took to come up with the initial answer. Those engineers worked around the clock under the gun simply to supply something that MIGHT work. You come up with a better "back-up plan".
This was Apollo 13 (of course, lol). There were four more missions in the program: 14, 15, 16, and 17. All of them were moon landings. Mattingly was on 16.
In the film, astronaut Swigert (Kevin Bacon) is described as a "rookie" with question marks around his performance. In the reality, Swigert wrote the whole instruction for the Command Module, he was an expert. There were never any doubts about mixing teams, these guys were all on the same level. They were also military test pilots who knew how to keep cool under extreme stress. They added a lot of drama for the film.
A mostly true story except for the tensions in the crew. It captivated the world hoping for their safe return. Yes, Apollo 11 was the first to land, Apollo 12, 14,15,16,& 17 were also successful, 12 astronauts total walked on the moon (6 landings). Yes, the Lunar Module (LEM) was stored in the 3rd stage for launch. The Command Module (along with the troubled service module) connected to the LEM for the trip to the moon. Since the LEM was designed by a different company, the CO modules were shaped differently...something overlooked as a backup.
In Reality: Jack Swigart was a skilled, respected astronaut. He even WROTE emergency procedures for the Command/Service module. Even if he had been unable to dock with the LEM, either of the other two could have done so. All that doubt about his ability - and the shouting/arguments - were just dramatic addition to the plot of the movie. Perhaps permitted, only because he had already passed away, long before the movie was made. But at least it was explained (eventually) that it was a manufacturing accident that had caused all the problems.
Like others have said this was a true story. The main thing the movie did that isn't true is how they made the replacement astronaut look like he was not ready to go on the mission. Him and two other guys were on the backup crew and they were doing the same training as the primary crew. He was ready to move up to the primary crew and Lovell had no issues with him. It just made the movie a little more dramatic with the way he was portrayed.
Deke Slayton's mantra was that any one of his astronauts could fly any mission. He'd have two crews train simultaneously for each one in case anyone on the prime crew had to drop out. It had happened once before, when the Apollo 8 CMP Mike Collins had neck surgery, and was replaced by his backup, Bill Anders. According to Slayton's practice of assigning each backup crew to prime crew 3 missions later, this put Collins on the prime crew of Apollo 11, and Mattingly on Apollo 16.
LEM is the Lunar Excursion Module. The spidery thing. Command Module is in the middle. Service Module is the big fat part that went pop. (Oh, and reversing the power flow. I don't know the specifics for NASA. I assume it's like using military jumper cables. In the military they're called slave cables and they go either way with a single plug at both ends. You can make either side a slave to a master battery. But civilian speak, he's saying use the jumper cables.)
Yay!!!!! I love this movie! And so few react to it…. Every time we hear their voices after the 4 min mark I break into full body goosebumps. Great movie!
LEM stands for Lunar Excursion Module. That's the part that actually lands on the moon that has the landing gear. They had to use it as a lifeboat when the explosion occurred in the service module which supplies power and other facilities to the Command Module (CM). And yes, each mission brought over a hundred pounds of moon rocks back to Earth to be studied. Ron Howard the director had several family members in this movie: His brother Clint played Sy, the guy who recommended they shut down the fuel cells to stop the leak; His mother played Jim Lovell's mother in the retirement home; his daughter Dallas (now a director herself) played one of the kids in the scene where the families were on the opposite side of the road from the astronauts; his father played the priest at Jim Lovell's house. And as a bonus, the aircraft carrier commander that Tom Hanks shakes hands with at the end is the REAL Jim Lovell! Most of the zero gravity scenes were filmed aboard a special 747 that flies in a parabola to simulate microgravity for up to 20 seconds at a time. They did over 200 of these flights for the movie.
Great reaction, glad you got to see this great movie, one of the best depictions of a true story. Others have mentioned & I agree, you must watch “The Right Stuff”, which tells the story of the Mercury program, precursor to the Apollo missions. All of those involved in the early stages of space flight are my heroes. It helps to know the backstory, it adds meat to the historical context.
Pro tip...the silver haired guy on the pick-up shop, was Jim Lovell! I used to do contract work at NASA. I got to go into areas and see things, most people will never see! I live in Houston, as a kid, back in the day. If u drove around in Clear Lake, which is where NASA is. U could always tell the engineers, scientists, technicians, control room astronauts guys- they all drove Corvettes!
Yes, this is based on a true story. Apollo 13! It stays pretty true to what really happened except for added drama aboard the ship (those guys did not yell at each other. They were well trained) and the bit with the families standing on the opposite side of the road before the launch did not actually start until the days of the Space Shuttle. But otherwise it stayed true to the actual events. It is based on the book by Jim Lovell called "Lost Moon".
@@bigdream_dreambig I believe the astronauts were quarantined (except for contact with highly-screen NASA personnel) but they just didn't do it like they show in this movie (until the days of the Space Shuttle). Funny that they were worried about Ken Maddingly becoming sick during the mission and it was Fred Haise who got sick instead! (And Ken didn't get sick at all!)
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Even today, our understanding of medicine and biology seems only barely beyond the stage of balancing cardinal humors and bloodletting with leeches.
@@bigdream_dreambig Someday we'll be at Star Trek level where they just wave a little scanner around the general vicinity of your body and tell you EXACTLY what's wrong with you, then give you a hypospray and send you on your way. We're probably at least 50 years from that though, but you never know. All it takes is one amazing discovery to change everything.
It's a true story. Parts were made for drama. Things like they never had an argument like the movie showed. Also they didn't need a team at NASA to create the contraption to lower the CO2. They knew how to make it. There were other things as well. Apollo 13 was real.
When they launch the Saturn 5 rocket, the first and second stages have 5 engines. As the rocket burns its fuel, it becomes lighter, thus it begins to accelerate faster causing extra strain on the rocket. So, at a certain point they shut off the center ( #5 ) engine. This happens on both the first and second stage. The center engine on the second stage cut out earlier than expected but they were already in that mode or " bucket ". Just before the engine cuts out, Lovell/Hanks says: " Stand by for mode bravo-one. " Bravo = second stage One= section of the flight plan that lists various abort modes for this stage of the flight. If they lost another engine the abort would have been a ballistic return to Earth and landing in the ocean.
“If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it” is the best line of the entire movie. It’s too bad you guys cut that out of the video.
This was a true story. Very little was changed for the movie. A lot of the conversations were verbatim, copied from flight recordings. Although the famous "Houston, we have a problem" line was actually "Houston, we've had a problem" in real life. The director changed it because it sounded like the problem was passed, not ongoing. In total, there have been 6 successful missions that landed people on the moon - Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17. The last was in 1972. Artemis 3 is the next planned crewed mission to the moon, set to launch in 2025.
20:00 - the only reason those guys made is because of all the backups and redundancies used on the ship. It freaking EXPLODED in space, in 1970 and the ship continued to function long enough to the crew to think of a plan to survive. It's a miracle! But you can't prepare for everything.
A few numbers about Project Apollo: Nine missions flew to the Moon, carrying 27 astronauts. Three men, including Jim Lovell, flew twice, so 24 men went to the Moon. Six of the nine missions landed, putting 12 astronauts on the lunar surface.
The computation sequence where they do math is because they need to transfer to LEM (lunar module) ship, they need to convert because CSM(command module) has different system (they were made by different companies)
More than one US crew did actually get to the moon. The Russians gave up on reaching the moon. However, the US and Russia did work together to build the International Space Station where scientists from multiple nations conducted experiments and it was manned by crewmen from various nations hence the name "International Space Station".
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This was a true story. The man in uniform that greets Tom Hanks at the end is the real Jim Lovell.
99% true. There was never any personal drama on the mission. They stayed completely focused and calm the whole way. There was also never any doubt about Swigert's readiness to fly (that's the whole point of a backup crew). And in the engineer scenes, they have only a few people working on the problem so the audience can connect with them, but there were actually a lot. And some other, smaller things.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 yeah 100% was a little strong. Probably 95% lol. Even “Houston, we have a problem” was actually, “Houston we’ve had a problem.” Also, the end wasn’t exactly the same. But all the technical stuff was true.
“Now who’s being naive, Kay?” - - - Michael Corleone to Kay. 💜🍸
@@A23457 Actually, Swigert radioed "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here". Houston asked them to repeat the message. Lovell responded "Uh, Houston, we've had a problem."
@@Col_Fragg yes I was aware of that
You know it's a good film when you knew all about the history of the story and you're STILL on the edge of your seat at the end. Great film by director Ron Howard.
Yes indeed! I was about twenty years old at the, have seen this film many times and the suspense is always there. My hats off to the cast, crew and of course, Ron Howard!
Indeed. Two strong points for the movie: They manage to make the engineering and technical jargon comprehensible to the layman without resorting to pedantic overt exposition, and they manage to keep the drama and suspense up despite the fact that most viewers already know how it ends.
movies were like this before... if they will try to reproduce it with today's standards.. it will be a whole different thing
I am an engineer. Gene Kranz, who was "Chief Flight Director" of mission control for Apollo 13 and many other missions, is my ultimate hero. "Failure is not an option" is his famous quote. Met him once at a simulator conference. Amazing man. Tidbit of trivia in the movie: The real Jim Lovell was one of the dignitaries welcoming the three astronauts back - when they came out of the helicopter and being welcomed back onto the carrier.
Jim Lovell wasn't exactly a "dignitary" welcoming them back. He was playing the Captain of the aircraft carrier. For the movie, they wanted to make him an Admiral. But he said "No.. I retired a Captain, a Captain is what I'll be." I believe he also wore his own uniform for it.
Funny enough, it's a case of "Beam Me Up, Scotty", as the real Kranz never actually _said_ "Failure is not an option". But given that that was also the title of his autobiography, it's obvious he had that sentiment during the mission.
Phrases like "failure is not an option", or "winning isn't everything, it's the *only* thing" are fine when, by skill or luck, things work out. It's seen as manifesting success. But otherwise, they are hollow platitudes at best, and at worst, invitations to irrational certainty in a project or cause. The sixth day of January 2021 being a prime example.
@@Hexon66 I hope you feel better in the morning. This man's drive to get three men home from a failed moon mission with that of insurrectionists willing to overthrow government to get what they want is indeed a comparison - but a bad one.
While many things were made more dramatic for the movie, a friend who is a NASA project manager told me that Kranz really was idolized throughout the agency for being the epitome of what they all strived to be.
My father was one of the engineers who designed that heatshield. We watched this on TV live, and all my dad kept saying during that 3 minutes of silence was "The shield'll hold. The shield'll hold". He was right. Dad passed away in 2013.
Wow. That is so cool! Glad his shield held! 🙌🏽
Apollo 13 is a true story. There is a bit of extra dramatization but this movie is about as close as Hollywood gets to historical accuracy.
The first news event I watched on tv was Apollo 1; January 1967. They on the ground in capsule practicing. A fire broke out inside. 3 Astronauts died. They had no chance bc the door opened towards the Inside. That’s what Hanks told his boy “we fixed it” I always cry at the end of this film; every person did their absolute best, to save the brave crew. Inspiring! (For Marion: every Apollo mission had 3 men). I recommend the Right Stuff and First Man (for Joy: every successful Apollo landing, 6 times, they returned to Earth w moon rocks; NASA has nearly all of them. The space ship had 3 parts: the service module (looks Iike a cylinder;) LEM (looks like a spider;) and the capsule (it does 1 thing: enters the atmosphere and lands in the ocean). This is a Completely true event. 12 men walked on the moon; last time was 1972. Update: I knew this yesterday but I couldn’t find the info for my proof: Gus Grissom’s near drowning cost the lives of 3 men (including Gus himself) in Jan 1967 (Apollo 1) Y? When Gus landed in 1961, his door opened outward and the bolts exploded and the capsule went to the bottom. So for Apollo 1, the door opened inwardly only. Therefore our 3 heroes couldn’t open the door when it caught fire inside
They used 100% oxygen rather than a mixture is what i was taught. One spark from a switch ignited it.
@@dougquade1023 Not exactly! The 100% oxygen environment was normal for that particular test they were conducting. The problem was the recently invented Velcro, which was proving to be so handy for the engineers, reacts to pure oxygen when used in too large a quantity, and a large piece of it which was used under one of the seats spontaneously combusted in that pure oxygen environment.
In addition to your excellent recommendations, may I also suggest 'Hidden Figures' (2016), and the documentary 'Apollo 11' (which was made entirely from NASA Archive footage from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission)
For Joe: yes the Velcro caught fire but the biggest issue, as wrote, the door opened inward. An outward opening door and likely all 3 gets out
Thanks Dave !
LEM - Lunar Excursion Module. The young man they kept showing was Jim Lovel's son. He was in school in Wisconsin, watching with his classmates. This is a true story.
Yes, this is a true story. This is one of the most famous incidents in NASA history.
The Fire .... The Landing .... And This!
The Apollo spacecraft carried a crew of 3...Commander, Command Module Pilot, and the Lunar Module Pilot. That was the crew on every Apollo series mission, as far as I know.
Interesting fact...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than the other flights...so to this day, the crew of Apollo 13 hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled. ✌
quite amazing when u think about it
but is it just me.. or is quite hard to believe it?
a very true story and quite an accurate one too. the only real deviation was the tension between the astronauts during the ordeal. there wasn't any of that. Lovell, Haise and Swigart were as calm and professional as could be even after suffering the disappointment of missing the moon, being sick, cold, tired and just plain miserable - they never once complained, cast blame or turned on each other.
that's a trait only powerful men posses
Yep. And when they show Mattingly watching the blast-off with a Corvette behind him: General Motors offered a free car to the new American sensations-- the Astronauts. They all chose Corvettes.
This is absolutely a true event. I remember watching this on TV when it all happened. So, so tense!
oh i will be scared to think how it is to fly that thing!
When I read about Apollo 13, I was surprised how many of the problems they put in the film were real -- but they couldn't explain most of them to the audience. The mention of "shallowing out" at the very end meant the capsule took longer to pass through the atmosphere -- which was why radio silence lasted 4 minutes instead of 3. The tiny maneuvering jets went crazy because they were meant to push the ship back on course if it varied from its flight -- expected to be only a fraction of one degree at any time. The explosion pushed the ship way off -- the jets were shooting off trying to move it farther than anyone ever expected they would have to. There was a mention that the round hatch between the Odyssey and Aquarius wouldn't close -- the tunnel was torqueing so much, the hatch opening was no longer perfectly circular, and thus literally the wrong shape for the hatch to fit!
Some critics thought the "13/bad luck omens" in the film were ridiculous attempts to build tension, especially Marylin Lovell losing her wedding ring down the drain. The DVD of APOLLO 13 has commentary by the Lovells, and Marylin Lovell insists that that actually happened.
Just a few things:
1. Swigert was as experienced and as well trained to pilot the Apollo 13 mission as Mattingly. He was even THE Apollo program's expert for emergency procedures for accidents like the one that happened during the mission.
2. When you listen to the real radio recordings of the mission, you'll hear how calm and focused they all were right after the explosion. You'd think nothing actually bad has happened.
3. The three astronauts never had a fight on board.
4. They already knew how to connect the LEM's filter with the filters from the command module. They just rebuilt it to make sure it would really work.
5. Same thing with Mattingly in the simulator. They already had all the procedures ready to restart the command module, they just wanted to make sure it'll work and that they get all the things right.
the apollo missions were awesome as were the 1960s..
"Houston, we have a problem" just should make the final edit IMO. It's the one quote the whole world knows and sets the stage for the rest of the movie.
Indeed. I must admit that I did not find this one of MJoy4Fun's best reactions. Actually, it was the worst I've seen from them. I felt a little uncomfortable, bordering on embarrassed for them. I won't unsubscribe as someone wrote below but yes, disappointed.
@@janescribner8258 my sentiments exactly, which isn't the norm for them at all, so just chalk it up as a 'bad day at the office' and look for the next one I guess.
@@MoMoMyPup10 yup! 🧘
I was 8 years old when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Anybody who had a television was glued to the television. If you didn't have a TV, you listened on your radio. If you lived in a village where there was only one radio, the whole village was listening at that radio. It really was a giant leap for mankind. We Americans only had the good fortune to be the ones who took that step for everyone. It was a human achievement, not just an American one.
I still impressed with the amount of effort the film makers poured into making this film completely accurate.
Even all of the switches, gauges and so on, and the way the astronauts use them, is 100% correct.
There are three parts to the spaceship. The capsule is the part which can return to Earth. I holds three.
The Lunar Excursion Module, LEM, is the part which lands on the Moon. It holds two.
The Sevice Module is the part which exploded. It has all the extra power and life support. It's only attached to the capsule. There is no way to get inside it, it's just an add-on.
I was a kid in the 1960's and of course like every period in History , It was the best of times and it was the worst of times . But once President Kennedy decided we would go to the Moon , unless you were alive at the time you Cannot imagine how new and exciting it was.
For those who do not know the road to taking that First Step on the Moon was done in 3 phases.
Mercury 1 man capsule
Gemini 2 man
Apollo 3 man
Joy the reason we didn't work with the Russians was the cold war , Nukes were close to flying a few times. 13 Days / is a great Movie starring Kevin Costner and it shows how close we were during the Cuban Missile crisis.
The number 13 is considered unlucky in American culture. I remember watching the re-entry on TV. The tension was real. Communications from the crew were minutes past the time we expected to hear from them. We all thought they were lost. All of the sudden we saw the parachutes open and everyone started cheering.
As in real life, the reason the crew passed the three minute period without contact while landing was because their descent was a little shallow, therefor spending more time in the atmosphere. It would have been around 3 minutes in 'normal' circumstances.
lol "How do you get the internet from there..."
Hi, Yes, this was definitely based on the real events. The real Jim Lovell is shown at the end shaking Tom Hanks hand when they returned. Apollo 13 would have been the third landing, since Apollo 12 landed in Nov 1969. After Apollo 13, there were several more: Apollo 14, 15, 16 and 17. All were made with 3 astronauts- two to land and one to stay in the capsule circling the Moon, to link up when they returned. The trip takes approximately between 3 and 4 days since the missions follow slightly different routes depending on where they land, on the season and orbits of Earth and Moon, etc.
quite amazing when u think about it ^_^ always been scared to think ''how it actually feels to fly with a rocket''
L.E.M. = Lunar Expeditionary Module, the part that lands on the moon. The base with the legs is left on the moon, and the top part returns to lunar orbit to dock with the Command module.
C.M. = Command Module. The cone-shaped capsule. 1 astronaut stays in the CM and the other 2 descend to the moon in the LEM. This part returns to Earth from orbit with all 3 astronauts.
S.M. = Support Module. The cylinder-shaped part behind the CM. Contains supplies and life support for the mission. Detaches from CM before CM returns to Earth from orbit.
If Mattingly wasn’t forced to remain earth, and work out the sequence in the simulator, the astronauts may not have made it back. Just like Lovell’s story of the cockpit light shorting out, you never know what will get you home.
That's to say that nobody else would have figured it out.
@@izzonj Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn’t. I think it was very fortunate that Ken was there.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 its is great as a dramatic element for the movie. But in real life, Mattingly didn't spend time in a simulator trying to figure out a power-up sequence. He was involved in many different things with all the other astronauts. NASA already had most of the emergency procedures figured out in the movie. In real life they practiced doing them over and over to see if they could make the instructions simpler for a bunch of exhausted, freezing colleagues in space.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 you know, I just realizes my last post made me sound like a know it all wise ass. So I'll admit that I just found that out in an interview I read with Ken Mattingly
@@izzonj It's also worth noting it didn't need to be Mattingly doing that. He was a convenient and excellent choice, but Swigert would have been even better, had he not been the one in space piloting the Odyssey, since he wrote the emergency procedures manual that included those routines...
On Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin was getting back inside the LEM from the moon surface, he accidentally broke off the switch that starts the LEM engine to get off the face of the moon with his foot. At the time they were to leave the moon, Buzz jammed a ball point pen into the slot where the switch was and the engine fired.
I was talking about the circuit breaker incident on social media and someone questioned whether it the incident was true. We can believe so many incredible things, but people forget the amazing things we did 50+ years ago. A shame too, since it was only a quick google away to check.
To answer your question, NASA had backup plans for a number of possible emergencies, but not for the side of the ship being blown off.
It's "That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Which means, it was just one small step for him to get off the ladder and touch the moon, but the fact they are able to even do it is amazing and means mankind has achieved enough technology to do it. Yes the USA did do it first, but that is not what the quote is about, it's about humans achieved it, not the US. They didn't work together because of the cold war, instead of fighting a war they just had a space race which was a better use of time although it translated into missile improvement among other war weapons. In reality if not for the cold war, we may have never had this type of a space program or even satellites. Who knows.
A beautiful documentary was released in 2006 called ‘In the Shadow of the Moon’ and it goes into more detail about the fire that killed the astronauts of Apollo 1 in 1967.
There's more technology in your cell phone than was in the Mercury or Apollo spacecraft's. I was 10 year's old when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. My mom let me stay up late that night to watch it on TV.
People do not realize how many invention's that we use all the time. Next time you use a "glass" baking dish, which is really Pyrex. It was made and used as the window's in the space craft. L.E.M. means Lunar Excursion Module.
Great reaction, yes this was based on a true story.
I want to share with you both - how much I enjoy your channel!
I think what I like most - is when your are commenting and speaking, you are not commenting to a YT audience, you are talking to each other. And what is most cool? When you talk to/with each other - you always do it with respect. Neither of you dominates.
I have watched a great many of your reviews - always noticed the way you respect each other!
I saw this in the theater at the Mall of America when this came out. I had never before been in a theater with such a powerful surround sound system.
During the launch sequence, the power of the engines rumbling you could feel throughout your whole body and it really felt like you were in that rocket yourself.
To be fair, it wasn't about beating "Russia" to the moon--it was about beating the Soviet Union (this was still going on during the Cold War).
The reason for the radio blackout during reentry is they are enshrouded in a wall of plasma and a radio signal can't get through until they have slowed down enough for it to dissipate.
The USA is still the only country to have people walk on Luna but now several other countries have had orbiters and such, there have been a number of robotic survey missions to Mars that have collected a lot of data. Both the USA and the USSR did send a few probe to the surface of Venus but it is an EXTREMELY harsh environment so none of them lasted long with the best result being one that managed to transmit for 110 minutes. when I say harsh I mean 467 °C for a surface temp, surface air pressure being the same as being under 900 meters of water on Earth, and it is covered in clouds of sulfuric acid. In other words, unless we come up with some sort of miracle technology there will be no manned missions to Venus but reading up on the different probes that were launched is an interesting branch of the space race most people never learned about.
"Go to the frickin' Saturn."
Love that line.
Nominated for 10 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing and Best Film Editing.
It's the incredible true story of Astronaut Jim Lovell and his fellow companions try to make it back to Earth during their failed mission to the moon in 1970.
they deserve it 100%
Funny other thing, the girl who plays the oldest daughter, was also in What's Eating Gilbert Grape. I was working as a bank teller in the 90s, and she came into the branch I was working at one day. I immediately recognized her, and the key thing was, I said, "Weren't you in Gilbert Grape?" She was flattered. Apparently everyone around her was all about Apollo 13, but she was struck by me recognizing her from Gilbert. Funniest thing, like a week later, she came in, saw me and almost kind of blushed. And I was like, why the ef is she blushing seeing me? lol She's the star of this interaction. :)
The Right Stuff is made for you two!!!! Great movie & few people have done it....
I've just found your channel, and I have already watched five videos. I would just like to say that I think you two are absolutely brilliant.
In case you're wondering: NASA and its European, Japanese, and Canadian partners are currently working on the Artemis program to return to the moon. The uncrewed Artemis 1 was successfully tested in late 2022. Artemis 2 in 2024 will be a manned flight to test additional systems. Artemis 3, planned for 2025, is expected to be a manned lunar mission.
In the scene onboard the carrier near the end of the film, "Jim Lovell" (Tom Hanks) shakes hands with the Captain of the ship, that Captain is the real Jim Lovell, who held the naval rank of Captain upon his retirement.
The mission might have failed, but it was a success. Absolutely true story❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
To me, the most amazing piece of technology is the heat shield. Made by hand, like a bee honeycomb. 10,000 degrees on one side, room temp on the other! The chemical substances they used, the had to make by hand, and by hand, individually fill each honeycomb!😮😮😮
Apollo 11 was the most watched televised event ever. The world stopped to watch that. Americans put people on the moon, but it was a moment for humanity. Apollo 12 landed and it got lot of press, but ultimately by the time of Apollo 13 it was "just another mission."
The breakdown on the spacecraft is:
CSM (Command Service Module) Designation: "Odyssey." The CSM has two pieces, the nose portion is the habitat section, the cylinder is where all of the power and fuel is.
LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) Designation: "Aquarius." The LEM also has two sections, the portion with the legs, and the odd shaped pod on top where the two crew reside. After finishing its mission on the surface the astronauts would launch the upper half back into Lunar orbit to dock with the CSM, under normal circumstances. Of course, during Apollo 13 all of its abilities were repurposed to save the astronauts.
"People ask me if we were scared. We didn't have time to be scared. If we had taken the time to be scared we would have died." - Jim Lovell.
NASA actively mocked the superstition of the number 13 in a bit of an ad campaign involving a black cat, a ladder, and a broken mirror. Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) actually makes a subtle nod to this when he mentions to the press that someone suggested they "take a pig with them for good luck."
It is truncated in the film to just one, but in reality they had to perform multiple corrective burns on their way home.
The need for an emergency plan involving the CO2 scrubbers is entirely accurate to the spirit of genius at NASA in the 60s and 70s, but in reality they had already thought of this potential issue occurring and had multiple plans ready to go. NASA literally had thousands of back ups and contingencies in case things went wrong. They paid people to think of ways for things to go horribly wrong and to prepare for them, just in case.
A car spontaneously exloded near the launch vehicle days before the launch.
A lot of the dialogue you hear from Gene Kranz (Played by Ed Harris) is taken from the documentary footage/mission log tapes. Including "Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.)
The movie does Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) a little dirty. He was not a rookie, he was just as qualified as Jim Lovell and Fred Haise. He actually wrote a lot of the manual for the CSM. All of the Gemini/Apollo Astronauts were highly trained, many with military experience as pilots. Jim Lovell was a combat veteran pilot. Of the original teams he had the most experience in space. Jim is a real legend, and if you ever want to hear a man who emodies courage and humility at the same time, it is Jim Lovell.
The final shot we see of Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) sitting in the chair silently crying, is based on an actual shot of the real Gene Kranz from the actual footage. It's nearly identical.
If you guys enjoyed this, i'd also like to suggest the HBO miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon." It's basically the "Band of Brothers" to Apollo 13, and covers the beginning of the space program, right up to the end of the Apollo era, and features a really strong cast... Including a very young Bryan Cranston. Produced by Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg, and featuring opening and closing exposition from Tom Hanks. Great stuff.
On the subject of Elon Musk, he is the only reason that NASA is putting astronauts on the ISS. For years we were relying on the Russians to ferry our astronauts. He hopes to launch vehicles to the moon, and he ia also working on a spacecraft called "Starship" which is designed to launch large numbers of people to Mars. SpaceX has done a lot to make space travel cheaper and easier, namely, being able to safely recover pieces of craft used to boost things into space, and reuse them.
This was absolutely a true story. Happened exactly like that. The newscasts were ACTUAL -with Walter Cronkite and everything. Every newscast you saw in the movie were actual. One of the best movies of all time. Ron Howard's brother, Clint Howard played the role of flight controller Seymour Liebergot. His father played a priest, his mother played Jim Lovell's mother, and his wife and daughter were crowd members. His daughter is the girl from Jurassic World. Jim Lovell, himself, was even in the movie as the Captain of USS Iwo Jima. Lots of buildings dropped the 13th floor from their buildings after this mission. Elevators went straight from 12 to 14
This was part of the true story. They left a few problems out because they didn't think audiences would believe everything.
this movie is just a rollercoaster of emotions from my point of view they dont land in the moon but they already are heros for trying and also show mankind like the crew and the people in earth can be kind and supportive like true human beings.That's the point of the movie i think there still good in us.
To everyone involved, astronauts, scientists, technicians, administrators, families and anyone I didn't mention, thank you ❤
How humbling to even be able to learn of such pioneering bravery and genius.
I detest von Braun for his V1 and V2 rockets and his participation in WW2 but the Apollo missions wouldn't have happened without him.
How privileged, not just me, but all of us are in recent times to be able to witness The International Space Station, SpaceX's astounding developments, especially reusable rockets, The Hubble Telescope and now The James Webb Space Telescope and Artemis 1 and so many more I could mention.
What an honour to be witness to such creations that bring me joyous tears.
Thank you, whichever project you work on, truly ❤
The boy at the military academy is Tom Hanks’s character Jim’s oldest son. He has three kids. The oldest, who’s at the military Academy, the daughter, and the young boy.
4, actually. The younger daughter that complained about her older sister being upset about the Beatles.
I only stumbled onto your channel just now for this video, and I just wanted to say that watching ya'll watch this movie was like I was watching it with friends. I'll be looking for more videos to watch.
You made me laugh out loud at the alien-Covid thing.
"If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it."
This movie is definitely based on a true story. It's more accurate than most docu-dramas.
There was no way politically for the U.S. and the Soviet Union to cooperate on the moon landing. The two countries were ideologically opposed to each other. They began cooperating when tensions between the countries eased several years later. It was significant that the U.S. didn't claim the moon as American territory when they achieved the first landing.
How did they get the internet from there? There was no internet back then. That was good old radio waves.
The bit where the NASA engineers had to figure out how to fit the parts together was fiction. In fact, they anticipated the problem long before the flight and had already solved the problem. It's less dramatic, but the truth shows how thoroughly the mission had been thought out.
I saw this when it happened live for real. I still tear up.
Me too. Ed Harris's portrayal brings tears to my eyes every time I watch this frickin' movie. "Begging your pardon, but I believe this is going to be our finest hour."
You two are so real it's refreshing. Love from New England USA. Keep taking care of each other.
One Of Ron Howard's Masterpieces Ever Made
1:42 Because it was the height of the Cold War. You know...Soviet Union, "We will bury you," Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam War, Khmer Rouge, all that fun stuff? 🙄
Kids these years.
Fun fact. Ron Howards parents make appearances. His mom played Lovell's mom. His dad, played the priest sitting with one of the families.
Despite everything, this is a very patriotic movie for me.
9:17 Radio Waves
6:34 yes.. I can. The ground shakes when you're miles away... the air shakes!
I got to see a launch when I was 12. It was at night and it was almost like the biggest camp fire against the largest background forest!
It was glorious!
20:02 Super simple question by people who have no clue what it took to come up with the initial answer. Those engineers worked around the clock under the gun simply to supply something that MIGHT work. You come up with a better "back-up plan".
This was Apollo 13 (of course, lol). There were four more missions in the program: 14, 15, 16, and 17. All of them were moon landings. Mattingly was on 16.
I had the honor of meeting and talking with Buzz Aldrin when i was a young teen. It was an amazing experience
Love how you both interact. Keep up the great work!
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Based on a true story.
In the film, astronaut Swigert (Kevin Bacon) is described as a "rookie" with question marks around his performance. In the reality, Swigert wrote the whole instruction for the Command Module, he was an expert. There were never any doubts about mixing teams, these guys were all on the same level. They were also military test pilots who knew how to keep cool under extreme stress. They added a lot of drama for the film.
He was a "rookie" in the sense that ha hadn't flown in space before. And by that criterion, so was Fred Haise.
A mostly true story except for the tensions in the crew. It captivated the world hoping for their safe return. Yes, Apollo 11 was the first to land, Apollo 12, 14,15,16,& 17 were also successful, 12 astronauts total walked on the moon (6 landings). Yes, the Lunar Module (LEM) was stored in the 3rd stage for launch. The Command Module (along with the troubled service module) connected to the LEM for the trip to the moon. Since the LEM was designed by a different company, the CO modules were shaped differently...something overlooked as a backup.
This is a true story based on Jim Lovell’s book Lost Moon,
It's EXACTLY a true story. As far as I know, all the details were exactly as they were -- including Mrs. Lovell losing her wedding ring in the drain.
In Reality: Jack Swigart was a skilled, respected astronaut. He even WROTE emergency procedures for the Command/Service module.
Even if he had been unable to dock with the LEM, either of the other two could have done so.
All that doubt about his ability - and the shouting/arguments - were just dramatic addition to the plot of the movie.
Perhaps permitted, only because he had already passed away, long before the movie was made.
But at least it was explained (eventually) that it was a manufacturing accident that had caused all the problems.
Thanks
My mom’s parents were in high school at the time and they witnessed the launch of Apollo 13 on TV.
"How'd they get the internet in space?" There was no internet in 1970. LOL
Like others have said this was a true story. The main thing the movie did that isn't true is how they made the replacement astronaut look like he was not ready to go on the mission. Him and two other guys were on the backup crew and they were doing the same training as the primary crew. He was ready to move up to the primary crew and Lovell had no issues with him. It just made the movie a little more dramatic with the way he was portrayed.
Deke Slayton's mantra was that any one of his astronauts could fly any mission. He'd have two crews train simultaneously for each one in case anyone on the prime crew had to drop out. It had happened once before, when the Apollo 8 CMP Mike Collins had neck surgery, and was replaced by his backup, Bill Anders. According to Slayton's practice of assigning each backup crew to prime crew 3 missions later, this put Collins on the prime crew of Apollo 11, and Mattingly on Apollo 16.
LEM is the Lunar Excursion Module. The spidery thing. Command Module is in the middle. Service Module is the big fat part that went pop.
(Oh, and reversing the power flow. I don't know the specifics for NASA. I assume it's like using military jumper cables. In the military they're called slave cables and they go either way with a single plug at both ends. You can make either side a slave to a master battery. But civilian speak, he's saying use the jumper cables.)
Did you ask how they got internet to broadcast?
The woman who plays Jim Lovell's mother is actually director Ron Howard's mother in real life.
Yay!!!!! I love this movie! And so few react to it…. Every time we hear their voices after the 4 min mark I break into full body goosebumps. Great movie!
LEM stands for Lunar Excursion Module. That's the part that actually lands on the moon that has the landing gear. They had to use it as a lifeboat when the explosion occurred in the service module which supplies power and other facilities to the Command Module (CM). And yes, each mission brought over a hundred pounds of moon rocks back to Earth to be studied.
Ron Howard the director had several family members in this movie: His brother Clint played Sy, the guy who recommended they shut down the fuel cells to stop the leak; His mother played Jim Lovell's mother in the retirement home; his daughter Dallas (now a director herself) played one of the kids in the scene where the families were on the opposite side of the road from the astronauts; his father played the priest at Jim Lovell's house. And as a bonus, the aircraft carrier commander that Tom Hanks shakes hands with at the end is the REAL Jim Lovell!
Most of the zero gravity scenes were filmed aboard a special 747 that flies in a parabola to simulate microgravity for up to 20 seconds at a time. They did over 200 of these flights for the movie.
Great reaction, glad you got to see this great movie, one of the best depictions of a true story. Others have mentioned & I agree, you must watch “The Right Stuff”, which tells the story of the Mercury program, precursor to the Apollo missions. All of those involved in the early stages of space flight are my heroes. It helps to know the backstory, it adds meat to the historical context.
When they are standing on the ship the captain walks up to them. That was JIm Lovell playing the captain.
Pro tip...the silver haired guy on the pick-up shop, was Jim Lovell! I used to do contract work at NASA. I got to go into areas and see things, most people will never see! I live in Houston, as a kid, back in the day. If u drove around in Clear Lake, which is where NASA is. U could always tell the engineers, scientists, technicians, control room astronauts guys- they all drove Corvettes!
Fred Haise had a urinary tract infection during the mission. By the end of the mission it became a kidney infection. That's why he was so sick.
Yes, this is based on a true story. Apollo 13! It stays pretty true to what really happened except for added drama aboard the ship (those guys did not yell at each other. They were well trained) and the bit with the families standing on the opposite side of the road before the launch did not actually start until the days of the Space Shuttle. But otherwise it stayed true to the actual events. It is based on the book by Jim Lovell called "Lost Moon".
Did they do the same thing but the separation wasn't defined by a road? Or they didn't quarantine the astronauts at all?
@@bigdream_dreambig I believe the astronauts were quarantined (except for contact with highly-screen NASA personnel) but they just didn't do it like they show in this movie (until the days of the Space Shuttle). Funny that they were worried about Ken Maddingly becoming sick during the mission and it was Fred Haise who got sick instead! (And Ken didn't get sick at all!)
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Even today, our understanding of medicine and biology seems only barely beyond the stage of balancing cardinal humors and bloodletting with leeches.
@@bigdream_dreambig Someday we'll be at Star Trek level where they just wave a little scanner around the general vicinity of your body and tell you EXACTLY what's wrong with you, then give you a hypospray and send you on your way. We're probably at least 50 years from that though, but you never know. All it takes is one amazing discovery to change everything.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Unfortunately, I'm unlikely to last that long! 👴🙈😝
It's a true story. Parts were made for drama. Things like they never had an argument like the movie showed. Also they didn't need a team at NASA to create the contraption to lower the CO2. They knew how to make it. There were other things as well. Apollo 13 was real.
Also, Swigert being the only one who could dock the ship was inaccurate. All 3 astronauts were capable of doing it.
When they launch the Saturn 5 rocket, the first and second stages have 5 engines. As the rocket burns its fuel, it becomes lighter, thus it begins to accelerate faster causing extra strain on the rocket. So, at a certain point they shut off the center ( #5 ) engine. This happens on both the first and second stage. The center engine on the second stage cut out earlier than expected but they were already in that mode or " bucket ". Just before the engine cuts out, Lovell/Hanks says: " Stand by for mode bravo-one. " Bravo = second stage One= section of the flight plan that lists various abort modes for this stage of the flight. If they lost another engine the abort would have been a ballistic return to Earth and landing in the ocean.
“If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it” is the best line of the entire movie. It’s too bad you guys cut that out of the video.
Houston we have a problem?
"If they have a problem with that, they can take it up with my husband. He'll be home Friday."
(another one of my favorites)
“Are you boys in the space program, too?”😂
They didn't need propulsion to escape from the moon. They were on a free return trajectory.
This was a true story. Very little was changed for the movie. A lot of the conversations were verbatim, copied from flight recordings. Although the famous "Houston, we have a problem" line was actually "Houston, we've had a problem" in real life. The director changed it because it sounded like the problem was passed, not ongoing.
In total, there have been 6 successful missions that landed people on the moon - Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo 17. The last was in 1972.
Artemis 3 is the next planned crewed mission to the moon, set to launch in 2025.
I met Jim and Marilyn Lovell a few years ago. Nicest people you could ever imagine.
Even though I knew this was a real event in history & that everyone had survived I was still stressed out as they tried to get home.
I've never been this early to one of your videos! (posted 29 seconds ago as of writing!)
20:00 - the only reason those guys made is because of all the backups and redundancies used on the ship. It freaking EXPLODED in space, in 1970 and the ship continued to function long enough to the crew to think of a plan to survive. It's a miracle! But you can't prepare for everything.
Yes, certainly a true story - my generation watched it unfold every night on the TV news.
Good editing, by the way, like watching the movie afresh.
A few numbers about Project Apollo: Nine missions flew to the Moon, carrying 27 astronauts. Three men, including Jim Lovell, flew twice, so 24 men went to the Moon. Six of the nine missions landed, putting 12 astronauts on the lunar surface.
The computation sequence where they do math is because they need to transfer to LEM (lunar module) ship, they need to convert because CSM(command module) has different system (they were made by different companies)
You left out the most iconic line in the history of the space program: "Houston, we have a problem"
For more true story movies about space, you should watch "The Right Stuff" and also "Hidden Figures".
You all should watch first man which is actually about Apollo 11 and leading up to it I think you guys would enjoy that one
More than one US crew did actually get to the moon. The Russians gave up on reaching the moon. However, the US and Russia did work together to build the International Space Station where scientists from multiple nations conducted experiments and it was manned by crewmen from various nations hence the name "International Space Station".