Apollo 13 Movie Accuracy

We took a look at the evidence and as it turns out the movie scores pretty high on accuracy.

Buffed up movie cast. The crew instead looped around the moon and returned safely to earth on april 17. If you werent around for the events of apollo 13 you might have seen the film dramatization of it. He spoke to t.

In the audio commentary for apollo 13 lovell states that his problem with it is that the sequence did not actually happen12 the sequence also seemed to emphasize the point that the astronauts did not land on the moon and they took offense to that. Discussions between the apollo 13 crew. The perilous voyage of apollo 13 by astronaut jim lovell and jeffrey kluger.

But it is not completely without flaws. Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the apollo space program and the third meant to land on the moonthe craft was launched from kennedy space center on april 11 1970 but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module sm failed two days into the mission. Capt lovell is almost relentlessly personable and likable.

Tom hanks was definitely the perfect person for the role. In terms of historical accuracy the film apollo 13 gets the large scale history accurate but where it looses the accuracy comes to the smaller details. In terms of the larger elements that are lost in the film all the cuts correspond to the films run time.

It was directed by ron howard and starred tom hanks bill paxton kevin bacon gary sinese ed harris and kathleen quinlan. And al reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book lost moon. How accurate was apollo 13 the movie compared to the real story.

This would be the apollo 11 mission. The movie version of the exchange may not have been historically accurate but the director found it more interesting and dramatic this way. But just how accurate was the apollo 13 movie.

Apollo 13 is a 1995 american space docudrama film directed by ron howard and starring tom hanks kevin bacon bill paxton ed harris and gary sinisethe screenplay by william broyles jr. Director ron howard devoted a considerable amount of energy into recreating the setting as accurately as possible. Ron howard utilized jim lovells and jeffrey klugers book lost moon.

As for the paint scheme shown on the apollo 13 rocket thats wrong too. The tom hanks film about the harrowing six days of apollo 13 got some stuff right but also took dramatic liberties. The movie depicts a large black band around the middle a feature of earlier rockets.

When the film came out they gave a special showing at the naval academy and jim lovell usna 52 spoke afterwards. However there is an amount of historical accuracy in this sequence. Thats a difference of 30 months not 18.