Apollo 13 Movie Fact Check

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Movie theaters open utah county. Nasa must devise a strategy to return apollo 13 to earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. The movie in question tells the true story of the apollo 13 astronauts jim lovell tom hanks fred haise bill paxton and jack swigert kevin bacon and their ill starred trip to the moon in. In apollo 13 the movie the light was purposely made to blink to get the viewers attention.

If you werent around for the events of apollo 13 you might have seen the film dramatization of it. Directed by ron howard. We took a look at the evidence and as it turns out the movie scores pretty high on accuracy.

But just how accurate was the apollo 13 movie. When the film came out they gave a special showing at the naval academy and jim lovell usna 52 spoke afterwards. Tom hanks was definitely the perfect person for the role.

Director ron howard devoted a considerable amount of energy into recreating the setting as accurately as possible. With tom hanks bill paxton kevin bacon gary sinise. But it is not completely without flaws.