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- “Apollo 13” achieved visual authenticity by filming in actual zero-gravity conditions aboard a reduced gravity aircraft. Extensive training and preparation were needed for the cast and crew to perform effectively under the challenging zero-gravity filming process.
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Feb 15, 2023 · The dramatic events of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission were natural movie material—but how do you recreate the zero-gravity world of a spacecraft for cinema audiences?
Jul 24, 2023 · 'Apollo 13' cinematographer and production designer reflect on Ron Howard's inspiring masterpiece
Feb 21, 2023 · Apollo 13 employed the same methods used to train astronauts to make it look like Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon were actually in zero gravity.
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On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On board were astronauts James Lovell, John “Jack” Swigert and Fred Haise. Their mission was to reach the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon and explore the Imbrium Basin, conducting geological experiments along the way. WATCH: Apollo 13: Modern Marvelson HISTORY Vault
At 9:00 p.m. EST on April 13, Apollo 13 was over 200,000 miles from Earth. The crew had just completed a television broadcast and was inspecting Aquarius, the Landing Module (LM). The next day, Apollo 13 was to enter the moon’s orbit. Lovell and Haise were set to become the fifth and sixth men to walk on the moon. It was not to be. At 9:08 p.m.—abo...
One hour after the explosion, mission control instructed the crew to move to the LM, which had sufficient oxygen, and use it as a lifeboat. The LM was only designed to transport astronauts from the orbiting CM to the moon’s surface and back again; its power supply was meant to support two people for 45 hours. If the crew of Apollo 13were to make it...
On April 15, 1970, Apollo 13 was 254 km (158 miles) from the lunar surface on the far side of the moon—and 400,171 km (248,655 miles) above the Earth’s surface, meaning the crew of Apollo 13 set a Guinness World Record for the farthest distance from Earth reached by humans.
Lovell, Haise and Swigert huddled in the chilly lunar module for three long days. In these dismal conditions, Haise caught the flu. On April 17, a last-minute navigational correction was made using Earth as an alignment guide. Then the re-pressurized CM was successfully powered up. One hour before re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, the LM was diseng...
Though Apollo 13 did not land on the moon, the heroism of the crew and the quick-thinking of mission control were celebrated widely as a success story. It was even made into the 1995 movie Apollo 13starring Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon.
Jun 30, 2015 · Back in 1995, Mark Bowden wrote about the way the film used NASA’s KC-135 plane (a.k.a. the “vomit comet”) to film scenes of the actors floating in “space.” The plane is normally used to ...
Jun 29, 2020 · Right in the middle of that canon is Apollo 13, Ron Howard’s 1995 dramatization of the titular aborted lunar mission, from 1970, in which three astronauts raced against time to get back to Earth safely. That film, which brought the phrase “Houston, we have a problem” into the lexicon, marks its 25th anniversary on June 30.
