BEST LINE in the whole movie... "If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it!!" Thank you to Ron Howard's mom for playing that awesome role!!!😮 ❤❤❤❤❤
They were all elite military and test pilots. Jim Lovell, for instance, once successfully landed a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier at night after losing all instrumentation.
ik also like Ed Harris's lines, frm the ral ed Harris's book. "Filaure is not an option." and disagree ing with his negative workmate "I believe this is going be our finest hour." O fourse th e iconic lone "Houston we ahve a problem" was repeated for years at the workplaces when something went wrong, the power goes out, or even when the toilet overflowed onto the floor lol
My pick for best line is “Are you boys in the space program, too?” 😂 Imagine being Armstrong or Aldrin, at the time two of the most famous people in the world, and encountering Blanche Lovell, for whom her son was the only relevant person in NASA.
This movie does a great job of explaining all the engineering that went into bringing the crew back. It really is a tribute to the skills of the crew and the supporting engineers.
Guess what...Ron Howard (like most Hollywood filmmakers" wanted to see how the fans would react to his film... so he had them preview it before it was released to get their reactions.) They were given cards as they walked into the theater to fill out their opinions on what they thought of the film. One viewer who pre-viewed film had written on his card (and I quote). "Typical Hollywood drama...you create a film where these astronauts survive every problem that comes along...and they come safely back to earth in one piece. Totally unbelievable scenario. You blew it on this one.!" Ron Howard loved it so much he kept it and framed it...because this really happened!
You can't put off a mission for a few weeks to wait for someone. The universe is constantly in motion, and there are windows for moon missions, windows for missions to Mars, etc. If you miss them, like to Jupiter, for instance, you might have to wait years before they're in the right position again that you need them to be, depending on their (and Earth's) orbits.
That's what they said about the Space Shuttle Challenger when temperatures got down too low and harden the Morton Thiokol O-rings that caused the disaster. "Sorry can't delay"
@@zedwpd That's different than postponing just to wait for someone when they had a perfectly capable backup. If it's a safety matter they should definitely postpone. This wasn't a failure because of not postponing but Challenger definitely was.
To expand on that, you can certainly expand your windows to give yourself more opportunities, but the windows themselves are based on mathematical analysis of the physical systems which yield the most efficient routes; deviating from those routes is possible, but the cost is that it requires a slightly different route which requires more fuel. Some of these alternate routes even take more time, meaning there are additional consumables (like food and oxygen, if you're carrying people, or electrical power), but some take less; these, however, take even MORE fuel. In any case, more fuel means more weight. More weight means more fuel. More fuel means more weight, and so on, and so on. Which means it becomes exponentially more difficult to conduct a mission if you miss the very narrow window that results from the physics of the system. But throughout the Space Race, there was an additional factor: politics. Now, politics cannot change physics - despite how hard it tries - but it can demand that a launch takes place in one window and not wait until the next. This has caused loss of life. Prior to Apollo 11, the Americans had to beat the Russians to the Moon. After that, however... the political will began to evaporate. And when the political will evaporates, so does the funding. If the later missions had too many delays - too many problems - then it would have given an apathetic Congress even more reason to cancel even more missions. So, there was internal pressure to hit windows in order to keep the space program flying as a whole. Not to mention "go fever" among the pilots and engineers... But yeah; physics tells you when the best time to do something else. Everything beyond that suffers from the complexities of humanity.
Can really recommend the Videos from Home Made Documentaries on youtube. Even Charlie Duke of the Apollo Astronauts watched them and shared stories and remarked on the accuracy.
Fun fact "consolation prize"...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon on their free return trajectory, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than all of the other flights to the Moon. So to this day, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled. Also, a terrific quote I encountered recently has to do with Apollo 13..."NASA is absolutely not superstitious, but you can bet they will never launch anything numbered "13" ever again." Not sure if that is a real quote...but it does not seem that NASA has sent anything into space with the number 13 on it ever since, though commercial satellite companies have. I think one of the in atmosphere glide tests of the shuttle Enterprise...which never went into space...did have the number 13 on it, and I believe there were no issues with the test. And, in case you were wondering...the number one reason why people have not returned to the moon to live/work/build a base there is the dust. You can 100 percent look up the harmful effects of lunar dust...but it is a serious issue that NASA and others have been working to address for many years. The dust is invasive and corrosive and it sticks to everything...which is a major issue when it darkens the surfaces that you need to be reflective, and all of a sudden you are absorbing a ton of heat from the sun instead of reflecting it. And that is not even to mention all the health issues of breathing in the dust...so figuring out how to deal with it has been a huge impediment to returning to the moon.
"Welcome to the Enrichment Center [violent coughing]...The bean counters said we could literally not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Did it anyway! Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground-up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill." -Cave Johnson, Portal 2
Yes, Ron Howard's brother Clint played Sy in Mission Control. Also, is father Rance played the priest in the home, and his mother Jean played the grandmother who for my money had the best lines in the movie.
At the end of the Movie Tom Hanks shakes hands with the real Jim Lovell (an older guy wearing a White Cap). Jim Lovell is still with us and is in his 90's. Sadly, Marilyn Lovell passed away a couple of years ago. Jim Lovell's Mom is played by Ron Howard's Mother. The bald, geeky looking Technician wearing glasses in the Houston Control Room is played by Ron's brother, Clint Howard. I remember watching the coverage of Apollo 13. It was a real nail biter. We really didn't know if they would make it home or not. This has been called the "Miracle Mission". If Ken Mattingly hadn't been left behind, he would not have been able to work out the Procedure in the Simulator that brought them home.
Other Ron Howard Relatives in this movie: His Daughter Bryce is the Girl in the yellow dress during the reentry scene, His dad was the Reverend during the re-entry scene, Wife Cheryl was in the crowd during Launch.
actually..... the "A" was admittedly flubbed by Armstrong as evidenced immediately by his pause of awareness, and decision to proceed instead of repeat correctly.
Well, the first comment is getting into what I was going to comment which is, a LOT of reactors ask the question "WHY couldn't they just reschedule the launch!?" Well unfortunately a launch to the Moon is not like a doctor's appointment that you can just reschedule and next week everything will be hunky dory!! There are so many factors to consider including the position of the Earth, the Moon, gravitational issues within those parameters, and quite a few things that quite frankly would not have been guaranteed to be the SAME if they rescheduled!! SO the schedule for a launch had to be kept no matter what AND it didn't matter to NASA which team was in the rocket!! As long as the rocket went up and accomplished the mission of that particular flight, they were happy!! The launch dates are scientifically chosen AND for that reason are specific and need to be done when scheduled!!
The one thing that didn't actually happen was when the astronauts had an argument. That did not happen. When Marilyn Lovell lost her ring in the shower of the motel, that was true but read that they did recover the ring. I remember watching this on TV when it actually happened. So stressful! Great movie. Even though I knew what happened it was still very tense and stressful to watch.
Tom Hanks' line about bouncing of the walls and ending up right back here with the same problems is an almost verbatim quote of what the real Jim Lovell said to explain why the crew never had an emotional meltdown despite the extreme stress they were under.
i'll be 70 this year, and astronauts and baseball players were my heroes growing up........the movie stayed very close to facts, but Jim Lovell insists that the one thing that DIDN'T happen was the astronauts arguing among themselves about the oxygen tank stir.......Lovell insists that never happened, and why that needed to be added to include more "drama" is beyond me..........anyway, wonderful reaction, as always. Thanks for sharing.
This is based on the book, Lost Moon, by Jom Lovell about the mission. About the only thing not real in the movie is the astronauts conflict and raised voices. The actual tape of the crews communications is boring. They were cool, calm and collected.
You definitely should watch Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man", also based on a true story with Russell Crowe playing a Depression era boxer James J. Braddock. Also with Renee Zellweger as his wife. It's as good as any 'sports movie' I've seen.
Ken Mattingly, the astronaut most associated with the Apollo 13 mission, was never diagnosed with measles. Why wouldn't he have gotten another test, just to double-check?
There weren't simple tests to tell you whether or not you had it. Decisions were made on exposure and vaccination status. He couldn't fly because he hadn't been vaccinated and had been exposed to it by Charlie Duke, and measles is worse for adults than children, so they couldn't take the chance that he would get ill during the mission.
BEST LINE in the whole movie...
"If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it!!"
Thank you to Ron Howard's mom for playing that awesome role!!!😮
❤❤❤❤❤
That line was written by John Sayles, the writer/director of EIGHT MEN OUT who did an uncredited rewrite.
They were all elite military and test pilots. Jim Lovell, for instance, once successfully landed a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier at night after losing all instrumentation.
ik also like Ed Harris's lines, frm the ral ed Harris's book. "Filaure is not an option." and disagree ing with his negative workmate "I believe this is going be our finest hour." O fourse th e iconic lone "Houston we ahve a problem" was repeated for years at the workplaces when something went wrong, the power goes out, or even when the toilet overflowed onto the floor lol
My pick for best line is “Are you boys in the space program, too?” 😂
Imagine being Armstrong or Aldrin, at the time two of the most famous people in the world, and encountering Blanche Lovell, for whom her son was the only relevant person in NASA.
im 62 years old now i was a NASA kid lol my dad worked for then until 76 so i got to see it all I was born 1962
Sorry you missed John Glen's first mission. Watch "Hidden Figures", and get the real backstory. Enjoy!
This movie does a great job of explaining all the engineering that went into bringing the crew back. It really is a tribute to the skills of the crew and the supporting engineers.
Guess what...Ron Howard (like most Hollywood filmmakers" wanted to see how the fans would react to his film... so he had them preview it before it was released to get their reactions.) They were given cards as they walked into the theater to fill out their opinions on what they thought of the film. One viewer who pre-viewed film had written on his card (and I quote). "Typical Hollywood drama...you create a film where these astronauts survive every problem that comes along...and they come safely back to earth in one piece. Totally unbelievable scenario. You blew it on this one.!" Ron Howard loved it so much he kept it and framed it...because this really happened!
Love this story. I wonder what the critic's reaction was when "From The Earth to the Moon" documentary came out.😅 must have been shocked.
You can't put off a mission for a few weeks to wait for someone. The universe is constantly in motion, and there are windows for moon missions, windows for missions to Mars, etc. If you miss them, like to Jupiter, for instance, you might have to wait years before they're in the right position again that you need them to be, depending on their (and Earth's) orbits.
That's what they said about the Space Shuttle Challenger when temperatures got down too low and harden the Morton Thiokol O-rings that caused the disaster. "Sorry can't delay"
@@zedwpd That's different than postponing just to wait for someone when they had a perfectly capable backup. If it's a safety matter they should definitely postpone. This wasn't a failure because of not postponing but Challenger definitely was.
To expand on that, you can certainly expand your windows to give yourself more opportunities, but the windows themselves are based on mathematical analysis of the physical systems which yield the most efficient routes; deviating from those routes is possible, but the cost is that it requires a slightly different route which requires more fuel. Some of these alternate routes even take more time, meaning there are additional consumables (like food and oxygen, if you're carrying people, or electrical power), but some take less; these, however, take even MORE fuel.
In any case, more fuel means more weight. More weight means more fuel. More fuel means more weight, and so on, and so on. Which means it becomes exponentially more difficult to conduct a mission if you miss the very narrow window that results from the physics of the system.
But throughout the Space Race, there was an additional factor: politics. Now, politics cannot change physics - despite how hard it tries - but it can demand that a launch takes place in one window and not wait until the next. This has caused loss of life. Prior to Apollo 11, the Americans had to beat the Russians to the Moon. After that, however... the political will began to evaporate. And when the political will evaporates, so does the funding. If the later missions had too many delays - too many problems - then it would have given an apathetic Congress even more reason to cancel even more missions. So, there was internal pressure to hit windows in order to keep the space program flying as a whole.
Not to mention "go fever" among the pilots and engineers...
But yeah; physics tells you when the best time to do something else. Everything beyond that suffers from the complexities of humanity.
Can really recommend the Videos from Home Made Documentaries on youtube. Even Charlie Duke of the Apollo Astronauts watched them and shared stories and remarked on the accuracy.
Home Made Documentaries is amazing.
The Admiral shaking hands with Tom Hanks is the real Jim Lovell...
Fun fact "consolation prize"...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon on their free return trajectory, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than all of the other flights to the Moon. So to this day, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled.
Also, a terrific quote I encountered recently has to do with Apollo 13..."NASA is absolutely not superstitious, but you can bet they will never launch anything numbered "13" ever again." Not sure if that is a real quote...but it does not seem that NASA has sent anything into space with the number 13 on it ever since, though commercial satellite companies have. I think one of the in atmosphere glide tests of the shuttle Enterprise...which never went into space...did have the number 13 on it, and I believe there were no issues with the test.
And, in case you were wondering...the number one reason why people have not returned to the moon to live/work/build a base there is the dust. You can 100 percent look up the harmful effects of lunar dust...but it is a serious issue that NASA and others have been working to address for many years. The dust is invasive and corrosive and it sticks to everything...which is a major issue when it darkens the surfaces that you need to be reflective, and all of a sudden you are absorbing a ton of heat from the sun instead of reflecting it. And that is not even to mention all the health issues of breathing in the dust...so figuring out how to deal with it has been a huge impediment to returning to the moon.
"Welcome to the Enrichment Center [violent coughing]...The bean counters said we could literally not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Did it anyway! Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground-up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill."
-Cave Johnson, Portal 2
Yes, Ron Howard's brother Clint played Sy in Mission Control. Also, is father Rance played the priest in the home, and his mother Jean played the grandmother who for my money had the best lines in the movie.
Agreed. His Mom did fantastic.
Ron's daughter...... Bryce Dallas Howard, was also in this movie as the "Girl in the Yellow Dress".
Mom was supposed to tell us what she remembers about the Apollo 13 mission before the movie started.
At the end of the Movie Tom Hanks shakes hands with the real Jim Lovell (an older guy wearing a White Cap). Jim Lovell is still with us and is in his 90's. Sadly, Marilyn Lovell passed away a couple of years ago. Jim Lovell's Mom is played by Ron Howard's Mother. The bald, geeky looking Technician wearing glasses in the Houston Control Room is played by Ron's brother, Clint Howard. I remember watching the coverage of Apollo 13. It was a real nail biter. We really didn't know if they would make it home or not.
This has been called the "Miracle Mission". If Ken Mattingly hadn't been left behind, he would not have been able to work out the Procedure in the Simulator that brought them home.
96 years old, sad to think that soon there won't be any Apollo astronauts left alive.
Other Ron Howard Relatives in this movie: His Daughter Bryce is the Girl in the yellow dress during the reentry scene, His dad was the Reverend during the re-entry scene, Wife Cheryl was in the crowd during Launch.
The intended first quote from the moon was "That's one small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind."
The "A" was obscured by static.
actually..... the "A" was admittedly flubbed by Armstrong as evidenced immediately by his pause of awareness, and decision to proceed instead of repeat correctly.
Well, the first comment is getting into what I was going to comment which is, a LOT of reactors ask the question "WHY couldn't they just reschedule the launch!?"
Well unfortunately a launch to the Moon is not like a doctor's appointment that you can just reschedule and next week everything will be hunky dory!!
There are so many factors to consider including the position of the Earth, the Moon, gravitational issues within those parameters, and quite a few things that quite frankly would not have been guaranteed to be the SAME if they rescheduled!!
SO the schedule for a launch had to be kept no matter what AND it didn't matter to NASA which team was in the rocket!! As long as the rocket went up and accomplished the mission of that particular flight, they were happy!!
The launch dates are scientifically chosen AND for that reason are specific and need to be done when scheduled!!
The one thing that didn't actually happen was when the astronauts had an argument. That did not happen. When Marilyn Lovell lost her ring in the shower of the motel, that was true but read that they did recover the ring. I remember watching this on TV when it actually happened. So stressful! Great movie. Even though I knew what happened it was still very tense and stressful to watch.
Tom Hanks' line about bouncing of the walls and ending up right back here with the same problems is an almost verbatim quote of what the real Jim Lovell said to explain why the crew never had an emotional meltdown despite the extreme stress they were under.
I use Hanks line when bad health hits me, or car issues "There's a solution to every problem." It's a good way to live
Seconded.
No there’s not.
i'll be 70 this year, and astronauts and baseball players were my heroes growing up........the movie stayed very close to facts, but Jim Lovell insists that the one thing that DIDN'T happen was the astronauts arguing among themselves about the oxygen tank stir.......Lovell insists that never happened, and why that needed to be added to include more "drama" is beyond me..........anyway, wonderful reaction, as always. Thanks for sharing.
This is based on the book, Lost Moon, by Jom Lovell about the mission. About the only thing not real in the movie is the astronauts conflict and raised voices. The actual tape of the crews communications is boring. They were cool, calm and collected.
You definitely should watch Ron Howard's "Cinderella Man", also based on a true story with Russell Crowe playing a Depression era boxer James J. Braddock. Also with Renee Zellweger as his wife. It's as good as any 'sports movie' I've seen.
Seconded. Great film.
My favorite Ron Howard film.
Now you need to blast off with THE RIGHT STUFF (1983) and SILENT RUNNING (1972). : )
Ken Mattingly, the astronaut most associated with the Apollo 13 mission, was never diagnosed with measles. Why wouldn't he have gotten another test, just to double-check?
There weren't simple tests to tell you whether or not you had it. Decisions were made on exposure and vaccination status. He couldn't fly because he hadn't been vaccinated and had been exposed to it by Charlie Duke, and measles is worse for adults than children, so they couldn't take the chance that he would get ill during the mission.
It wasn't that he tested positive, it was that he was exposed so there was a chance he COULD get them
When? Looks like we will be returning to the moon near the end of this decade, with perhaps, the first woman to walk on the moon. We'll see.
Love Miko Hughes in this movie
Y’all should check out the series “The Astronaut Wives Club”. It’s really good.
Just wanted to say I love you girls
Best Tom Hanks Movie Of 1995 It's: Apollo 13 and Toy Story 1
Is ma ok? Looks like she took a spill. Hope all is well!
Toy Story
I hate apollo 13