Another fun fact: At a certain camera angle in the stands during the pre-launch scene, you see the real Marilyn Lovell seated behind and to the left of "Marilyn Lovell."
Having Ken Mattingly on the ground because of the measles he didn't get turned out to be a real saving grace for the Apollo 13 crew, because he knew both modules inside out, and was _fresh_ because of all the training he'd been doing for the mission.
I also realized I called this movie a sci-fi, WHICH it isn't, it's a true story, and that's my bad. I meant to say "space movie", not sci-fi. Curse my peanut brain 😫 *insert bonk sound effect here*
0:24 - Immediately stopped the video to set you straight, but noticed your comment so saved me the trouble, so thanks for that, and for all your reactions. For an actual Sci-Fi movie, that is more Sci than Fi as compared to other Sci-Fi movies, you should watch *Contact,* based on a book written by famed astronomer Carl Sagan. *Deep Impact* is another good more realistic Science Fiction movie as compared to its action movie counterpart released at the same time *Armageddon.*
@@jowbloe3673 Jeez, I don’t like that term “set me straight” 😩 little harsh, dontcha think? But yeah no I immediately realized right as I played the video to add in the end cards and I can’t believe I 1. Said that to begin with 2. Didn’t even take it out when editing, so 🤪 but yeah. Small mistake. I meant space movie, not sci-fi.
I love this movie so much and even more so because it's INCREDIBLY accurate. Kathleen Quinlan actually talked with the real Marylin Lovell in order to make her performance more accurate. The line about her just vacuuming over and over when Jim was on the far side of the moon was a quote straight from Marylin. Even the scene of her losing her wedding ring down the drain (which seems almost Hollywood cliche) is totally real, with Marylin saying "to me that was the worst omen of all."
If you listen to the audio of the actual event it sounds almost boring because they were so collected during communication. It’s amazing to think how well they executed their training of being under that kind of stress.
My dad was a radio broadcaster in the media room at the Johnson Space Center when this happened. He was on the air for HOURS on end covering the disaster.
Also his father plays the priest and a teenage Bryce Dallas Howard can be seen in the background in the yellow dress in the scene where everyone says goodbye to the astronauts.
He also played Bud in the movie The Abyss, which I think might be one of the most recent movies she has watched; so, it might be the exact movie she's remembering. This might be the second time I'm writing this down in the comments, as it is the second time I'm watching this Reaction.
With the exception of the Manhattan Project, NASA during this time was pretty much the most impressive bunch of people put on a team together in the nation's history. The absolute best of the best.
10:19 That's ice. The tanks weren't heavily insulated like the big orange tank on the shuttle, and the cryogenic fuels are REALLY cold, so moisture from the atmosphere would freeze on contact. At launch the entire vehicle was covered in a layer of ice, which all shattered and fell off when the vehicle started vibrating. 11:30 The Saturn V throughout its operational life always suffered from a problem called pogo oscillation. Vibrations in the rocket caused it to expand and contract along its entire length slightly, a bit like a pogo stick, and sometimes the oscillations could get violent enough to damage components in the rocket. The fuel lines to engine 5 were probably damaged by pogo oscillations and the safety system automatically shut it down. Fortunately there was enough redundancy in the design that it could still make it to orbit with only 4 operational engines. 31:02 That's actually a massive oversimplification! Wikipedia has a lot more info on what really happened to the tank and how it was damaged prior to the mission.
What's amazing is that most of the Zero-G scenes were filmed on an airplane that simulates zero gravity by freefalling (often called "the Vomit Comet"). However, these shots could only be filmed a few seconds at a time (and given over half of this movie is in zero gravity, it literally means they had to make plausibly over 100 trips if not more on that plane to get the shots (others were done on like see-saws planks with the actors sitting on them and being lifted that way)
And the best part is all of this really happened. What you saw in the film was as close to the real thing as they could get. You can still find the actual re-entry footage of the real Apollo 13 landing in the ocean.
Your parents must be close to my age...I was 9 when we landed on the moon, 10 when Apollo 13 happened. Landing on the moon was so glorious, and then this was so frightening. Those 2 events made me a lover of the space program and astronauts for life. We watched Apollo 13's re-entry on tv at school, and when they made it back, there were cheers all over the school.
Yep, what a time it was. I am a few years older, remember watching Alan Shepard and John Glen Mercury launches in the second grade at school in the library, which was absolutely thrilling -don’t think my family even had a tv in 1961. Then I followed the Gemini program intently. Apollo 8 was so huge -that Christmas Eve. On Apollo 11, I was 15 & on the road driving for the first time in Driver’s Training class at launch time. It was on the radio, and I remember exactly where I was on the road when it launched. The first landing was so intense, I was glued to the tv, and didn’t understand why everyone else wasn’t. That was the big moment. The moon walk later that night was just icing to me. Cool, but I knew the landing was the real challenge. By Apollo 13 I was somewhat less involved. At college, with no tv super nearby. But I kept watching -and the rover was also super-cool, Each landing progressed and did more exploration further from the lander. How lucky we were to be able to witness the whole amazing adventure!! Watch the “Moon Machines” series - fantastic series, especially for engineers like me to learn about the engineering challenges, and how they busted butt to solve them by 1969! Great reaction to a great film, one of my favorites, for sure!
the reason why you are seeing all of these actors in some of the same movies and also in a lot of other movies. Is because the 70s , 80s and 90s hands down produces some of the best actors of all time!!! IMO
I know a woman who was a young IBM mathematician consulting for NASA at this time for the orbital calculations. When Flight said "wake up your people", she was one of the ones he he was talking about. She says it was by far the most intense three days of her life.
I hope the ones who put humans on or orbit around the moon and was there to see it 1st hand get to see SpaceX Mars landing, it would make there lives come full circle and witness new history in the making... Humans new chapters beyond Earth is just beginning....
@@kylereese4822 well, gene kranz is still around, and as far as i know, so is john aaron, sy libergot, along with jerry bostick, glynn lunney, and many others.
The humidity at the launch site condenses on the cold outer surface of the rocket and freezes creating a shell of ice. At launch, the vibration and acceleration cause the ice to shed and fall (hopefully away) from the launch vehicle.
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 you are right about liquid hydrogen being so cold and the you're right about ice is caused by the cold liquid fuel but in the case of the Saturn V it would just be the oxygen as the Saturn V didn't actually use liquid hydrogen as fuel it used kerosene (jet fuel) probably as it didn't need to be kept so cold.
Ken Mattingly really did go into space on Apollo 16 and did basically what he would do on 13. He continued to orbit the moon while the other two astronauts landed and he docked with the lunar module when they came back. You did alright TheOGBojangles.
I've probably seen this a dozen times but it still gives me chills. And I've used the air filter scene as motivation when I was a manager to get my team thinking outside of the box.
For the full story, I'd recommend the book this movie is based on. It's called "Lost Moon", and it was co-written by Jim Lovell. I read it long before the movie came out and was enthralled.
I was going to make the same point. I'm old and I remember Clint Howard way back to "The Andy Griffith Show". He was in a couple of episodes as the "Cowboy Kid". I also remember Ron and Clint's father Rance Howard from many 50's-60's Westerns.
His real life counterpart's name is Sy Liebergot, and what the movie doesn't have time to explain is that firstly, he was facing a scenario which simply should not have happened (a dual failure in two separate systems) because of the way the systems were designed to be redundant. Secondly, neither the flight crew nor anyone in Mission Control were aware of where the explosion happened, and Liebergot literally tried every scenario he'd been trained to handle - and then some - to solve the problem. Closing the "react valves" made no difference because the force of the explosion had already closed them. As it turned out, the explosion damaged a pipework manifold which was common across the oxygen system, causing the leak - and after the initial emergency was contained and the crew were in the LEM, Liebergot was one of the engineers who figured that out. Liebergot was not the only one who initially thought it had to be an instrumentation problem, and they all thought that because that was exactly what had happened when Apollo 12 was struck by lightning just after leaving the launch pad - all the systems were knocked offline and the EECOM display was showing garbage information. EECOM John Aaron recognised the problem from a simulation he'd seen earlier, had the crew flip a switch which fixed the telemetry data, and they were able to work from there to restart all the systems on the spacecraft. It's not surprising that the guys on the ground were hoping against hope that this was the same thing at first. I read recently that someone (possibly Liebergot himself) called John Aaron up and read him the data he was seeing, only for Aaron to reply "That's not instrumentation - that's a real problem".
Jack Swigert (Bacon) and Ken Mattingly (Sinise) were both very well trained pilots and both capable and trained to fly this mission. NASA would've never let someone take the pilots seat in an Apollo capsule who would be nervous to do the job. Swigert was also THE expert in emergency procedures during the Apollo flights and even developed some of them before Apollo 13 happened.
I think what the movie doesn't make as clear as it could was that Deke Slayton arranged the flight roster such that every Apollo mission had a primary and backup crew who received identical training up until almost the last minute. The original roster had backup crew as the primary crew three missions later, meaning that they would be training for both at the same time. Explaining why Lovell's crew were bumped up from Apollo 14 to 13 is a long (and in many ways inspiring) story in itself, but too long to go into. I think it's mentioned at the end of the movie, but what this roster system meant was that Ken Mattingly did eventually go to the Moon, replacing Jack Swigert as the Command Module Pilot on Apollo 16.
This has been and likely forever will be my favorite film of all time. The performance, the story being both well constructed and true to real history, the incredible soundtrack, the amazing production design, I love everything about it.
The movie is so well-made that even though I knew from history that they would make it, I was STILL on the edge of my seat when they ,made the final descent, for fear that history would suddenly change and they would die after all.
-Some critics thought the scene of Marilyn losing her ring in the shower was cheesy, but it really happened. (The movie doesn't show that she was able to recover it). The bit of Swigert forgetting to file has taxes also really happened. -Lots of astronauts drove corvettes. Car dealers would happily sell them to the astronauts at dealer prices, because they knew they'd have no trouble selling a car formerly owned by an astronaut when they eventually traded it in for a new car. -The technical consultant on the film was Dave Scott, who commanded Apollo 15 and was the first person to drive a car on the moon. -The Apollo 1 fire was the result of running tests with the spacecraft sealed and filled with 100% oxygen at high pressure (which is basically like covering everything in gasoline). The fire increased the pressure even further and made it impossible for the astronauts to open the inward-swinging hatch before they asphyxiated. But it did lead to many improvements that made the later spacecraft much safer. -The bit about "Al Shepard's ear infection" causing Lovell to be bumped to Apollo 13 is a bit inaccurate. Alan Shepard (the first American in space) was grounded for several years because of an inner-ear condition called Meniere's disease (not an infection). He'd had surgery to correct it and was back in the flight rotation and was up for Apollo 13, but NASA management felt he needed more time to get up to speed, so Lovell was asked to take Apollo 13 instead, while Shepard was given command of Apollo 14, where he eventually landed at Fra Mauro (the intended landing site of Apollo 13) and even hit a golf ball on the lunar surface. -If this film interested you in space, you should definitely check out the miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon", which Tom Hanks and several other people from this film worked on.
Some interesting facts there. Thanks for that. Also should be noted that none of the astronauts did actually gave fault or aggression to each other. They were actually completely calm the whole time as original records show. Everybody involved in the accident was at his best and Jean Krantz never lost his temper with his colleagues. But it´s an amazing movie nonetheless, with great actors and a historical event well told.
Regarding Alan Shepard - I guess while calling his medical condition an "ear infection" is significantly inaccurate, it is certainly true that after undergoing experimental surgery (which turned out to be successful) and regaining his flight status, he leveraged his position as Deke Slayton's deputy to hand-pick a crew and insert them into the roster with Slayton's blessing (actions which would usually have been way out of character for both men). As far as I know, that was the only time during the Apollo project post-Apollo 1 where NASA's management were willing to bend those rules. Al Shepard - the first American in space (whose achievement ended up being somewhat overshadowed by John Glenn's being the first American to orbit the Earth) - was the only member of the original "Mercury Seven" group of astronauts to walk on the Moon. He said later that he pushed as hard as he did to make that happen on behalf of all of them.
It wasn't car dealers who came up with the idea. It was the car company itself. General Motors sponsored the Corvettes which were given, loaned, or leased to the astronauts. I can't remember how or with what terms, but GM found some legal and otherwise acceptable way to do it. Of course, it was great marketing for GM.
What you said @ 2:43. You can't imagine. Since you like space themes (sci-fi and reality), you should obtain the Tom Hanks produced, 12 part series "From The Earth To the Moon" (1998). Tom narrates all but the last episode, and stars in that one. It's mostly about the Apollo program but it tosses back to the Mercury and Gemini missions too. It includes an Apollo 13 episode that covers the historic event from a totally different setting. I said you can't imagine how it was, however there is a brief scene in the series after the landing of 11 and settling in before Neil steps out, where they flash various brief film clips of people around the world watching it all take place. That scene, and the whole series itself, will give you a sense of what it was like. I was 14 at the time and followed the space program very closely. And don't forget to do "Interstellar" if you want to experience the best sci-fi movie to date. ✌️😎
Best thing about this movie is the fact Ron Howard directed it, so almost everything was pinpoint accurate. If I can recommend another Ron Howard movie (that inexplicably no one has reacted to), please watch "Rush", another true story, this time about a Formula 1 racing rivalry in the 70s. Trust me it's incredibly compelling :)
James Hunt and Niki Lauda were friends before they raced together in F1, and had in fact shared a house and had lived together while racing in F2. That kind of changes the film quite a lot really.
Aside from the crash scene at the Nurburgring circuit, the movie "Rush" was far less historically accurate than Apollo 13. The rivalry between Lauda and Hunt was heavily exaggerated for sake of drama. Apollo 13 - by far the best Howard movie - is different stuff.
I like the comment from Lt Dan when he shows his new legs to Forrest and states that they are made from the same alloy used on the space craft. Nice tie in to Apollo 13.
As you now know how accurate this movie was made, you'll find the same with "From the Earth to the Moon". In fact, Apollo 13 goes well with FTETTM since its episode doesn't show inside of Apollo 13 at all! It makes a good companion piece. But if you haven't seen "The Right Stuff" (1983) yet, watch it first Sam as it deals with the very beginning of NASA and the Mercury Program, then follow up with FTETTM. The Right Stuff is a good movie I'm sure you'll like too. And as always, wear your NASA shirt when doing these! LOL! 😎👍
For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, I hosted a space marathon at my house. We watched “The Right Stuff”, then “From the Earth to the Moon” through the Apollo 12 episode, then “Apollo 13”, and finally the rest of FtEttM. I absolutely LOVE that series!
@@WallyHartshorn That is awesome Wally. I might just do that this coming July 20th. Since there's a lot to watch I'll start on the launch date July 16 and finish up by the splashdown date July 24. I love the series too as it's very well made. My favorite episode is 'Spider' because it deals with engineering the LEM from scratch and it included all that vintage footage of the its development, and Rusty's film. Of course the entire series is incredible. Thanks for the marathon idea man! 😁👍
@@GrouchyMarx I agree that the marathon is a good idea for July 20th. Friends who've seen the 'Spider' episode like to comment that the two engineers the episode focused upon remind them of me and one of my old military pals. Personally, I prefer the Apollo 12 episode because it is so reminiscent of roads trips I used to take with my friends.
@@pauld6967 Oh yeah, that was a good one and the funny one too. Alan Bean. And Gordon wouldn't let them back in his clean command module with all that moon dirt on them. Hilarious!
I was a couple of months short of my 6th birthday in April of 1970. I remember parts of this vividly. And the most vivid memory of all is the look ony father's face when I asked him "But they're going to be OK, right ? " There was a long pause before he said "I don't know. I hope so, but I just don't know."
I was 12 years old when the Apollo 13 mission was happening. I knew the events that were to occur before watching the movie for the first time but I was caught up in the drama and the tension as if it was all new to me. I've watched it many times since and still get choked up at the end.
5:00 that nightmare was based off of a scene and nightmare that Lovell's wife had as she and Jim had seen a movie called "Flight to the Moon" or something, it was fictional space flight disaster movie where one of the characters in the film perished that way. So kind of an homage to a film within this film in a sense
I've watched, knowing the outcome, and still a great movie. I was a very young child when this occurred, had watched the landing, but hadn't realized the backstory at the time.
I love your shirt in this reaction. My father proposed to my mother on the night the astronauts landed on the moon, so I've always felt a strong emotional connection to the space program. Oh, and coincidentally, my first name Selina means "the moon".
Ron Howard’s whole family was cast in this film. His mother Gene played Jim Lovel’s mother. His Father Rance played the priest , his brother Clint played one or the controllers “... it’s showing a quadruple failure.”
@TheOGBojangles - I can absolutely second people's recommendations to watch the "From The Earth To The Moon" miniseries. If it's OK to say, watching this video it looks like you're getting really into the subject matter, and there are plenty of amazing books to read on Apollo as well. Be warned though, it's one of those subjects that will drag you into a reading and watching rabbit hole for some time. It's totally worth it though!
Bogangles the beauty of Tom Hanks as an actor is that his combination of determination, strength and willingness to be vulnerable makes him perfect to portray so many stories. Someone once said, "We could have cast someone else to play his many roles, but would we have cared so much if it wasn't Tom Hanks." No matter what role he plays, he makes us care for the character and thus the story. What an amazing talent. Matthew McConahey, Robin Williams, Jim Carey are all similar in that way as well. You should dive down those rabbit holes next.
I have studied almost every milestone trip to space and of course the desasters too. Apollo 13 will always have a special place in my heart because this was a failure that was really meant to kill the astronauts by slowly dying in space. But as long this guys are alive they never lose their cool and just keep looking for new solutions and ideas. After such a unlucky event they just combined a huge amount of luck with never ending genius ideas. It was a miracle that they made it back to earth and because of this event i am verry sure mankind will acomplish a lot of milestones in the future whatever it takes.
Going to the Moon was exciting once upon a time. *Everyone* watched it. One of my favorite stories from my parents and grandparents is when Grandma walked by the living room while one of my (at the time just past toddler) aunts was standing on a chair watching one of the launches. My aunt mimicked the TV saying, "Three! Two! One! Bastard!" Grandma nearly *died.* As for why they performed that medical mutiny, I think it's mostly from having three guys in a space that would've been cramped for *two* guys that was rapidly filling with bags of *pee.* Welcome to cabin fever!
10:45 The engine 5 cutoff actually happened during the launch. It was caused by a vibration in the engine known as a "pogo oscillation" where a vibrating engine causes the rest of the vehicle to vibrate as well. Left unchecked these vibrations can destroy the vehicle and potentially kill the astronauts. Luckily the engines had an automatic shutdown in case it happens, and the loss of the engine was a minor problem that really would have been Apollo 13's only glitch if the oxygen cylinder hadn't exploded.
The problem previously happened in the (unmanned) Apollo 6 mission. After 13, a modification was introduced to made the engines less prone to the pogo oscillations.
The chunks falling from the rocket as it lifted off was frozen condensation from the freezing of the cold liquid gasses (kerosene and liquid hydrogen) used to propel the rocket. Being a rocket only that wasn't a problem for it to just fall off. But when the space shuttle Columbia (used cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen) took off, some of that ice fell and hit and damaged the wing. That's why Columbia disintegrated as it reentered Earth's atmosphere. The zero gravity scenes were filmed within the cargo bay of an aircraft preset to look like the inside of the Capsule and Lem. Weightlessness is achieved by flying G-FORCE ONE through a parabolic flight maneuver. Specially trained pilots fly these maneuvers between approximately 24,000 and 34,000 feet altitude. Each parabola takes 10 miles of airspace to perform and lasts approximately one minute from start to finish.
@@andreabindolini7452 yes in that accident. I was answering the question of what was all the chunks falling off during lift off in the footage. The question that was asked was about the many chunks, not the specific chunk that caused the Columbia accident. But you are right that's exactly what caused the accident with Columbia.
@@OGBReacts - In fact, the real-life Gene Kranz liked the line so much, I believe he used it as the title of his autobiography! [Which is absolutely worth a read, by the way...]
He did say however "when bad things happen, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them." In an interview with the writers of the film and they changed it to the now famous line.
Alot of artistic license was taken with the movie. While the movie shows everybody on edge, actual recordings make it look like everybody was taking Valium
I've just read "Apollo" by Catherine Bly and Charles Murray, and apparently the reason the recordings sound that way is because the headsets used in Mission Control had directional microphones which were designed to filter out as much background noise as possible - thus you only hear the person on the headset and very little of what was going on in the background. From the moment "Thirteen" became an emergency, multiple "Flight" shift members were showing up, to the extent that the building had never been so full of people trying to solve multiple problems at once (and never was again). The movie is actually accurate in this regard.
@@joehoy9242 I was actually referring to video recording made at the time. Nobody in a panic, nobody scrabling fron thri chair. Just everyong at their stations doing what thet had to do. While i don't know the nae of the person in Mission Control that said it, it was someone who was there that day. He said they had to keep a sense of "we deal with stuff like this everyday, this is nothing" because they had to keep te astronauts calm
There is an Australian movie starring Sam Neil called The Dish which is all about the Apollo 11 mission and the role the Parkes radio telescope played in the video footage of that event. It's really good, I highly recommend it!
This whole story is an incredible testament to the brilliance of those working at NASA and all the others involved with the American space program. They call people like this steely eyed missile men and damn is that apt. Whole buildings full of the most brilliant minds in the country all coming together to bring these three astronauts home in a damaged vessel over 200,000 miles away and they fucking did it.
One of my favorite movies! Enjoyed the reaction😁! For anyone wondering, the “chunks” falling off the Saturn V rocket during the launch is frozen condensation. It forms on the exterior because it’s really humid in Florida and the rocket tanks contain extremely cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
Good news! Not only did Ken Mattingly get to go to the moon with the Apollo 16 mission, but his two crewmates were the rest of the backup crew of Apollo 13 that Jack Swigert had originally been part of. In effect, when Ken and Jack had to trade places, they just swapped Apollo 13 and 16. By the way, the real Jim Lovell played the captain shaking Tom Hanks' hand on the ship at the end.
Mattingly lucked out, not only avoiding the accident but being rotated to Apollo 16, a longer, more extensive mission meant he spent more time in Lunar orbit, operating a range of external science instruments. On the way back he was only 3 people ever to do a spacewalk around 180-200,000 miles from Earth, the only one of which is still alive, RIP Al Worden and Ron Evans Apollos 15 and 17. As well as flying two Shuttle missions. An generally accurate film although the argument never happened, each mission had multiple recordings and tape recorders, but the filmmakers maybe rightly thought that the audience would never believe that was possible.
Jack Swiggert is buried out here near Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He was elected to Congress during the mid-term 1982 election, but died in December of that year. It’s rather sad, as he would’ve brought an interesting perspective to this state, given the aerospace industry’s presence out here.
As a promotional campaign, General Motors presented each of the NASA astronauts in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs with their own brand new Corvette Stingrays. Thats where all the sportscars came from.
The corvettes were not given to the astronauts but leased for $1/year because of a local dealership offering the promotion. apparently NASA wasn't to happy about it but they couldn't do anything about it because it wasn't a "gift".
The actual quote is, "Houston, We've had a problem." Fun fact: When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon during Apollo 11, he misspoke his quote. Man and Mankind are the same thing. The quote should have been "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". What he actually said was, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." One word, and in this case, one letter (the letter "A" changed the meaning of the entire sentence.
Because Tom Hanks is my favorite (living) actor, I would like to recommend the following (80's) movies with him: - Splash (1984) - The Money Pit (1986) - Dragnet (1987) - Big (1988) - The 'Burbs (1989) - Turner & Hooch (1989)
I'm surprised nobody ever seems to remember BACHELOR PARTY, Hanks' first starring film role. It's an absolute blast of a raunchy comedy that is sadly under viewed.
This movie was one of my favorites. I wore two video tapes out watching it. And it still reminds me of two of my favorite quotes, one of which I think of every time I see a jet airliner fly overhead... "See what free men can do" And the other, from Kipling... "Because we know we once were gods..."
11:44 Lovell said on APOLLO 8 a guy had diarrhea and it floated around. He said he had to use an emergency oxygen helmet to breathe because it smelled so bad.
At 10:45, the center engine cutoff refers to those big nozzles on the bottom of the rocket, and how they're arranged like those lights on the panel. The number 5 engine in the middle stopped. Lovell (Tom Hanks) is asking Mission Control if this is enough to abort the launch, or keep going.
Fun fact: the time between the Wright brother first flight and the first moon landing is shorter than the time between the first moon landing and now...
My favorite Ron Howard movie. I had actually just learned about this mission in Middle School when this movie came out, and even though I knew how it ended, the movie still sucked me in. I always thought Tom Hanks in this movie resembled my dad so much as a kid.
I was in Kindergarten when this happened and when the Astronauts came back to earth one of the Teacher got all the Kindergarten classes into his classroom and we watched the Astronauts come back to earth, the teacher brought his TV from Home and we all sat Round the TV Watching, at the Time I didn't really understand what was going on I was just a kid.
I blame this movie for my obsession with the Space Race. I knew virtually nothing about the NASA space program in general when this movie came out, but after watching it, I wanted to know ALL about it. This movie is an incredibly immersive experience and I'm kind of disappointed I never got to see it in theaters (my dad bought the VHS when it came out - yes, I'm that old).
So the space program trying to get to the moon ran in three phases. The first were the Mercury missions that were just trying to gen men into space and orbit. The second series were the Gemini missions that were designed to test docking, undocking and space walking. The Apollo missions were the ones that were final steps that were designed to land men on the moon. There were seven manned missions in the Apollo program, but they are numbered 1 then 4-17. Originally Apollo 1 was supposed to be an unmanned mission, but three astronauts died during a routine test of the spacecraft that revealed several design flaws that had to be fixed before manned flights could begin; the flight number was assigned as Apollo 1 in their memory (and it almost brought an end to the space program full stop). There were several more unmanned tests before manned missions began with Apollo 7, but the count resumed at 4 for more complete launches. Apollo 7-10 were mostly testing the equipment and flying to and from the moon to gather data. Apollo 11-17 were all intended to land on the moon for increasingly longer and more complex missions. Two more missions were planned beyond that but were cut due to Congress withdrawing funding for further missions, so all of twelve men managed to walk on the moon in total (at least so far). The good news is that interest in space travel has once again started to capture public attention and private companies are now taking steps to go to space. It is very likely that we will see people on the moon (and possibly Mars) in our lifetimes and any grandchildren we might have may have the opportunity to live up there.
Old enough that I held my breath during the moon landing - and collectively gasped with the world when we knew Apollo 13 crew was safe. I equate space exploration to the great navigators of the 1400's to the 1700's, those folk sailed into the unknown, had to rely on their wits and what supplies they had or could find........never knew when they left if they would ever return. Exploration and science is amazing and terrifying at the same time.
The stuff falling off when it's launching is Ice as the 1st stage of the rocket uses cryogenic oxygen (which is a liquid at that temp) and refined kerosene as it's fuel, the second and third stages also uses liquid oxygen but uses cryogenic hydrogen. Due to the very cold temps of the fuels water Ice forms on the out side of the rocket which falls off when it launches. As for the engine that shut down, it was due to an issue known as Pogo (named after the Pogo stick), in effect the engine was bouncing up and down ever so slightly in it's mount (cause by combustion instability, in essence it was not burning quite right), this is actually quite bad as the effect is transferred to the rest of the rocket and if it hits resonance can shake the rocket apart, now the Saturn 5 rocket had a habit of doing this (See Apollo 6), so their was a fair bit of effort to mitigate this issue which largely worked, but never fully solved. In Apollo 13s case it was actually very bad and was lucky it managed to trigger the low thrust sensor which shut down the engine (it was bouncing up and down in it's mount to the tune of 16 times a second with a maximum flex of up to three inches). Reports mention that even a few more seconds could of caused significant damage if not out right destruction of the stage as it ripped the thrust mount apart. It should be noted that another round of Fixes was scheduled for Apollo 14 but due to Time constraints it was not approved for 13. These fixes added a shock absorber of sorts to the system making Pogo less of an issue. An interesting thing about the O2 tank exploding is the timing of it, due to the issue of the O2 Tanks heater wiring (which caused the failure, due to the manufacture failing to upgrade the wiring for the newer 65 volt system), Now Ground control had noticed something was not right with the tank (a sensor was ironically some what faulty as well) so they stirred the tanks to get better readings of it's levels, normally they did this every 24 hours but here due to this issue they where doing it every 12ish hours, and it failed on the fifth time they did this (some 56 hours into the flight), if it took five times to cause it to fail then under regular operations it would of failed 120 hours into the mission at that time Jim and Fred would of been on the moon getting a frantic call from Jack that something bad was going on in the orbiting craft, Jack likely would of been overwhelmed with info over load and with no "lifeboat", the craft would of likely bled to death, stranding Jim and Fred on the moon with no way home. If it failed earlier in the flight then they would of had a harder time getting back due to the longer time it would of taken to reach the moon and return home using more power in the LEM.
This is my FAVOURITE movie!! I don't know why, I'm not super into space or anything but for whatever reason, this is my go-to movie whenever I feel like watching a movie but can't find anything to watch lol- I've probably seen it 30 times, not gonna lie. I love Tom Hanks too, one of my favourite actors. For Kevin Bacon, the movie Stir of Echoes is probably my favourite- a supernatural/thriller from the 90's that totally spooked me! Thanks for the reactions, cheers from Canada :).
Ahh BoGangles, have some faith. They might make it back. But along the way Murphy's Law is in effect. On this wild ride. What can go wrong, will go wrong. It was such fun watching you twist and turn as the movie unfolded. When the movie first came out we knew that they survived. It was as much of a crazy thrill watch for us as well. Also we just didn't know how close they came to dying. Which is the true beauty of the Apollo 13 movie.
when grandma lovell said `if they can get a washing machine to fly'. i think it was a reference to the shape of the ship. because back in the 1970s some washing machines were just round, such as a maytag `wringer-washer' type of which one was in the home and when i was little, i got my hand caught in the wringer when helping my ma do the washing. needless to say, running one's hand through that wringer did NOT feel all that great.
While not Apollo 13, one of my first memories is watching the unfortunate launch of the Challenger in 1986. Space and NASA has just had a profoundly huge impact on my life, both good and bad that it's hard to explain.
I've just finished reading a book which puts forward the idea that following the Apollo 1 fire, NASA's engineers developed a hardened attitude towards bureaucratic and political pressure, which lasted throughout most of the Apollo project. With the repeated successes of the later Apollo missions, the bureaucracy was starting to push back, and the Challenger disaster was a tragic indirect consequence of that. The Shuttle was a brilliant piece of engineering, but the overall design was a compromise that tried to fit both civilian (NASA) and military (USAF) requirements. One of the stated goals of the STS (Shuttle) project was to make Earth-orbit spaceflight almost routine, which was way too ambitious given the technology of the time. For example, while orbiters were "re-usable" to a large extent, the reality was that each one had to undergo weeks (sometimes months) of inspection, partial strip-down and rebuild between every mission. On top of that, there was a greater disconnect developing between NASA's executive and technical management than had been the case prior to Apollo 1 - lessons written in blood were being forgotten, and when the fateful conference call was made between senior management at NASA and Morton Thiokol, it's likely that many of the latter were concerned that NASA might drop them as a contractor if they didn't back down on the "no-go" recommendation. Presumably, NASA and Thiokol's executive management assumed that if an SRB failure did occur, it could be jettisoned safely via the emergency procedures covering that possibility - the notion that a failed seal could act like a plasma cutter on the retaining strut and external fuel tank simply didn't occur to them because it was not their area of expertise - I'm sure they didn't realise that they were gambling with seven lives. But they were, and they did, and seven people died in front of the whole world.
10:20 That's water ice. The fuels are super cold so condensation in the air forms sheets of ice on the Saturn V around the tanks. Nothing to worry about there.
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 Correct... for Columbia. On the other hand, it was cold temperatures freezing the O-Ring seals on the left solid rocket booster that caused Challenger to break up. The hot gasses from the SRB burned through the skin of the booster, then the external fuel tank, releasing and igniting the liquid hydrogen. Edit: The right SRB was fine, as it was in direct sunlight long enough before launch to thaw out the o-rings.
@@jodonnell64 - Although Challenger's breakup was not caused by the ignition of the fuel in the external tank. The leaking gases acted like a plasma cutter on the retaining strut holding the lower part of the SRB in place, and when that separated, it induced aerodynamic yaw (effectively a sudden turn), subjecting the orbiter and external tank to aerodynamic forces way in excess of what they were designed to withstand. The major Achilles' heel of the orbiter was always the Thermal Protection System - Columbia arguably had a narrow escape on STS-1 (the first spaceflight) - NASA and Morton Thiokol fixed the issues with the SRBs post-Challenger, but NASA still almost lost Atlantis on re-entry in 1988 (STS-27). The more I've read about what eventually happened to Columbia, the more I suspect that NASA's management had developed a fatalistic attitude that simply would not have flown in the atmosphere following Apollo 1.
To compare with the real thing, here's film (with air-to-ground audio) of the actual Apollo 13 launch: ua-cam.com/video/whtg0XgEzSk/v-deo.html And here's where they first reported a problem: ua-cam.com/video/PpTleKyn3gc/v-deo.html As for Ed Harris, he was a space-movie veteran, having played John Glenn in The Right Stuff a decade before this film.
Most experts think if that explosion had happened while in the atmosphere, the astronauts would've likely been killed instantly. The fact that they were already out route to the moon in an oxygen-less environment was in fact why the explosion went outwards and didn't totally tear the ship apart.
The normal procedure was to stir the oxygen tanks every 24 hours. Yet on Apollo 13 Mission Control noticed a faulty guage on tank 2, so had them do this extra times. It was actually the fifth oxygen tank stir during the mission which caused the explosion.
14:02 I gotta say, if Jim Lovell's classic line hadn't been "Houston, we've had a problem", then "Well that's not fucking good!" would also have been pretty dammed great alternative..
Oh fuck this is one of my favorite movies. My brother and I grew up watching this over and over again alongside Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Mask, Forrest Gump, The Rocketeer, and a slew of other eclectic choices. This one is one of the big reasons I am a big space / NASA / astronomy nerd to this day in my 30s. I am gonna enjoy this reaction. You've been nailing it with your selection so far, but I'm obviously biased.
Heroes every one of them. Not just the guys in 13 but also the guys at Mission Control in Houston who worked their arses off to save those guys and get tham back home. We need to go back to the moon, build a station there, a station in Earth orbit (following the lead taken by the International Space Station) and then push on and out. And by "we" I mean all of Earth, not just the USA (or Russia, China or whatever)
Clint Howard.. Ron Howards brother. Ron Howard, Opie. Bill Paxton.. RIP Tom Hanks.. brilliant Ed Harris.. Gone Girl Gone.. Brilliant Kevin Bacon.. 6 degrees of separation. (If u know, u know) Gary Sinise.. Lt. Dan. All star cast!!
I was 11 when Apollo 13 flew so I knew exactly what happened to it but when this movie came out I hung on every moment, Ron Howard died such a great job in building drama and suspense. Hope, anxiety, suspense, exhilaration. I've watched this movie maybe 50 times and I feel the same each time. I've watched at least 3 reaction videos and have enjoyed you all reacting too it the same way I did. Great, great film achievement!
Fun fact the Navy Captain that greets the astronauts at the end is the real Jim Lovell.
I have a friend that was on that ship when they filmed.
Another fun fact: At a certain camera angle in the stands during the pre-launch scene, you see the real Marilyn Lovell seated behind and to the left of "Marilyn Lovell."
That fact wasn’t fun. Try harder.
@@justmeeagainn Jesus, that was mean-spirited.
Apparently they wanted the real Jim Lovell to cameo as an Admiral, but he refused since his real life rank was Captain, so that’s what they did.
Having Ken Mattingly on the ground because of the measles he didn't get turned out to be a real saving grace for the Apollo 13 crew, because he knew both modules inside out, and was _fresh_ because of all the training he'd been doing for the mission.
"Was it the door" and "if they could get a washing machine to fly" hit me in the gut every time
I also realized I called this movie a sci-fi, WHICH it isn't, it's a true story, and that's my bad. I meant to say "space movie", not sci-fi. Curse my peanut brain 😫 *insert bonk sound effect here*
You're fine, you did call it a space movie in your intro. Thanks for reacting to this gem, so few have reacted to it.
Thank you
0:24 - Immediately stopped the video to set you straight, but noticed your comment so saved me the trouble, so thanks for that, and for all your reactions.
For an actual Sci-Fi movie, that is more Sci than Fi as compared to other Sci-Fi movies, you should watch *Contact,* based on a book written by famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
*Deep Impact* is another good more realistic Science Fiction movie as compared to its action movie counterpart released at the same time *Armageddon.*
@@jowbloe3673 Jeez, I don’t like that term “set me straight” 😩 little harsh, dontcha think? But yeah no I immediately realized right as I played the video to add in the end cards and I can’t believe I 1. Said that to begin with 2. Didn’t even take it out when editing, so 🤪 but yeah. Small mistake. I meant space movie, not sci-fi.
Damn it
I love this movie so much and even more so because it's INCREDIBLY accurate. Kathleen Quinlan actually talked with the real Marylin Lovell in order to make her performance more accurate. The line about her just vacuuming over and over when Jim was on the far side of the moon was a quote straight from Marylin. Even the scene of her losing her wedding ring down the drain (which seems almost Hollywood cliche) is totally real, with Marylin saying "to me that was the worst omen of all."
she was in the movie also, wasn't she ? in the launch viewing stand wearing the dark blue and white dress ?
I love how the mom doesn’t know who Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are!
“are you boys in the space program too?”
Right?? Love it
If you listen to the audio of the actual event it sounds almost boring because they were so collected during communication. It’s amazing to think how well they executed their training of being under that kind of stress.
My dad was a radio broadcaster in the media room at the Johnson Space Center when this happened. He was on the air for HOURS on end covering the disaster.
The older woman who plays Jim Lovell's mom is actually director Ron Howard's mother (his brother is one of the NASA mission control).
Also his father plays the priest and a teenage Bryce Dallas Howard can be seen in the background in the yellow dress in the scene where everyone says goodbye to the astronauts.
@@toddsmitts And then 25 years later, Bryce Dallas Howard paid homage to her father by using copies of some Apollo 13 scenes in The Mandalorian.
"Are you boys in the space program, too?" OG stares blankly into the camera, "Yeah, well..." Best, and funniest part of the reaction.
Gotta agree!
Ed Harris was in "The Truman Show" He played "Cristof" the mastermind of the show.
Ed Harris also played astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff
He played a noble bad guy in The Rock.
He also played Bud in the movie The Abyss, which I think might be one of the most recent movies she has watched; so, it might be the exact movie she's remembering.
This might be the second time I'm writing this down in the comments, as it is the second time I'm watching this Reaction.
With the exception of the Manhattan Project, NASA during this time was pretty much the most impressive bunch of people put on a team together in the nation's history. The absolute best of the best.
10:19 That's ice. The tanks weren't heavily insulated like the big orange tank on the shuttle, and the cryogenic fuels are REALLY cold, so moisture from the atmosphere would freeze on contact. At launch the entire vehicle was covered in a layer of ice, which all shattered and fell off when the vehicle started vibrating.
11:30 The Saturn V throughout its operational life always suffered from a problem called pogo oscillation. Vibrations in the rocket caused it to expand and contract along its entire length slightly, a bit like a pogo stick, and sometimes the oscillations could get violent enough to damage components in the rocket. The fuel lines to engine 5 were probably damaged by pogo oscillations and the safety system automatically shut it down. Fortunately there was enough redundancy in the design that it could still make it to orbit with only 4 operational engines.
31:02 That's actually a massive oversimplification! Wikipedia has a lot more info on what really happened to the tank and how it was damaged prior to the mission.
Also I'd recommend the Scott Manley video "What Caused The Explosion That Crippled Apollo 13?"
What's amazing is that most of the Zero-G scenes were filmed on an airplane that simulates zero gravity by freefalling (often called "the Vomit Comet"). However, these shots could only be filmed a few seconds at a time (and given over half of this movie is in zero gravity, it literally means they had to make plausibly over 100 trips if not more on that plane to get the shots (others were done on like see-saws planks with the actors sitting on them and being lifted that way)
And the best part is all of this really happened. What you saw in the film was as close to the real thing as they could get. You can still find the actual re-entry footage of the real Apollo 13 landing in the ocean.
Your parents must be close to my age...I was 9 when we landed on the moon, 10 when Apollo 13 happened. Landing on the moon was so glorious, and then this was so frightening. Those 2 events made me a lover of the space program and astronauts for life. We watched Apollo 13's re-entry on tv at school, and when they made it back, there were cheers all over the school.
Yep, what a time it was. I am a few years older, remember watching Alan Shepard and John Glen Mercury launches in the second grade at school in the library, which was absolutely thrilling -don’t think my family even had a tv in 1961. Then I followed the Gemini program intently. Apollo 8 was so huge -that Christmas Eve. On Apollo 11, I was 15 & on the road driving for the first time in Driver’s Training class at launch time. It was on the radio, and I remember exactly where I was on the road when it launched. The first landing was so intense, I was glued to the tv, and didn’t understand why everyone else wasn’t. That was the big moment. The moon walk later that night was just icing to me. Cool, but I knew the landing was the real challenge. By Apollo 13 I was somewhat less involved. At college, with no tv super nearby. But I kept watching -and the rover was also super-cool, Each landing progressed and did more exploration further from the lander. How lucky we were to be able to witness the whole amazing adventure!! Watch the “Moon Machines” series - fantastic series, especially for engineers like me to learn about the engineering challenges, and how they busted butt to solve them by 1969! Great reaction to a great film, one of my favorites, for sure!
the reason why you are seeing all of these actors in some of the same movies and also in a lot of other movies. Is because the 70s , 80s and 90s hands down produces some of the best actors of all time!!! IMO
This is true! A lot of 90s movies in particular have been all really great so far!
Agreed!
I know a woman who was a young IBM mathematician consulting for NASA at this time for the orbital calculations. When Flight said "wake up your people", she was one of the ones he he was talking about. She says it was by far the most intense three days of her life.
No doubt ... *no doubt!*
31:45 The Captain of the ship is actually the REAL Jim Lovell. He's still going strong at 93 !
His wife was also in the film for the launch of Apollo 13
I hope the ones who put humans on or orbit around the moon and was there to see it 1st hand get to see SpaceX Mars landing, it would make there lives come full circle and witness new history in the making... Humans new chapters beyond Earth is just beginning....
@@kylereese4822 well, gene kranz is still around, and as far as i know, so is john aaron, sy libergot, along with jerry bostick, glynn lunney, and many others.
@@sr71ablackbird Glynn Lunney passed away a few months ago.
@@E_y_a_l ty. sad to hear. i didn't know.
you know, between "Cast Away," this and "Sully"... maybe Tom Hanks should just stay out of airplanes.
dont forget "Captain Phillips" as well. best just to not travel at all with Tom Hanks
@@Mad.Spartan He can run for three years on end, though.
The humidity at the launch site condenses on the cold outer surface of the rocket and freezes creating a shell of ice. At launch, the vibration and acceleration cause the ice to shed and fall (hopefully away) from the launch vehicle.
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 you are right about liquid hydrogen being so cold and the you're right about ice is caused by the cold liquid fuel but in the case of the Saturn V it would just be the oxygen as the Saturn V didn't actually use liquid hydrogen as fuel it used kerosene (jet fuel) probably as it didn't need to be kept so cold.
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 ok I'll give you that, I stand corrected
@@matthewdavidjarvis6039 You are way too smart for UA-cam, matthew!
Only thing I remember about the cold was some o-ring failure for the Challenger.
Ken Mattingly really did go into space on Apollo 16 and did basically what he would do on 13. He continued to orbit the moon while the other two astronauts landed and he docked with the lunar module when they came back. You did alright TheOGBojangles.
He also flew on the Space Shuttle.
I've probably seen this a dozen times but it still gives me chills. And I've used the air filter scene as motivation when I was a manager to get my team thinking outside of the box.
For the full story, I'd recommend the book this movie is based on. It's called "Lost Moon", and it was co-written by Jim Lovell. I read it long before the movie came out and was enthralled.
That guy can't be fired, he's Ron Howard's brother
I was going to make the same point. I'm old and I remember Clint Howard way back to "The Andy Griffith Show". He was in a couple of episodes as the "Cowboy Kid". I also remember Ron and Clint's father Rance Howard from many 50's-60's Westerns.
@@laudanum669 At age 7 he was in the first season Star Trek episode "The Corbomite Maneuver" (1966).
@@GrouchyMarx cool I never knew that I'll look for that now in the early episodes.
His real life counterpart's name is Sy Liebergot, and what the movie doesn't have time to explain is that firstly, he was facing a scenario which simply should not have happened (a dual failure in two separate systems) because of the way the systems were designed to be redundant. Secondly, neither the flight crew nor anyone in Mission Control were aware of where the explosion happened, and Liebergot literally tried every scenario he'd been trained to handle - and then some - to solve the problem. Closing the "react valves" made no difference because the force of the explosion had already closed them.
As it turned out, the explosion damaged a pipework manifold which was common across the oxygen system, causing the leak - and after the initial emergency was contained and the crew were in the LEM, Liebergot was one of the engineers who figured that out. Liebergot was not the only one who initially thought it had to be an instrumentation problem, and they all thought that because that was exactly what had happened when Apollo 12 was struck by lightning just after leaving the launch pad - all the systems were knocked offline and the EECOM display was showing garbage information. EECOM John Aaron recognised the problem from a simulation he'd seen earlier, had the crew flip a switch which fixed the telemetry data, and they were able to work from there to restart all the systems on the spacecraft. It's not surprising that the guys on the ground were hoping against hope that this was the same thing at first. I read recently that someone (possibly Liebergot himself) called John Aaron up and read him the data he was seeing, only for Aaron to reply "That's not instrumentation - that's a real problem".
@@ShuffleUpandDeal32 He was in a Deep Space Nine, two part episode called "Past Tense".
Jack Swigert (Bacon) and Ken Mattingly (Sinise) were both very well trained pilots and both capable and trained to fly this mission. NASA would've never let someone take the pilots seat in an Apollo capsule who would be nervous to do the job.
Swigert was also THE expert in emergency procedures during the Apollo flights and even developed some of them before Apollo 13 happened.
I think what the movie doesn't make as clear as it could was that Deke Slayton arranged the flight roster such that every Apollo mission had a primary and backup crew who received identical training up until almost the last minute. The original roster had backup crew as the primary crew three missions later, meaning that they would be training for both at the same time. Explaining why Lovell's crew were bumped up from Apollo 14 to 13 is a long (and in many ways inspiring) story in itself, but too long to go into. I think it's mentioned at the end of the movie, but what this roster system meant was that Ken Mattingly did eventually go to the Moon, replacing Jack Swigert as the Command Module Pilot on Apollo 16.
This has been and likely forever will be my favorite film of all time. The performance, the story being both well constructed and true to real history, the incredible soundtrack, the amazing production design, I love everything about it.
The most heartbreaking line in the movie
"Jim, you have to see this"
Jim:"I've seen it"
The movie is so well-made that even though I knew from history that they would make it, I was STILL on the edge of my seat when they ,made the final descent, for fear that history would suddenly change and they would die after all.
Same here. Same here. Even after more than two dozen viewing... same here, kerk (who also watched some of the events on news reports)
-Some critics thought the scene of Marilyn losing her ring in the shower was cheesy, but it really happened. (The movie doesn't show that she was able to recover it). The bit of Swigert forgetting to file has taxes also really happened.
-Lots of astronauts drove corvettes. Car dealers would happily sell them to the astronauts at dealer prices, because they knew they'd have no trouble selling a car formerly owned by an astronaut when they eventually traded it in for a new car.
-The technical consultant on the film was Dave Scott, who commanded Apollo 15 and was the first person to drive a car on the moon.
-The Apollo 1 fire was the result of running tests with the spacecraft sealed and filled with 100% oxygen at high pressure (which is basically like covering everything in gasoline). The fire increased the pressure even further and made it impossible for the astronauts to open the inward-swinging hatch before they asphyxiated. But it did lead to many improvements that made the later spacecraft much safer.
-The bit about "Al Shepard's ear infection" causing Lovell to be bumped to Apollo 13 is a bit inaccurate. Alan Shepard (the first American in space) was grounded for several years because of an inner-ear condition called Meniere's disease (not an infection). He'd had surgery to correct it and was back in the flight rotation and was up for Apollo 13, but NASA management felt he needed more time to get up to speed, so Lovell was asked to take Apollo 13 instead, while Shepard was given command of Apollo 14, where he eventually landed at Fra Mauro (the intended landing site of Apollo 13) and even hit a golf ball on the lunar surface.
-If this film interested you in space, you should definitely check out the miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon", which Tom Hanks and several other people from this film worked on.
Some interesting facts there. Thanks for that. Also should be noted that none of the astronauts did actually gave fault or aggression to each other. They were actually completely calm the whole time as original records show. Everybody involved in the accident was at his best and Jean Krantz never lost his temper with his colleagues. But it´s an amazing movie nonetheless, with great actors and a historical event well told.
I wonder how Elon`s Tesla Roadster is doing ??
Regarding Alan Shepard - I guess while calling his medical condition an "ear infection" is significantly inaccurate, it is certainly true that after undergoing experimental surgery (which turned out to be successful) and regaining his flight status, he leveraged his position as Deke Slayton's deputy to hand-pick a crew and insert them into the roster with Slayton's blessing (actions which would usually have been way out of character for both men). As far as I know, that was the only time during the Apollo project post-Apollo 1 where NASA's management were willing to bend those rules.
Al Shepard - the first American in space (whose achievement ended up being somewhat overshadowed by John Glenn's being the first American to orbit the Earth) - was the only member of the original "Mercury Seven" group of astronauts to walk on the Moon. He said later that he pushed as hard as he did to make that happen on behalf of all of them.
It wasn't car dealers who came up with the idea. It was the car company itself. General Motors sponsored the Corvettes which were given, loaned, or leased to the astronauts. I can't remember how or with what terms, but GM found some legal and otherwise acceptable way to do it. Of course, it was great marketing for GM.
@@williamshelton4318 lol I'm guessing you were a teen at the time?
533 have been in space. But only 12 have walked on the moon. So about 1 person out of every 600 million people. That’s staggeringly small odds.
Jim’s Mother: “Are you boys in the Space program?”
Umm…..
Played by Rons mother
What you said @ 2:43. You can't imagine. Since you like space themes (sci-fi and reality), you should obtain the Tom Hanks produced, 12 part series "From The Earth To the Moon" (1998). Tom narrates all but the last episode, and stars in that one. It's mostly about the Apollo program but it tosses back to the Mercury and Gemini missions too. It includes an Apollo 13 episode that covers the historic event from a totally different setting. I said you can't imagine how it was, however there is a brief scene in the series after the landing of 11 and settling in before Neil steps out, where they flash various brief film clips of people around the world watching it all take place. That scene, and the whole series itself, will give you a sense of what it was like. I was 14 at the time and followed the space program very closely. And don't forget to do "Interstellar" if you want to experience the best sci-fi movie to date. ✌️😎
My mom actually heard Jim Lovell as a motivational speaker once through her work.
Best thing about this movie is the fact Ron Howard directed it, so almost everything was pinpoint accurate.
If I can recommend another Ron Howard movie (that inexplicably no one has reacted to), please watch "Rush", another true story, this time about a Formula 1 racing rivalry in the 70s. Trust me it's incredibly compelling :)
And Frost/Nixon
A lot of Rush is not accurate but it's still a great film and worth a watch.
James Hunt and Niki Lauda were friends before they raced together in F1, and had in fact shared a house and had lived together while racing in F2.
That kind of changes the film quite a lot really.
Aside from the crash scene at the Nurburgring circuit, the movie "Rush" was far less historically accurate than Apollo 13. The rivalry between Lauda and Hunt was heavily exaggerated for sake of drama. Apollo 13 - by far the best Howard movie - is different stuff.
I like the comment from Lt Dan when he shows his new legs to Forrest and states that they are made from the same alloy used on the space craft. Nice tie in to Apollo 13.
As you now know how accurate this movie was made, you'll find the same with "From the Earth to the Moon". In fact, Apollo 13 goes well with FTETTM since its episode doesn't show inside of Apollo 13 at all! It makes a good companion piece. But if you haven't seen "The Right Stuff" (1983) yet, watch it first Sam as it deals with the very beginning of NASA and the Mercury Program, then follow up with FTETTM. The Right Stuff is a good movie I'm sure you'll like too. And as always, wear your NASA shirt when doing these! LOL! 😎👍
For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, I hosted a space marathon at my house. We watched “The Right Stuff”, then “From the Earth to the Moon” through the Apollo 12 episode, then “Apollo 13”, and finally the rest of FtEttM. I absolutely LOVE that series!
"The Right Stuff" also gives some background on the fire Tom Hanks was talking to his sone about at the beginning of this movie.
@@WallyHartshorn That is awesome Wally. I might just do that this coming July 20th. Since there's a lot to watch I'll start on the launch date July 16 and finish up by the splashdown date July 24. I love the series too as it's very well made. My favorite episode is 'Spider' because it deals with engineering the LEM from scratch and it included all that vintage footage of the its development, and Rusty's film. Of course the entire series is incredible. Thanks for the marathon idea man! 😁👍
@@GrouchyMarx I agree that the marathon is a good idea for July 20th.
Friends who've seen the 'Spider' episode like to comment that the two engineers the episode focused upon remind them of me and one of my old military pals.
Personally, I prefer the Apollo 12 episode because it is so reminiscent of roads trips I used to take with my friends.
@@pauld6967 Oh yeah, that was a good one and the funny one too. Alan Bean. And Gordon wouldn't let them back in his clean command module with all that moon dirt on them. Hilarious!
I was a couple of months short of my 6th birthday in April of 1970. I remember parts of this vividly. And the most vivid memory of all is the look ony father's face when I asked him "But they're going to be OK, right ? " There was a long pause before he said "I don't know. I hope so, but I just don't know."
I was 12 years old when the Apollo 13 mission was happening. I knew the events that were to occur
before watching the movie for the first time but I was caught up in the drama and the tension as if it
was all new to me. I've watched it many times since and still get choked up at the end.
15:50 NOP! Seymour Liebergot is a legendary EECOM and did a GREAT work during Apollo 13 disaster. The actor is directors brother!
5:00 that nightmare was based off of a scene and nightmare that Lovell's wife had as she and Jim had seen a movie called "Flight to the Moon" or something, it was fictional space flight disaster movie where one of the characters in the film perished that way. So kind of an homage to a film within this film in a sense
I've watched, knowing the outcome, and still a great movie. I was a very young child when this occurred, had watched the landing, but hadn't realized the backstory at the time.
Ed Harris played John Glenn in 'The Right Stuff'
I love your shirt in this reaction. My father proposed to my mother on the night the astronauts landed on the moon, so I've always felt a strong emotional connection to the space program. Oh, and coincidentally, my first name Selina means "the moon".
Thank you! I have like 5 NASA shirts 🤣
But that’s so cool!! 🥺♥️
A space suit is around 280lbs in gravity. Very hefty
Ron Howard’s whole family was cast in this film.
His mother Gene played Jim Lovel’s mother. His Father Rance played the priest , his brother Clint played one or the controllers “... it’s showing a quadruple failure.”
Ed Harris is also in "The Abyss", which is an amazing movie. If it's not on your list, it should be! Great work, as always!
Be sure to watch the director's cut!
@TheOGBojangles - I can absolutely second people's recommendations to watch the "From The Earth To The Moon" miniseries. If it's OK to say, watching this video it looks like you're getting really into the subject matter, and there are plenty of amazing books to read on Apollo as well. Be warned though, it's one of those subjects that will drag you into a reading and watching rabbit hole for some time. It's totally worth it though!
Bogangles the beauty of Tom Hanks as an actor is that his combination of determination, strength and willingness to be vulnerable makes him perfect to portray so many stories. Someone once said, "We could have cast someone else to play his many roles, but would we have cared so much if it wasn't Tom Hanks."
No matter what role he plays, he makes us care for the character and thus the story. What an amazing talent. Matthew McConahey, Robin Williams, Jim Carey are all similar in that way as well. You should dive down those rabbit holes next.
I have studied almost every milestone trip to space and of course the desasters too. Apollo 13 will always have a special place in my heart because this was a failure that was really meant to kill the astronauts by slowly dying in space. But as long this guys are alive they never lose their cool and just keep looking for new solutions and ideas. After such a unlucky event they just combined a huge amount of luck with never ending genius ideas. It was a miracle that they made it back to earth and because of this event i am verry sure mankind will acomplish a lot of milestones in the future whatever it takes.
Going to the Moon was exciting once upon a time. *Everyone* watched it. One of my favorite stories from my parents and grandparents is when Grandma walked by the living room while one of my (at the time just past toddler) aunts was standing on a chair watching one of the launches. My aunt mimicked the TV saying, "Three! Two! One! Bastard!" Grandma nearly *died.*
As for why they performed that medical mutiny, I think it's mostly from having three guys in a space that would've been cramped for *two* guys that was rapidly filling with bags of *pee.* Welcome to cabin fever!
10:45 The engine 5 cutoff actually happened during the launch. It was caused by a vibration in the engine known as a "pogo oscillation" where a vibrating engine causes the rest of the vehicle to vibrate as well. Left unchecked these vibrations can destroy the vehicle and potentially kill the astronauts. Luckily the engines had an automatic shutdown in case it happens, and the loss of the engine was a minor problem that really would have been Apollo 13's only glitch if the oxygen cylinder hadn't exploded.
The problem previously happened in the (unmanned) Apollo 6 mission. After 13, a modification was introduced to made the engines less prone to the pogo oscillations.
Ooh, check out The Burbs! Another great Tom Hanks movie. And The Money Pit.
The chunks falling from the rocket as it lifted off was frozen condensation from the freezing of the cold liquid gasses (kerosene and liquid hydrogen) used to propel the rocket. Being a rocket only that wasn't a problem for it to just fall off. But when the space shuttle Columbia (used cold liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen) took off, some of that ice fell and hit and damaged the wing. That's why Columbia disintegrated as it reentered Earth's atmosphere. The zero gravity scenes were filmed within the cargo bay of an aircraft preset to look like the inside of the Capsule and Lem. Weightlessness is achieved by flying G-FORCE ONE through a parabolic flight maneuver. Specially trained pilots fly these maneuvers between approximately 24,000 and 34,000 feet altitude. Each parabola takes 10 miles of airspace to perform and lasts approximately one minute from start to finish.
That of the Columbia wasn't ice, but a chunk of the foam insulation of the main external tank.
@@andreabindolini7452 yes in that accident. I was answering the question of what was all the chunks falling off during lift off in the footage. The question that was asked was about the many chunks, not the specific chunk that caused the Columbia accident. But you are right that's exactly what caused the accident with Columbia.
I saw an interview with Gene Krantz, he never said "Failure is not an option" however he wishes he had because it was a powerful line.
Damn!
@@OGBReacts - In fact, the real-life Gene Kranz liked the line so much, I believe he used it as the title of his autobiography!
[Which is absolutely worth a read, by the way...]
He did say however "when bad things happen, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them." In an interview with the writers of the film and they changed it to the now famous line.
Alot of artistic license was taken with the movie. While the movie shows everybody on edge, actual recordings make it look like everybody was taking Valium
I've just read "Apollo" by Catherine Bly and Charles Murray, and apparently the reason the recordings sound that way is because the headsets used in Mission Control had directional microphones which were designed to filter out as much background noise as possible - thus you only hear the person on the headset and very little of what was going on in the background. From the moment "Thirteen" became an emergency, multiple "Flight" shift members were showing up, to the extent that the building had never been so full of people trying to solve multiple problems at once (and never was again). The movie is actually accurate in this regard.
@@joehoy9242 I was actually referring to video recording made at the time. Nobody in a panic, nobody scrabling fron thri chair. Just everyong at their stations doing what thet had to do. While i don't know the nae of the person in Mission Control that said it, it was someone who was there that day. He said they had to keep a sense of "we deal with stuff like this everyday, this is nothing" because they had to keep te astronauts calm
There is an Australian movie starring Sam Neil called The Dish which is all about the Apollo 11 mission and the role the Parkes radio telescope played in the video footage of that event. It's really good, I highly recommend it!
This whole story is an incredible testament to the brilliance of those working at NASA and all the others involved with the American space program. They call people like this steely eyed missile men and damn is that apt. Whole buildings full of the most brilliant minds in the country all coming together to bring these three astronauts home in a damaged vessel over 200,000 miles away and they fucking did it.
One of my favorite movies! Enjoyed the reaction😁! For anyone wondering, the “chunks” falling off the Saturn V rocket during the launch is frozen condensation. It forms on the exterior because it’s really humid in Florida and the rocket tanks contain extremely cold liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
I remember when Apollo 13 had this happen to them; I was just in High School.
Good news! Not only did Ken Mattingly get to go to the moon with the Apollo 16 mission, but his two crewmates were the rest of the backup crew of Apollo 13 that Jack Swigert had originally been part of. In effect, when Ken and Jack had to trade places, they just swapped Apollo 13 and 16.
By the way, the real Jim Lovell played the captain shaking Tom Hanks' hand on the ship at the end.
Mattingly lucked out, not only avoiding the accident but being rotated to Apollo 16, a longer, more extensive mission meant he spent more time in Lunar orbit, operating a range of external science instruments. On the way back he was only 3 people ever to do a spacewalk around 180-200,000 miles from Earth, the only one of which is still alive, RIP Al Worden and Ron Evans Apollos 15 and 17.
As well as flying two Shuttle missions.
An generally accurate film although the argument never happened, each mission had multiple recordings and tape recorders, but the filmmakers maybe rightly thought that the audience would never believe that was possible.
Jack Swiggert is buried out here near Wheat Ridge, Colorado. He was elected to Congress during the mid-term 1982 election, but died in December of that year. It’s rather sad, as he would’ve brought an interesting perspective to this state, given the aerospace industry’s presence out here.
As a promotional campaign, General Motors presented each of the NASA astronauts in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs with their own brand new Corvette Stingrays.
Thats where all the sportscars came from.
The corvettes were not given to the astronauts but leased for $1/year because of a local dealership offering the promotion. apparently NASA wasn't to happy about it but they couldn't do anything about it because it wasn't a "gift".
Ed Harris was the producer /director in The Truman Show
OMG YOU'RE RIGHTTTT AHHHH
The actual quote is, "Houston, We've had a problem."
Fun fact: When Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon during Apollo 11, he misspoke his quote. Man and Mankind are the same thing. The quote should have been "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind". What he actually said was, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." One word, and in this case, one letter (the letter "A" changed the meaning of the entire sentence.
Because Tom Hanks is my favorite (living) actor, I would like to recommend the following (80's) movies with him:
- Splash (1984)
- The Money Pit (1986)
- Dragnet (1987)
- Big (1988)
- The 'Burbs (1989)
- Turner & Hooch (1989)
Turner & Hooch ❤❤
I'm surprised nobody ever seems to remember BACHELOR PARTY, Hanks' first starring film role. It's an absolute blast of a raunchy comedy that is sadly under viewed.
Old school Tom Hanks comedies are the best
What about bosom buddies. He was great
This movie was one of my favorites. I wore two video tapes out watching it.
And it still reminds me of two of my favorite quotes, one of which I think of every time I see a jet airliner fly overhead...
"See what free men can do"
And the other, from Kipling... "Because we know we once were gods..."
10:20
the music during the launch sequence just sums up the theme across movies for that time: epic, adventure, drama.
11:44 Lovell said on APOLLO 8 a guy had diarrhea and it floated around. He said he had to use an emergency oxygen helmet to breathe because it smelled so bad.
Favorite bit: Swigert really did miss his taxes. It's on the radio transcript along with them hearing the news about the Beatles breaking up.
At 10:45, the center engine cutoff refers to those big nozzles on the bottom of the rocket, and how they're arranged like those lights on the panel. The number 5 engine in the middle stopped. Lovell (Tom Hanks) is asking Mission Control if this is enough to abort the launch, or keep going.
Fun fact: the time between the Wright brother first flight and the first moon landing is shorter than the time between the first moon landing and now...
The scene with Tom telling Gary he’s not on the flight is so great They’re both great in it
My favorite Ron Howard movie. I had actually just learned about this mission in Middle School when this movie came out, and even though I knew how it ended, the movie still sucked me in. I always thought Tom Hanks in this movie resembled my dad so much as a kid.
I was in Kindergarten when this happened and when the Astronauts came back to earth one of the Teacher got all the Kindergarten classes into his classroom and we watched the Astronauts come back to earth, the teacher brought his TV from Home and we all sat Round the TV Watching, at the Time I didn't really understand what was going on I was just a kid.
I blame this movie for my obsession with the Space Race. I knew virtually nothing about the NASA space program in general when this movie came out, but after watching it, I wanted to know ALL about it.
This movie is an incredibly immersive experience and I'm kind of disappointed I never got to see it in theaters (my dad bought the VHS when it came out - yes, I'm that old).
So the space program trying to get to the moon ran in three phases. The first were the Mercury missions that were just trying to gen men into space and orbit. The second series were the Gemini missions that were designed to test docking, undocking and space walking. The Apollo missions were the ones that were final steps that were designed to land men on the moon.
There were seven manned missions in the Apollo program, but they are numbered 1 then 4-17. Originally Apollo 1 was supposed to be an unmanned mission, but three astronauts died during a routine test of the spacecraft that revealed several design flaws that had to be fixed before manned flights could begin; the flight number was assigned as Apollo 1 in their memory (and it almost brought an end to the space program full stop). There were several more unmanned tests before manned missions began with Apollo 7, but the count resumed at 4 for more complete launches.
Apollo 7-10 were mostly testing the equipment and flying to and from the moon to gather data. Apollo 11-17 were all intended to land on the moon for increasingly longer and more complex missions. Two more missions were planned beyond that but were cut due to Congress withdrawing funding for further missions, so all of twelve men managed to walk on the moon in total (at least so far).
The good news is that interest in space travel has once again started to capture public attention and private companies are now taking steps to go to space. It is very likely that we will see people on the moon (and possibly Mars) in our lifetimes and any grandchildren we might have may have the opportunity to live up there.
Old enough that I held my breath during the moon landing - and collectively gasped with the world when we knew Apollo 13 crew was safe. I equate space exploration to the great navigators of the 1400's to the 1700's, those folk sailed into the unknown, had to rely on their wits and what supplies they had or could find........never knew when they left if they would ever return. Exploration and science is amazing and terrifying at the same time.
One of NASA’s greatest moments.
The stuff falling off when it's launching is Ice as the 1st stage of the rocket uses cryogenic oxygen (which is a liquid at that temp) and refined kerosene as it's fuel, the second and third stages also uses liquid oxygen but uses cryogenic hydrogen. Due to the very cold temps of the fuels water Ice forms on the out side of the rocket which falls off when it launches.
As for the engine that shut down, it was due to an issue known as Pogo (named after the Pogo stick), in effect the engine was bouncing up and down ever so slightly in it's mount (cause by combustion instability, in essence it was not burning quite right), this is actually quite bad as the effect is transferred to the rest of the rocket and if it hits resonance can shake the rocket apart, now the Saturn 5 rocket had a habit of doing this (See Apollo 6), so their was a fair bit of effort to mitigate this issue which largely worked, but never fully solved. In Apollo 13s case it was actually very bad and was lucky it managed to trigger the low thrust sensor which shut down the engine (it was bouncing up and down in it's mount to the tune of 16 times a second with a maximum flex of up to three inches). Reports mention that even a few more seconds could of caused significant damage if not out right destruction of the stage as it ripped the thrust mount apart. It should be noted that another round of Fixes was scheduled for Apollo 14 but due to Time constraints it was not approved for 13. These fixes added a shock absorber of sorts to the system making Pogo less of an issue.
An interesting thing about the O2 tank exploding is the timing of it, due to the issue of the O2 Tanks heater wiring (which caused the failure, due to the manufacture failing to upgrade the wiring for the newer 65 volt system), Now Ground control had noticed something was not right with the tank (a sensor was ironically some what faulty as well) so they stirred the tanks to get better readings of it's levels, normally they did this every 24 hours but here due to this issue they where doing it every 12ish hours, and it failed on the fifth time they did this (some 56 hours into the flight), if it took five times to cause it to fail then under regular operations it would of failed 120 hours into the mission at that time Jim and Fred would of been on the moon getting a frantic call from Jack that something bad was going on in the orbiting craft, Jack likely would of been overwhelmed with info over load and with no "lifeboat", the craft would of likely bled to death, stranding Jim and Fred on the moon with no way home. If it failed earlier in the flight then they would of had a harder time getting back due to the longer time it would of taken to reach the moon and return home using more power in the LEM.
I was an infant in July 1969. My mother made sure to sit me up in front of the TV to watch the moon landing. :-)
This is my FAVOURITE movie!! I don't know why, I'm not super into space or anything but for whatever reason, this is my go-to movie whenever I feel like watching a movie but can't find anything to watch lol- I've probably seen it 30 times, not gonna lie. I love Tom Hanks too, one of my favourite actors. For Kevin Bacon, the movie Stir of Echoes is probably my favourite- a supernatural/thriller from the 90's that totally spooked me! Thanks for the reactions, cheers from Canada :).
Ahh BoGangles, have some faith. They might make it back. But along the way Murphy's Law is in effect. On this wild ride. What can go wrong, will go wrong.
It was such fun watching you twist and turn as the movie unfolded. When the movie first came out we knew that they survived. It was as much of a crazy thrill watch for us as well. Also we just didn't know how close they came to dying. Which is the true beauty of the Apollo 13 movie.
Forrest and Lieutenant Dan together again
when grandma lovell said `if they can get a washing machine to fly'. i think it was a reference to the shape of the ship. because back in the 1970s some washing machines were just round, such as a maytag `wringer-washer' type of which one was in the home and when i was little, i got my hand caught in the wringer when helping my ma do the washing. needless to say, running one's hand through that wringer did NOT feel all that great.
Another good Tom Hanks movie: “The Terminal”
While not Apollo 13, one of my first memories is watching the unfortunate launch of the Challenger in 1986. Space and NASA has just had a profoundly huge impact on my life, both good and bad that it's hard to explain.
I've just finished reading a book which puts forward the idea that following the Apollo 1 fire, NASA's engineers developed a hardened attitude towards bureaucratic and political pressure, which lasted throughout most of the Apollo project.
With the repeated successes of the later Apollo missions, the bureaucracy was starting to push back, and the Challenger disaster was a tragic indirect consequence of that. The Shuttle was a brilliant piece of engineering, but the overall design was a compromise that tried to fit both civilian (NASA) and military (USAF) requirements. One of the stated goals of the STS (Shuttle) project was to make Earth-orbit spaceflight almost routine, which was way too ambitious given the technology of the time. For example, while orbiters were "re-usable" to a large extent, the reality was that each one had to undergo weeks (sometimes months) of inspection, partial strip-down and rebuild between every mission. On top of that, there was a greater disconnect developing between NASA's executive and technical management than had been the case prior to Apollo 1 - lessons written in blood were being forgotten, and when the fateful conference call was made between senior management at NASA and Morton Thiokol, it's likely that many of the latter were concerned that NASA might drop them as a contractor if they didn't back down on the "no-go" recommendation.
Presumably, NASA and Thiokol's executive management assumed that if an SRB failure did occur, it could be jettisoned safely via the emergency procedures covering that possibility - the notion that a failed seal could act like a plasma cutter on the retaining strut and external fuel tank simply didn't occur to them because it was not their area of expertise - I'm sure they didn't realise that they were gambling with seven lives. But they were, and they did, and seven people died in front of the whole world.
10:20 That's water ice. The fuels are super cold so condensation in the air forms sheets of ice on the Saturn V around the tanks. Nothing to worry about there.
I lowkey panicked, I was like-- oh is this where it's already gonna go wrong or- haha
Though years later water ice from this same process is what took out the Space Shuttle Columbia.
@@KevinLyda That wasn't ice. It was foam which broke off.
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 Correct... for Columbia. On the other hand, it was cold temperatures freezing the O-Ring seals on the left solid rocket booster that caused Challenger to break up. The hot gasses from the SRB burned through the skin of the booster, then the external fuel tank, releasing and igniting the liquid hydrogen.
Edit: The right SRB was fine, as it was in direct sunlight long enough before launch to thaw out the o-rings.
@@jodonnell64 - Although Challenger's breakup was not caused by the ignition of the fuel in the external tank. The leaking gases acted like a plasma cutter on the retaining strut holding the lower part of the SRB in place, and when that separated, it induced aerodynamic yaw (effectively a sudden turn), subjecting the orbiter and external tank to aerodynamic forces way in excess of what they were designed to withstand.
The major Achilles' heel of the orbiter was always the Thermal Protection System - Columbia arguably had a narrow escape on STS-1 (the first spaceflight) - NASA and Morton Thiokol fixed the issues with the SRBs post-Challenger, but NASA still almost lost Atlantis on re-entry in 1988 (STS-27). The more I've read about what eventually happened to Columbia, the more I suspect that NASA's management had developed a fatalistic attitude that simply would not have flown in the atmosphere following Apollo 1.
To compare with the real thing, here's film (with air-to-ground audio) of the actual Apollo 13 launch: ua-cam.com/video/whtg0XgEzSk/v-deo.html
And here's where they first reported a problem: ua-cam.com/video/PpTleKyn3gc/v-deo.html
As for Ed Harris, he was a space-movie veteran, having played John Glenn in The Right Stuff a decade before this film.
"Well that's not fucking good"
Understatement of the century right there
Most experts think if that explosion had happened while in the atmosphere, the astronauts would've likely been killed instantly. The fact that they were already out route to the moon in an oxygen-less environment was in fact why the explosion went outwards and didn't totally tear the ship apart.
The normal procedure was to stir the oxygen tanks every 24 hours. Yet on Apollo 13 Mission Control noticed a faulty guage on tank 2, so had them do this extra times. It was actually the fifth oxygen tank stir during the mission which caused the explosion.
22:40 Jim's mother is played by Apollo 13 director Ron Howard's mother.
14:02 I gotta say, if Jim Lovell's classic line hadn't been "Houston, we've had a problem", then "Well that's not fucking good!" would also have been pretty dammed great alternative..
LMAO 🤣
As soon as those parachutes open and the music swells, I cry every single time. Such a great film!
Oh fuck this is one of my favorite movies. My brother and I grew up watching this over and over again alongside Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Mask, Forrest Gump, The Rocketeer, and a slew of other eclectic choices. This one is one of the big reasons I am a big space / NASA / astronomy nerd to this day in my 30s. I am gonna enjoy this reaction. You've been nailing it with your selection so far, but I'm obviously biased.
Heroes every one of them. Not just the guys in 13 but also the guys at Mission Control in Houston who worked their arses off to save those guys and get tham back home. We need to go back to the moon, build a station there, a station in Earth orbit (following the lead taken by the International Space Station) and then push on and out. And by "we" I mean all of Earth, not just the USA (or Russia, China or whatever)
Clint Howard.. Ron Howards brother. Ron Howard, Opie.
Bill Paxton.. RIP
Tom Hanks.. brilliant
Ed Harris.. Gone Girl Gone.. Brilliant
Kevin Bacon.. 6 degrees of separation. (If u know, u know)
Gary Sinise.. Lt. Dan.
All star cast!!
The carrier admiral shown at the end is played by the real Jim Lovell
I was 11 when Apollo 13 flew so I knew exactly what happened to it but when this movie came out I hung on every moment, Ron Howard died such a great job in building drama and suspense. Hope, anxiety, suspense, exhilaration. I've watched this movie maybe 50 times and I feel the same each time. I've watched at least 3 reaction videos and have enjoyed you all reacting too it the same way I did. Great, great film achievement!