Apollo 13 | Canadian First Time Watching | React & Review | Two hours of stress and tension!!

[@Rickhorse1]

This is not meant to insult, but just an observation from an old guy who remembers being glued to the tv news during the actual events. I find it so sad that most of the history of striving to go to the moon is almost unknown to today's young people. Nobody to blame...time moves on...but that is why this movie is so important. It exposes you to the history through film.

[@richelliott9320]

Couldn’t agree more. I was 9 when the moon landing happened

[@minnesotajones261]

@@richelliott9320 I was 1 1/2 when Armstrong and Buzz landed on the moon...

[@dr.burtgummerfan439]

@@richelliott9320 Hey, Old Timer! (I was 6) 😆

[@darthmaul13]

If u haven’t seen it I would recommend watching the Dish with Sam Neil.

[@richelliott9320]

@Krister L I don’t have to imagine lol

[@KlassicKolt5612]

Fun fact: Jim Lovell had a cameo in the movie. He was the Captain who shook Tom Hanks' hand on the carrier deck at the end. Ron Howard gave him the option of playing an Admiral, but Lovell told him: "I retired as a Captain and a Captain I will stay."

[@testfire3000]

That is very cool, I had no idea!

[@facubeitches1144]

Jack Swigert had a cameo, too - he was "Sir Not Appearing In This Film"

[@BedsitBob]

Marilyn Lovell also had a cameo. She was in the stand during the launch, standing next to a woman in pink, both just below Kathleen Quinlan and Tracy Reiner.

[@BedsitBob]

@@facubeitches1144 Jack Swigert died in 1982, long before the making of the movie.

[@facubeitches1144]

@@BedsitBob Guess the joke went over your head, then.

[@coreozurn4950]

When the one guy calls the other "a steely eyed missile man" that was the highest compliment you can receive at NASA.

[@vinnygi]

True story: I was leaving the theater after seeing this. There was a kid (approx. 10 years old) and his father walking behind me. The father asked him if he liked it. The kid said “It was great! I can’t wait for Apollo 14!”

[@andrewouellette4998]

The series "From The Earth to the Moon" is narrated by Tom Hanks and gives a detailed history of the Apollo launches. My favorite is the episode called "The Spider" which is a story about the lander.

[@k1productions87]

That would be my favorite if it weren't for "All There Is" the Apollo 12 episode, which is hands down my favorite

[@nateashe3140]

Yes! This is like 12 more hours of this movie, but covers so much more of the Apollo program. It even has Tom Hanks as George Melies while filming Le Voyage dans la Lune... absolutely brilliant. I so, want to talk about this. Edit: @Wayne Zimmerman corrected me, Tom Hanks plays the assistant to George Melies.

[@unionjackal]

I'd echo a recommend for From The Earth To The Moon- it effectively does for this movie what Band Of Brothers did alongside Saving Private Ryan.

[@k1productions87]

@@nateashe3140 I did like that episode, and it was a very appropriate way to end the miniseries. Honestly the only episodes I did not care much for were “we have cleared the tower” and the fake news room episode “we interrupt this program” not “fake news“ in the way it is used today, but in the fact that NTC is fictional

[@waynezimmerman5308]

@@nateashe3140 Almost, he played an assistant to Melies.

[@resin_Hd]

FYI, the last officer Tom Hanks sees and talks to at the end is the real Jim Lovell. Nice cameo. 👍🏼

[@koristrange9655]

I remember going to see Mr. Lovell speak about 25 years ago. I have a signed copy of his book somewhere.

[@resin_Hd]

Cool! I too saw him at a talk he gave in NYC, and got him to sign his book.

[@koristrange9655]

@@resin_Hd My elementary School GATE class was studying rockets (with model rocket launches) and we went to see him at UC Davis as a field trip. I was probably 9, but I still remember that. Good class and a great teacher. Ran into her 6 months ago and thanked her... That was something else.

[@lesnyk255]

@Kevin Kilkenny Yup. Also, Ron Howard's parents have small roles as well. His mother played Lovell's mom, and his father played the priest watching the re-entry coverage in the Lovell household. And the controller who confronts Krantz and tells him "the Odyssey is dying" is Clint Howard, Ron's brother.

[@trackrick]

They wanted to have Lovell play an Admiral in that scene, but he retired as a Captain, and he insisted on not wearing rank insignia that was any higher than that

[@gswithen]

I worked on this masterpiece for a few days and the man Tom Hanks plays, Jim Lovell was on the set. I wasn't able to appreciate the magnitude of the mission at the time. He's still alive today at 93.

[@ARSVids]

That guy with the glasses at 19:08 is the legendary John Aaron. He was instrumental in the rationing of the available power that was left in the batteries of the lunar module and in figuring out how to reverse the flow of the CM to LM battery charging process so that they gain those few crucial amps for the CM re-entry. He also famously saved the launch of Apollo 12 after the Saturn V rocket was struck by lightning. The entire platform was lost and with everyone expecting John to call for an abort he called out, "Try SCE to AUX." and saved the launch.

[@k1productions87]

"FCE to Auxiliary, what the hell is that?" - Pete Conrad (Apollo 12 CDR)

[@rebeccabailey527]

The real "Steely eyed Missle Man".

[@kris5465]

From the same producers as Apollo 13. kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYSxZYB_qLWSb5I

[@Justin_Leone]

And the command was so obscure that only one member of the crew (Alan Bean) had any idea what it meant.

[@Gruvmpy]

@@Justin_Leone Who just happened to remember the SCE switch from a simulation a year before.

[@keithcarawan4076]

On leaving the premiere Ron Howard overheard someone say "That was BS, no one could solve that many problems and make it back" Ron said "That's when I knew I got it right."

[@stefanlaskowski6660]

I read the book, Lost Moon, that the film was based on. In truth, the movie *downplayed* the problems the astronauts and NASA had during the voyage.

[@jbdragon3295]

@@stefanlaskowski6660 You can only show so much in a movie.

[@jacobrodgers7743]

@@stefanlaskowski6660 Absolutely. I saw this movie when it first came out in Titusville (literally across from the VAB and pads 39A and B). It was an afternoon show and a lot of old folks (Apollo retirees) were in the audience. Not only did they give the movie a standing ovation at the end, but I hear a couple of old-timers as they left: "...pretty good. Of course, they simplified it for the audience..."

[@alanhilton3611]

Now that you've both watched this you have to see a film called "the right stuff" it documents the Mercury and Gemini missions that came before Apollo and the Test pilots who undertook these missions, to answer Simone's question spacecraft have to use aerobreaking to slow their descent into the atmosphere unfortunately the friction from this causes masses of amounts of heat that's why spacecraft use a heat shield.🚀

[@kenlangston3451]

First Man and Hidden Figures are two other great early NASA movies.

[@phj223]

I heartily support this request, The Right Stuff is a fantastic and accessible summary of the early stages of the so called Space Race.

[@grelch]

Seconded. The Right Stuff is great.

[@DonMachado]

I was thinking the same thing. Interesting note: Ed Harris, who played Flight Director Gene Kranz in this movie, played astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff.

[@marshalllindsay315]

To the question, “How did Mattingly feel when he heard? it might have been him”, he probably set that aside and fixed on his new mission without regard to it. Remember Lovell on the spacecraft reluctant to close the fuel cell valves because it would mean failing their primary mission objective? “The Right Stuff”, the book even more than the movie, deals with the kind of commitment the astronauts made to their missions. They were mostly recruited from the ranks of fighter pilots and just don’t think like the rest of us.

[@coasterguy]

I lived in Houston when this movie came out and I saw it opening night at a theatre near NASA. Several people in the audience pointed at "themselves" on the screen in various scenes (mostly mission control room). When the movie was over, there wasn't a dry eye in the house. It's pretty impressive when a film can rock your emotions even when you go into it already knowing the ending.

[@Jonnythefrank]

According to the Flight Director, Gene Krantz, it took 6 minutes for the blackout to end. 1 minute and 27 seconds longer than expected. They also had a 500 line checklist to complete just before re-entry that had been written just hours prior. Truly amazing feat of so many people to come together for a common goal, and look what was accomplished.

[@hettbeans]

"Probably has less processing power than your cell phone" - the Lunar Module had less processing power than the original Gameboy. 😏

[@mytech6779]

The comment was about the command center in houston, not the module.

[@hettbeans]

@@mytech6779 I know.

[@mytech6779]

@@hettbeans Just checking. Don't want to conflate a single task onboard guidance calculator with multiple IBM mainframes.(Or equivalent other brand.) Most of which were between 32 and 40 bit processors. Which weren't fast by modern standards but they could still handle large fairly complex calculations like orbital flight paths in seconds.

[@jeffshirton7234]

Jim's mom at the retirement home was Ron Howard's mom. The priest at the landing was Rance Howard, Ron's father. The short bald controller at Houston was Clint Howard, Ron's brother. The admiral on the aircraft carrier was the real Jim Lovell. And, yes, Velcro was invented for space, it's called a "spin-off". As was battery-operated power tools.

[@Garryck-1]

Indeed.. in fact, velcro was so over-used in Apollo 1 that it contributed significantly to the fire that killed the crew.

[@1960markN]

One more--The wife who said she was happy and thrilled was played by Tracy Reiner, Penny Marshall/Rob Reiner's daughter. She had already worked with Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own. She was Betty Spaghetti, who go the bad news telegram.

[@jodonnell64]

Velcro was conceived of in 1941, and the patent was granted in 1955. It wasn't invented for the space program, but it was perfect for it, and was popularized by it. Incidentally, Velcro (a Swiss company) is the brand name for "hook-and-loop" fasteners, much like most people call adhesive bandages Band-Aids, which is the brand name. Kleenex is another one.

[@wheelmanstan]

Did you know that a dead battery in a power drill basically is what led to the death of the Challenger astronauts? A hatch bolt was stuck and when they got a drill the battery went dead. They got 10 batteries and for some reason they all went dead. And by then the weather turned and it was too later to launch. That was the THIRD and final delay before they just went ahead and launched during that infamous Florida freeze. Crazy how those things happen. In a way it's like the universe was telling them to not launch, but then again it landed the launch on a record cold day. I think it's the coldest day the Cape ever had. Kinda off topic, just something I remembered hearing.

[@k1productions87]

One correction, Jim Lovell was not playing an admiral, but the Captain of the ship. Note the four stripes on his shoulders, rather than any stars. He was offered the role as the Admiral, but Jim himself said that he retired from the Navy as a Captain, and would not play anything else but a Captain. That is also his own actual service uniform that he wore as well, and not Hollywood wardrobe.

[@jomac2046]

"The Right Stuff" the movie adaption of the Novel of the same name by Tom Wolfe is well worth a watch. It depicts the early years of NASA and the space program.

[@Tonyblack261]

Great movie and book!

[@nicksmith2010]

The movie that introduced me to Chuck Yeager. Love it!

[@alecbrinker7268]

Can't forgive that movie for it's terrible misrepresentation of Gus Grissom. Watch the HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon" instead.

[@stevetheduck1425]

The problem with Tom Wolfe's book is that he fell in love with Chuck Yeager, who hated 'college boys' and that those guys were the ones who went into space. He has... embellished his own importance (the first man to exceed the speed of sound and live, also he ran the test pilot establishment for the USAF for a while), and in 'The Right Stuff' he had an effect on US history that exceeds him.

[@lordjimbo2]

I don't know about that. He was a cocky asshole with a chip on his shoulder, but I don't know of anyone who flew with him or against him, including some of the guys he talks shit about, who said he was overrated as a pilot. I think that's the point of the Right Stuff; while he didn't actually have that big of an effect on US history, in that small community of people who lived to fly and do nothing else he was the standard.

[@ChurchOfTheHolyMho]

14:14 "That's no joke. They'll jump on him." It's always fun to see the roles Ron Howard's brother (Clint) gets in films. He has such a distinctive look and usually always has some lighthearted roles - including his bit in Star Trek: TOS as a kid. (I didn't know this until now: he appeared in TOS, DS9, Discovery, and Enterprise. Awesome.)

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I loved "Far & Away"

[@catherinelw9365]

He was a child actor in one of the original Star Trek episodes and in a tv show called Gentle Ben.

[@Estrada72]

Also their dad plays the preacher and their mom plays Jim Lovell's mom.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Max Grodenchik is in the film too!

[@stevetheduck1425]

I remember him as a car geek in a film about what may be a ghost car from the 1980s. Specter? Silverhawk? something like that.

[@inigorodriguez8299]

"With all due respect sir, I believe this is going to be our finest hour" This line always gets to me.

[@erictaylor5462]

I liked the line, "They will not step one foot on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can bring it up with my husband. He'll be home on Friday."

[@waterbeauty85]

That's my sister's favorite line from the movie!

[@radicaladz]

Gene Krantz, as played by Harris, is the king of the steely-eyed missile men. The way they depict his resolve, and his few moments of lighthearted banter, are easily some of my favourites. "Let's work the problem, people - let's not make things worse by guessin'." "Tell me this isn't a government operation. [...] Well, I suggest you gentlemen invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole. Rapidly." And of course, the classic... "I want this mark all the way back to Earth with time to spare. We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch. Failure is not an option! "

[@GGE47]

The line most people remember was " Houston, we have a problem". They really said "Houston, we've had a problem", but that is the way most people remember it as.

[@gregeast5381]

I personally like a line that was after the lines at 20:05 in the movie that was left out of this video unfortunately: the line is “failure is not an option!”

[@fallyoverguy]

If you liked this movie, I'd recommend watching "The Martian". It's about one of the first missions to Mars. While it's a sci-fi movie it's much more on the realistic side compared to most movies, some people call this type of film 'hard sci-fi'. Andy Weir, who wrote the book on which the film is based, is also a big fan of the Apollo 13 movie and NASA in general. It was directed by Ridley Scott and has an all-star cast, including: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor and many more great actors. The book is also excellent!

[@RedKytten]

There was a neat interview with Weir. One of the things that his character invented for shorthand in his book, a unit of measurement he called a 'pirate-ninja' actually caught on with JPL. The actual description was rather cumbersome so when something shorter and quicker came around they started using it.

[@dmanimousprime3858]

The Martian is a great watch. Go for the extended version (it's not that much longer). Also, Contact with Jodie Foster is a great sci-fi movie with a real world feel!

[@bigdream_dreambig]

@@RedKytten Why name a unit of power a pirate-ninja?!? 🏴‍☠️🥷🏴‍☠️

[@RedKytten]

@@bigdream_dreambig It was shorthand that Mark Watney came up with on Mars, after he had been there for a while. Based on that character, it makes perfect sense it was called that. :)

[@fallyoverguy]

@Krister L Yes, I really liked Project Hail Mary too!

[@gr3yh4wk1]

Its amazing that so many people don't know about one of the finest achievements humans have ever done. The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions are cornerstones of history. I know it was the US that did this not Canada, Canada provided the remote manipulation arm that enabled the space shuttle to do all the amazing things it did so ddn't think canada stood idly by. The US should celebrate moon landing day as a national holiday.

[@vinnygi]

Absolutely.

[@vinnygi]

@@essexginge9167 Go away. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

[@SLJShortt]

@@essexginge9167 LOL! You flat-earthers are always so funny.

[@lampad4549]

How do most people don't know this? Everybody knows that people landed on the moon. Its amazing how people cared more about landing on the moon than the struggles going on in africa.

[@user-tf2wd1eh3g]

@@essexginge9167 the dunning Kruger is strong with this one.

[@kennethlee494]

Fun fact, many of the zero-g scenes were actually filmed in zero-g on board the aircraft called the Vomit Comet. It flies in parabolic arcs that gives around 30 seconds of zero-g at a time.

[@princeoftonga]

16:56 That moment they told you about at school when trigonometry and algebra would save your life!!

[@ian_forbes]

The Martian is a fictional film but really approaches its story from a scientific perspective and is an excellent film.

[@douglasmurata4945]

I heard someone describe The Martian as “the scene in Apollo 13 where they build the filter, but for the whole movie.” And I must say: I agree.

[@YannaTarassi]

I completely agree, they need to see The Martian next

[@maingun07]

I agree with all three of you. The only thing I will add is that they need to read the book. Most of the time I would suggest reading the book before seeing the movie as usually the book is better, but not this time. Before or after doesn't matter because they're both excellent. But they had to condense the book down to a two hour movie and they left a lot out. Every single chapter in the book ends in a cliffhanger and you wonder just how the hell he's going to get out of this one. I read it in two nights. I didn't get much sleep. My ex asked what was so good about it that it was keeping me up so I gave it to her. A nicer, calmer woman you'll never meet, and her exact words were, "Holy crap!"

[@locutus9956]

Definitely a recommendation, it may be fictional but its the only movie Ive seen that even comes close to the feel of Apollo 13 (and honestly it may actually be the better film (though for me the fact of Apollo 13 being true just edges it for me)

[@adamfromm]

You absolutely need to see The Martian, full stop.

[@dan2007kohn]

Simone reacting to the family looking worried at the name Apollo 13: what, they’re superstitious?? Simone reacting to Marilyn losing her ring in the shower: ITS A BAD SIGN!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@greymattervandal]

One cool aspect of this film that often fails to get mentioned in reactions are the weightless scenes - they actually were weightless, thanks to being filmed in the "Vomit Comet". The attention to detail throughout the movie was refreshing.

[@newmoon766]

I'm still bitter that this film lost the Oscar for best special effects to a talking pig. I mean, I like a talking gecko as much as the next person, but no film has ever captured the experience of being in space and hanging on by your fingernails like this one.

[@MightyDrakeC]

There were a few actual weightless scenes. Where they take off their suits after lift off. And, where Bill Paxton spins the tape player. And, where they're floating the ballast to the command module. But, all of the scenes where there's dialogue, they faked being weightless. They just moved themselves around, to make it look like they were weightless. You know. Acting 🙂 One interesting tidbit is that when they went up in the jet to shoot the weightless scenes, the jet broke early on. It was weeks later before they could get back on the schedule to try again. Ron Howard said that turned out to be lucky for them. In the short time they had before the jet broke, they learned a lot about how to shoot a 30 second clip in zero G and make it look good. During the interim, they were able to plan their shots based on their experience, and ended up with much better footage than they would have had.

[@zhubajie6940]

As having seen Apollo 10 to 17 launch in person across the Indian River, they were a remarkable achievement. I would recommend "Hidden Figures" and "The Right Stuff" as two historical space movies.

[@ForteEXE-nh1iz]

Thats a good view

[@pigs18]

I second the recommendation on Hidden Figures. It's exactly the type of film that George asks for about a time when computer was a job title rather than a tool.

[@rebeccabailey527]

Hidden figures has a lot of fictionalized parts. The right stuff took a lot of liberties with the real events. In the right stuff, they make it out that gus Grissom was a screw up, and blew the hatch. To blow the hatch, the handle would kick back hard enough to cut the glove of the space suit and injure the astronauts hand. His hand was fine, no cuts, scrapes or anything on the glove. The hatch simply malfunctioned. Or when chuck Yeager took the plane up to the edge of space, he was actually scheduled to do it, he didn't just hop in and take off. Now in apollo 13 there's a couple things, they were totally calm and cool the entire time, also having to stand on the side of the road to talk to loved ones the night before launch didn't start until the 80s. Also the explosion took place 95 seconds after he stirred the tanks.

[@fakecubed]

Nah, skip the fiction and go to a proper documentary. HBO's miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

[@JoePlett]

@@rebeccabailey527 Yeah. The right Stuff was more of a "Tone Poem" inspired by real events than a historical document. But, taken that way, it's a lot of fun - and incidentally (accidentally?) informative.

[@natalyiatimoshenkova1273]

It's a different sort of film from Apollo 13, but "October Sky" is something you'd likely enjoy watching from the early era of spaceflight. In addition, I'd second the recommendation of the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon"

[@flatebo1]

“The Right Stuff” and “First Man” are also good.

[@debeerguy007]

I wholeheartedly agree with Natalyia on "October Sky" and "From the Earth to the Moon", though more so with the latter since it has Tom Hanks as it's executive producer, and Ron Howard (who directed "Apollo 13") served as a producer as well. Both Ron Howard and Tom Hanks' love for the space program is as present in "From the Earth to the Moon" as it is here with "Apollo 13". If "Apollo 13" is considered to be a suped-up Hollywood take on the space program, then "From the Earth to the Moon" by comparison would be the more sober /toned down version of things. And to be clear, there are still some fictionalized elements thrown in with the overall dramatizations in "From the Earth to the Moon", but it's still an entertaining miniseries to sit down and watch, with a very good cast of character actors mixed in with some familiar faces. In fact, I don't think there's anyone on KZbin that has yet done a proper reaction to that series. Some food for thought, yes?

[@mattp6089]

I also highly recommend 'The Dish'. Australian comedy drama **loosely** based on the Parkes, NSW radio telescope's role in Apollo 11. Very funny, well if you understand Australian humour anyway. Also the commentary track that's usually on the Apollo 13 DVD or BluRay with Jim Lovell and his wife is well worth having on for a watch too.

[@locutus9956]

Wholeheardely agree regarding 'FTETTM' brilliant series that is criminally unknown to most folks!

[@markwood6056]

I absolutely love October Sky. Right Stuff First Man are good films, but October Sky just guts me.

[@rhonafenwick5643]

Not only is this an incredible film in itself, but the most mindblowing thing for me is that it's also about as close to a reenactment documentary as any Hollywood film has ever been. Not a great deal of the film has been exaggerated for the screen; the simple fact is that the actual events were so extraordinarily dramatic that even a faithful reenactment is as captivating as the most powerful fictional scripts. One of history's greatest stories of survival in adversity

[@normanroscher7545]

Five fun facts: 1.) The failing overhead projector at mission control and the switch to the chalk board was not scripted. It just happened and Ed Harris' reaction to it was improvised. The director liked it so much that he had the script adapted and included it in the movie. 2.) The granny who plays Jim Lovells's mom in the movie actually is Tom Hanks' mother. 3.) Already mentioned and not to be seen in your edit: In the end, when the crew lands on the aircraft carrier, Tom Hanks shakes hands with the old Captain of the carrier. That is the real Jim Lovell in a cameo. 4.) The famous line "Houston, we have a problem" actually was "Houston, we've had a problem" in reality. 5.) The real Marilyn Lovell swears that the thing with her wedding ring in the shower actually happened.

[@kevinlewallen4778]

Mostly true, but the actress playing Lovell's mother is director Ron Howard's mom.

[@BedsitBob]

"2.) The granny who plays Jim Lovells's mom in the movie actually is Tom Hanks' mother." Actually it was Ron Howard's mother, Jean Speegle Howard.

[@Parallax-3D]

Jim Lovell’s mother is actually played by Ron Howard’s mother, as others have said. The priest sitting with the family is also Ron Howard’s father, and his brother Clint Howard is one of the controllers at Mission Control.

[@OnceFan2013]

"Hidden Figures" and "First Man" are both historically accurate space movies. But by far the most detailed and accurate depiction was in the miniseries, "From The Earth to The Moon.." Ron Howard and Tom Hanks wanted to continue the story they told in "Apollo 13" so they collaborated on the twelve-part miniseries to make the most accurate dramatization of spaceflight ever filmed.

[@scotter23]

I must disagree on hidden figures. The three women weren’t really friends and didn’t know each other in real life. There weren’t any big dramatic destructions of bathroom signs. They didn’t have any of them in the control room when the launch happened. They didn’t call John Glenn on the tarmac. There was a lot of Hollywood in that movie. It’s good that the story was shown but about 60% of it never happened.

[@hettbeans]

First Man is so good, and the Moon landing scene in particular is crazy.

[@woo545]

@@scotter23 Yes, you are right, Hollywood skews history for creative license purposes. Just like in Apollo 13, they depicted Ken Mattingly spending hours in a simulator trying to work out to boot up sequence for the Command Module. He didn't actually do that. However, they had other astronauts go through already written procedures to verify the process. The fact that some of the things in Hidden Figures were skewed to keep it riveting for people in the seats in a theater, shouldn't detract from what the movie actually did, which was bringing these ladies' contributions to the forefront.

[@kathyastrom1315]

From the Earth to the Moon is on my top three HBO miniseries list, alongside Chernobyl and Band of Brothers. Best eps are the Gemini ep, and Apollos 9, 12, and 15.

[@donsample1002]

Another one is _The Right Stuff_ (which also has Ed Harris, this time playing John Glenn) about project Mercury

[@Daveyboy100880]

I saw the movie in the cinema,and even though I knew they got back safely, I was on the edge of my seat all the way through and ecstatic when they made it back! An incredible great of movie-making, and they were as scientifically accurate as possible. Sure, some liberties were taken for dramatic purposes and to simplify certain things (Jack Swigert, for example, was indeed a bit of a playboy, but he was no slouch professionally - he had actually written the book in command module alert procedures and was really the ideal guy to have up there!), but by and large it's hard to imagine how it could've been done any better. As for follow-up movies, I can only agree with the recommendations already made - The Martian, Hidden Figures, First Man... and the wonderful HBO miniseries From The Earth To The Moon. You'll love that one especially, and it's a perfect companion piece to Apollo 13.

[@tonygriffin_]

There were 6 million parts on the Apollo 13 spacecraft as triple redundancy was built in to every stage. One of the NASA engineers pointed out that this meant, that as long as 99.9% of everything worked, there were only 600 things that could go wrong!

[@tj_2701]

Fun fact about Velcro, the military has Velcro that doesn't make noise.

[@JeffKelly03]

Lovell’s mom saying “If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it” gets me every time. She hasn’t been entirely lucid the entire movie but at that moment the pride and conviction in her son’s capabilities just make me well up.

[@kathyastrom1315]

She’s played so well by Ron Howard’s mom, Jean Speegle Howard!

[@donsample1002]

Paul Hewes He's the guy who tells them to shut down the fuel cells when everything is going wrong. Ron's dad, Rance Howard, plays the priest in the Lovell house where everyone is watching the reentry.

[@TetsuoVI]

"The Right Stuff" is a great historical space movie, however there were some factual liberties taken for the sake of story telling, still a great movie. "The Martian" is another wonderful, more science based space movie, even though it's in the future. "2001: A Space Odyssey" is an absolute masterpiece, science based science fiction and very art-house; this movie was way ahead of it's time and set one of the highest bars for future sci-fi to measure up to; few have even come close. (the sequel, "2010" is not a bad movie, high drama, but very different from "2001") Lastly, I can't recommend highly enough the series "The Expanse"! Quite possibly one of the best written, science and physics based, sci-fi shows yet written.

[@kebernet]

The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, and Hidden Figures are a trilogy, and I will die on that hill.

[@the.seagull.35]

2001 is one of my personal favorite films of all time. I think it's more of an introspective film that wouldn't be very good for this format. I highly recommend watching it on the biggest screen, with the best sound system and just enjoy where it goes.

[@jonathanroberts8981]

The Right Stuff is great - major fault is its treatment of Gus Grissom.

[@kebernet]

@@jonathanroberts8981 And that it ends with Gordo's launch, when the story of his flight is one of the greatest in NASA history.

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

That closing line in The Right Stuff has brought me to tears every time I watched it since the first time in the mid 80s, when I was in high school. :)

[@kjmorley]

Wow, that must’ve been so stressful for you guys. When the movie was released in ‘95, most of us still remembered they’d made it back safely. 🤓

[@T-51_]

I honestly think Tom Hanks has never done a bad movie, man has too much respect for the craft, to ever sell himself out

[@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames]

"What does work over at NASA?" The people. The people work miracles. "That guy, the guy with the glasses they keep cutting to" is John Loren, one of NASA's "steely eyed missile men" (and yes, that's a formal title). He was a true blue genius. The naval officer who shakes Tom Hanks hand at the end is played by the real Jim Lovell. They were going to have him cameo as the admiral, but he said, "No. I retired from the Navy as a Captain, and I'll play a Captain here." So they kept him a Captain.

[@michaelccozens]

The Nazis were a touch of a black mark at NASA, but that is what it is.

[@suflanker45]

Actually the guy with the glasses is John Aaron played by actor Loran Dean. Yes the man was a Chad's Chad. Because he did some research on a possible emergency that could happen he kept Apollo 12 track during launch by telling the crew to flip a certain switch to regain the rocket's data and guidance. He was also the point man on the ground for figuring out how to save Skylab in orbit when it was damaged during launch.

[@TraceVandal]

@@michaelccozens wait, do you mean actual Nazis? Or do you mean it in the way blue haired land whales say it?

[@pete_lind]

@@TraceVandal He means the father of V rockets , those killed lot of people in London and still US gave safe haven to , Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun , hes the father of US space program ... Wernher Von Braun was member of Nazi party from 1937 , so we are talking about real nazi .

[@kinagrill]

And the fact it's a minor production error to a valve or a frayed wire is what caused the issue. Everything else worked as it should (one engine failing during launch is the reason there are an extra one there), etc.

[@jaybird455]

This movie is so important to our history because of its accuracy. One of the few Hollywood flicks that stayed true to just about all the scenarios and didn’t change or alter the narrative for drama purposes.

[@tamberlame27]

But they did make the interactions between the astronauts dramatic. Nobody lost their cool on each other in the actual mission.

[@jaybird455]

@@tamberlame27 well yeah. I mean they did create drama for the characters, even the family. But the events that took place along the way and back are stone cold accurate.

[@minnesotajones261]

@@jaybird455 And almost all their dialog is right out of the mission transcripts.

[@user-kj2fj8qr9l]

@@tamberlame27 iirc it was also a single person who "fit the square peg in a round hole", and not a group, but I could be mistaken.

[@inarar5334]

Just about all the Mattingly stuff between being taken off the crew and the accident was completely changed for dramatic purposes. He wasn't so upset that he just sat in a motel. Iirc he was in mission control when it happened.

[@marjoriekloster8949]

I remember when this happened and how the whole world held its breath until they landed. Incredible!

[@TheDetailsMatter]

You asked about Velcro. Yes, it was developed for the space program, to allow the astronauts to cling to surfaces for a semblance of gravity. It was considered a better idea than magnetic boots, which could negatively interact with certain electronic devices. It was also the cause of the Apollo 1 fire. Turns out Velcro becomes dangerously unstable in a high-pressure oxygen environment. The O2 test pressure in the Apollo 1 capsule was set to 15 times what it ultimately needed to be.

[@BigMikeDTW]

If you guys want to see fantastic gem of a movie, there's an Aussie film called 'The Dish' starring Sam Neill (who played Dr. Grant in Jurassic Park). It's about how the world almost didn't see the moon landing because of issues related to a dish down under that was needed to relay the TV transmission due to the rotation of the earth and the position of the moon during the broadcast. Why this film gets literally zero attention blows my mind given it's historical importance. It's also quite funny because it features some culture clashes between uber laid back Aussies and tightwad Americans.

[@IvorClegg]

And it contains what is probably the greatest rendition of the National Anthem of the United States of America ever committed to celluloid!

[@bcsr4ever]

Ah yes. The Dish is a classic.

[@academyofshem]

The scene where that rock band plays the USA "National Anthem" is hysterical.

[@marklittrell3202]

Surprised somebody else loves Dish! An underrated gem!

[@nifmus]

I came here to say the same. A nice companion movie to Apollo 13.

[@thefrockdoctrine]

The man who shakes Tom Hanks' hand at the end, is the real Jim Lovell.

[@pivson1634]

You were faster :-)

[@thefrockdoctrine]

@@pivson1634 Sorry Martin! Its possibly my favourite factoid about the movie. 😊

[@Scottie_S]

I'm late here, but I love listening to Jim and Marilyn's commentary while watching the movie. Yes, Marilyn lost her ring down the drain, but she got it back because of people that cared. There was no bickering between the guys over Jack stirring the tanks. The course correction for re-entry was not as bad as it is shown in the movie. ...and according to Jim....Yes, Gene could lose his cool on people that didn't take note of what he was saying. 😆😆😆

[@garyi.1360]

I assume somewhere in the comments someone said that it was the 'a' that cut out in the line by Armstrong. It was 'One small step for A man, and one giant leap for mankind.'

[@firemedic5100]

I am one of the old farts that can remember every Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and the first couple of the Shuttle flights. Flight Director Gene Kranz was the space guru. You never saw him lose composure during the flights regardless of what was going on. He was an unsung hero of the Apollo program.

[@s.oliver3687]

"The Right Stuff" is a movie based on real events leading to the space flights.

[@TTM9691]

A much better movie, although I don't hate "Apollo 13", but "The Right Stuff" is really great movie. Ideally, I'd watch The Right Stuff first, learn about the Mercury astronauts, then do Apollo 13. Anyways, I do hope they do "The Right Stuff" (or someone!) (They'd do a great job with it!)

[@JeffKelly03]

The Right Stuff is absolutely phenomenal. It’s very, very long but it’s pretty close to being a masterpiece.

[@toddsmitts]

@@TTM9691 I disagree. The book is pretty good, but "The Right Stuff" was terrible in its treatment of Gus Grissom, making it look like a panicky screw up on almost botched his mission, which wasn't true at all. If it were, he would never have been selected to command the first manned Gemini and Apollo missions.

[@kathyastrom1315]

The Right Stuff is also where I first saw Ed Harris (Gene Krantz here), as John Glenn. It’s a really terrific film, with the first breakout roles for lots of other actors, from Jeff Goldblum to Dennis Quaid.

[@JeffKelly03]

@@kathyastrom1315 I’ve read the oral history of the making of the film many times. It’s so good, and well worth the read.

[@johnwriter8234]

"Forrest and Lieutenant DAN!" ...( Together again!!)

[@claymccoy]

He really did become an astronaut...

[@fakecubed]

The Apollo 13 lunar lander actually burned up in Earth's atmosphere. It's not still floating out there. When it was jettisoned it was traveling with the command module towards Earth. Apollo 13's lander had a radioisotope thermoelectric generator that was built extremely durable in order to survive a rocket explosion on take-off, since it contains radioactive plutonium which they didn't want to get scattered over the Earth. This RTG from Apollo 13's lander did survive reentry of the atmosphere, and crashed into the ocean. It's down at the bottom of the Tonga Trench near Fiji. The rest of the lander was destroyed.

[@turntsnaco824]

Living in Florida I've seen a few shuttle launches from different locations - Orlando, even the Gulf coast, it's very far away but you can still see it. But the best was when we drove to Cape Canaveral in the middle of the night and watched it from right across the water. I'll never forget...t was 5 in the morning, and completely dark outside. I knew what we were there for, but I didn't really understand why it was something people would go so far out of their way to see. When it finally launched, it all made sense. As soon as the rockets ignited, the entire sky lit up bright orange, like the most vibrant sunset you'd ever seen, and only faded back to darkness as the shuttle left the atmosphere. It was unbelievably awe-inspiring.

[@toddsmitts]

I really didn't like how "The Right Stuff" treated Gus Grissom, making it look like he botched his mission (which is totally not true). A far better account of the 1960's space program is "From the Earth to the Moon". It's a miniseries structured similar to "Band of Brothers". It's really entertaining and you learn a lot about the other missions. The scene of Marilyn losing the ring in the shower really happened. The movie doesn't show it, but she was able to recover it. The bit about Swigert forgetting to file his taxes was true as well. The older navy captain that Tom Hanks shakes hands with at the end is the real Jim Lovell (who really was a navy captain).

[@jimgore1278]

Grissom was my favourite astronaut.

[@alanholck7995]

The hatch just blew.

[@k1productions87]

Yeah, it was a horrible hatchet job to Gus, who was actually one of the best engineers in the astronaut corps. Nearly every astronaut in the program had figured that he would be the one to make that first landing,... and by all rights he should have. The other problem with The Right Stuff is, they pretty much completely ignored Deke Slayton, Scott Carpenter, and especially Wally Schirra who I think only had three audible lines in the whole film.

[@montylc2001]

@@k1productions87 Ya...while an entertaining movie, historically accurate it was not.

[@toddsmitts]

@@k1productions87 It's worse when you realize that Gus was the only Mercury astronaut who wasn't alive at the time to defend himself. None of the other astronauts had kind words to say about the film in their respective books. Deke Slayton called it "as bad as the book was good". John Glenn called it "Laurel and Hardy in space" and even suggested it may have had a detrimental effect on his presidential campaign at the time (although, I think that might be going a bit too far). Carpenter was sort of indifferent about it, but admitted that was largely because the movie didn't have much to say about him. Probably the only positive thing I could say about the film is that Ed Harris looked a lot like Glenn and the scene with him and his wife Annie (played by Mary Jo Deschanel, mother of Emily and Zooey) were nice.

[@repeter]

Hidden Figures is an amazing on the math and science side, as well as desegregation. Highly recommend it.

[@smokesignals503]

This is a great film highly recommend

[@Travelinmatt1976]

Yes, that's a great movie, awesome!

[@georgspence4999]

Very good movie. I was a kid at that time and followed the space race closely. I actually sat there with my parents and watched Armstrong walk on the moon live on our RCA television .

[@peterdemkiw3280]

The Dish is an underrated film about Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon. Absolutely true story, highly recommend.

[@jasonremy1627]

Yes, this one!

[@meadmaker4525]

If you're looking for more movies like this, about the science behind it all, Hidden Figures should be somewhere at the top of your list. Fantastic movie!! Cannot recommend it enough.

[@BandOfHarjaps]

Great film, covers a lot of ground.

[@txheadshots]

Hidden Figures is a fantastic movie

[@flaqo_]

+1

[@folkblues4u]

Yes, velcro was developed for the space program to secure items in zero-gravity and also to help the LM pilot and commander keep their feet stuck to the floor in landing configuration. Also: power-tools, hard-disk storage, fireproof materials, coolants, lubricants, scratch resistant lens, digital photography, digital communication s, MRI scanners ... are just a handful of things accelerated into existence by Apollo.

[@richieclean]

The zero G scenes were filmed on the "Vomit Comet"; the actual plane that is used to train astronauts in zero G. It does a really steep climb then an equally steep descent, creating approximately 30 seconds of zero G at the top of it's arc, so they had to build a set inside the aircraft and the shots couldn't last more than 20-30s long. Feels like that comment was more long-winded than it needed to be, but you get the idea...

[@k1productions87]

oh not at all. Heh, I once wrote a 10+ paragraph TLDR comment on one of these reaction videos about not only that, but many aspects of NASA, Apollo, and Mission Control. Oftentimes it is appreciated. I know Jim Lovell himself said the crew of this film spent more time in the Vomit Comet than he himself had done, or would ever care to do. LOL

[@richieclean]

@@jeffburnham6611 I think one could easily deduce that from the name alone...

[@k1productions87]

@@jeffburnham6611 Equilibrium is the problem. It might be easier to handle if there were windows where you could look outside and retain your orientation. But when sealed in a cabin with no view, you lose that reference point. Your brain reacts as if its having some kind of allergic reaction, and since the most common cause of such things is food, most people's brains default to "EJECT, EJECT, EJECT!" This is why 1 out of every 3 astronauts suffer what is referred to as Space Adaptation Syndrome, or more commonly called "Space Sickness" during the first day in orbit. Also why most Soyuz spacecraft that visit ISS take a longer 2-day rendezvous, to ensure everyone on board is fully recovered before the all important docking procedure.

[@zooks527]

"Who invented that, my God!" It's how the Apollo program was divvied up. No one company was big enough to do everything. The command module was developed by North American Aviation. The lunar module came from Grumman. There was much coordination on the interface systems (naturally), however, within each discrete unit, there could be significant differences. Interestingly, both of those companies built notable planes during the Second World War. North American was responsible for the P51 Mustang (and others) for the air force, Grumman for the F6F Hellcat (and others) for the navy. Two other things to note. The woman behind Marilyn Lovell when they are watching the launch is played by the real Marilyn Lovell. The captain of the aircraft carrier is played by Jim Lovell.

[@k1productions87]

The decision for the round canisters on the LEM was because those were the same canisters used in the PLSS (personal life support system) backpacks they would wear with their spacesuits on the Lunar surface, so both the astronauts and the LEM itself would have backups if necessary. The square cartridges in the Command Module were designed years before the spacesuits in question were, and by different contractors, so there was no cross-communication in it.

[@neilprice8004]

Ron Howard's brother Clint Howard is one of the flight controllers.

[@Parallax-3D]

And his father is the priest that sits with the family during the reentry.

[@miriam8376]

I watched this movie when it came out in theaters and despite every single seat being full, it was the quietest theater I’ve ever been in. People were barely breathing.

[@somthingbrutal]

there is a great HBO drama series about the whole Apollo program, called From The Earth To The Moon, think band of brothers in space

[@IggyStardust1967]

I suggest "Apollo 11", which is made from actual archived footage of the first moon landing. It's very well done, and while Apollo 13 is a good movie, it contains no real footage from the incident. And yes, as someone pointed out, this *IS* a very important moment in history.

[@minnesotajones261]

Apollo 11 is a great film. And I love the behind the scenes of Apollo 13 - Buzz even saw their take off footage before the film was released and thought it was real for a bit.

[@jimgore1278]

I saw that in an IMAX theatre. I smiled from the minute the movie started to the end. Couldn't help myself. Took me back to my teens.

[@thormelsted]

I saw Apollo 11 at the California Science Center IMAX, on the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, July 20th 2019. It was quite an experience.

[@williamlarson8589]

Like others here, I recommend "The Right Stuff" as a portrayal of the early days of American Space travel. But my absolute favorite is the NASA documentary "For All Mankind", one of the most awe-inspiring visions of our journey into space! Thank you for this remarkable reaction, you guys are wonderful!

[@WaywardVet]

I dunno if someone already said it, but yes. Neil himself said his words "One small step for a man", not one small step for man. The A dropped out either due to radio transmission or maybe just because of the way he was speaking. But he meant it's just one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

[@MrDoctorMonty]

First Man is a remarkable true story film starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong all about his journey towards and including the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. It's a really amazingly beautiful film.

[@streaky81]

Can't lie, I actually prefer First Man to this, and not because it's newer. Very well put together movie.

[@ColombianThunder]

@@streaky81 it's great. A lot more melancholic than i expected. Sentimental in a non-cheesy way.

[@arandomnamegoeshere]

Side note: Shuttle missions became non-news events too. Until Challenger. And then after that, Columbia. Nature of human attention. People do amazing, dangerous stuff all the time and it's not news once it becomes routine.

[@k1productions87]

Well, because the Shuttle was not an exploratory vehicle, it was a glorified freight truck

[@arandomnamegoeshere]

@@k1productions87 the notion isn't wrong but that's selling what they did with that vehicle a bit short. It isn't just hauling things down a roadway. It's still people doing pretty amazing and dangerous things. It's still traveling in to space and doing science. Granted, the shuttle fleet flew 135 missions. Again - that becomes somewhat routine after awhile. Unless, of course, you're on it. Or someone dies.

[@k1productions87]

@@arandomnamegoeshere calling the shuttle a freight truck isn’t meant to be insulting, but rather more accurately explain what its function was. In this, it was essential for deployment and repair of the Hubble space telescope, as well as construction of the international space station, which I cannot say enough good things about. shuttle was absolutely essential for these functions, but too many people believe that it was capable of doing things that it just was not designed for, much less remotely capable of. ideally, a fully functional space program should maintain both a shuttle fleet and an exploratory fleet

[@arandomnamegoeshere]

@@k1productions87 fair enough. And we should add a number of classified USAF satellite missions in there. I agree that a less budget-strapped (and ear-tagged) space program would have likely flown more than a shuttle.

[@k1productions87]

@@arandomnamegoeshere well, the shuttle ended up getting a bloated budget because the department of defense demanded a much larger craft than NASA had intended, which meant larger engines, more fuel, more complexity, and refurbishment that cost more than building a new vehicle

[@BedsitBob]

The LEM isn't still floating around up there. It burned up on re-entry, and what bits remained ended up in the deep ocean off New Zealand. They were asked to drop it into deep water, because it was carrying an RTG (Radioisotope Thermal Generator), which contained a quantity of Plutonium. The LEM was meant to remain on the moon, where the RTG wouldn't be of concern, but 13's came back to earth, so they wanted it deposited at the bottom of the ocean.

[@billolsen4360]

17:48 I remember as a kid that we all loved to listen to that reporter during NASA flights, Jules Bergman. He was well-schooled in astronomy & physics and explained what was happening in depth.

[@houdin654jeff]

The CO2 adapter that they came up with for this mission was so efficient, it was included in later Apollo mission’s flight plans as a backup just in case.

[@k1productions87]

It was actually already designed a year earlier as a backup, but nobody ever considered that it would need to be used. They did spend time on the ground during this flight rebuilding it to make sure it was in fact viable, but the idea had already been thought up before. It just makes for a better film to say they made it up on the spot :P

[@edwardsummey8843]

Most of the scenes actually happened, though some were played up for the movie. All the radio communications were exact (per the NASA transcript logs), except for a single line. “Houston, we have a problem,” was originally “we’ve had a problem.” The issue with the CO2 scrubbers was real, but the engineers had already worked out the solution months in advance, since they had worked on it as a hypothetical problem earlier in the program. They did, however, need to talk the astronauts through the construction of it.

[@charlieeckert4321]

The reason why the filters on the command module and the LEM were different is that the two spacecraft were made by different companies.

[@stevetheduck1425]

North American and Grumman. Douglas made at least one of the Saturn V's stages.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

I remember when this happened. We were glued to the TV. My grandmother just kept repeating, "Oh those brave boys."

[@waterbeauty85]

You should watch 1983's "The Right Stuff." It's about the original Mercury space programs and the military test pilots whose guts and skill were the model for making astronauts, and it contrasts the way the test pilots had to work in secret with the way the astronauts were shoved into the celebrity spotlight. It was also Ed Harris' breakthrough role.

[@k1productions87]

I actually think they would be better served to watch the miniseries "From The Earth To The Moon", as it would cover more ground, and be far more historically accurate. The Right Stuff took too many liberties for my taste

[@waterbeauty85]

​@@k1productions87 "Better served" if their channel was about them getting a historical education, yes. However, they're an entertainment channel, and as such, introducing them to the seminal works of culturally significant actors like Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, and Fred Ward would serve them better for that purpose.

[@k1productions87]

@@waterbeauty85 Perhaps, but they seemed to be legitimately interested in learning the history as well, and I would like to see them start off on the right foot

[@waterbeauty85]

@@k1productions87 You're actually right about that. My suggestion was based on what I would like to see them react to and really wasn't written as an answer to their query to the audience. I could just as well have asked them to react to any other film I consider meaningful like "Philadelphia" but tried to stay somewhat within the same theme of today's film.

[@k1productions87]

@@waterbeauty85 I personally would much rather see “the Martian“ over “the right stuff“ :P

[@Rickhorse1]

Btw guys, you said "they really milked that stress moment"... not at all! The entire '4 minutes radio blackout before re-entry' was absolutely true (we all counted it down watching tv) & when there was silence for another minute, we all had that...'they didn't make it' moment which seemed to take forever.

[@WhiskyCanuck]

Yup. I beleive it was because their re-entry angle was a bit shallower than normal so it took them longer to descend through that phase of the re-entry.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

@@WhiskyCanuck That’s the reason. I was only a few years old at the time, but I imagine it was a stressful time for my folks, who were watching. One of my very earliest childhood memories are of seeing men on the TV, walking on the moon. I’d guess it was the Apollo 15 or 16 missions. I would’ve been between 3 and 3 & a half years old at the time.

[@lawrencewestby9229]

@@WhiskyCanuck, yes, you are correct. In the movie before they began reentry they noted that they were a bit shallow.

[@americanfreedomlogistics9984]

ron howard’s whole family was in this. his mother Jean played the role of Blanche Lovel (jim lovell’s mother) his brother clint played Sy Liebergot (coke bottle glasses flight controller) his father rance played the priest in the watch party scene

[@MrDarkwing78]

3:07 I think he meant to say “one small step for (a) man”, but that’s about it. If you’re interested, “The Dish” is a classic Aussie film depicting the Australian contribution to the Apollo 11 mission. It’s a charming little film you’d definitely enjoy.

[@stathissdz2125]

So many people in so many fields had to work together to being these three people back alive, that the mission was labeled "the most successful failure"!

[@phj223]

There's a documentary about this space flight, I can't remember its name, but the actual flight director Gene Kranz (played by Ed Harris here) is among the interviewees. You can tell he's one of the old school, man of iron kinda deal, he probably cried like two times before he was five years old then never again; but when he retells (or rather relives) the moment radio communication was restored with the Apollo 13 crew returning to Earth and they're saying they're fine, his voice breaks and his eyes well up.

[@sr71ablackbird]

just a few years back, they had changed the name of toledo express airport in oh. to that of Eugene F. Kranz , as a tribute to him, seeing that he attended central catholic high school down there.

[@professionaljackass]

Was that "From the Earth to the Moon?"

[@phj223]

@@professionaljackass Hm I don't think so, iirc it was a standalone documentary just on the Apollo 13 accident.

[@ArtamStudio]

Yes, I remember seeing that documentary. Kranz said "it was neat," and then choked up.

[@Macdelaven]

I was 10 years old when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and I watched on TV in my Grandparents' living room. I still have the scrapbook I made of the Apollo program. It was a different time. The TV news anchorman, Walter Cronkite was a huge fan of the space program and I remember him interviewing people holding models of the space crafts because the graphics you saw were about as high tech as it got. The lunar aircraft and command module were built by different companies for completely different purposes. That's why the CO2 scrubbers were incompatible. It was an amazing time to be alive. I still get emotional watching this movie.

[@physicscraigo]

I love how completely invested you were in the film. Thank you.

[@jinbrond3689]

If you two loved this then you'll probably also enjoy "From the Earth to the Moon". HBO did a 10 part miniseries about the whole space program narrated by Tom Hanks. Their Apollo 13 episode is especially great because they only really give the story from the ground.

[@k1productions87]

The one problem I have with that though is that it focuses on a fictional newsroom, rather than actual history. Particularly troubling since all the rest they get so correctly.... it just feels weird going into nearly complete fiction for a whole episode

[@GrouchyMarx]

Now that you've watch Apollo 13, you guys really would like its companion piece "From The Earth To The Moon" a 12-part mini-series made a couple years later, produced by Tom Hanks and Ron Howard where Hanks hosts each episode and stars in the last one. Another excellent movie you should watch before that, (and do a react video) is "The Right Stuff" (1983) about the breaking the sound barrier, the formation of NASA, the Mercury missions, and it ends where From The Earth begins. Earth To The Moon will have a lot more details such as how the Apollo 1 fire happened, a wonderful episode called "Spider" about the design and building of the Lunar Modules like "Spider", and it contains some original footage of their construction. And the Apollo 13 episode is done from a very different perspective which makes the movie you watched here an excellent companion piece. @ 13:37 We were furious about that! Every adult and fellow teenager I knew then was miffed about all three the networks not covering it. I don't think they covered the launch of 13. But they certainly covered Apollo 14 launch after what happened to 13. @ 23:33 In the world of Star Trek it was the Vulcans that gave us Velcro in 1957. Think about it; they both begin with "V"!! Actually Velcro was invented in 1955 by a Swiss engineer after walking his dog and had to pull burrs, from a certain plant, off his cloths and the dog's fur. @ 32:54 For more of the same definitely do The Right Stuff next. Followed by From The Earth To The Moon series. I watch a lot of reactors and though I've seen a couple reactors do The Right Stuff, I haven't seen From The Earth To The Moon done so you could be the first. And it would be worth it. Each episode is about 54 minutes. Even if you don't do react vids of Earth To Moon watch the series anyway. BTW at the end of the movie as Hanks is narrating, the air craft carrier captain shaking Tom Hanks hand is the REAL Jim Lovell doing that cameo! Another movie you'd like is Carl Sagan's "Contact". Dr. Sagan made his prior scifi novel of the same name scientifically accurate and though the movie is fiction it's very enjoyable, and directed by the same director of Forrest Gump. Live long and prosper. 🖖😎

[@jordanpeterson5140]

When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions is another good watch.

[@GrouchyMarx]

@@jordanpeterson5140 Haven't seen that. I'll order it. Thanks! 👍

[@jordanpeterson5140]

@@GrouchyMarx it's available for purchase on KZbin (and I'm sure other other digital media, but I have it on here).

[@joannerichards1750]

Astronaut Jim Lovell has a cameo in the return sequence on the carrier deck. The camera shows him greeting "Jim Lovell" (Hanks).

[@bertpunkaficionado8357]

In 2020, on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13, I listened to hours of the actual audio loop. You can find it on KZbin at "Apollo 13 - Houston, We've Had A Problem (Full Mission 12)" and so on. There were 4 flight directors for the shifts: Gene Kranz (the lead flight director, played by Ed Harris), Glynn Lunney, Milton Windler, and Gerry Griffin. The video named above in quotations is the video with the audio of the accident the moment it happened, about 6 minutes in. I actually listened to most of the series of videos. I listened to all of the Apollo 11 loops. In 2019 for the 50th of Apollo 11, I watched the entire real time "live" video they had of the loop they played so you knew where they were 50 years earlier that moment. Well, when I could... it ran 24 hours a day. Fascinating to me, but then a chunk of my youth was spent growing up in Central Florida with NASA everywhere. Streets named for astronauts Neil Armstrong and John Young close by, and I could watch launches from my front yard and at school. I was outside at school when we saw the Challenger explode. I absorbed NASA and flying, which is why I joined the Navy like Alan Shepard. * Deke Slayton, the guy that repeatedly says "can we have a word" (uh-oh), managed the astronaut office and picked the crews and rotation. He was one of the original 7 Mercury astronauts, but didn't go in space then because of a heart murmur. He finally went up on the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975 when an Apollo craft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule making for the first international mission. * John Young was twice a Gemini astronaut, Apollo 10, commander of Apollo 16 [which is when Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise) would later go to the moon], and twice on the shuttle program including the first orbital flight. * Alan Shepard was the first US astronaut to go in space during the Mercury missions and would later walk on the moon on Apollo 14. He was the "Al Shepard" Lovell mentions having an ear infection flaring up which moves Lovell's team up to Apollo 13. You should check out THE RIGHT STUFF (1983), it's about Project Mercury, the first 7 US astronauts. There's a miniseries also, but the original film is spectacular. Ed Harris is in it as John Glenn (the first US astronaut to orbit Earth) Zooey & Emily Deschanel's mom Mary Jo Deschanel as Glenn's wife Zooey & Emily's dad Caleb Deschanel was the Director of Photography Fred Ward as Gus Grissom (who later died in the Apollo 1 fire) Veronica Cartwright (the other woman in Alien) as Grissom's wife The theme by Bill Conti is breathtaking and inspiring. The book it's based on is amazing. Jim Lovell is mentioned in the book because he was recruited to apply for Mercury, but wasn't selected. Neil Armstrong wasn't selected either. - Nerdy, yes.

[@MolnarG007]

Loved the reaction, every second of it! Recommend The Dish (2000): not super super intense like this movie but it's also more realistic scientific approach, more calm, but super, it's about the people who made it possible to watch broadcast of the moon landing. One of my favourite movies after Apollo13.

[@menolikey_]

You guys may enjoy The Expanse. The physics of the show is like a main character.

[@elroysez8333]

Best Sci-Fi out right now, hands down.

[@foodwallet1223]

Gary Sinise is amazing. Not just in this movie, just in general.

[@claratrevlyn5304]

A few fun facts. During the Apollo 13 mission, there were four teams of flight controllers who worked in rotation in Mission Control - designated White, Black, Maroon and Gold. Gene Kranz headed the White team, hence the white vest made for him by his wife. We also briefly see Glynn Lunney ("Did we miss a step?") who headed Black team. The guy with the glasses who helped figure out the power consumption is John Aaron, who was a NASA legend. He is credited with saving the Apollo 12 mission when it was struck by lightning during the launch and all the instrumentation went haywire. The real Jim Lovell appears at the end of the movie as the captain of the rescue ship, greeting Tom Hanks playing himself.

[@keithowen3523]

The right stuff is an outstanding movie about the first Selection of astronauts and the mercury missions. Very dramatic and historical.

[@matthewcorya7514]

The actress playing Tom Hanks mother was Ron Howard’s mother the minister was played by his father and the bald tech that said the IRS would go after Jack is Ron’s brother. His Daughter is actress/director Bryce Dallas Howard. They are a whole family of entertainers.

[@toddsmitts]

Actually, Bryce is in the movie too, in the background in a yellow dress in the scene were families are saying goodbye to the astronauts.

[@Paul_Waller]

Ron’s brother, Clint Howard was also in an original Star Trek episode. He was 3 or 4 at the time (1960...something) playing an adult alien, "Commander Balok". :-)

[@kathyastrom1315]

Clint and Ron just published a book about growing up in Hollywood.

[@DoctorWortspieler]

One of the awesome things about "Apollo 13" was that it's one of the very few movies where the events are actually *toned down* from what actually happened. The square peg in round hole solution? The guy who solved it actually thought it up during his drive to work. The teeth-clenching scene of the fast-burn using the Earth as a reference point? That was one of three. And if you listen to the audio recordings of the mission, the astronauts and engineers are incredibly calm, making a harrowing situation sound like a book report for all the emotion they put into it. And there were a host of other problems during the mission that the film cut out as well; it's really inspiring that people actually faced such overwhelming odds and still managed to succeed.

[@StephenLuke]

My mom’s parents were in high school at the time and they witnessed the launch of Apollo 13 on TV.

[@asherlaw1355]

Your hair really is ace Simone, I love it. Love your content too guys!

[@fkw1239]

React to Stephen King's *Room 1408* .. one of the best psychological horror masterpiece.

[@LukeWarm05]

The politician questioning Tom Hanks @ 3:55 is played by Roger Corman, prolific B-movie producer and schlock auteur. James Cameron and many MANY others got their start working for him. He also has one of the most pleasant speaking voices you'll ever hear.

[@coyotej4895]

"The Right Stuff" is the movie you're looking for. The Right Stuff is a 1983 American epic historical drama film written and directed by Philip Kaufman and based on the 1979 book of the same name by Tom Wolfe. The film follows the Navy, Marine, and Air Force test pilots who were involved in aeronautical research at Edwards Air Force Base, California, as well as the Mercury Seven, the seven military pilots who were selected to be the astronauts for Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight by the United States. The film stars Sam Shepard, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, and Barbara Hershey; Levon Helm narrates and plays Air Force test pilot Jack Ridley.

[@kj7124]

Another vote for "The Right Stuff". It'll be a challenge to edit but it's worth the watch. Maybe a 2-part reaction? Ed Harris (Flt Director Gene K) plays astronaut John Glenn in it.

[@jedicowart7413]

My recommendation based on this movie would be for you guys to watch 'The Martian' (movie) and 'For All Mankind' (series).

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

I like the part when the mission commander says "I believe this will be our finest hour." Everyone should be able to be this proud of the people around them, and their country.

[@chrisc.2450]

The scene of Walter Cronkite (the newsman) choking up as he watched the first steps on the moon was actual footage that was aired live. I was a teen and sat glued to the television, along with the rest of the world, and remember vividly his response (and mine) on that incredible day.

[@saarangsahasrabudhe8634]

"If you're bored, tired and you don't know what to watch on TV............. put on a Tom Hanks movie. You never go wrong with a Tom Hanks movie" - Me, saying this to myself in Tom Hanks's voice.

[@PeterPing]

In the actual crew audio log. They never had an argument or yelling at each other. Everyone was calmed and collected.

[@joeblow8379]

18:40 “what does work at NASA that’s what I’d like to know”? A hell of a lot more than this Canadian space agency. That’s for sure 😂

[@sc1338]

Ruuuuuude lol

[@FreyaofCerberus]

Fun bit of trivia, the captain of the aircraft carrier at the end who shakes Tom Hanks's hand was the real Jim Lovell who was an advisor for the movie.