Apollo 13

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James Lovell and Tom Hanks are linked by one of the most famous space missions in history and its acclaimed film adaptation. Lovell, a retired NASA astronaut, commanded Apollo 1...

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This profile addresses whether actor Rance Howard appeared in the 1995 film Apollo 13, a widely recognized NASA drama directed by Ron Howard. As a veteran character actor with d...

space-history

The short answer is that all three crew members survived the Apollo 13 crisis and returned to Earth safely on April 17, 1970. In the decades since, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and J...

Space Exploration History

Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970, and the mission’s defining events unfolded over just under six days. The explosion in the service module on April 13 shifted the mission...

space-history

No one died on Apollo 13. The mission, launched on April 11, 1970, experienced a critical in-flight failure when an oxygen tank exploded on April 13, yet all three astronauts—...

space-exploration

After an in-flight explosion on April 13, 1970, Apollo 13 became a celebrated survival story, but its landing point was carefully planned and precisely executed. The mission tar...

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Ron Howard directed the 1995 space drama Apollo 13 , a fact-based film that dramatizes the failed 1970 NASA mission and the crew’s survival. As a producer and director, Howard...

people

Jim Lovell remains a widely recognized figure in space history, retired from NASA and public life but still engaged in limited public and charitable activities. As of the early...

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James Lovell is alive. He is a retired NASA astronaut and former U.S. Navy captain best known as the commander of Apollo 13, the April 1970 mission famous for the safe return of...

space-exploration

Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970, and was intended as the third crewed lunar landing. Two days in, an oxygen tank explosion crippled the spacecraft, forcing the crew to loop...