What began as a mission to land on the moon became history’s most harrowing space rescue after a technical failure forced the ...
The Apollo 13 mission was to land on the moon for a third, but it soon turned into a rescue mission. An oxygen tank exploded aboard the spacecraft, causing both the crew on board and ground control to ...
But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was the long way around the Moon.
The filmmaker's Oscar-winning drama tells the harrowing story of NASA's aborted 1970 lunar mission ...