Houston, We Have A Problem! | *APOLLO 13* first time watching
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Original Movie: Apollo 13
Marilyn losing the ring in the shower REALLY DID HAPPEN. That's not a Hollywood dramatization. When the movie came out people said it was a cheap attempt at manipulating emotions because it was SO gut wrenching. But it really happened and SUCKED.
She did recover it, luckily!
@@PK19899that's good to know. I knew it really happened but had never heard she did get it back.
@@mcgilj1 The motel plumber took apart the plumbing to recover it from a trap.
I wonder if it’s a real life thing that they should have left out? Real or not I can see how it took her out of the immersion .
@@charlesmaurer6214 Yeah, gold seems to be quite heavy ... 😉
Jim Lovell was once asked if there was a "suicide pill" distributed to astronauts. He scoffed, saying there was no shortage of ways to die in space.
Deke Slayton said test pilots don't think that way. "most people think when the plane is out of control and going down 'oh my God I have ten seconds to live.' A test pilot or an astronaut thinks 'I have ten seconds. Hell, I bet I can save this thing.'"
Yeah, if they were ever hopelessly lost and utterly doomed? There are ways to override the safety protocols and pop the hatch.
I got to meet Lovell once at an engineering conference. He was really excited to talk about the team (the WHOLE team) that got everyone home.
all problems can be solved
As a matter of fact, when the Columbia disaster happened, debris showed evidence of the commander and pilot working trying to restore power in the final seconds before breakup.
Extra cool points for using a Moonshot reference.
"If they could get a washing machine to fly my jimmy could land it" is my favorite line in that movie. That woman was so utterly confident in her son that there was not a single iota of fear in her heart. She knew they were going to come back one hundred percent okay.
As the son of a mother who always, always had faith in me, this is my favorite too.
Great line from Ron Howard's mom
My favorite line is when Marilyn is too tired to clean after the party and suggests they sell the house instead, and Jim says "ok, we'll sell the house"
I also love "are you boys in the space program too?" Oh my heart
Also, she saw that she had to do something to comfort her granddaughter, who was afraid she was going to lose her father.
Fun fact that wasn't mentioned in the parts of the movie you showed: Since Apollo13 never attempted to slow down in order to enter a lunar orbit, they slingshot around the moon in a much higher altitude than any other Apollo mission. They, therefore, still hold the record for being the furthest away from earth (~250k miles/ 400k kilometers). Further than any other human ever or since.
That record should be broken on the upcoming manned mission, Artemis 2.
@pantherjoseph yeah, the planned orbital maneuvers for Artemis are quite different from Apollo. You'd think there's only one way to the moon, but they found a more economical one.
Jim Lovell be like "Yeah, that record is all me, I wasn't looking out the window!"
Also if I'm not mistaken they also have the record for the fastest humans have ever traveled. The main reason it took so long to come out of the blackout.
@@rodbrewster4629 Do you mean the fastest relative to Earth?
The Scene when they were trying to make a CO2 scrubbers hack where he goes "We need to make THIS fit in the Hole made for THIS Using nothing but THAT" is the ESSENCE of what engineering is. I cannot think of a Single scene is all of movies that summarizes what it is like to be and Engineer more succinctly. LOVE that scene.
Same!
the engineers knew they could do it when they found out the ship had duct tape.
@@specialagentdavecooper9605 TRUTH!! 🤣🤣🤣
In real life, NASA engineers anticipated this type of problem and already had the procedures worked out before the mission started. To me, this is even more impressive than what was portrayed in the film. It wouldn't have made good cinema, though, to show them pulling a binder off the shelf.
And every single one of them absolutely earned the title of "Steely-Eyed Missile Man"
The funny thing about this movie is that they had to invent tension between the astronauts to make it interesting. In reality, they worked and communicated so well together that if you listen to the recordings without context, even though they were in a life or death situation, you wouldn't even realize something had gone wrong.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but one thing worth considering is that a lot of the arguments that happened on screen occurred when the radio was off - and at one point Lovell (Hanks) switches from angry to calm in a heartbeat when turning on the radio (Lovell: "ARE WE ON VOX?!" Swigert: "No." *switches radio on* Lovell: *calmly* "Houston this is Odyssey, go ahead.").
Now, we don't have any proof that anything like this happened in the real life incident, but I'm just saying that we can't conclusively prove that it DIDN'T happen either ;) I think there's a good chance that the three men may have had some at least minor arguments while they were out there, due to the unique conditions and stress they were exposed to. A lot of things could have occurred that weren't recorded, things which the three men may have been ordered to downplay in order to decrease the chances of the remaining Apollo missions being cancelled (Apollo 20 had already been cancelled by this point, and Apollo 18 and 19 would be cancelled not long afterwards).
All you guys have to do is check out the commentary the lovells did for the DVD. Mr. Lovell explains that at least the argument about stirring the tanks didn't happen. Haven't watched it in a while so not sure about the vox argument
@@MatthewJarvis-zw2sz NASA goes to pretty extreme lengths to ensure that this sort of thing doesn't happen SPECIFICALLY because crew arguments are legitimately dangerous in space. There is no time to waste on stupidity, and often times no air to waste. They literally train for years to remain professional. They all undergo extensive psych evaluations to determine if they can handle stress and remain calm, and to help in pairing people together. They actually DO isolation testing as a crew to see how they handle each other. Astronaut training is no joke. There's a reason most of them are former naval, air force, and test pilots. NASA puts them in to vacuum chambers in space suits with only each other for many longs hours to test their endurance of each other. NASA now even operates the Mars Desert Research Station out in the middle of nowhere UT desert. Crews spend 2 weeks at a time there living in a "habitat module." If you're outside, you're in a spacesuit. So crews have to be able to tolerate each other professionaly at all times. Astronaut training is extremely difficult. On top of that, they cross train outside of their specialization so if anything happens to one of them, anyone can also perform their duties. They all have to be able to do repairs on the vehicle in an emergency. They have to be good at the math and especially the complex concepts behind orbital mechanics. Rigid emotional control. When the emergency happens on the vehicle all 3 immediately go full business mode. They have practiced emergencies of all sorts so many times that it is literally reflex for them. They have dozens of checklists to run through for all of those emergency indicators. Verifying if it is the instrument, electronic or a legit emergency. Figuring out what is causing that alarm/warning. Extremely accurate and concise communication of in formation to each other and ground controllers. They do a phenomenal job of showing that. If you listen to the audio of the controllers during Challenger you'll hear the same exact professionalism kick in over the already professional launch feeling. "Secure you stations, lock the room, alert your backups and make sure all of your data is recorded and backed up." And everyone goes into immediately emergency calm mode.
@@MatthewJarvis-zw2szIn the commentary for the DVD Jim Lovell specifically said the arguments didn’t happen. Also no one was worried about Swiggert doing the docking. It was his job and he did it a million times in simulation with the back-up crew. However if it was really necessary both he and Haise could’ve done it.
“With all due respect sir, I believe this is going to be our finest hour”
This line always gets me choked up. Sheer determination and confidence in everyone’s ability to deliver when the stakes were the highest. And they f***ing did!
My favourite is "Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you".
He was saying that, knowing they could all be dead in the next few minutes.
with slide rules
I'm Norwegian and I grew up listening to my parents' stories about how all of the Western World "held their breath" and followed the live broadcasts of this incident. For that entire week these were "the only news that mattered" on TV and radio. They were 18 and 19 when this went down. I think that to my parents these men were even greater heroes than those that walked on the moon.
It didn't click until Natalie mentioned it, but we are now further away from this movie's release than the movie was from the actual Apollo 13 mission. The film came out 25 years after the real events, and next year is the 30th anniversary of the movie. That's just bizarre to me.
The thing I always found bizarre, conceptually at least, is comparing the computing power of a 1970s spacecraft , a TI-83 calculator (released 1996), and an iPhone
As someone who remembers living through the actual event (as a kid), then reading the book, then watching the movie, all I can say is: Mind. Blown.
@@rudewalrus5636🤡
I was thinking about those two time spans when Lovell's closing lines played, about someday returning to the moon. It seemed like such a long time since Apollo back in '95 when I saw the movie in theater. The wait since then has been even longer.
It only took 66 years for humanity to go from the first Wright brothers flight to the first astronauts on the moon. It's now been almost 52 years since the final Apollo landing. NASA's current plan is for the first Artemis landing in late 2026, and (if all goes well) annual landings starting after 2031 -- more than sixty years after the events of this film.
I hope some Apollo astronauts will still be alive then to see us return.
@@cognitionignition They would be 100...🤡
Jim's mother in the nursing home is played by Ron Howard's real mom. The priest at their house is played by Ron's father and Sy at Mission Control (the one who recommends they shut off the fuel cells) is Ron's brother Clint Howard. Ron's daughter Dallas also plays one of the kids on the opposite side of the road the night of the launch.
RIP Marilyn Lovell (July 11, 1930 - August 27, 2023), aged 93
RIP Jack Swigert (August 30, 1931 - December 27, 1982), aged 51
RIP Ken Mattingly (March 17, 1936 - October 31, 2023), aged 87
RIP Bill Paxton (May 17, 1955 - February 25, 2017), aged 61
You will be remembered as legends
Ha, I see what you did there!
@@davidsumner7604 Not sure he meant it as some joke, buddy.
Don't forget Marilyn Lovell (July 11, 1930 - August 27, 2023).
And James Horner 14/08/1953 - 22/06/2015
@@Rorujin Him too. 😢💔
"That iconic line" is much more amazing when you hear the actual mission tapes. Jim Lovell puts about as much emotion into "Houston, we've had a problem" as he might in "Houston, we're having some tea." Like he's completely unbothered. Man had nerves of steel.
25:58 -- that man dressed as/playing the navy admiral congratulating Tom Hanks in that shot is the real Jim Lovell.
Lovell is actually dressed as a Captain. The producer wanted him to dress as an Admiral, but Lovell insisted on wearing his actual Navy uniform for the cameo.
@@DXsv6lc Okay, that's interesting.
You didn't watch the video? Maybe 27:24?
I like cameos like that
@@Sunsetjoy Aha, I didn't see that; I didn't watch the whole vid. minute-by-minute. Thanks 👍
You can't just delay a rocket launch arbitrarily. Launch schedules are meticulously planned based on orbital mechanics, taking into consideration things like the path of the moon relative to the Earth and the distance between the two bodies at the time of launch. Missing a launch window could mean a setback of months or even years.
Indeed, pushing the launch would upend months of planning. And a situation where a crew member might be exposed to disease is exactly why they have backup crews.
And even the tilt angle of the Earth as well as where in the day we are. We launch to the east and as near the equator as we can to take advantage of the speed boost of launching with the rotation as close to the center as possible. All of these things have to line up so that the laws of motion carry them exactly where we want to be. They aren't even aiming for the moon. They have to aim for a spot where the Moon will be in 2 days. Amd they have to account for how the gravity of the Moon will pull on them as it moves along its orbit which will bend their trajectory a little. But a little over 200 thousand miles can be huge. The finesse of orbital mechanics is insane.
Came here to say the same thing
My favorite bit of trivia from this awesome movie is that the set for the NASA techs/commanders was so realistic that the NASA consultants they had on set repeatedly tried to leave through the (nonfunctional) elevators or doors, just from force of habit and forced false familiarity.
The climactic reentry sequence is one of the most emotional moments for me, especially after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003 where the Shuttle disintegrated during reentry and all 7 astronauts onboard died (that event had a lasting impact on me, and I was 11 years old at the time). A combination of both the event and this film inspired me to read more about space exploration (especially and including the Space Shuttle and the Apollo programs), eventually leading to a career path in engineering, where I am today. I personally consider the film APOLLO 13 to be a great visual representation of systems engineering at work, and also shows how engineering involves a mixture of creativity, pragmatism, math, teamwork, and perseverance under pressure to solve problems at hand.
Fun Fact: While I didn't meet them personally, a team of professors from my alma mater (University of Toronto) also had a hand in the actual Apollo 13 rescue. In their case, they were responsible for calculating the optimal air pressure required to safely jettison the LEM prior to reentry.
The loss of the Columbia and crew was hard. And right now two astronauts are on the ISS stranded for a while because Starliner has some problems that are concerning enough to keep them up there. I think the Columbia plays a major factor in that decision.
@@artboymoy Definitely. As a matter of fact, the Shuttles were retired as a direct result of Columbia, and any sort of emergencies needed to take safe refuge into account. This was why outside of STS-125 (Hubble repair flight in 2009), none of the subsequent Shuttle missions post-Columbia were non-ISS related. STS-125 had to have a second Shuttle waiting in the adjacent launch pad to be ready just in case (which luckily wasn't needed).
I loved the book "bringing Columbia home".
The Columbia disaster happened on my birthday. I had my friends over for a weekend sleepover birthday party and we got to see the news announce it. And I had a framed photo and mission patch of Columbia in my room as i was really into space as a kid.
I'm a sucker for a mission control celebration scene in any movie. I've seen Apollo 13 countless times and it still gets me every time...🥹
The oxygen carried on the service module was not for breathing as some people mistakenly assume. The oxygen and hydrogen react together inside a fuel cell that creates the power for the spacecraft. A byproduct of the reaction is water that is used for drinking and rehydrating their food packets. So the immediate risk was not running out of air to breath, the problem was not having enough power for the spacecraft and getting stuck in space forever.
That power also provided heat.
The cast for this film is/was amazing. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton (RIP you are missed), Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and a whole host of lesser named character actors who are recognizable in their own way. All very talented and terrific actors.
Everything about this movie was absolutely top tier, casting, script, production, graphics/effects, EVERYTHING.
Apollo 13 is a movie that I will always watch if I come across it while channel surfing.
Yes! Same here! Never have I switched the channel on it! Its in my top 5 movies of all time.
@@CocaCasta How It’s Made has the same effect. You can’t not stand behind the couch for 7 minutes learning about how a milk crate, baseball glove, and telescope are made.
I miss the days of channel surfing.
I agree but for me also, even having seen it at least dozens of times, I still find myself getting emotional during it. :)
The funniest thing about the "constellation Urine" bit is that _multiple_ astronauts have said that watching it crystallize in space is one of the most beautiful things they saw during spaceflight.
John Glenn thought it was UFOs during his flight. He'd done a dump on a previous orbit, and it didn't occur to him, I guess, that he'd fly past/through it again.
You could also see "Constellation Urine" on Earth with a hobbyist reflector telescope. And some amateur astronomers would listen in to the transmissions so they would know when to look for the new "constellation".
Solving the scrubber problem and Ken's "don't give me anything they don't have" are my two favorite parts of this film.
I smiled at Nat’s comment about those who knew the story not experiencing the same level of tension… I’m a huge space geek and remember the actual events of Apollo 13 as a child. As does my wife. Yet, when we saw it in the cinema on release (of course) we remarked to each other afterwards just how gripped and on the edge of our seats we were in the re-entry sequence. Proper, white knuckles, gripping the cinema seats stuff… despite knowing how it ended. That’s a testament to the script writing and Ron Howard’s direction. Still one of my favourite movies.
I had a similar feeling watching United 93. It was suspenseful because the reality was so sad I desperately wanted it to end differently than I knew it would. Feels weird to call it a good movie, but it was so well done. Hard to watch but very worthwhile to bear witness to the bravery of ordinary people. A memorial to real heroes.
RE the question of how they filmed with every in a different orientation: They filmed many of the weightless scenes on the Vomit Comet, or rather a civilian version of NASA's training plane that creates low-G conditions for short periods by diving in a parabolic course to nullify the effects of gravity. Many of the scenes inside Apollo were just a matter of the actors placed in position but any time you see a ball of water or a clipboard floating, it was really floating during the shooting.
If you notice, none of the individual weightless shots are longer than about 30 seconds.
Any scene where there was dialogue was done in a studio, and the actors faked being in zero G. You know, acting 🙂
One piece of trivia: When the film crew first went to film the weightless scenes, (Them taking off their helmets and gloves when first getting to orbit, a lot of the TV broadcast, portions of them building the CO2 scrubbers, plus a few more) the airplane did a few parabolas, and then had a malfunction. Luckily, they were able to get another slot a few weeks later. They said that the malfunction turned out to be fortunate. They had learned a lot in the few minutes they had the first time, and used that experience to design the scenes differently. They would not have gotten such good shots without that added time.
It's weird how time passes. This being one of my favorite movies and seeing all the reaction channels watching it, it still seems new to me. It's like it is frozen in my timeline as 5 years old regardless of the actual time that has passed.
A proposed movie featuring Tom Cruise is set to be filmed aboard the actual space station.
@pheverdream5618 Between the problems with getting the current astronauts stuck on the ISS home and the fact that the ISS is scheduled to be deorbited, I suspect that that is an unfounded rumor.
In that scene when Ed Harris says "I believe this is going to be our finest hour", he gives the pessimistic naysayer a little glare right at the end, and I always loved that. He doesn't say a word: he just gives him that glare.
The 4+ minutes it took for Apollo 13 to come out of blackout during re-entry wasn't creative license. Because they basically eye-balled their trajectory, they came in at a more shallow angle than normal and so were in blackout for that much longer.
Yeah, the concern about bouncing off the atmosphere and back out into space nearly came true. Thankfully they were just close enough that it was only an extra long re-entry.
9:49 Gene Kranz's wife always made him a vest for every mission. The tradition started during his during the Gemini day and carried over to the Apollo Missions. When the mission was over (astronauts back on Earth) Gene would change into a more colourful "celebratory" vest. Gold threading, or, red white and blue etc. Gene never changed out of THIS vest which is now known as "The Historic Vest."
6:00 That practice actually wasn't started until the Shuttle program so in reality they were able to hug goodbye.
6:33 The real Marilyn did in fact lose her ring in the shower but was eventually able to get it back
12:31 Lovell actually said "We've HAD a problem" past tense but the director thought "have" would be better for the movie
16:46 The astronauts actually never freaked out, in fact Lovell's line about "not bouncing off the walls" was said in a post mission interview about why they didn't freak out.
Pre-launch quarantines known as the Health Stabilization Program (HSP) were strictly implemented starting with Apollo 14. But you're correct: the practice would not have been in place for Apollo 13, so they were able to hug goodbye.
The 16 remark is both fascinating and make total sense when I read it the first time. The astronauts are trained for this. They are picked for being very calm in stressful situations. I found a clip of a recording from the real apollo 13, and it just sounds like they are bored. Yeah, something made a wierd sound and we are leaking o2, so. Who won the baseball game?
There also was no doubt about Swigart’s ability to fly the mission. In fact, he was the guy who wrote the manual on CM emergency procedures.
@@mrborgeusborg1541 Yeah, it's quite remarkable - if you listen to the actual command module recordings, unless you know and understand what they're talking about and its implications you generally wouldn't have a clue anything was amiss.
I've always been a little miffed that they fabricated the tension between the crew for dramatic effect. But knowing how professional and composed real astronauts are, I can see it being used as a device to highlight the contrast between how "regular" folk would react, vs. professionals.
Ron howard interviewed actual astronauts from the Apollo missions and studied the recordings. He was a bit frustrated because although they went through very dramatic, dangerous and stressful things during those missions the astronauts never showed it, they just stayed in problem solving mode for as long as it took. All the drama and fighting was added
Professionalism is the death of drama 😆
Yes as far as the recordings show there was no drama among the astronauts, but they were impatient with mission control at least once or twice
Fun fact, the man who salutes and shakes Tom Hanks hand on the aircraft carrier is the real Jim Lovell.
Secondarily, that is Jim Lovells own, actual navy uniform, not a costume. Even as an older man it still fit him during the filming of the movie.
@@nutralredGreat❤ he can wear it and beat any “Movie Stolen Valor” accusations.
Ed Harris' casting as Gene Kranz wasn't just about his considerable acting talent. He also looks a heck of a lot like him.
Na they got the haircut right in the movie but he honestly doesn't look much like Gene Kranz at all.
yeah, but he's not nearly the man Gene Kranz was. Gene was a marine. Chuck Norris would say "No way I'm pissing him off".
James Horner's score for this movie is so inspiring 🎵😊
Apollo 13 was directed by Ron Howard. His daughter Bryce directed several episodes of the Mandalorian, including episode 3 of season 2. In it, she does a shot for shot remake of the Apollo 13 reentry scene as homage to her dad.
His brother Clint played EECOM White, Sy Liebergot, the bald guy with the glasses, who says to shut the reactant valves.
@@BedsitBob ...and also Ron Howard's mother was playing Jim Lovell's mom.
Considering it was released in the 90s it was an amazing achievement in effects and use of the zero g flight to make the actors actually float was freaking amazing. Then the fact that it is probably the closest historically faithful movie ever release makes it even better.
The Russians shot a dramatic film on the ISS recently. Also, Tom Cruse is threatening to shoot a film there as well.
Not _all_ of the zero-g shots are actually in zero-g but many are.
@@StarkRG Well, if you want to be technical, none of the shots are truly in zero G. They are in free fall inside of the vomit comet doing a slight dive.
@@helifanodobezanozi7689 Yeah, freefall is also called zero-g. It's not zero gravity, of course, g isn't a unit of gravity, it's a unit of acceleration. The net acceleration is 0g.
FREE FALL. There's no such thing as "zero-g".
This is one of the most accurate films made about the Apollo era, and the score is one of James Horner's best. This is also one of my favorite movies of all time. The Score is one of my favorites also.
Ngl the go/no-go sequence is probably one of my favourite scenes in cinematic history. I just absolutely love a good checklist!
Just to ease your mind, every sink and shower has a p- trap in it. This trap is a downward curve in the pipe that prevents gasses from coming up through the pipe into the bathroom. This little p-trap will also catch any rings or any objects that may go down the drain. It usually is located under neath the sink and behind the shower wall.
I clearly remember the events of Apollo 13, I was 11 years old and and an avid space fan, having followed the space progam since I was 5. I remember being very afraid that astronauts would not make it back. This movie led Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer to produce a 12 Episode TV series for HBO called "From The Earth To The Moon". It chronicled the early days of NASA and followed all of the Apollo missions from the tragedy of Apollo 1 to the triumph of Apollo 11 and the wonder of the final Apollo 17 mission.
I have been very fortunate to meet Fred Haise several times. He didn't mind Ron Howard embellishing a few moments to make the movie better. He is such a nice guy and I feel very bad he didn't get a chance to go back on Apollo 18..
I've heard he had a Hell of a reaction to the line about what he could eat. That was added after Gary Busey visited the set by the way.
Fun fact "consolation prize"...since they did not go into orbit around the Moon on their free return trajectory, Apollo 13 traveled a bit further away from Earth than all of the other flights to the Moon. So to this day, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert hold the record for the farthest distance from Earth people have ever traveled.
Also., a terrific quote I encountered recently has to do with Apollo 13..."NASA is absolutely not superstitious, but you can bet they will never launch anything numbered "13" ever again." Not sure if that is a real quote...but it does not seem that NASA has sent anything into space with the number 13 on it ever since, though commercial satellite companies have.
And, in case you were wondering...the number one reason why people have not returned to the moon to live/work/build a base there is the dust. You can 100 percent look up the harmful effects of lunar dust...but it is a serious issue that NASA and others have been working to address for many years. The dust is invasive and corrosive and it sticks to everything...which is a major issue when it darkens the surfaces that you need to be reflective, and all of a sudden you are absorbing a ton of heat from the sun instead of reflecting it. And that is not even to mention all the health issues of breathing in the dust...so figuring out how to deal with it has been a huge impediment to returning to the moon.💯😁
So Portal 2 was right about it being "pure poison"
@@rgallitan "I am deathly ill!"
No, the number one reason is that there wasn't a rocket that could take them there. That's about to change, _finally._
@@wwoods66 NASA did a study of the biggest challenges to going back to the moon for any longer term stays, and the dust was the number for them. I think they figured that they knew how to make the rocket but did not know how to deal with the dust, so building the rocket was pointless until they dealt with the knowledge barrier of the dust...which they did just a few years ago.
But you are right that re-creating the capability of the Saturn 5 has been a huge challenge, and NASA has had to re-learn a lot of knowledge that we let slip away.
After Gus Grissom christened his Mercury capsule Liberty Bell 7, and had the accident on landing that nearly killed him and caused the capsule to be lost for over 20 years, one engineer joked "That's the last time we launch a spacecraft with a crack in it"
Back in the day, they sold a 2 VHS box set. One contained the film, while the other was an Apollo 13 documentary. While there were small changes as you noted, it was remarkable how close to history the film was. Even the characters looked similar, especially Ed Harris.
I wore two of them out watching this movie.
Fun fact: Gene Kranz never actually said the iconic line "Failure is not an option!" It was written just for the movie. But the real Gene Kranz liked it so much that he made it the title of his autobiography.
Said autobiography is a good read.
As a kid in 1968 on Christmas Eve I remember Apollo 8 orbiting the Moon. Just an amazing thought for me at the time!
And they read from Genesis... back then Americans weren't ashamed to be American or religious.
The series From the Earth to the Moon is amazing, produced by Tom Hanks and Ron Howard.
Back in the day, I used to show my earth science class October Sky while we built model rockets, then after we launched them, we watched Apollo 13. Good times.
October Sky gets to me every time.
Not because of the rocketry... but because Homer got to tell his dad who his hero was... and I never did.
@@gnericgnome4214 - Yep. 🥰 And Homer seeing his dad stand up to his friend's abusive dad.
Another great movie about the early space race is "The Right Stuff". It is much older than Apollo 13, but it is a great and interesting movie, and it has an all star cast (or at least all star back then, but you would likely still recognize a lot of them)
Another great film is 'For All Mankind', a documentary using actual footage to record the history of the moon landings.
"From the Earth to the Moon' miniseries goes very well with both Apollo 13 and 'The Right Stuff', as does the female focused story of 'Hidden Figures."
Specifically for Natalie, 'From the Earth to the Moon', has an episode that focuses upon the life of the wives and their role in the Space Program, though The Right Stuff also touches on this.
Got any Beaman's? I'll getcha back later.
"you would likely still recognize a lot of [the actors]"
Starting with Ed Harris.
Absolutely.
The best thing about this movie is that the event it depicts was so dramatic, that they didn't need to take much artistic license to keep it interesting to watch (and most of the artistic license they did take was the personal crap before the launch).
Ron Howard did such an amazing job Directing this movie, the cast did a great job with the acting, the SFX people all did a masterful job with the effects, and of course the screen writers wrote an amazing script. Everyone was at the top of their game.
Nobody was concerned about Swigert docking the Command Module to the LUnar Module.
He was a perfectly competent pilot, and if he couldn't manage it, there were two others on board, who could dock it.
I had the privilege of meeting Jim Lovell years ago and hearing him tell the story of the mission from his point of view. Everyone was on the edge of their seats and we all knew how it ended! After all, he was the one standing there telling the story!
A Musical Greeting card has more memory then the Computers that flew to the Moon . What these guys did with that technology was impossible and that it why it was so amazing .
The Navy Captain who shook hands with Tom Hanks at the end was the real Jim Lovell. This incident had us all glued to the television for days. Truly NASA's finest hour getting them back safe.
I had the pleasure of photographing Ken (as well as President Reagan) 7/4/82 at Edwards AFB after a space shuttle mission.
The Carrier Captain in the white hat who is congratulating Tom Hanks right at the end there is the ACTUAL Jim Lovell in a cameo! He's in a Captain's Uniform because that was his actual RANK in the Navy! They asked him if he wanted Admiral's insignia but he told the film crew something to the effect that he was a Captain so that's what he wanted to be in his cameo.
The guy Jim (Tom Hanks) is talking to at 2:23 is Roger Corman, the infamous director of many low budget movies and a legend in Hollywood. He gave Ron Howard his first break in the movies and Ron wanted to pay him back.
The greatness of the is film lies in the fact that you are kept in suspense even though you already know the outcome.
"Rush" is another amazing Ron Howard film. The acting is great and the movie really grips you.
This is literally my favorite movies of all time, and I'm always interested in seeing reactions to it.
18:08 They filmed all the outer space scenes was in actual zero gravity. They built the sets in the aircraft that simulates weightlessness for Astronaut training, known as the "Vomit Comet". So all the scenes of them floating around weightless, was real.
No not all of them 😒, they did the weightless trajectory airplane thing for some of it yes, but for majority of it they were just sitting on a see-saw contraption they built to simulate the same effect as shooting the entire film with the airplane trajectory was simply not feasible.
It doesn't SIMULATE zero gravity, for small stretches of time, the weightlessness is real and actual.
@@jeffreysmith236 low gravity for small stretches of time. I wasn't going to get too specific, I figured that if anyone was interested they could look it up themselves.
@@jeffreysmith236Just to be clear, both actual orbit and flying a parabolic path in the "vomit comet" are "free-fall", not "zero G". Both are done in the presence of gravity (about the same amount of gravity in both cases).
The actors talked about this in the extras. They shot all capsule scenes that showed full bodies and astronauts/objects floating in mid air on the plane. Capsule scenes that were mediums or close ups were shot on the ground, and the actors had to sway to mimic the weightless effect. Bill Paxton commented on how funny that must have been to witness on the set!
For more of a historical perspective on how the movie compares the real event, I highly recommend History Buffs' video about Apollo 13. It is one of the few channels I know of that can cover historical details without being overly dry.
When all this was happening, I was 13 years old. My Mother thought I was nuts watching all this while it was televised. I couldn't stay away from the TV while all this was happening. I was excited, terrified and mesmerized by everything that was happening. I cried so hard with joy when I knew that we got them back! When this movie came out, I wasn't going to watch it, but Jim Lovell was in hard with this. I watched the movie with the with Jim and Marilyn Lovell's commentary and they said that there was only a couple of parts that Ron Howard moved away from the actual story. There was really no animosity between the guys, and it wasn't so hard to line up for re-entry.
When I first saw this movie, I knew the outcome. However, Ron Howard sold me. I was still on the edge of my seat the same way I was as a kid when it happened all those years ago.
Double thumbs up for being pretty much the only one to give a nod to him and recognize that Jim was in the movie. Which I suppose makes his next career, movie star. :)
This is my favorite film of all time. I remember my mom taking me to the local theater to go see it, I was 10 at the time, and I remember talking about it alot in school with some friends. It's true, I think, that young men and women dream of being an astronaut at least once in their lives. After seeing this, at the age I was, it just made me want to do it even more. That dream never panned out, but I've been a "space geek" ever since and I cannot wait to see where we go with the new Artemis missions.
Great movie. During the initial stages of the accident everyone is talking excitedly but if you listen to the original recording everyone is calm and relaxed like its a common occurrence
There's a part in the movie I love where they're showing an older interview on TV with Jim and he mentions his flight mission being lost at sea due to instrument failure. By happenstance his instrument lights went out too...letting him see the stirred up florescent plankton left by his ship's passage to lead him home.
his instrument lights went out because he'd jury rigged a light to read his clipboard, iirc, and caused a short...
I was working at Blockbuster when this hit rental. One morning an older woman came in and as she was sliding her return down the tape chute she told us that she and her grandson enjoyed watching it, but her grandson had told her "No wonder they had so much trouble, they let Forrest Gump drive."
This should have been an Oscar winner for Best Picture.
Fun fact: The Navy officer Jim is speaking to on the deck of the carrier at the end of the movie is actually Jim Lovell.
Very nice touch to include the actual astronaut in the movie 😊
The jokes before you got into the movie were "Gold." I think that Jim Lovell's trip on Apollo 8 would have given some background on this movie. You could watch the series "From the Earth to the Moon" and it would provide a great look at the Apollo missions. I get the impression that the movie raised your stress level. That is a sign of a great movie. By the way, Gary Sinese and Tom Hanks were in Forrest Gump. Gary's line, "If you become a shrimp boat captain, I'll be an astronaut" came back to me when I watched this movie.
What a moment in American space program history. Have a follow-up that’s actually the precursor to the Apollo missions; “The Right Stuff”, which covers the Mercury & Gemini programs. A cast of fantastic actors, & a story that should have been a miniseries. Hope you add it too your list. Loved the commentary Natalie!
9:53 The corvette was accurate! Someone may know the details better, but it was a marketing ploy by Chevy and a local dealership to give all the Apollo astronauts brand new Corvettes, and it really helped put the car on the map actually.
I love how they couldn't *technically* give them to the astronauts, so they just sold them for 1 dollar.
But being parked there to watch the launch wasn’t. Ken also wasn’t at home with the phone off the hook when the accident happened. He was at Mission Control. Nor was he alone in that simulator. NASA had the full backup crew in the simulator, working procedures.
They filmed a lot of it on sets built inside the zero g plane. It climbs and then tips over and dives and you get about 30 seconds of zero g. So when they are floating around... they are actually floating around. A few shots were done with them on like a see saw just being slowly moved up and down from below. But mostly really floating free.
Fun fact: This movie came out in '95. It costars Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise as Jim Lovell and Ken Mattingly. Just a year earlier, these two actors had costarred in the movie _Forrest Gump_ as the title character and his lieutenant in Vietnam, Dan Taylor.
In the course of that movie, Forrest mentions plans to Lt. Taylor to acquire a shrimping boat and Lt. Taylor scoffs and says, "The day you're a shrimp boat captain, _that's the day I'm an astronaut!"_
So you could almost say Lt. Taylor kept his promise. 🤷♂
I'm 74 years old. I was there, in my 2nd yr of college, when all this went down. I was a space geek then, I'm a space geek now. And I still cry every time I watch this damned film. "Failure is not an option!" "I do believe this is going to be our finest hour!" "If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it!" The ship finally emerging from re-entry blackout. Gets me very time.
Here’s a humorous story about the real Apollo 13. Before the explosion, CAPCOM was discussing that day’s news with the crew when this exchange happened.
CAPCOM: Uh-oh; Have you guys completed your income tax?
Lovell: How do I apply for the extension?
Swigert: That ain’t too funny. Things kinda happened real fast down there, and I do need the extension. I didn’t get mine filed. I’m really serious. I may be spending time in another quarantine than the one they’re planning for me.
CAPCOM: We’ll see what we can do Jack. We’ll get with recovery and see if we can get the agent out there in the Pacific when you come back.
Lovell: Houston this is 13, is it true that Jack’s income tax return was to be used to buy the ascent fuel for the LM?
Jack did get the extension and filed his taxes when he got back.
And just imagine, a smart phone has more computing power than that entire craft had, so its really quite impressive they were able to achieve space flight to go all the way to the moon (even with the trouble they had) and back. Remarkable piece of engineering and science. The timing of this video is also interesting too because just recently in the news we're hearing the problems in getting two existing astronauts that are currently stuck on the international space station due to a problem with Boeing's own module. Though being stuck on a space station isn't as urgent a problem as what Apollo 13 had. Great movie based on the true story.
The biggest problem with the film is that they portrayed Swigart like a total amateur. That was never the case. Lovell and Haise had full confidence in him. Swigart actually helped design some of the equipment they used in space. Also, the majority of the solutions to the problems were done by Glynn Lunney's (Marc McClure in the movie) crew, not Gene Krantz's. Krantz never uttered the phrase "Failure is not an option." That was made up for the film. And there were many who worked on the procedure to land, not just Ken Mattingly.
Also it galls me that they took credit away from John Aaron for coming up with the "reverse the flow" solution to the power problem and gave it to Mattingly.
I loved this film on the big screen when it first came out and today, it is still in my top 5 movies of all time. I can’t fault any part of it
If you rewatch Episode 3 of Season 2 of The Mandalorian, you'll see several shots that are influenced from this film. It makes sense as Ron Howard's daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, directed that episode. There's a shot of the Razorcrest coming into the atmosphere with condensation dripping off the panels that's directly pulled from this film. Great homages to her father!
Jesus, it just occurred to me that more time has passed between now and when the movie was made than the time between the movie and the actual event. Damn I'm old.
Another lovely Apollo Mission related film is called "The Dish"... It's an Aussie film and is well worth the watch...
Yes! Unfortunately I don't think it's currently streaming.
I'm old enough to remember this real life event. I was a huge space nut (still am) and remember the first moon landing and all subsequent flights. I actually went to school with one of the directors/managers at NASA (William "Bill" Cooke) and we used to play Risk in school during study hall in the library. After high school he worked at the local planetarium/observatory for a little while before going to NASA. I used to go hang out and we would just play with those big telescopes finding all sorts of cool stuff to look at.
Jack Swigert was treated appallingly in this film, the man is dead and had he been alive there is no way they would've gone ahead with the story of him being a clap ridden playboy who was somehow an average astronaut who flew off the handle. Swigert was actually a guy who wrote a lot of the emergency procedures for the Apollo CM. Ron Howard and Jim Lovell should be ashamed of portraying him in such a negative way. Without him they probably wouldn't have made it home. He knew that Command Module inside and out.
And he didn't give Frank the clap; Frank got a urinary tract infection from... not drinking enough water like Jim said.
I’ve always loved this movie. I admire astronauts who risk their lives in space. If you want to imagine the horrors of being stuck in space. Apollo 13 tells the perfect drama story of the time we feared possibly one of the greatest near misses in the history of NASA.
These intros are getting so elaborate 😂 i love it ❤
21:10 To be fair to the doctor, there wasn't a test that would have told them for sure if Ken had measles or not, and the first sign if he did would likely have been him suddenly running a fever likely over 104F, and tends to last 4 days. So even without the actual malfunction, the mission might have had to be scrubbed if he'd been sick, and taking him of was the safer option.
0:40 If runners get athlete’s foot, what do astronauts get? Missile-toe!
19:59 This guy in the glasses is John Aaron. He was a legend at NASA; I looked back, and I told you to look him up three years ago when you reacted to “The Martian.” He was one of the original “steely-eyed missile men”: he pretty much single-handedly saved Apollo 12 because (mostly by accident) he knew what to do when the craft was struck by lightning during takeoff, and he played a key role in saving this mission as well. (That’s one of the reasons why Gene stops and takes him so seriously when he declares how much less power the astronauts have to use than everyone else says they do).
25:59 The man playing the captain of the ship talking to Tom Hanks here is the real Jim Lovell.
This movie is probably my most rewatched film.
Please give the Star Trek franchise a chance. 🖖🖖🏻🖖🏼🖖🏽🖖🏾🖖🏿
o yeees
The old movies, not the newer ones. Those are ass.
Yes please!!
@@joenobody5631 I don't understand.
@@57kwest The Star Trek movies JJ Abrams made in the 2000s with Chris Pine as Captain Kirk are bad. Nat should check out the old Star Trek movies from the '80s. Those are fun.
One of the things I loved about the scene where they install the jury-rigged filter, is how completely anti-climactic the reaction is. You just see Tom Hanks just kind of smile a bit, and then they move on. What I love about this is because of an interview with one of the members of the actual crew of 13, who said that the thing worked like a charm, they had zero issues with it, and it just started working right away. So I always like to think that kind of just, casual tone of "yep, that problem is done, next!" was to try and catch that feeling. Where it was a serious problem, but one that was easily handled and soundly resolved by the technicians.
Have you seen the end of "The Martian"? Your "yep, that problem is done, next!" reminds me of that ending.
@@gnericgnome4214 yeah i've seen that. and i'm sure that was on purpose, when he wrote that book. seeing as he HEAVILY researched the various sciences and organizations that handle space flight, so he could try and make The Martian as accurate as possible. So I'm sure he probably listened to several interviews from the Apollo 13 crew and support teams about how they dealt with it. the general mindset and everything. But I am mostly getting that from a documentary I remember seeing about 13 around the time it came out, and that was basically how one of the people interviewed described how they tackled it. Address a problem, solved? Sweet, moving on to next problem. No time to quibble about stuff.
Best movie of 1995, still gives me the exact same feeling every time I watch it, so glad you've seen it now too!
Best movie ever.
Also what a lot of people don't know is that this was Lovell's fourth space mission, making him one of the most experiences astronauts NASA had.
He was pilot of Gemini 7, served as capcom for Gemini 8 and 9 from Houston and commanded Gemini 12. He was also on the crew for Apollo 8, the first start with a Saturn V rocket and the first flight going for the moon. To this day, he is the only man who flew to the moon twice without landing on it.
I love the acting when Marilyn delivers the line about taking it up with her husband "he'll be home on Friday;" there's an ever so slight tremor in her voice that really conveys how, despite her fear, she is holding onto hope and faith through sheer force of will.
I _highly_ recommend reading the book _Lost_ _Moon_ on which this movie is based. It provides a wealth of greater detail about all of the problems and challenges the mission faced, and the amazing achievement by everyone involved in overcoming them. It is also incredibly gripping, and highly readable.
I had grown in the 70s in Houston. There had been a documentary made, and we had studied it in school, so I knew what happened. Even knowing the result, the movie does such a good job building the tension that it emotionally impacts me.
My grandma worked for NASA during the Apollo missions she was just a secretary but she had some great stories.
I was a wee tyke in 1970, but I remember the adults being glued to the console TV and newspapers for a week. They didn't step around the truth, just told it to me in terms I'd understand. The stress nationwide was palpable, the return, a riot of joy. All of my childhood impressions came back to me when I sat in the theater to watch to movie's premier. Even knowing the story, there was a pit of tension watching it play out on the big screen. Apollo 13 may not have made the moon, but they did orbit it, something more than 99% of humanity cannot say. More importantly, in their survival, they gave NASA a significant boost in understanding how to deal with in-space issues. Perhaps that will still be vitally useful when the next generation returns soon.
Listening to your final comments, I have to say I have a new appreciation for the pacing of this film as well, because as you said they put in a lot of character work that may not necessarily have been something other filmmakers would have done, but I feel like it was important for how they were doing suspense specifically in this film, in making you care about the people involved, and it made the movie longer of course and a lot of people would complain about that in a lot of films.. but I think they did it so well in this one that you barely notice how long it was, which is a mark of a great filmmaking procedure as well.
9:53 Yeah, nice car. Alan Shepard, first American in space, got a Corvette as a price for his feature. After that, Jim Rathmann, who owned a Chevrolet dealership near the Kennedy Space Center, offered special leases to the Mercury astronauts, allowing them to lease a Corvette for $1 per year. That offer was maintained for Gemini and Apollo program astronauts. Several of them take advantage from that offer, and Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert from Apollo 13 had Corvettes too.
Spaceflights have very particular launch windows in which the positions of the Earth and the target (in this case the Moon) are in the correct positions. You can't delay a launch past this window without completely redoing the flight plan, and in some cases you may have to wait as much as months or a year for another window in which everything is aligned the way you need it.
One of my favorite details is in the discussion over the measles, with the Crawler-Transporter driving by. I got to see it in person when I was a kid, and its size is unbelievable -- it was built to carry a complete Saturn V rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pad. It drives on a track of river rocks that has to be refilled after every trip because it crushes the rocks and pushes them into the soft Florida "soil".
And then there's the Vehicle Assembly Building itself. There's an American flag painted on the side and it looks perfectly in proportion with the building -- but the stripes on the flag are the width of a traffic lane.
Really enjoying your breakdowns at the end of your videos. Been following for the last couple years and your production keeps getting better and better. Kudos!
Knowing the procedures by hearth at this stage, simulated it, scratching my head, and growing from zero to 3/4 in maths, the humans involved in all of it deserve all respect ; and I salute them.