My father was one of the engineers who designed that heatshield. We watched this on TV, and all my dad kept saying during that 3 minutes of silence was "The shield'll hold. The shield'll hold". He was right. He passed away in 2013.
@@StickFigureStudios Oh yes, he was a huge fan of the movie. Our whole family was very much into NASA and the space program. No lie, my very first memory is of the first moon landing on our black and white TV in the living room, when I was 4 years old.
@Popcorn In Bed Another great space related movie is; "October Sky". Starring a young Jake Gyllenhaal. It's also based on a true story too! It's really good. If you haven't already, I'd strongly recommend it. 😁
It's so sweet how she's genuinely concerned for the safety of those astronauts because she doesn't know how Apollo 13 ended up making the movie even the more of an emotional roller coaster!
I lived through that event as a kid, we watched it all unfold day by day in real time, and despite knowing they got home safe, I was still on the edge of my seat watching the movie the first time I saw it in the theater, especially those last few minutes. I’ve seen it dozens of times since then, and the suspense still gets me.
When I saw it at the cinema as a teen in 1995, I didn't know the outcome either. That reentry scene is *tense* when you don't know. Ever since, I've been a real space nerd. I was a science fiction fan before, but this movie got me into the real stuff.
According to Gary's Biography, he CHOSE the part of Ken Mattingly. He wanted to be one of those who helped get the crew home, instead of just hanging around in space....
@@Emper0rH0rdePlease watch it!! It’s one of the best movies ever! It’s emotional, but it’s also got a lot of comedy in it. I think you’ll really enjoy it. It is sad though.😢
Despite all the incredible achievements in space, I understand that NASA still class Apollo 13 their finest hour, to actually get the three of them home safely despite how in danger they were and so far away. Incredible!
Been to the Kennedy Space Center, amazing place, they too still consider Apollo 13 as NASA’s greatest victory. When three astronauts defied the fate of Space and made sure they got home safely. Even the Soviet Union at the time expressed concern, prayed, and were glad for the successful safe return of the Apollo Mission Crew. The whole world literally held its breathe. It wasn’t just an American or Western victory, it was a Human victory for the world.
They can call it their finest hour since no one has been to the moon for half a century. With no moon mission there has been no opportunity for an even finer hour.
One of Ron Howard’s best movies. Loved your reactions Cassie, they were mine when I saw it for the first time in a theater. Nice “Popcorn in Bed” moon graphic.
@@mlose50 Clint Howard was also great in this, he is often in his big brother's movies but he often plays a small part or a comedy part but I feel this was his best role as the straight-talking realist who knows their only hope of survival is to say goodbye to the moon.
"With all due respect sir, I believe this is going to be our finest hour" This line always gets to me! The sheer confidence and strength of will and belief that when the pressure to deliver is highest everyone would step up to the plate, and they did!!
Its a great movie. but its disrupting me that they are over reacting. Everybody is stressed, and screaming. I can recommand everybody to listen to the real recorded coms of the incident. ruclips.net/p/PLC1yaZz2qeGqg8dvPgwcY9UFVlFMIjDmW here is the coms for whole apolo 13 mission, you can find shortervideos which put together the important moments. Than you will recognise what is so amazing. They talk about live and death which wil acure in a short amount of time. The astronauts and flight stay so calm, and thats more exciting than this over dramatic acting.
I wrote to NASA once (from England) and asked for some information to share at school about the Apollo Mission.I didn't hear anything for nearly two months and had decided that I wouldn't get anything when a huge parcel came with enough posters and leaflets to fill two classrooms !!
I got the same packet in 1995. Although I was asking for information about the other Apollo missions, and it was stamped "Apollo 13" and got the standard package.
A lot of reactors seem to be confused by the stuff falling off the rocket. That's ice, frozen condensation, that breaks free because of the intense vibration of the rocket engines. Rocket fuel consists of two separate chemicals that get mixed in the engine (where it basically explodes in a controlled, directed fashion to produce thrust), and one of those chemicals is liquid oxygen. Gaseous oxygen wouldn't have the density necessary to fit in the tank and provide enough fuel to get to space, so they supercool the oxygen to below -297 degrees F until it turns liquid and compresses much better in the tank. It gets pumped into the rocket shortly before takeoff. This causes the body of the rocket to get colder and colder, until water vapor in the air starts to condense and freeze onto the side of the rocket. These large sheets of ice start falling off as soon as the rocket engine starts up. This is normal and expected.
Yes. 1st stage ran on liquid oxygen and RP-1 (basically kerosene). The 2nd and 3rd stages where cryogenic, running on liquid oxygen AND liquid hydrogen, the latter needs to be stored on even lower temperatures. Hydrogen burning rocket engines are more efficient, providing more delta V for the same density of fuel. It does come with some compromises, such that hydrogen will boil off / evaporate faster than the oxygen, which needs to be vented off in space. Also while more efficient, it does not provide as much thrust. This is why the Space Shuttle (and many other rockets running hydrogen in the first stage like Ariene 5 and the new Ariene 6, SLS and the now retired Delta IV) used additional solid rocket boosters to provide extra thrust until sufficient fuel has been used up lightening the rocket. Also, RP-1 is considerably more dense than liquid hydrogen. This is very noticeable by how repetitively short the Saturn 5 first stage is, compared to the 2nd stage, even though the first stage had to lift the rocket at it's heaviest. (42 m vs 25 m), running 168 seconds vs 360 (e.g. roughly less 4 times as much volume as stage 2), but 6.7 times it's thrust (34.5 vs 5.14 kN maximum thrust)
My daughter, a 12-year-old who is currently interested in becoming an engineer, has a placard on her wall with Gene Krantz’ famous quote “failure is not an option.” I love how this movie pays homage to the unsung heroes behind the scenes. The engineers, other astronauts, and all manner of brilliant and brave people Who make the impossible possible.
I don't want to dissuade your daughter as it's a great quote to live by, but Gene Kranz never said those words in real life, they were put into his mouth for the movie.
Fun fact: The real Jim Lovell had a cameo as the Captain aboard the carrier who shook Tom Hanks' hand at the end. Director Ron Howard gave him the option to play the Admiral but he declined stating: "I retired a Captain. And a Captain I will stay." Also, Marilyn Lovell losing her ring in the shower prior to the launch really did happen.
I'm an old man now, so forgive me telling "old man" stories....but I remember watching the 1st landing on the moon live and the excitement everyone had all over the world at that event. Then when Apollo 13 came along, those last 4 days from the time of the cryotank explosion to the successful splashdown were the most stressful days of my teenage life. I was literally holding my breath from the beginning of the "blackout" until Jim Lovell's voice came over my black and white television's speaker. Can't even begin to describe the emotions I felt...and I was just a kid in the middle of nowhere with no ties of any kind to the space program, other than a deep fascination and love for the adventure it represented. (Fun fact: it was actually pilot Jack Swigert, not Jim Lovell, who said, "Houston, we've had a problem" in his best test pilot 'we're-still-in-control' voice.)
As one old man to another, I had very similar feelings. I still remember hearing the news that Gus, Ed, and Roger died in the Apollo 1 fire. I remember exactly where I was, leaning over the back of the couch, watching Neil and Buzz descend to the lunar surface. And the tension lasting days hoping the 13 crew would make it home safe.
I was 10 years old when they landed on the moon. I still remember it like yesterday. Watching it on my parents black & white TV. I remember going outside in the early evening to look up at the moon. It seemed like I stared at it forever even though it was probably only 5 minutes or so. It was just so amazing to think that there were actually humans walking around on it at the time.
When I first saw this in one of the loudest theater screens imaginable when I was 11, it is one of the few movies that genuinely made me proud to be an American, and proud of the human spirit to never give up no matter how many problems come your way.
There's another historical drama about the formation of NASA itself called "The Right Stuff" (1983) you would like, and has a few good actors you're familiar with. Ask your husband about it as I'd bet he's seen it. If not, you'd both enjoy that one and what's become a companion piece to Apollo 13, the 12 episode mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon" (1995) hosted by Tom Hanks who along with Ron Howard produced it. It's a great drama series about all the Apollo missions and one Mercury and a couple Gemini missions to set the stage for Apollo. BTW, the man at 35:07 Tom Hanks is shaking hands with dressed in the captain's uniform is the real Jim Lovell doing a cameo! 🖖😎
100% agree that "From the Earth to the Moon" should be on the list to watch. It is the perfect companion to Apollo 13, and ticks a lot of great boxes (differing levels of drama, historical, inspirational, enlightening in the way it approaches some unexpected topics, the list goes on...)
Two awesome recommendations. The Right Stuff would be a "prequel", as it is about the Mercury 7 astronauts, with a side story about flying legend Chuck Yeager, who broke the sound barrier.
@@jeffshirton7234 Oh yeah. How could I forget to mention Chuck Yeager! He plays a cameo in it too. I think she's going to have fun with that one. And so are we. 😁
Like this movie, both "The Right Stuff" and "From the Earth to the Moon" spend time with the wives and families as well as the astronauts themselves and the NASA personnel working behind the scenes.
I remember this so clearly, even over here in England we were glued to the news every night wondering how they were going to get the astronauts back. It truly was a world-wide event.
Very interesting. Was it like it is in the movie, where people were sort of "meh" about people going to the moon again but suddenly invested when the danger became known?
@@PaulC-Drums It was a mixture of responses, there were people who were "meh" and people who were still interested. I was a bit of a geek so I was interested in what both the Americans and the Russians were doing in space. Some people felt it was a waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere, however they didn't realise what things came out of the space programme (later on down the line for example there were microwave ovens. Now we may have got them eventually, but we got them sooner because of the Space programme).
@@davidmckie7128 The Spaceprogram was never that "popular" in the USA. Obviously people today are being nostalgic, and sometimes try to "rewrite" history, since they ended up going to the moon first, but as we saw in this movie, people were already "fed up" by the time Apollo 13 came around. It's also worth mentioning that no one had ever seen live TV from the Mercury & Gemini programme(s). The first Live TV came from Apollo 7, and it was black & white, same with Apollo 8 & 9. Apollo 10 was the first mission that had color TV, and Apollo 12 was the first mission that had color TV from the surface of the moon (Apollo 11 only had grainy black & white tv), but Alan Bean managed to point the camera directly at the sun, destroying the tv-camera in the process, so Apollo 12's EVA was only transmitted for some 15 minutes. As for my family (I was born in 1988) in Norway), I haven't really heard any of them mentioning Apollo 13 at all. My dad was born in 1955 and he has vague memories of Apollo 11 (he was 13-14 when Apollo 11 landed) landing on the moon, but they didn't have a TV set (Norway was still reeling from the effects of WW2 at the time, so many families were poor and thus couldn't afford TV sets) so he didn't see any footage of the mission himself, he just read about it in the paper the day after. Apollo 13 was the movie that got me into spaceflight (I was already into aviation), my father (and my uncle) took me and my cousin to see it when it came out in 95. I'd barely started in 1st grade when it was released. It's still one of my favorite movies of all time. Cheers!
"One NASA employee, who was a consultant for the film, said that the set was so realistic that he would leave at the end of the day and look for the elevator before remembering he was not in Mission Control."
Exactly! I say this all the time. You know the outcome and you are STILL on the edge of your seat even watching it for the tenth time! Ron Howard's best movie, IMHO.
@@Wolfsschanze99 This seems to have been a family affair for director Ron Howard. Not only did his brother Clint Howard play the role of one of the NASA engineers in the control room, but also his real-life mom and dad, Jean and Rance Howard, played small roles in the movie. She played the role of the grandmother and his dad played the role of the priest who was sitting on the sofa while they were all waiting for the space capsule's reentry to be successful.
I believe the Apollo 13 story, and with that the entire Apollo program, should be viewed as one of the greatest engineering and human achievements on record. For Apollo 13 specifically, it shows the engineering resiliency and flexibility of mind for safely recovering the crew. Using slide-rulers might seem old fashioned, however, computing power back then was still in its infancy and your modern-day smart phone would dwarf the entire computing capability of NASA as a whole, although the Apollo flight computer was wildly advanced for its day. Something like that is also very well shown in the movie 'Hidden Figures', which I highly recommend!!
It’s crazy how much we take for granted regards computing power on a smart phone ,watched documentary with the real ground crew at NASA and the guidance system was pre programmed and could only do what it was designed to do and couldn’t problem solve in real time like you would expect today ,maybe not being very clear but that’s how I took it….👍
The modern day smartphone could dwarf their computing capabilities, but no computer is more advanced than the human brain, which is amazing to see with NASA as they scrambled to get their numerical issues figured out and have them checked numerous times in such a short amount of time only using their brains and a slide ruler, and them trying to get a square into a circle in a short amount of time. Just amazing.
This is why my favorite line in the film is Lovell talking of the Apollo 11 moon landing, that "it wasn't a miracle, we just decided to go". This was the mindset that got humanity to the moon
So many people forget that this was done in the days before computers or handheld calculators. These guys are actually doing math and using slide rulers.
there were computers, just not as we think of them today. they had some of the first integrated circuits ever used in a big system like this. But yes, they didn't have calculators; however, I doubt they didn't check the math w/the computers they did have at MIT, etc.
I have collected a few slide rules. My Grail is a Pickett N600ES--that was the model that NASA chose to issue to the Apollo flight crews for use on the missions.
The first computer as we understand it was ENIAC, which was built in 1945. By the time of the Apollo missions, there were all sorts of computers involved. Including several at NASA and two aboard each Apollo mission (one in the command module, one on the lunar module).
Congratulations on your one year channel anniversary! I recently became disabled during my deployment in the Navy, and spend most of my time in bed these days. Getting to relive these great movie moments with you and seeing your reactions to them, has been such a great comfort to my mental health during this difficult time. For that I am incredibly grateful.
OMG!! They seriously need to add a "laugh" emoji to RUclips!!!! I laughed out loud every time you yelled "IS THAT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN?" Honestly your reactions are so sweet. And yes, this movie brings tears to literally every time I watch it. Another Hanks classic!
In real life, when everything started to go wrong on Apollo 13, the crew was actually really calm about it. They didn't panic, they didn't stress, they said everything that the characters in the movie say, but way calmer.
I've seen this movie countless times and it still hits me in the feels. The Apollo program is one of the biggest engineering and technical accomplishments in all of human history.
@@airgunfun4248; Don't forget Richie Cunningham's daughter ... Bryce Dallas Howard (young girl in a yellow shirt, next to Marilyn Lovell, the night before launch scene).
Just came across your channel recommended by my husband! I work in a space museum that has the real Apollo 13 command module! We even do an activity with students about the co2 emergency. I even got to meet Fred Haise in 2022, he was so kind and sweet! Watching you watch this for the first time was amazing!
MARY!!! We're so happy you're here! We'd love to see some of your suggested movies for Cassie to watch! Just leave your ideas in a comment below any video! -Jon
As a young child I remember this happening and the whole town glued to their T.V's. It was the only subject of conversation. A few years later, still in grade school, I got to meet Jack Swigert when he came to my school to speak. It took all my courage to ask him a question. His to this day, is the only autograph I've ever kept.
I had the privilege of growing up during the Apollo program. It was such an emotional time for our nation. The cold war was going strong and while Russia beat us into space with the Sputnik satellite, we responded to the challenge and scare with John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "send a man to the moon and safely return him by the end of the decade." Nobody believed it could happen but it did. There were many losses and failures along the way but the culmination with Apollo 11's landing and Neil Armstrong's first walk on the moon was glorious. I remember watching it all unfold on our black and white TV and running outside and looking up at the moon with tears in my eyes thinking, "Wow, a man is actually walking on the moon!" His famous words, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," have a slight glitch in the audio. What was allegedly said was, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." There is much debate about what difference this nuance might make. There are lots of interesting facts about going to moon, such as the computing power of all of the computers that sent men to the moon is less than what is contained in a desktop computer today. It truly was an engineering miracle and the fact that it did happen, "before the end of the decade," is even more outstanding. NASA was truly the engineering wonder of the world in its hay day. Unfortunately, politics and too much government involvement has tarnished not only NASA's image but it's ability to achieve such feats going forward. The Apollo program was certainly an era of pride for our nation.
@@alanholck7995 Yes I have seen that. Inspiring! In today's world a celebration such as that would be ridiculed and shut down. Those truly were the glory years of NASA, in my opinion. As great as the Space Shuttle program was, it just doesn't compare to the Apollo Program in my opinion.
I didn't come into the world until 1974, but this still stands as one of my 10 all-time favorite movies, not only because I love TRUE stories, but the brainpower that it took to bring these astronauts home safely just blows my comparatively primitive mind away.
Apollo 13 was the best science nerd movie since The Andromeda Strain from 1971. Watching a bunch of guys in neckties literally try to figure out how to put a square peg in a round hole was more riveting to me than most car chases and shoot out scenes. I also highly recommend the recent 'The Martian' with Ridley Scott and Matt Damon for anyone who loved the problem solving aspects ofApollo 13.
That’s the movie magic part I’m sad to say. MAYBE that happened back then, but I can pretty much promise you that no one in that room would be able to come up with a solution in today’s space program. The people on console are literally human robots and if an issue occurs and there’s not a step by step process to fix the issue, they’re blank. The ones who would find a solution to those issues are no where close to that room and not wearing neck ties.
I saw this movie in the theater in 1995 with my wife. I knew the story of Apollo 13, I knew how it ended, and even I was on edge until they splashed down. That's how good this movie is. The music during the launch is utterly perfect; a triumphant, soaring score, celebrating man's desire to go out there, to explore. An amazing film.
The way the music swells as the capsule is finally revealed with the parachutes deploying behind it is the greatest part. I get chills every time I see it. Heck, I have the album, I get chills every time I *hear* that part. It's a master class in building drama with sight and sound to a conclusion. Hollywood should take note, they used to be that good at this thing.
This movie literally captured my soul when I saw it in the theaters. I too knew the story, I knew how it ended, I knew the major points, but none of that mattered. I saw it in theaters four times, and this as a teenager who had to rely on someone else to take me there and pay for the tickets. I was even going for a fifth time, but it was no longer at the theater at the time. Apollo 13 occupies a permanent place as my #1 favorite movie, I don't care what else comes out till the day I die. Nothing will de-throne it.
When I saw this movie at the theatre, a line for tickets formed around the block, the first time possibly since the original 'Star Wars', and this was at least two weeks after the opening night. I went with two friends and the theatre was so crowded we couldn't sit together but it was either that or come back the next evening. When the time came for the re-entry scene not a person spoke and you could feel the collective tension in the air. When they turned out to be safe everyone cheered, something I'd never heard at the movies before, and a lady near me was crying. Not bad for a story where you already knew the ending.
I remember when this happened and how fixated we were on the coverage on television. My school stopped regular learning and we were sent to the auditorium where all of us watched the news coverage on television. It was so emotional. If you want to watch more historical space movies you should watch the Right Stuff which was also about the early American astronauts, a great movie.
The Right Stuff is a truly great movie - one of those films I came across one late night channel-flipping and could not stop watching (I was fortunate to catch its first minute or so). And its main character is _not_ an astronaut, but the first man who flew faster than the speed of sound, Chuck Yeager. When I first saw it, I found the book it was based on in a library and read it. The film was very long but did not cover half the real-life stories condensed into that book, so the book is highly recommended, too.
Great, great film. But it is pretty theatrical in certain aspects, to create tension and enagage the audience. Alan Shepard's Corvette went on the auction block yesterday.
VERY enthusiastic seconding for The Right Stuff, which by rights should have won the Best Picture Oscar for that year rather than Terms of Endearment...although there is a movie from 1969 (the year of Apollo 11, interestingly enough) called Marooned, which tells a fictional story of three astronauts trapped in a space capsule that can't break orbit and return to Earth, eerily presaging the epic actuality of Apollo 13. It might be good for a viewing, but not necessarily a reacting. (It's a long film, very technical and dialogue-driven and the special effects don't age well, but the human dilemma comes through loud and clear. Besides, it has a truly stellar cast.) 😎
I Love watching your reactions. When I was a child we went over to a friends house to watch the first walk on the moon. A member of our Church was the brother of one of the Astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire. Over 40 years later I was blessed with the Honor and Privileged of preforming Military Funeral Honors for the Navy while in the Navy Reserve. One of the Military Funeral Honors I was in, we got to the funeral home and they had their chapel set up with pictures from when the Sailor was doing his Navy Job. He was a Rescue Swimmer and they had two large pictures sitting on easels on each side of the urn of him jumping out of the helicopter to recover the Apollo 13 crew and command capsule. One had him in mid-air falling from the helicopter to the ocean. The other had him helping an astronaut out of the command capsule.
that was true about the prayers all over the world. My mother who passed away in 2008, use to tell me how she prayed hard for those astrononts to make it safe home and she lived at that time no where near the United State at the time.
Gene Cernan, who flew to the Moon on Apollos 10 & 17, called this film the scariest he ever saw; since he’d made the trip twice himself, and worked on the ground supporting other flights (including assisting in solving problems on this one), it’s easy to understand why. Apollo 13 was one of the first movies I saw in a theater; I was only seven when it came out, but as I’d been an aviation history nut since I was three or four (and still am), there was no way I was going to miss it. It’s been a favorite ever since; am very pleased you watched it. In recent years there have been a number of good space/sci-fi flicks coming out, like Interstellar, Arrival, First Man, Ad Astra and so forth; hope you get to more of those. Interstellar is especially good. One has to wonder if the casting of Ed Harris (as Gene Kranz) was a nod to his playing John Glenn a decade earlier in The Right Stuff; that film, unlike Apollo 13, was not a box-office success, but it’s accumulated a strong following over the years (in which I proudly include myself!). It’s not as strictly faithful to the facts as Apollo 13 is, but is great in its own way, and discusses an era of the space program (the Mercury flights) that is often overlooked now. On the subject of accuracy, if you want to compare the movie to the real thing, here’s the actual Apollo 13 launch: ruclips.net/video/whtg0XgEzSk/видео.html And here’s audio from when they first reported their ‘problem’: ruclips.net/video/PpTleKyn3gc/видео.html
@@garykuovideos I think it was Ron Howard who said that, if you only listened to the air-ground communications (or even the mission control conversations) you might not even realize anything had gone wrong - everyone usually spoke in a pretty flat, calm way. Some of the crews were a bit more colorful in their chatter, like 12 or 17. Apollo 12 was hit by lightning soon after launch; you can hear the comms for that here (ruclips.net/video/31qt9jgtMMI/видео.html).
Yeah i wrote a comment of the inaccuracies and i believe Dave Scott was on hand for technical help and not happy with "colour" the film had if you like? It was a team effort and portraying Gary Senese in the CM alone when actually they brought in everyone in every simulator and at grumman ect to work all this stuff out given the extreme time pressures. Film tries to make the film personal but NASA, its all team and no individual saves the day as such. The Filter was made back around apollo 8 so they just sent the instructions up and tons of little things such as their cript was taken from other missions of little sayings Lovell says and the explosion and girating and all that wasting all that fuel , Lovel said there was a bang and little shimmy than all quiet and so leak which likely shallowed them as they approached the earth and came in thin and long till radio contact was made again after 4 mins Ron howard made a film not a documentary i think is fair although lots of this is accurate and the set up in the zero G plane with scenes of them weightless are great if not a diff lighting so you see that!! haha Set craft is bigger inside but otherwise accurate. The real CM is so tiny for 3 men with same space as large station wagon interior. under where "beds" are widens out and toilet there too and food prep
@@StevesFunhouse Yes, I remember the fuss about that; while it's true that the planting of the flag isn't shown, the flag is shown up & flying later. I didn't really take it as a slight, though can certainly understand why others might. (Was actually expecting, if anyone was to take issue with the films I listed, for someone to note the omission of Gravity, which I didn't like that much.)
I was alive when this happened and I knew how it would end, but I still cried like a baby when the movie was over. It is indeed incredible that humans can do these things.
It is so impressive that storytelling can evoke such powerful emotions, isn't it? And to think, I eat salsa and wait for teary eyes and a runny nose to prove I'm still alive and well. And I watch this movie and walk away each time thinking, "It's good to be alive, and prove MY systems are still working." sniffle sniffle
I'm thrilled you watched this one! It really explains what we do as Flight Controllers. I work on the International Space Station, and anytime someone asks me what I do for a living, I ask if they've seen Apollo 13. If so, I'm one of the guys on the ground. Lol. It's honestly the easiest way to describe it. Love seeing movies like these through your eyes! Thanks for doing what you do!
When I went to go see this in the movie theater back when it first came out, it was amazing! At the end, when you see the parachutes open, everyone in the theater burst out in applause and cheers. It was quite a moment!
Apollo 13 is one of those movies I will watch every time it comes on - an amazing story! Thank you so much for reacting to it Cassie! Love you and your channel!
Great reaction! For another great historical space drama, I recommend "The Right Stuff", also has Ed Harris in it. Also about the early Apollo program and the Mercury missions. And also depicts the Apollo fire they mention in this one.
The story of Apollo 13 is one that is honestly hard to believe. It is so far out there on the most slim chance those men came home. This is by far the most monumental task ever done in human history. The men working in the control room literally pulled off an impossible feat to bring them home. The thing that makes this such an incredible feat is thinking about the technology in the 60's compared to what we have to work with now. There is more computing power in your key fob for your car than they had to make this mission possible.
I wouldn't say it's the most monumental task in human history, I'd place the survival of the Endurance crew higher, they were completely alone and didn't have a team of geniuses guiding them through. Apollo 13 was just lucky. They still had their "lifeboat" available in the lunar module which saved their lives. The Nasa scientists did some relatively simple math for their calibre to calculate a new trajectory or slingshot around the moon, it wasn't as dramatic as the movie made out, they came up with the burn time and trajectory very quickly. Then they just had to conserve power by turning off non-essential equipment. Also I'm tired of seeing the computer power comparisons with today's cell phones. It's so misleading. The guidance computer onboard had to do one very simple job, you put in numbers and it calculated a solution. It didn't need to be any more powerful. Nasa had huge room-sized super computers on earth which were a lot more powerful.
The Endurance crew didn't have to worry about running out of air. As dangerous as the ocean and the Antartic can be, they don't hold a candle to space.@@Gecko....
This is one of my favourite and the most inspiring film ever. It encouraged me to pursue engineering. That scene 'we have to fit this, in the hole for this...using nothing but this' is perhaps my favourite part!
@Geeta. If you haven’t already, track down the 6-part series, “Moon Machines” I’m an engineer, too. Moon Machines is the story of engineering problems and how they were overcome. It’s fantastic.
A great Ron Howard movie. Howard's mother played Lovell's mother. His father played the minister sitting with the family, watching the splashdown. His brother played one of the controllers. Jim Lovell played the admiral that greeted the astronauts on the ship after splashdown. Jim Lovell was the only man to go to the Moon twice and never walk on it. Howard filmed the weightless scenes in true weightlessness aboard the Vomit-Comet.
Actually, Lovell was dressed as a Captain. They wanted him to dress as an Admiral but he refused and agreed to dress as a Captain because that was his earned rank when he left the Navy.
@@Kerlanala Not only that, but the real-life skipper of the USS Iwo Jima at the time, Leland Kirkemo, was also a captain at the time of the Apollo 13 mission.
I was in catholic grade school when this happened, and the Pope made an announcement - he told all catholics to pray for the Astronauts and they actually stopped class and we all stood up and prayed together for them. Another good space movie is "The Right Stuff" which shows how the original astronauts were chosen for space flight and how they trained.
I went to a public school, and my fourth-grade teacher (who was a Baptist) had us pray for the astronauts as they were re-entering the atmosphere. That broke the rules as far as what was allowed in school ... and nobody complained.
The irony is that Mattingly never got the measles and Fred Haise was sick through most of the flight. Probably a good thing since Mattingly was instrumental in getting them back home. The Saturn V rocket was massive. It looks small in the movie.
My understanding is that we have lost the know-how over the intervening decades to rebuild a Saturn-5 rocket, having put all of our efforts and energy into the space shuttle and near-Earth orbital projects. (Until Elon Musk hit the scene, that is.)
I was nine when this happened and yes there were days of worldwide stress over this survival situation. That officer in the white uniform greeting Tom Hanks on the aircraft carrier is the real Jim Lovell. Check out the great 1983 movie The Right Stuff.
My mom was a kid when this happened. This was the age when astronauts could believe that NASA prioritized their safety over politics regardless of how true that was.
The film gave Swigert a little to much grief than it was in real life. Swigert was perfectly qualified and no one had any doubt on him being a Command Module Pilot.
Fun Fact: Jim Lovell has said that some parts of the movie involving anger and tension between the crew members during and after the explosion never happened on the mission. Neither he or Fred Haise ever blamed Jack Swigert for the explosion. You can also listen to the radio recording of the incident on RUclips, and it is amazing how calm the crew was despite knowing how much trouble they were really in. If you are interested in learning about the early history of the space program and other Apollo missions, I highly recommend From the Earth to Moon which came out in 1998. A particular episode focusing on Pete Conrad and the crew members of Apollo 12 is my personal favorite. It shows how cool and extraordinary these astronauts really were.
Yeah, the audience kind of needs the tension acting to really feel how dangerous it is. Where in reality they are calm and professional, just matter of fact problem solving. If it were portrayed the way it really was we probably wouldn't appreciate how close it was. One of the best examples of truth through lies in film.
I remember when this happened. I'm of the age where I was able to follow the American space program from Mercury onward. I remember the fire that killed Gus Grissom and others. I remember the first Gemini space walk. I remember standing in my front yard and looking at the Moon on the summer night that the Eagle from Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. I remember Apollo 13 very well. The whole world was indeed watching. Later there was the space shuttle glide tests with the Enterprise (named by a write in campaign by Star Trek fans. In fact, the crew of the fictional Enterprise was there at the shuttle's roll out. At least everyone except William Shatner). Then the later missions including the tragedies of Challenger (where Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher, was part of crew) and the later Columbia disaster. The scene where the TV stations didn't carry the Apollo broadcast reminded me of another movie. Capricorn One is another film about a space mission gone wrong. But not in her way you might think. There's a scene where a NASA official laments that people complained that coverage on a Moon mission preempted a rerun of Here's Lucy. I love that movie. It's well worth seeing. Another great film on the subject is The Right Stuff. It covers the beginnings of NASA and the Mercury program as well as Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier.
it's also fun spotting him on the andy griffith show as leon who always has a pb&j sandwich and especially when he locks barney in one of the jail cells.
The whole scene with them arguing was added for dramatic effect. The men were close and most of all professionals who trained together. Arguments like that were exceedingly rare. I have a friend who worked as a composite artist on this film. It was a blast seeing the props on the sound stages. He worked so many hours on this film, his cat didn’t even recognize him when it was over.
Met Jim Lovell at a dinner ceremony for all the crew members who built the ships. Jim Lovell and Gene Kranz...hearing tell the story was pretty special and surreal.
I've seen this movie a hundred times since the night it first came out, and I cry every single time! It's a phenomenal piece of moviemaking magic, turning a true story into something so agonizingly tense and terrifying without fouling up the facts (fudging some for drama, yeah). It's crazy to think how many things had to go absolutely perfectly for them to survive this. Great reaction to a great movie!
@@JFrazer4303 plenty of people shit talked old Gus back then. It wasn’t until years later that it was proven beyond all doubt that he hadn’t blown the hatch. Gus was a great pilot who had some terrible breaks. 🙁
My grandfather designed the fuel injector for the LEM engine. He had the patent framed and hanging on his wall at his house. As a kid I always thought that was the coolest thing ever.
You really should check out the HBO series “From the Earth to the Moon” that came out after this movie. It goes through the whole US space program from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. It’s worth watching. The elementary school I went to in Clark Air Base was named after Gus Grissom.
On both sides of the reality/fiction scale.... I would recommend both the real story of the space program "From The Earth To The Moon" series, AND for a dabble into the fictional space program, a series called "For All Mankind" which poses a really big 'what if' to the space program history.
I'm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of Roger B. Chaffee. The planetarium at our local museum is named for him, and the runway of the old airport is now the main road of an industrial park, also named Roger B. Chaffee Blvd.
Definitely a vote for this. Tom Hanks likes to work on docudramas after he's been cast in a movie. It's kind of funny, but it gave us From The Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers, both amazing shows.
I would definitely recommend "The Right Stuff" 1983, and also "From The Earth To The Moon" HBO series which was made by the same people as who made "Apollo 13" excellent series.
@@alanholck7995 These Tom Hanks produced HBO shows are all top quality (I think he also produced John Adams for them). There's also a third WW2 series coming from them, but it will be on Apple+
You should really react to “From the Earth to the Moon” which was an HBO miniseries about the entire Apollo moon missions,.. it was produced by Tom Hanks and is a stellar series. Great reaction!
The officer in dress white uniform greeting the crew on the deck of the ship after recovery is the real Jim Lovell (35:09 mins), playing the ship's captain!
Cassie, congratulations on your one-year anniversary. Hopefully many more to come. The Apollo missions started off in a horrible way. Apollo I, with Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White, had a fire inside the capsule while it sat on the launch pad. All three were killed. That incident delayed the program for over a year, but it led to many safety upgrades.
In case you don't know, Jim Lovell had a non-speaking part in the movie. He appears very briefly and is included in Cassie's footage near the end - 35:08. He played the Captain of USS Iwo Jima, the aircraft carrier that "recovered" the astronauts. Lovell (the actor) is shown welcoming Lovell (the astronaut played by Tom Hanks) on board.😀 (Brandon Murphy, and others, already commented about it).
Extra in case you didn't know: Ron Howard wanted to make Lovell an admiral in his shot in the movie (epilates on uniform would indicated rank) and Lovell refused, as he did not reach that rank in real life. He used the rank he was at retirement: captain
I HIGHLY recommend the movie Apollo 11 (2019). It documents the entire moon landing mission from before takeoff until after the astronauts return. Every american should know the story of what these brave men accomplished.
I am so proud of you for watching this movie on your own. It is not always easy to see a movie with so much intensity as this one. I also want to thank you, and your sister for inviting me (and the others watching) to share time with you two during these fun times. Love listening to both of you. You're great together!!! Take care. Barry
Truly made me happy to see Cassie's reaction at the end. Clearly she could empathize with all the people in the film and I think that's genuinely how relieved so many were to see those boys come home safely.
I love this movie & still get emotional watching it despite knowing the outcome. Another movie I think you'd enjoy about the moon landing is The Dish. It's an Australian movie about a satellite dish in Australia that helped to transmit the footage of the landing- quite funny and touching as well.
I watched this unfold as it actually happened. I remember it like it was yesterday. Gene Kranz was the silent beast. He was able to get his way without being abusive or yelling. He was always cool. One of NASA's unknown heroes.
I did too but I also had another connection: my father helped build the Lunar Module and was picked up and taken to work where they had other Lunar Modules so they could replicate conditions and fixes. Everyone (Cape Kennedy, Houston, etc) who put a bolt on any piece of equipment was called in and working to bring them home. The whole square vs. circular CO2 filters were brought up before this but were based on the designs and space available on the command module and lunar module, they could not be changed. They had already developed a way to use either cartridge in either system using stuff available to the astronauts.
Documentaries since then have illustrated how accurate this movie is. Mattingly watches the space shot with a Corvette in the background. General Motors offered free cars to the Mercury 7 astronauts, as American heroes. They all chose Corvettes. Yes, the IRS joke about late taxes actually happened in Mission Control when Swigert said he forgot to file his taxes. Yes the churches around the country and the world were full as people prayed for the crew; President Nixon appealed to the nation to pray for them. The only significant deviation was for plot tension reasons: the real crew didn't resent Swigert's last-minute substitution or feel he would be less capable than Mattingly. They UNDERplayed the issue of the landing instructions. In real life, Houston had to dictate line by line hundreds of instructions for settings for the crew to re-enter the atmosphere properly. Radio reception was spotty at times. The crew (who were exhausted) wrote these complex calculations and settings out by hand, then read them back to confirm. Turns out, they landed closer to their target in the Pacific than many other regular missions. Outstanding performance.
@@swirlingabyss The inaccuracies are super minor. Some technical details the movie makers decided to change to make it easier to understand. The Amperage thing e.g. doesn't make any sense, but the basic idea behind every problem was completely accurate. It's definitely one of the most accurate movies. Probably only surpassed by "Sully", funnily enough also starring Tom Hanks
We have limitless potential either direction. We can be downright horrifying or we can truly reach to the stars. Some people have very low ambitions. There are no words to adequately describe a rocket launch experienced in person.
Yep, the way we've always gotten back from space is basically falling in a fireball, with the ship being protected by heat shields. The shield failing is what led to the Space Shuttle Columbia breaking apart during re-entry. The heat generated by friction can reach hundreds, even thousands of degrees, due to the vehicle traveling thousands of miles per hour.
TECHNICALLY it's not direct friction with the air against the ship that causes the heat. It's that a ship in re-entry is smashing into the air so fast that the air molecules (whatever they may be - nitrogen, oxygen, whatever) just can't get out of the way fast enough and they compress in front of the ship. The air molecules get smashed together so fast that they create a kind of plasma - and THAT is where the heat comes from. The plasma does form a fireball in front of and around the ship as it arcs through the sky and decelerates. And because plasma ions accrue a charge, the whole mess becomes a sort of Faraday Cage around the ship blocking radio transmissions. On the shuttle, they actually could still communicate on a basic level during re-entry because they had antennae situated on the vertical tail of the ship out of the way of most of the plasma. But for capsules, there's always blackout due to the ionized plasma. Basically - energy has to be changed somehow. To shed kinetic velocity - to decelerate - you have two options. You can trade mass for velocity - in other words - burn a rocket engine like the Lunar Module did on descent to the Moon or when a SpaceX Falcon 9 fires it's engines to decelerate. Or you can use the atmosphere as a brake. In which case you're trading velocity for heat. You ARE still right in the general explanation above, of course. But I thought I'd add some extra stuff. :D
It's not so much the shield failing that destroyed Columbia, which implies that it was due to some flaw with the shield itself that gave way during reentry. The leading edge of the wing was impacted by foam shed from the fuel tank during launch, which punctured the heat tiles outright. During reentry, plasma entered the actual interior structure of the wing and tore the ship apart from the inside out. The first indication of a problem on the ground was a loss of sensors and mechanics inside the left wing.
@@Caseytify If the heat shield boils away or not depends on the design. An ablative heat shield like on the Apollo capsule did work way, it technically do not boils away it so thermal decomposition but the general idea is the same, the released material carry away the heat. But there is another design too a thermal soak heat shield. That is what the space shuttle use where you have a material that can handle the heat it is the slow condition of it to the spaceship and radiation of heat to space that keep the inner part getting to wars. Ablative heat shields are simpler but not reusable, you need to replace all of it. A thermal soak heat shield can be reused if it is not damaged and some part need to be replaced like on the space shuttle damages tiles were replaced. The thermal soak design will be used in SpaceX starships to make quick reuse possible.
This movie is based on Jim Lovell’s book “lost moon”. Lovell goes into great and fascinating detail about just what happened, and it’s told as page turner adventure. Lost moon is a must read.
The tolerance for error was so slim it's amazing that they were able to manage it with only one shot and make it back. Kathleen Quinlan who played Marilyn Lovell is highly under rated.
If one closely examines what it took to get the Apollo 13 crew back, it was a greater accomplishment than the first lunar landing. It took the best minds in the world, including Jack Swigert's uncanny ability that determined they were coming in at the wrong angle. If that hadn't been corrected it would have never been recovered.
The right stuff! Great movie beginning of the US Space Program. Mercury was the first then Gemini then Apollo. Movies like this is a great way to teach history. I've always said that.
Thank you for reacting to this, PiB! This film makes me so proud of NASA. As a college and grad student, I interned for NASA three times (twice as an intern and once as a co-op researcher). The men and women at NASA are absolutely amazing. BTW, I won my first internship by mentioning how another amazing space-engineering related film, OCTOBER SKY (starring Jake Gyllenhaal), influenced me. It was based upon the book entitled "Rocket Boys" written by Homer Hickam. As a result, I was hired for that internship and, while working at NASA, I was able to meet Mr. Hickam (who had already retired but was on a book tour). I think that you'd love that film!
In reality, their reentry angle was so shallow from the weight discrepancy of not having moon rocks on board, that it didn't take them four minutes to come out of blackout, it was more than six. Naturally, that was an incredibly tense time at Mission Control.
I wanna say that the real reason the reentry angle was shallow was that there was a small, continuous venting from the Lunar Module's cooling system that the people at NASA failed to account for. Normally that venting only happens for a very short time while the lunar module is powered on, and for most of that the lunar module is either flying on its own, or landed on the moon. For most of the journey to the moon, the lunar module is powered off except for in-flight inspections, and is only powered on for said inspections or when they're getting ready to depart for the moon. This was the first time that the lunar module was powered on continuously, for a long period of time, while still being attached to the command and service module, so of course there were some side effects that they failed to account for, and one of those turned out to be the tiny propulsive force from the cooling system that gradually pushed the spacecraft off course.
What a wonderful reaction! This is the most accurate space-flight movie ever made, and it's unlikely ever to be topped in terms of accuracy. Ron Howard employed Jim and Marilynn Lovell as consultants for the movie. Some scenes were over-dramatised a bit, because stoicism doesn't make for good watching, but this is otherwise completely accurate. The "zero-g" effects are the best we've ever seen, too, because they built a set in a NASA zero-g training aircraft (known as the "vomit comet" for reasons that I'll leave to your imagination). This aircraft flies a series of parabolic arcs, giving about 30 seconds of freefall in each dive. If you watch closely, you'll see that none of the shots in the zero-g scenes is longer than 30 seconds. I already knew much of the story of Apollo 13 before this movie was made, but it's still one of the best movies I've ever seen.
Fantastic film. I remember seeing this in the theater fighting back tears at the end. So emotional. Ron Howard did such an outstanding job directing and should have won the Oscar that year. He wanted the movie to be so authentic that he filmed many scenes in a NASA jet performing parabolic arcs to simulate weightlessness. Ed Harris’s performance as flight director Neil Kranz was stellar. Often when I’m in a situation that looks like it might go the other way, I think of his line, “Gentlemen, I believe this is going to be our finest hour.” I also love Gary Sinese’s performance as Ken Mattingly. Last, but certainly not least, I credit James Horner’s amazing score for adding power and emotion to many of the film’s key scenes. Wonderful film. Glad you were finally able to see it.
The Right Stuff is a fantastic movie about the early space program. That’d be a good react and more context around some of the things mentioned in this film.
As close to a straight-up reenactment documentary as Hollywood has ever gotten. Even among films that are based upon real historical events, the real story of Apollo 13 was such highly extraordinary drama, even in the minutiae, that almost no dramatic exaggeration was necessary. Mattingly really was grounded due to (German) measles exposure; Haise really did contract a UTI while on the flight; Lovell really did pull off his biomed sensors mid-mission; the CO2 scrubber cartridges really were mismatched and a solution jury-rigged on the ground; the comms blackout during reentry really was a full two minutes longer than anticipated. Even the bit with Marilyn accidentally dropping her wedding ring into the shower drain actually did happen (though in real life she was able to recover it). If you're a book fan as well, you really should read "Lost Moon", which was coauthored by Jim Lovell and was the primary basis for the film. It's great and goes into rich detail about the whole story.
Even though this happened 53 years ago your reactions were you seeing and learning about this tonight. It helped me react like I couldn't back then. I was in the Navy aboard a ship in the northern Tonkin Gulf off the coast of North Vietnam and we received news each day but there was no television at sea and no satellites. A couple hours after they came down and were safe did we get a radio communication telling us what happened. If I had been ashore and watching a TV I think my emotions would have a lot like yours. Thank you for doing such a great job.
I was in Vietnam at the time, as well as during Apollo 11. I was able to listen to the moon landing live on AFVN radio, but I missed most of the Apollo 13 coverage.
Such an incredible reaction with every moment felt so earnestly. You're the best, Cassie! I'm so glad you went into it without knowing the outcome and gave us the opportunity to join you on that journey. What an amazing ride.
I just wanted to say happy 1 year on RUclips with your film reactions, and definitely congrats on your success. You seem so genuine and you deserve every bit of success you receive. You are at almost 170k subscribers.... crazy to think that my city is only about 265k people living in it. I can see why people love your content. This is a spectacular movie on every level, and the entire commitment to go to space and specifically the Moon during Kennedy's administration was and still is revolutionary. It has even more significance considering how much was accomplished in such a short period of time, and it is terrible JFK was killed before he could see what all the ideas and concepts would lead to for future space exploration. Regarding the #13.... I never thought it was necessarily an unlucky number. Hell, I golf and play all #13 Titleist golf balls and hit the pin on back to back holes once. One time it was a par 3 tee shot, the next hole was a 2nd shot into a par 4, but neither shot went in, so maybe it is a bit unlucky. You know, I'm not sure, but NASA may not have ever had another mission with "13" designated again (not sure on that, but it is definitely conceivable and understandable). The entire history of the number 13 being unlucky does historically date back to a Friday oddly enough and the Templar Knights and the Catholic Church 800 or 900 years ago. The idea of space travel is definitely terrifying, but I'd do it in a second if I could. As a child, the 3 things thar I wanted to be in life (in this order) were: 1st - Paleontologist (I love fossils and dinosaurs); 2nd - Astronaut (I still remember the first test Space Shuttle being named Enterprise and the original Star Trek crew and Gene Roddenberry being there for that moment) and 3rd - Fireman. I ended up working in the field of Psychology serving people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities and have done that work for the better part of 35 years now; but I'd gladly go to space if I was given the opportunity, even though I know everything that could possibly happen and go wrong up there. Best wishes for you and your family, and I hope all of you stay safe and well, and free of COVID. Keep up the great content! 👍, and I definitely appreciate all the work and time you put into your channel amd your content. Watch Space Cowboys, Armageddon, Don't Look Up, Sunshine, Deep Impact, and The Black Hole (Disney movie from 1978 or 1979)....., oh and Time Bandits!. That's a good starter list to get you started in this genre. Happy hunting!
I remember watching all of this as it happened. I remember when the four minutes had passed that my mom was ready to burst into tears. Then the TV showed the chutes opening and we heard Lovell on the radio. Everyone at Mission Control went crazy. I remember my mom letting out a yelp and applauding.
Contrary to how he was portrayed in the film, Jack Swigert was one of the most experienced Command Module pilots in the Apollo Program. He helped write the Emergency Procedures manual for the Command Module. 07:55 Seven days prior to the Flight, the astronauts were quarantined to the confines of Cape Kennedy; no contact with anyone not directly involved with the Mission and the Launch. That's why they couldn't mingle with their families. It's the same today: now it's two Weeks prior to Launch. Cassie, now there's no excuse... you have to add From The Earth To The Moon to your viewing Schedule. It is most definitely a MUST SEE, seeing how you reacted to this film.
@@StevesFunhouse These guys were the crème de la crème. They were all Air Force pilots and you don’t become an astronaut unless you can be unemotional, focused and professional.
@@StevesFunhouse All you have to do is listen to the Air to Ground loops; many of them are online right here. There are four parts from right before the explosion to right after the initial Burn to bring 13 back to its Free Return trajectory. ruclips.net/video/KWfnY9cRXO4/видео.html
@@StevesFunhouse Ask Fred Haise. Ask Jim Lovell. They're still alive. Fred Haise himself said the quotes about Jack's qualifications. Besides, they were ALL Test Pilots at one point. Those guys do not panic.
@@StevesFunhouse No worries at all. Both Brian Grazer and Ron Howard admitted early on that they added the 'tension' between Fred Haise and Jack Swigert purely for dramatic license. If you listen to the Air to Ground loops, their conversations are pretty calm, almost droll. If anything, you can hear the consternation in Lovell's voice as he polls Capcom Jack Lousma about the various tasks he's relaying to the crew. Swigert and Haise are cool as cucumbers, going through Checklists and almost reading Houston's mind as they send up Procedures to both Odyssey and Aquarius.
Yup, a lot of the dialogue is lifted from the air (or space rather) to ground tapes. They were often "dramaticized" a bit though, since the astronauts themselves spoke in a fairly dull manner, even when under extreme stress.
Apollo 13 is my favorite movie in the whole world. No contest. I choke up watching this movie all the time because of how incredible it is. I feel like I'm right there with the crew and with Mission Control the whole time. It's a feeling that very few movies I've watched have given me.
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My father was one of the engineers who designed that heatshield. We watched this on TV, and all my dad kept saying during that 3 minutes of silence was "The shield'll hold. The shield'll hold". He was right. He passed away in 2013.
wow that is amazing!! thanks for sharing!
Did your father get a chance to see the film?
@@StickFigureStudios Oh yes, he was a huge fan of the movie. Our whole family was very much into NASA and the space program. No lie, my very first memory is of the first moon landing on our black and white TV in the living room, when I was 4 years old.
@@PopcornInBed Ron Howard directed this movie.
@Popcorn In Bed Another great space related movie is; "October Sky". Starring a young Jake Gyllenhaal. It's also based on a true story too! It's really good. If you haven't already, I'd strongly recommend it. 😁
My mother liked how this movie did not have a specific hero but instead emphasized the teamwork.
It's so sweet how she's genuinely concerned for the safety of those astronauts because she doesn't know how Apollo 13 ended up making the movie even the more of an emotional roller coaster!
I lived through that event as a kid, we watched it all unfold day by day in real time, and despite knowing they got home safe, I was still on the edge of my seat watching the movie the first time I saw it in the theater, especially those last few minutes. I’ve seen it dozens of times since then, and the suspense still gets me.
Sweet, and completely ignorant of history!
When I saw it at the cinema as a teen in 1995, I didn't know the outcome either. That reentry scene is *tense* when you don't know.
Ever since, I've been a real space nerd. I was a science fiction fan before, but this movie got me into the real stuff.
"We have a character with limited screen time, but we need for him to be instantly likeable to the audience."
"Cast Gary Sinise."
According to Gary's Biography, he CHOSE the part of Ken Mattingly. He wanted to be one of those who helped get the crew home, instead of just hanging around in space....
I have never seen Forrest Gump, nor have I the slightest desire to do so. I have always, and will always, know Gary Sinise as Ken Mattingly.
@@francescathomas3502Filming would have been a lot easier for him. No filming in a damn diving plane.
Need a character to star in a movie? Don't cast Gary Sinise!
@@Emper0rH0rdePlease watch it!! It’s one of the best movies ever! It’s emotional, but it’s also got a lot of comedy in it. I think you’ll really enjoy it. It is sad though.😢
"Was it the door?" still gives me chills lol
"If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it." That line gets me every damn time.
Except Jack lands it.
@@bertmustin Jimmy could have landed it. But he didn't have to.
Yep, line of the movie for me.
Jim's mom, Blanch Lovell, was played by Jean Speegle Howard who is Ron Howard's mom.
Her delivery of that line was perfection.
Despite all the incredible achievements in space, I understand that NASA still class Apollo 13 their finest hour, to actually get the three of them home safely despite how in danger they were and so far away. Incredible!
Been to the Kennedy Space Center, amazing place, they too still consider Apollo 13 as NASA’s greatest victory. When three astronauts defied the fate of Space and made sure they got home safely. Even the Soviet Union at the time expressed concern, prayed, and were glad for the successful safe return of the Apollo Mission Crew. The whole world literally held its breathe. It wasn’t just an American or Western victory, it was a Human victory for the world.
They can call it their finest hour since no one has been to the moon for half a century.
With no moon mission there has been no opportunity for an even finer hour.
One of Ron Howard’s best movies. Loved your reactions Cassie, they were mine when I saw it for the first time in a theater. Nice “Popcorn in Bed” moon graphic.
@@Merecir I think the so-far successful deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope is a pretty major achievement.
@@mlose50 Clint Howard was also great in this, he is often in his big brother's movies but he often plays a small part or a comedy part but I feel this was his best role as the straight-talking realist who knows their only hope of survival is to say goodbye to the moon.
32:46 The fact that humans could do this 50 YEARS AGO, less than 70 years AFTER inventing powered flight is unbelievable.
Some people are still pretty skeptical, and some people outright don't believe it.
@@jovetjthose people are fools.
RUclips.. "A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Moon".
I had a great aunt who was born in 1898 and dies in 2004. She literally saw the world change from horse and buggy to moon landing in her lifetime.
@@regould221 That's amazing & crazy to think about.
"With all due respect sir, I believe this is going to be our finest hour"
This line always gets to me! The sheer confidence and strength of will and belief that when the pressure to deliver is highest everyone would step up to the plate, and they did!!
Its a great movie. but its disrupting me that they are over reacting. Everybody is stressed, and screaming.
I can recommand everybody to listen to the real recorded coms of the incident.
ruclips.net/p/PLC1yaZz2qeGqg8dvPgwcY9UFVlFMIjDmW
here is the coms for whole apolo 13 mission, you can find shortervideos which put together the important moments. Than you will recognise what is so amazing. They talk about live and death which wil acure in a short amount of time. The astronauts and flight stay so calm, and thats more exciting than this over dramatic acting.
"We have never lost an American in space, and we're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch!"
@Danny Dolan I grew up in Mexico never knowing about this movie, so when I moved to the states I was so confused when people kept saying that to me 😂😂
Fun fact: Jim Lovell has a cameo at the end of the movie. He’s a naval officer greeting & shaking Tom Hanks’ hand when they get on board the carrier.
Also his wife is one of spectators watching the launch
I did not know that.
Oooh, that I didn't know! Is it possible to pick her out of the crowd?
@@kaziu312 She appears 30m50s from beginning of the movie, lady in blue suit/white shirt behind Air Force general.
Thats an awesome fact 👏
I wrote to NASA once (from England) and asked for some information to share at school about the Apollo Mission.I didn't hear anything for nearly two months and had decided that I wouldn't get anything when a huge parcel came with enough posters and leaflets to fill two classrooms !!
I got the same packet in 1995. Although I was asking for information about the other Apollo missions, and it was stamped "Apollo 13" and got the standard package.
A lot of reactors seem to be confused by the stuff falling off the rocket. That's ice, frozen condensation, that breaks free because of the intense vibration of the rocket engines. Rocket fuel consists of two separate chemicals that get mixed in the engine (where it basically explodes in a controlled, directed fashion to produce thrust), and one of those chemicals is liquid oxygen. Gaseous oxygen wouldn't have the density necessary to fit in the tank and provide enough fuel to get to space, so they supercool the oxygen to below -297 degrees F until it turns liquid and compresses much better in the tank. It gets pumped into the rocket shortly before takeoff. This causes the body of the rocket to get colder and colder, until water vapor in the air starts to condense and freeze onto the side of the rocket. These large sheets of ice start falling off as soon as the rocket engine starts up. This is normal and expected.
Yes. 1st stage ran on liquid oxygen and RP-1 (basically kerosene). The 2nd and 3rd stages where cryogenic, running on liquid oxygen AND liquid hydrogen, the latter needs to be stored on even lower temperatures.
Hydrogen burning rocket engines are more efficient, providing more delta V for the same density of fuel. It does come with some compromises, such that hydrogen will boil off / evaporate faster than the oxygen, which needs to be vented off in space. Also while more efficient, it does not provide as much thrust. This is why the Space Shuttle (and many other rockets running hydrogen in the first stage like Ariene 5 and the new Ariene 6, SLS and the now retired Delta IV) used additional solid rocket boosters to provide extra thrust until sufficient fuel has been used up lightening the rocket.
Also, RP-1 is considerably more dense than liquid hydrogen. This is very noticeable by how repetitively short the Saturn 5 first stage is, compared to the 2nd stage, even though the first stage had to lift the rocket at it's heaviest. (42 m vs 25 m), running 168 seconds vs 360 (e.g. roughly less 4 times as much volume as stage 2), but 6.7 times it's thrust (34.5 vs 5.14 kN maximum thrust)
My daughter, a 12-year-old who is currently interested in becoming an engineer, has a placard on her wall with Gene Krantz’ famous quote “failure is not an option.” I love how this movie pays homage to the unsung heroes behind the scenes. The engineers, other astronauts, and all manner of brilliant and brave people Who make the impossible possible.
I don't want to dissuade your daughter as it's a great quote to live by, but Gene Kranz never said those words in real life, they were put into his mouth for the movie.
She should add another placard "Tough and Competent."
Your daughter will become the future John Aaron, Jerry Bostick, Steve Bales, or Cady Coleman. More power to her! 👍🖖😄🚀
@@thatleeburton Although he did subsequently use it as the title of his book.
Very good book it is too.
@@BedsitBob absolutely. The price of admission to mission control
Fun fact: The real Jim Lovell had a cameo as the Captain aboard the carrier who shook Tom Hanks' hand at the end. Director Ron Howard gave him the option to play the Admiral but he declined stating: "I retired a Captain. And a Captain I will stay." Also, Marilyn Lovell losing her ring in the shower prior to the launch really did happen.
And the EECOM was Ron Howard's brother, Clint.
@@ibgvox And Ron Howards mother played Jim Lovells mother. I didn't know that until I had read the comments. :)
And Ron Howard’s father plays the priest at the end.
@@LPJack02 And Ron Howard's daughter recreated several of the Apollo 13 scenes when she directed an episode of The Mandalorian in season 2.
Marilyn Lovell also had a cameo. She was sitting behind the movie Lovell family at the launch.
I'm an old man now, so forgive me telling "old man" stories....but I remember watching the 1st landing on the moon live and the excitement everyone had all over the world at that event. Then when Apollo 13 came along, those last 4 days from the time of the cryotank explosion to the successful splashdown were the most stressful days of my teenage life. I was literally holding my breath from the beginning of the "blackout" until Jim Lovell's voice came over my black and white television's speaker. Can't even begin to describe the emotions I felt...and I was just a kid in the middle of nowhere with no ties of any kind to the space program, other than a deep fascination and love for the adventure it represented. (Fun fact: it was actually pilot Jack Swigert, not Jim Lovell, who said, "Houston, we've had a problem" in his best test pilot 'we're-still-in-control' voice.)
I envy you your oldness for this one
As one old man to another, I had very similar feelings. I still remember hearing the news that Gus, Ed, and Roger died in the Apollo 1 fire. I remember exactly where I was, leaning over the back of the couch, watching Neil and Buzz descend to the lunar surface. And the tension lasting days hoping the 13 crew would make it home safe.
I was 10 years old when they landed on the moon. I still remember it like yesterday. Watching it on my parents black & white TV. I remember going outside in the early evening to look up at the moon. It seemed like I stared at it forever even though it was probably only 5 minutes or so. It was just so amazing to think that there were actually humans walking around on it at the time.
Envy you guys for experiencing something like this. Must have been so inspiring.
@@KMEnterprise hey now. Atleast we got to be here to experience when "keeping up with the kardashians" first aired
When I first saw this in one of the loudest theater screens imaginable when I was 11, it is one of the few movies that genuinely made me proud to be an American, and proud of the human spirit to never give up no matter how many problems come your way.
There's another historical drama about the formation of NASA itself called "The Right Stuff" (1983) you would like, and has a few good actors you're familiar with. Ask your husband about it as I'd bet he's seen it. If not, you'd both enjoy that one and what's become a companion piece to Apollo 13, the 12 episode mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon" (1995) hosted by Tom Hanks who along with Ron Howard produced it. It's a great drama series about all the Apollo missions and one Mercury and a couple Gemini missions to set the stage for Apollo. BTW, the man at 35:07 Tom Hanks is shaking hands with dressed in the captain's uniform is the real Jim Lovell doing a cameo! 🖖😎
100% agree that "From the Earth to the Moon" should be on the list to watch. It is the perfect companion to Apollo 13, and ticks a lot of great boxes (differing levels of drama, historical, inspirational, enlightening in the way it approaches some unexpected topics, the list goes on...)
I was going to suggest "The Right Stuff" when I saw your comment. Great suggestions both.
Two awesome recommendations. The Right Stuff would be a "prequel", as it is about the Mercury 7 astronauts, with a side story about flying legend Chuck Yeager, who broke the sound barrier.
@@jeffshirton7234 Oh yeah. How could I forget to mention Chuck Yeager! He plays a cameo in it too. I think she's going to have fun with that one. And so are we. 😁
Like this movie, both "The Right Stuff" and "From the Earth to the Moon" spend time with the wives and families as well as the astronauts themselves and the NASA personnel working behind the scenes.
I remember this so clearly, even over here in England we were glued to the news every night wondering how they were going to get the astronauts back. It truly was a world-wide event.
Very interesting. Was it like it is in the movie, where people were sort of "meh" about people going to the moon again but suddenly invested when the danger became known?
@@PaulC-Drums Yes, it was accurately portrayed. Everyone around the world was watching and praying.
@@PaulC-Drums I think after the first one the second one isn't as exciting
@@PaulC-Drums It was a mixture of responses, there were people who were "meh" and people who were still interested. I was a bit of a geek so I was interested in what both the Americans and the Russians were doing in space. Some people felt it was a waste of money that could be better spent elsewhere, however they didn't realise what things came out of the space programme (later on down the line for example there were microwave ovens. Now we may have got them eventually, but we got them sooner because of the Space programme).
@@davidmckie7128 The Spaceprogram was never that "popular" in the USA. Obviously people today are being nostalgic, and sometimes try to "rewrite" history, since they ended up going to the moon first, but as we saw in this movie, people were already "fed up" by the time Apollo 13 came around. It's also worth mentioning that no one had ever seen live TV from the Mercury & Gemini programme(s). The first Live TV came from Apollo 7, and it was black & white, same with Apollo 8 & 9. Apollo 10 was the first mission that had color TV, and Apollo 12 was the first mission that had color TV from the surface of the moon (Apollo 11 only had grainy black & white tv), but Alan Bean managed to point the camera directly at the sun, destroying the tv-camera in the process, so Apollo 12's EVA was only transmitted for some 15 minutes.
As for my family (I was born in 1988) in Norway), I haven't really heard any of them mentioning Apollo 13 at all. My dad was born in 1955 and he has vague memories of Apollo 11 (he was 13-14 when Apollo 11 landed) landing on the moon, but they didn't have a TV set (Norway was still reeling from the effects of WW2 at the time, so many families were poor and thus couldn't afford TV sets) so he didn't see any footage of the mission himself, he just read about it in the paper the day after.
Apollo 13 was the movie that got me into spaceflight (I was already into aviation), my father (and my uncle) took me and my cousin to see it when it came out in 95. I'd barely started in 1st grade when it was released. It's still one of my favorite movies of all time.
Cheers!
The film is so well made that even if you know going into it that the crew make it back it's still suspenseful.
Titanic
Thanks, now I don't need to watch the film.
(just joking)
ive seen this movie 100 times and i still get choked up at the end
"One NASA employee, who was a consultant for the film, said that the set was so realistic that he would leave at the end of the day and look for the elevator before remembering he was not in Mission Control."
Exactly! I say this all the time. You know the outcome and you are STILL on the edge of your seat even watching it for the tenth time! Ron Howard's best movie, IMHO.
I can’t believe this film still makes me tear up when I’m just seeing pieces of it from a reaction video. It’s so well made.
LOL - EVERY TIME I see the Saturn V launch sequence my allergies kick in
I am there with both you and Cassie!!!!
The casting on this movie is just A++++, I couldn't imagine anyone else playing these parts. Even the "Minor" roles are so important and well played.
This time, Lieutenant Dan saved Forrest... a great sequel.
Yeah, Ron Howard got the right actors in the right parts, uncanny how closely they resembled the real people.
@@Wolfsschanze99 This seems to have been a family affair for director Ron Howard. Not only did his brother Clint Howard play the role of one of the NASA engineers in the control room, but also his real-life mom and dad, Jean and Rance Howard, played small roles in the movie. She played the role of the grandmother and his dad played the role of the priest who was sitting on the sofa while they were all waiting for the space capsule's reentry to be successful.
@@carlosurdaneta4361 I had no idea, that is amazing, I knew Neil Armstrong & Buzz played themselves.
Ron Howard is one of the best.
@@Wolfsschanze99 : "I knew Neil Armstrong & Buzz played themselves." Well, no. Mark Wheeler as Neil Armstrong; Larry Williams as Buzz Aldrin.
I believe the Apollo 13 story, and with that the entire Apollo program, should be viewed as one of the greatest engineering and human achievements on record. For Apollo 13 specifically, it shows the engineering resiliency and flexibility of mind for safely recovering the crew. Using slide-rulers might seem old fashioned, however, computing power back then was still in its infancy and your modern-day smart phone would dwarf the entire computing capability of NASA as a whole, although the Apollo flight computer was wildly advanced for its day. Something like that is also very well shown in the movie 'Hidden Figures', which I highly recommend!!
It’s crazy how much we take for granted regards computing power on a smart phone ,watched documentary with the real ground crew at NASA and the guidance system was pre programmed and could only do what it was designed to do and couldn’t problem solve in real time like you would expect today ,maybe not being very clear but that’s how I took it….👍
Love Hidden Fences
The modern day smartphone could dwarf their computing capabilities, but no computer is more advanced than the human brain, which is amazing to see with NASA as they scrambled to get their numerical issues figured out and have them checked numerous times in such a short amount of time only using their brains and a slide ruler, and them trying to get a square into a circle in a short amount of time. Just amazing.
This is why my favorite line in the film is Lovell talking of the Apollo 11 moon landing, that "it wasn't a miracle, we just decided to go". This was the mindset that got humanity to the moon
@@quiett6191 Along with immense funding, and competition with the Soviet Union.
Glad to see so many people suggesting The Right Stuff. Excellent movie and basically a prequel.
If you haven't read the book you MUST!!
The opening montage is my *favorite!*
So many people forget that this was done in the days before computers or handheld calculators. These guys are actually doing math and using slide rulers.
there were computers, just not as we think of them today. they had some of the first integrated circuits ever used in a big system like this. But yes, they didn't have calculators; however, I doubt they didn't check the math w/the computers they did have at MIT, etc.
Hidden Figures (2015) was set before Apollo 13.
I have collected a few slide rules. My Grail is a Pickett N600ES--that was the model that NASA chose to issue to the Apollo flight crews for use on the missions.
The first computer as we understand it was ENIAC, which was built in 1945. By the time of the Apollo missions, there were all sorts of computers involved. Including several at NASA and two aboard each Apollo mission (one in the command module, one on the lunar module).
@@bentels5340 Moths were attracted to the circuit bulbs inside. "The program has a a few bugs in it."
Congratulations on your one year channel anniversary! I recently became disabled during my deployment in the Navy, and spend most of my time in bed these days. Getting to relive these great movie moments with you and seeing your reactions to them, has been such a great comfort to my mental health during this difficult time. For that I am incredibly grateful.
Good luck with your health, my thoughts are with you
Thank you for your service, Cody. Praying for your health.
@@williamscott3123 the prayers are definitely appreciated, Thank you William 😊
Thank you for your service from your Allie’s in the the UK
Stay strong bud!
Cassie should never be ashamed for tearing up. I've seen this movie more times than I can remember and I get weepy EVERY SINGLE TIME!
I got weepy and I knew how it ends
hell yeah, im a near 40 year old man and it gets me everytime lol
The washing machine line gets me every time.
Hell, I got weepy just watching HER watching it!
Same! I'm a mess through the whole final half.
OMG!! They seriously need to add a "laugh" emoji to RUclips!!!! I laughed out loud every time you yelled "IS THAT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN?" Honestly your reactions are so sweet. And yes, this movie brings tears to literally every time I watch it. Another Hanks classic!
I genuinely LOL’d at “what… are they doing MATH!?!?” when the pencils and slide rules came out
You can add a laugh emoji.
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In real life, when everything started to go wrong on Apollo 13, the crew was actually really calm about it. They didn't panic, they didn't stress, they said everything that the characters in the movie say, but way calmer.
I've seen this movie countless times and it still hits me in the feels. The Apollo program is one of the biggest engineering and technical accomplishments in all of human history.
Our peak as a species.
@@andreabindolini7452 Well, peak as Americans.
For a great next space movie, I recommend "The Right Stuff". It is a fabulous m0vie, and it has a very similar feel as "Apollo 13".
I second this.
Also From The Earth to The Moon.
…and Ed Harris is in it as well.
The casting in this film was bang on. I mean, every role was perfectly cast.
Richie Cunningham 's mom and brother
@@airgunfun4248 and Dad--the priest in the living room during landing
@@airgunfun4248; Don't forget Richie Cunningham's daughter ... Bryce Dallas Howard (young girl in a yellow shirt, next to Marilyn Lovell, the night before launch scene).
Jim Lovell said Kevin Costner was a closer match to him.
The real Jim Lovell's first choice to play himself was Kevin Costner. There is definitely more resemblance there.
Just came across your channel recommended by my husband! I work in a space museum that has the real Apollo 13 command module! We even do an activity with students about the co2 emergency. I even got to meet Fred Haise in 2022, he was so kind and sweet! Watching you watch this for the first time was amazing!
MARY!!! We're so happy you're here! We'd love to see some of your suggested movies for Cassie to watch! Just leave your ideas in a comment below any video! -Jon
As a young child I remember this happening and the whole town glued to their T.V's. It was the only subject of conversation. A few years later, still in grade school, I got to meet Jack Swigert when he came to my school to speak. It took all my courage to ask him a question. His to this day, is the only autograph I've ever kept.
I had the privilege of growing up during the Apollo program. It was such an emotional time for our nation. The cold war was going strong and while Russia beat us into space with the Sputnik satellite, we responded to the challenge and scare with John F. Kennedy's challenge to, "send a man to the moon and safely return him by the end of the decade." Nobody believed it could happen but it did. There were many losses and failures along the way but the culmination with Apollo 11's landing and Neil Armstrong's first walk on the moon was glorious. I remember watching it all unfold on our black and white TV and running outside and looking up at the moon with tears in my eyes thinking, "Wow, a man is actually walking on the moon!" His famous words, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," have a slight glitch in the audio. What was allegedly said was, "One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." There is much debate about what difference this nuance might make. There are lots of interesting facts about going to moon, such as the computing power of all of the computers that sent men to the moon is less than what is contained in a desktop computer today. It truly was an engineering miracle and the fact that it did happen, "before the end of the decade," is even more outstanding. NASA was truly the engineering wonder of the world in its hay day. Unfortunately, politics and too much government involvement has tarnished not only NASA's image but it's ability to achieve such feats going forward. The Apollo program was certainly an era of pride for our nation.
Have you seen this from 50th anniversary in 2019? ruclips.net/video/PJwc0ymVV70/видео.html
@@alanholck7995 Yes I have seen that. Inspiring! In today's world a celebration such as that would be ridiculed and shut down. Those truly were the glory years of NASA, in my opinion. As great as the Space Shuttle program was, it just doesn't compare to the Apollo Program in my opinion.
I didn't come into the world until 1974, but this still stands as one of my 10 all-time favorite movies, not only because I love TRUE stories, but the brainpower that it took to bring these astronauts home safely just blows my comparatively primitive mind away.
Apollo 13 was the best science nerd movie since The Andromeda Strain from 1971. Watching a bunch of guys in neckties literally try to figure out how to put a square peg in a round hole was more riveting to me than most car chases and shoot out scenes. I also highly recommend the recent 'The Martian' with Ridley Scott and Matt Damon for anyone who loved the problem solving aspects ofApollo 13.
That’s the movie magic part I’m sad to say. MAYBE that happened back then, but I can pretty much promise you that no one in that room would be able to come up with a solution in today’s space program. The people on console are literally human robots and if an issue occurs and there’s not a step by step process to fix the issue, they’re blank. The ones who would find a solution to those issues are no where close to that room and not wearing neck ties.
Then they went and remade The Andromeda Strain. 🙄
I saw this movie in the theater in 1995 with my wife.
I knew the story of Apollo 13, I knew how it ended, and even I was on edge until they splashed down. That's how good this movie is.
The music during the launch is utterly perfect; a triumphant, soaring score, celebrating man's desire to go out there, to explore.
An amazing film.
The way the music swells as the capsule is finally revealed with the parachutes deploying behind it is the greatest part. I get chills every time I see it. Heck, I have the album, I get chills every time I *hear* that part. It's a master class in building drama with sight and sound to a conclusion. Hollywood should take note, they used to be that good at this thing.
This movie literally captured my soul when I saw it in the theaters. I too knew the story, I knew how it ended, I knew the major points, but none of that mattered. I saw it in theaters four times, and this as a teenager who had to rely on someone else to take me there and pay for the tickets. I was even going for a fifth time, but it was no longer at the theater at the time.
Apollo 13 occupies a permanent place as my #1 favorite movie, I don't care what else comes out till the day I die. Nothing will de-throne it.
When I saw this movie at the theatre, a line for tickets formed around the block, the first time possibly since the original 'Star Wars', and this was at least two weeks after the opening night. I went with two friends and the theatre was so crowded we couldn't sit together but it was either that or come back the next evening. When the time came for the re-entry scene not a person spoke and you could feel the collective tension in the air. When they turned out to be safe everyone cheered, something I'd never heard at the movies before, and a lady near me was crying. Not bad for a story where you already knew the ending.
I remember when this happened and how fixated we were on the coverage on television. My school stopped regular learning and we were sent to the auditorium where all of us watched the news coverage on television. It was so emotional. If you want to watch more historical space movies you should watch the Right Stuff which was also about the early American astronauts, a great movie.
The Right Stuff is a truly great movie - one of those films I came across one late night channel-flipping and could not stop watching (I was fortunate to catch its first minute or so). And its main character is _not_ an astronaut, but the first man who flew faster than the speed of sound, Chuck Yeager.
When I first saw it, I found the book it was based on in a library and read it. The film was very long but did not cover half the real-life stories condensed into that book, so the book is highly recommended, too.
“The Right Stuff” is a great movie in the vein of historical NASA movies. Anyone would love it!
One of the best movies. The right stuff
And it shares one of its stars, since Edd Harris is in The Right Stuff as John Glen and plays Gene Krantz here
Great, great film. But it is pretty theatrical in certain aspects, to create tension and enagage the audience. Alan Shepard's Corvette went on the auction block yesterday.
Was that the film where did Gus dirty by making it look like he panicked and blew the hatch when he actually didn't?
VERY enthusiastic seconding for The Right Stuff, which by rights should have won the Best Picture Oscar for that year rather than Terms of Endearment...although there is a movie from 1969 (the year of Apollo 11, interestingly enough) called Marooned, which tells a fictional story of three astronauts trapped in a space capsule that can't break orbit and return to Earth, eerily presaging the epic actuality of Apollo 13. It might be good for a viewing, but not necessarily a reacting. (It's a long film, very technical and dialogue-driven and the special effects don't age well, but the human dilemma comes through loud and clear. Besides, it has a truly stellar cast.) 😎
I Love watching your reactions. When I was a child we went over to a friends house to watch the first walk on the moon. A member of our Church was the brother of one of the Astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire.
Over 40 years later I was blessed with the Honor and Privileged of preforming Military Funeral Honors for the Navy while in the Navy Reserve. One of the Military Funeral Honors I was in, we got to the funeral home and they had their chapel set up with pictures from when the Sailor was doing his Navy Job. He was a Rescue Swimmer and they had two large pictures sitting on easels on each side of the urn of him jumping out of the helicopter to recover the Apollo 13 crew and command capsule. One had him in mid-air falling from the helicopter to the ocean. The other had him helping an astronaut out of the command capsule.
that was true about the prayers all over the world. My mother who passed away in 2008, use to tell me how she prayed hard for those astrononts to make it safe home and she lived at that time no where near the United State at the time.
Gene Cernan, who flew to the Moon on Apollos 10 & 17, called this film the scariest he ever saw; since he’d made the trip twice himself, and worked on the ground supporting other flights (including assisting in solving problems on this one), it’s easy to understand why.
Apollo 13 was one of the first movies I saw in a theater; I was only seven when it came out, but as I’d been an aviation history nut since I was three or four (and still am), there was no way I was going to miss it. It’s been a favorite ever since; am very pleased you watched it.
In recent years there have been a number of good space/sci-fi flicks coming out, like Interstellar, Arrival, First Man, Ad Astra and so forth; hope you get to more of those. Interstellar is especially good.
One has to wonder if the casting of Ed Harris (as Gene Kranz) was a nod to his playing John Glenn a decade earlier in The Right Stuff; that film, unlike Apollo 13, was not a box-office success, but it’s accumulated a strong following over the years (in which I proudly include myself!). It’s not as strictly faithful to the facts as Apollo 13 is, but is great in its own way, and discusses an era of the space program (the Mercury flights) that is often overlooked now.
On the subject of accuracy, if you want to compare the movie to the real thing, here’s the actual Apollo 13 launch: ruclips.net/video/whtg0XgEzSk/видео.html
And here’s audio from when they first reported their ‘problem’: ruclips.net/video/PpTleKyn3gc/видео.html
Oh this is excellent! Great comment here.
Thank you for sharing those links, @DistinguishedFlyer. That kind of level and clear-headed thinking heard in the audio never fails to impress me.
@@garykuovideos I think it was Ron Howard who said that, if you only listened to the air-ground communications (or even the mission control conversations) you might not even realize anything had gone wrong - everyone usually spoke in a pretty flat, calm way. Some of the crews were a bit more colorful in their chatter, like 12 or 17.
Apollo 12 was hit by lightning soon after launch; you can hear the comms for that here (ruclips.net/video/31qt9jgtMMI/видео.html).
Yeah i wrote a comment of the inaccuracies and i believe Dave Scott was on hand for technical help and not happy with "colour" the film had if you like? It was a team effort and portraying Gary Senese in the CM alone when actually they brought in everyone in every simulator and at grumman ect to work all this stuff out given the extreme time pressures. Film tries to make the film personal but NASA, its all team and no individual saves the day as such. The Filter was made back around apollo 8 so they just sent the instructions up and tons of little things such as their cript was taken from other missions of little sayings Lovell says and the explosion and girating and all that wasting all that fuel , Lovel said there was a bang and little shimmy than all quiet and so leak which likely shallowed them as they approached the earth and came in thin and long till radio contact was made again after 4 mins
Ron howard made a film not a documentary i think is fair although lots of this is accurate and the set up in the zero G plane with scenes of them weightless are great if not a diff lighting so you see that!! haha Set craft is bigger inside but otherwise accurate. The real CM is so tiny for 3 men with same space as large station wagon interior. under where "beds" are widens out and toilet there too and food prep
@@StevesFunhouse Yes, I remember the fuss about that; while it's true that the planting of the flag isn't shown, the flag is shown up & flying later. I didn't really take it as a slight, though can certainly understand why others might.
(Was actually expecting, if anyone was to take issue with the films I listed, for someone to note the omission of Gravity, which I didn't like that much.)
I was alive when this happened and I knew how it would end, but I still cried like a baby when the movie was over. It is indeed incredible that humans can do these things.
It is so impressive that storytelling can evoke such powerful emotions, isn't it? And to think, I eat salsa and wait for teary eyes and a runny nose to prove I'm still alive and well. And I watch this movie and walk away each time thinking, "It's good to be alive, and prove MY systems are still working." sniffle sniffle
On the contrary! I believe this will be our finest reaction.
I see what you did there
Nice one!
I'm thrilled you watched this one! It really explains what we do as Flight Controllers. I work on the International Space Station, and anytime someone asks me what I do for a living, I ask if they've seen Apollo 13. If so, I'm one of the guys on the ground. Lol. It's honestly the easiest way to describe it. Love seeing movies like these through your eyes! Thanks for doing what you do!
Fascinating...And cool af.👍🙏
Your service is greatly appreciated and admired. What Systems do you work on/monitor? 👍🙂
When I went to go see this in the movie theater back when it first came out, it was amazing! At the end, when you see the parachutes open, everyone in the theater burst out in applause and cheers. It was quite a moment!
Ditto. THAT .... was the Best !!!
That was the first time I remember a standing ovation from an audience!
@@jenniferrogers2492Wasn't that incredible! It's the only time I've ever seen a standing ovation in a movie theater!
Apollo 13 is one of those movies I will watch every time it comes on - an amazing story! Thank you so much for reacting to it Cassie! Love you and your channel!
Great reaction! For another great historical space drama, I recommend "The Right Stuff", also has Ed Harris in it. Also about the early Apollo program and the Mercury missions. And also depicts the Apollo fire they mention in this one.
From the Earth to the Moon depicts the rest of the Apollo program, including the fire. Right Stuff is just about the Mercury flights
Beat me to it!
Mr + Mrs Glenn in The Right Stuff should be seen...a true story...she just passed last year IIRC, a helluva lady.
The Right Stuff! Yes! And it somehow doesn't get as much love as it deserves. An amazing movie about an amazing piece of history.
The story of Apollo 13 is one that is honestly hard to believe. It is so far out there on the most slim chance those men came home. This is by far the most monumental task ever done in human history. The men working in the control room literally pulled off an impossible feat to bring them home. The thing that makes this such an incredible feat is thinking about the technology in the 60's compared to what we have to work with now. There is more computing power in your key fob for your car than they had to make this mission possible.
I wouldn't say it's the most monumental task in human history, I'd place the survival of the Endurance crew higher, they were completely alone and didn't have a team of geniuses guiding them through.
Apollo 13 was just lucky. They still had their "lifeboat" available in the lunar module which saved their lives. The Nasa scientists did some relatively simple math for their calibre to calculate a new trajectory or slingshot around the moon, it wasn't as dramatic as the movie made out, they came up with the burn time and trajectory very quickly. Then they just had to conserve power by turning off non-essential equipment.
Also I'm tired of seeing the computer power comparisons with today's cell phones. It's so misleading. The guidance computer onboard had to do one very simple job, you put in numbers and it calculated a solution. It didn't need to be any more powerful. Nasa had huge room-sized super computers on earth which were a lot more powerful.
@@Gecko....why are you here? It’s a wholesome movie react and you’re on here just being a dick. Does it feel good? Do you feel important?
The Endurance crew didn't have to worry about running out of air. As dangerous as the ocean and the Antartic can be, they don't hold a candle to space.@@Gecko....
This is one of my favourite and the most inspiring film ever. It encouraged me to pursue engineering. That scene 'we have to fit this, in the hole for this...using nothing but this' is perhaps my favourite part!
@Geeta. If you haven’t already, track down the 6-part series, “Moon Machines” I’m an engineer, too. Moon Machines is the story of engineering problems and how they were overcome. It’s fantastic.
Thanks for the recommendation
Cassie, I also wanted to tell you that of all of the reactions I've seen to Apollo 13, you did the best job of editing the movie and your reactions.
Mike, from the UK is the editor, and he is amazing!!
When the edit made sure to get Feddo's "bang" and "shimmy" before Gene says "They're talking about bangs and shimmies up there", that was nicely done.
Cassie, I think it's so cool that you went into this cold without knowing the story of Apollo 13. It's very honest and actually kind of adorable.
I think it pretty sad that someone her age didn’t know what happened myself
Well that makes you a judgey prick then doesn’t it?
A great Ron Howard movie.
Howard's mother played Lovell's mother.
His father played the minister sitting with the family, watching the splashdown.
His brother played one of the controllers.
Jim Lovell played the admiral that greeted the astronauts on the ship after splashdown.
Jim Lovell was the only man to go to the Moon twice and never walk on it.
Howard filmed the weightless scenes in true weightlessness aboard the Vomit-Comet.
Actually, Lovell was dressed as a Captain. They wanted him to dress as an Admiral but he refused and agreed to dress as a Captain because that was his earned rank when he left the Navy.
@@Kerlanala Not only that, but the real-life skipper of the USS Iwo Jima at the time, Leland Kirkemo, was also a captain at the time of the Apollo 13 mission.
@@astrofan1993wow! I did not know that! Thanks for the info. 😁 that’s really neat.
I was in catholic grade school when this happened, and the Pope made an announcement - he told all catholics to pray for the Astronauts and they actually stopped class and we all stood up and prayed together for them.
Another good space movie is "The Right Stuff" which shows how the original astronauts were chosen for space flight and how they trained.
I went to a public school, and my fourth-grade teacher (who was a Baptist) had us pray for the astronauts as they were re-entering the atmosphere. That broke the rules as far as what was allowed in school ... and nobody complained.
Same here! Our church was next to school so we walked to church to pray.
@@gregsager2062 That's awesome.
The irony is that Mattingly never got the measles and Fred Haise was sick through most of the flight. Probably a good thing since Mattingly was instrumental in getting them back home. The Saturn V rocket was massive. It looks small in the movie.
it's not small, it's far away
Measles is contagious, that’s why they grounded him. Fred had a stomach problem, which is from his diet problem.
It's amazing to go stand beside one, even when they have it laying down on display.
My understanding is that we have lost the know-how over the intervening decades to rebuild a Saturn-5 rocket, having put all of our efforts and energy into the space shuttle and near-Earth orbital projects. (Until Elon Musk hit the scene, that is.)
@@TheDetailsMatter Plus the Russian is willing to offer their rockets right now.
I was nine when this happened and yes there were days of worldwide stress over this survival situation. That officer in the white uniform greeting Tom Hanks on the aircraft carrier is the real Jim Lovell. Check out the great 1983 movie The Right Stuff.
My mom was a kid when this happened. This was the age when astronauts could believe that NASA prioritized their safety over politics regardless of how true that was.
The film gave Swigert a little to much grief than it was in real life. Swigert was perfectly qualified and no one had any doubt on him being a Command Module Pilot.
Fun Fact: Jim Lovell has said that some parts of the movie involving anger and tension between the crew members during and after the explosion never happened on the mission. Neither he or Fred Haise ever blamed Jack Swigert for the explosion. You can also listen to the radio recording of the incident on RUclips, and it is amazing how calm the crew was despite knowing how much trouble they were really in.
If you are interested in learning about the early history of the space program and other Apollo missions, I highly recommend From the Earth to Moon which came out in 1998. A particular episode focusing on Pete Conrad and the crew members of Apollo 12 is my personal favorite. It shows how cool and extraordinary these astronauts really were.
Ohhhh yeah I agree, "That's all there is" is my favourite too...followed by "spider"
The audio recordings always perplexed and impressed me because of how nonchalant they were.
@@matthintz9468 Those Apollo astronauts were as slick as they come, as cool as the other side of the pillow.
True True True
Yeah, the audience kind of needs the tension acting to really feel how dangerous it is. Where in reality they are calm and professional, just matter of fact problem solving. If it were portrayed the way it really was we probably wouldn't appreciate how close it was. One of the best examples of truth through lies in film.
Next Galaxy Quest?
It's bassically the opposite of a real historic event. It is double fake. But so much fun.
l /think/ she's already reviewed it. (citation needed)
18:14 gets me every time. The boy is so worried the door broke because his dad said that was the reason the other astronauts died.
"Steely-eyed missile man" isn't your ordinary compliment. It has a lot of meaning behind it.
I remember when this happened. I'm of the age where I was able to follow the American space program from Mercury onward. I remember the fire that killed Gus Grissom and others. I remember the first Gemini space walk. I remember standing in my front yard and looking at the Moon on the summer night that the Eagle from Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. I remember Apollo 13 very well. The whole world was indeed watching. Later there was the space shuttle glide tests with the Enterprise (named by a write in campaign by Star Trek fans. In fact, the crew of the fictional Enterprise was there at the shuttle's roll out. At least everyone except William Shatner). Then the later missions including the tragedies of Challenger (where Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher, was part of crew) and the later Columbia disaster.
The scene where the TV stations didn't carry the Apollo broadcast reminded me of another movie. Capricorn One is another film about a space mission gone wrong. But not in her way you might think. There's a scene where a NASA official laments that people complained that coverage on a Moon mission preempted a rerun of Here's Lucy. I love that movie. It's well worth seeing. Another great film on the subject is The Right Stuff. It covers the beginnings of NASA and the Mercury program as well as Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier.
I always love spotting the "Clint Howard" cameos in every Ron Howard movie!
I spotted him in Solo! It's almost like finding Hitchcock! -Jon
it's also fun spotting him on the andy griffith show as leon who always has a pb&j sandwich and especially when he locks barney in one of the jail cells.
And Blalok on star trek
Don't forget his parents are in this too as Jim's mother and the priest who sat behind Marylin
@@tedburg6042 "The Corbomite Maneuver".
The whole scene with them arguing was added for dramatic effect. The men were close and most of all professionals who trained together. Arguments like that were exceedingly rare. I have a friend who worked as a composite artist on this film. It was a blast seeing the props on the sound stages. He worked so many hours on this film, his cat didn’t even recognize him when it was over.
That's just cats dude.
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If you listen to the transmissions during the accident, the astronauts were so calm and collected that you’d hardly think anything was going wrong.
I've heard it said that astronauts wouldn't have snapped at each other like that.
Met Jim Lovell at a dinner ceremony for all the crew members who built the ships. Jim Lovell and Gene Kranz...hearing tell the story was pretty special and surreal.
I've watched this film so many times but I was crying along with you on this run through - great movie!
I've seen this movie a hundred times since the night it first came out, and I cry every single time! It's a phenomenal piece of moviemaking magic, turning a true story into something so agonizingly tense and terrifying without fouling up the facts (fudging some for drama, yeah). It's crazy to think how many things had to go absolutely perfectly for them to survive this. Great reaction to a great movie!
The Right Stuff is an amazing movie about America’s first astronauts. You’ll see a young Ed Harris playing John Glenn. It’s a must watch film.
A film that butchers history and shit-talks about Gus Grisssom.
I concur! 👍🏻
Great, ,great film.
@@JFrazer4303 Nah. Ol' Gus, he did alright.
@@JFrazer4303 plenty of people shit talked old Gus back then. It wasn’t until years later that it was proven beyond all doubt that he hadn’t blown the hatch.
Gus was a great pilot who had some terrible breaks. 🙁
My grandfather designed the fuel injector for the LEM engine. He had the patent framed and hanging on his wall at his house. As a kid I always thought that was the coolest thing ever.
You really should check out the HBO series “From the Earth to the Moon” that came out after this movie. It goes through the whole US space program from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. It’s worth watching.
The elementary school I went to in Clark Air Base was named after Gus Grissom.
On both sides of the reality/fiction scale.... I would recommend both the real story of the space program "From The Earth To The Moon" series, AND for a dabble into the fictional space program, a series called "For All Mankind" which poses a really big 'what if' to the space program history.
I'm in Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of Roger B. Chaffee. The planetarium at our local museum is named for him, and the runway of the old airport is now the main road of an industrial park, also named Roger B. Chaffee Blvd.
Definitely a vote for this. Tom Hanks likes to work on docudramas after he's been cast in a movie. It's kind of funny, but it gave us From The Earth to the Moon and Band of Brothers, both amazing shows.
I watched it and was really disappointed. It didn’t seem as good as other HBO miniseries.
I would definitely recommend "The Right Stuff" 1983, and also "From The Earth To The Moon" HBO series which was made by the same people as who made "Apollo 13" excellent series.
From the Earth to the Moon is same quality as Band of Brothers & The Pacific
@@alanholck7995 lol. I always thought those were the HBO Trifecta. Now they can add Chernobyl.
@@alanholck7995 These Tom Hanks produced HBO shows are all top quality (I think he also produced John Adams for them). There's also a third WW2 series coming from them, but it will be on Apple+
Got any Beaman's?
@@Wyrmshadow Yeah, I think I got me a stick.
You should really react to “From the Earth to the Moon” which was an HBO miniseries about the entire Apollo moon missions,.. it was produced by Tom Hanks and is a stellar series. Great reaction!
I was really disappointed when I got to see it. It feels very flat and lifeless compared to other HBO series like BoB
The officer in dress white uniform greeting the crew on the deck of the ship after recovery is the real Jim Lovell (35:09 mins), playing the ship's captain!
Cassie, congratulations on your one-year anniversary. Hopefully many more to come.
The Apollo missions started off in a horrible way. Apollo I, with Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White, had a fire inside the capsule while it sat on the launch pad. All three were killed.
That incident delayed the program for over a year, but it led to many safety upgrades.
In case you don't know, Jim Lovell had a non-speaking part in the movie. He appears very briefly and is included in Cassie's footage near the end - 35:08. He played the Captain of USS Iwo Jima, the aircraft carrier that "recovered" the astronauts. Lovell (the actor) is shown welcoming Lovell (the astronaut played by Tom Hanks) on board.😀 (Brandon Murphy, and others, already commented about it).
Extra in case you didn't know: Ron Howard wanted to make Lovell an admiral in his shot in the movie (epilates on uniform would indicated rank) and Lovell refused, as he did not reach that rank in real life. He used the rank he was at retirement: captain
I HIGHLY recommend the movie Apollo 11 (2019). It documents the entire moon landing mission from before takeoff until after the astronauts return. Every american should know the story of what these brave men accomplished.
And First Man, of course.
I am so proud of you for watching this movie on your own. It is not always easy to see a movie with so much intensity as this one. I also want to thank you, and your sister for inviting me (and the others watching) to share time with you two during these fun times. Love listening to both of you. You're great together!!! Take care. Barry
Truly made me happy to see Cassie's reaction at the end. Clearly she could empathize with all the people in the film and I think that's genuinely how relieved so many were to see those boys come home safely.
I love this movie & still get emotional watching it despite knowing the outcome. Another movie I think you'd enjoy about the moon landing is The Dish. It's an Australian movie about a satellite dish in Australia that helped to transmit the footage of the landing- quite funny and touching as well.
I watched this unfold as it actually happened. I remember it like it was yesterday. Gene Kranz was the silent beast. He was able to get his way without being abusive or yelling. He was always cool. One of NASA's unknown heroes.
I did too but I also had another connection: my father helped build the Lunar Module and was picked up and taken to work where they had other Lunar Modules so they could replicate conditions and fixes. Everyone (Cape Kennedy, Houston, etc) who put a bolt on any piece of equipment was called in and working to bring them home. The whole square vs. circular CO2 filters were brought up before this but were based on the designs and space available on the command module and lunar module, they could not be changed. They had already developed a way to use either cartridge in either system using stuff available to the astronauts.
Documentaries since then have illustrated how accurate this movie is. Mattingly watches the space shot with a Corvette in the background. General Motors offered free cars to the Mercury 7 astronauts, as American heroes. They all chose Corvettes. Yes, the IRS joke about late taxes actually happened in Mission Control when Swigert said he forgot to file his taxes. Yes the churches around the country and the world were full as people prayed for the crew; President Nixon appealed to the nation to pray for them. The only significant deviation was for plot tension reasons: the real crew didn't resent Swigert's last-minute substitution or feel he would be less capable than Mattingly. They UNDERplayed the issue of the landing instructions. In real life, Houston had to dictate line by line hundreds of instructions for settings for the crew to re-enter the atmosphere properly. Radio reception was spotty at times. The crew (who were exhausted) wrote these complex calculations and settings out by hand, then read them back to confirm. Turns out, they landed closer to their target in the Pacific than many other regular missions. Outstanding performance.
Also, Marilyn Lovell did get her wedding ring back when she lost it in the shower. I actually heard her say so.
President Nixon approved a late tax filing delay because you can do that if you're "out of the country" on April 15.
Semper Fi
Yeah, people rag on the inaccuaracies, but it is still much much more accurate than most movies about actual events.
@@swirlingabyss The inaccuracies are super minor. Some technical details the movie makers decided to change to make it easier to understand. The Amperage thing e.g. doesn't make any sense, but the basic idea behind every problem was completely accurate. It's definitely one of the most accurate movies. Probably only surpassed by "Sully", funnily enough also starring Tom Hanks
I saw a SpaceX launch last September and it was life-changing. Sometimes humans are amazing.
We have limitless potential either direction. We can be downright horrifying or we can truly reach to the stars. Some people have very low ambitions. There are no words to adequately describe a rocket launch experienced in person.
Yep, the way we've always gotten back from space is basically falling in a fireball, with the ship being protected by heat shields. The shield failing is what led to the Space Shuttle Columbia breaking apart during re-entry. The heat generated by friction can reach hundreds, even thousands of degrees, due to the vehicle traveling thousands of miles per hour.
TECHNICALLY it's not direct friction with the air against the ship that causes the heat. It's that a ship in re-entry is smashing into the air so fast that the air molecules (whatever they may be - nitrogen, oxygen, whatever) just can't get out of the way fast enough and they compress in front of the ship. The air molecules get smashed together so fast that they create a kind of plasma - and THAT is where the heat comes from. The plasma does form a fireball in front of and around the ship as it arcs through the sky and decelerates. And because plasma ions accrue a charge, the whole mess becomes a sort of Faraday Cage around the ship blocking radio transmissions. On the shuttle, they actually could still communicate on a basic level during re-entry because they had antennae situated on the vertical tail of the ship out of the way of most of the plasma. But for capsules, there's always blackout due to the ionized plasma.
Basically - energy has to be changed somehow. To shed kinetic velocity - to decelerate - you have two options. You can trade mass for velocity - in other words - burn a rocket engine like the Lunar Module did on descent to the Moon or when a SpaceX Falcon 9 fires it's engines to decelerate. Or you can use the atmosphere as a brake. In which case you're trading velocity for heat.
You ARE still right in the general explanation above, of course. But I thought I'd add some extra stuff. :D
It's not so much the shield failing that destroyed Columbia, which implies that it was due to some flaw with the shield itself that gave way during reentry. The leading edge of the wing was impacted by foam shed from the fuel tank during launch, which punctured the heat tiles outright. During reentry, plasma entered the actual interior structure of the wing and tore the ship apart from the inside out. The first indication of a problem on the ground was a loss of sensors and mechanics inside the left wing.
@@logandarklighter And I still get nervous during the communications black-out during Dragon capsule re-entries.
@@Caseytify If the heat shield boils away or not depends on the design. An ablative heat shield like on the Apollo capsule did work way, it technically do not boils away it so thermal decomposition but the general idea is the same, the released material carry away the heat. But there is another design too a thermal soak heat shield. That is what the space shuttle use where you have a material that can handle the heat it is the slow condition of it to the spaceship and radiation of heat to space that keep the inner part getting to wars.
Ablative heat shields are simpler but not reusable, you need to replace all of it. A thermal soak heat shield can be reused if it is not damaged and some part need to be replaced like on the space shuttle damages tiles were replaced. The thermal soak design will be used in SpaceX starships to make quick reuse possible.
@@Caseytify that’s why it looks like a fire ball. The layers are burning off and away taking the heat with them.
This movie is based on Jim Lovell’s book “lost moon”. Lovell goes into great and fascinating detail about just what happened, and it’s told as page turner adventure. Lost moon is a must read.
Great book.
Jim Lovell had a bit part in the movie. You can see him at 35:07 on the left.
The book "Failure Is Not An Option" is good book too.
Also a very good documentary using the actual footage can be found on the homemade films RUclips channel.
One of my favorite exhibits at Kennedy Space Center is the Apollo exhibit. Walking the length of the Saturn V rocket is awe inspiring.
The tolerance for error was so slim it's amazing that they were able to manage it with only one shot and make it back.
Kathleen Quinlan who played Marilyn Lovell is highly under rated.
If one closely examines what it took to get the Apollo 13 crew back, it was a greater accomplishment than the first lunar landing. It took the best minds in the world, including Jack Swigert's uncanny ability that determined they were coming in at the wrong angle. If that hadn't been corrected it would have never been recovered.
You should really check out CASTAWAY. Another of HANKS great roles .
The right stuff! Great movie beginning of the US Space Program. Mercury was the first then Gemini then Apollo.
Movies like this is a great way to teach history. I've always said that.
Thank you for reacting to this, PiB! This film makes me so proud of NASA. As a college and grad student, I interned for NASA three times (twice as an intern and once as a co-op researcher). The men and women at NASA are absolutely amazing.
BTW, I won my first internship by mentioning how another amazing space-engineering related film, OCTOBER SKY (starring Jake Gyllenhaal), influenced me. It was based upon the book entitled "Rocket Boys" written by Homer Hickam. As a result, I was hired for that internship and, while working at NASA, I was able to meet Mr. Hickam (who had already retired but was on a book tour).
I think that you'd love that film!
In reality, their reentry angle was so shallow from the weight discrepancy of not having moon rocks on board, that it didn't take them four minutes to come out of blackout, it was more than six. Naturally, that was an incredibly tense time at Mission Control.
I wanna say that the real reason the reentry angle was shallow was that there was a small, continuous venting from the Lunar Module's cooling system that the people at NASA failed to account for. Normally that venting only happens for a very short time while the lunar module is powered on, and for most of that the lunar module is either flying on its own, or landed on the moon. For most of the journey to the moon, the lunar module is powered off except for in-flight inspections, and is only powered on for said inspections or when they're getting ready to depart for the moon. This was the first time that the lunar module was powered on continuously, for a long period of time, while still being attached to the command and service module, so of course there were some side effects that they failed to account for, and one of those turned out to be the tiny propulsive force from the cooling system that gradually pushed the spacecraft off course.
What a wonderful reaction!
This is the most accurate space-flight movie ever made, and it's unlikely ever to be topped in terms of accuracy. Ron Howard employed Jim and Marilynn Lovell as consultants for the movie.
Some scenes were over-dramatised a bit, because stoicism doesn't make for good watching, but this is otherwise completely accurate.
The "zero-g" effects are the best we've ever seen, too, because they built a set in a NASA zero-g training aircraft (known as the "vomit comet" for reasons that I'll leave to your imagination). This aircraft flies a series of parabolic arcs, giving about 30 seconds of freefall in each dive. If you watch closely, you'll see that none of the shots in the zero-g scenes is longer than 30 seconds.
I already knew much of the story of Apollo 13 before this movie was made, but it's still one of the best movies I've ever seen.
Fantastic film. I remember seeing this in the theater fighting back tears at the end. So emotional. Ron Howard did such an outstanding job directing and should have won the Oscar that year. He wanted the movie to be so authentic that he filmed many scenes in a NASA jet performing parabolic arcs to simulate weightlessness. Ed Harris’s performance as flight director Neil Kranz was stellar. Often when I’m in a situation that looks like it might go the other way, I think of his line, “Gentlemen, I believe this is going to be our finest hour.” I also love Gary Sinese’s performance as Ken Mattingly. Last, but certainly not least, I credit James Horner’s amazing score for adding power and emotion to many of the film’s key scenes. Wonderful film. Glad you were finally able to see it.
The Right Stuff is a fantastic movie about the early space program. That’d be a good react and more context around some of the things mentioned in this film.
A superb movie.
As close to a straight-up reenactment documentary as Hollywood has ever gotten. Even among films that are based upon real historical events, the real story of Apollo 13 was such highly extraordinary drama, even in the minutiae, that almost no dramatic exaggeration was necessary. Mattingly really was grounded due to (German) measles exposure; Haise really did contract a UTI while on the flight; Lovell really did pull off his biomed sensors mid-mission; the CO2 scrubber cartridges really were mismatched and a solution jury-rigged on the ground; the comms blackout during reentry really was a full two minutes longer than anticipated. Even the bit with Marilyn accidentally dropping her wedding ring into the shower drain actually did happen (though in real life she was able to recover it).
If you're a book fan as well, you really should read "Lost Moon", which was coauthored by Jim Lovell and was the primary basis for the film. It's great and goes into rich detail about the whole story.
Even though this happened 53 years ago your reactions were you seeing and learning about this tonight. It helped me react like I couldn't back then. I was in the Navy aboard a ship in the northern Tonkin Gulf off the coast of North Vietnam and we received news each day but there was no television at sea and no satellites. A couple hours after they came down and were safe did we get a radio communication telling us what happened. If I had been ashore and watching a TV I think my emotions would have a lot like yours. Thank you for doing such a great job.
I was in Vietnam at the time, as well as during Apollo 11. I was able to listen to the moon landing live on AFVN radio, but I missed most of the Apollo 13 coverage.
Such an incredible reaction with every moment felt so earnestly. You're the best, Cassie! I'm so glad you went into it without knowing the outcome and gave us the opportunity to join you on that journey. What an amazing ride.
I just wanted to say happy 1 year on RUclips with your film reactions, and definitely congrats on your success. You seem so genuine and you deserve every bit of success you receive. You are at almost 170k subscribers.... crazy to think that my city is only about 265k people living in it. I can see why people love your content. This is a spectacular movie on every level, and the entire commitment to go to space and specifically the Moon during Kennedy's administration was and still is revolutionary. It has even more significance considering how much was accomplished in such a short period of time, and it is terrible JFK was killed before he could see what all the ideas and concepts would lead to for future space exploration. Regarding the #13.... I never thought it was necessarily an unlucky number. Hell, I golf and play all #13 Titleist golf balls and hit the pin on back to back holes once. One time it was a par 3 tee shot, the next hole was a 2nd shot into a par 4, but neither shot went in, so maybe it is a bit unlucky. You know, I'm not sure, but NASA may not have ever had another mission with "13" designated again (not sure on that, but it is definitely conceivable and understandable). The entire history of the number 13 being unlucky does historically date back to a Friday oddly enough and the Templar Knights and the Catholic Church 800 or 900 years ago. The idea of space travel is definitely terrifying, but I'd do it in a second if I could. As a child, the 3 things thar I wanted to be in life (in this order) were: 1st - Paleontologist (I love fossils and dinosaurs); 2nd - Astronaut (I still remember the first test Space Shuttle being named Enterprise and the original Star Trek crew and Gene Roddenberry being there for that moment) and 3rd - Fireman. I ended up working in the field of Psychology serving people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities and have done that work for the better part of 35 years now; but I'd gladly go to space if I was given the opportunity, even though I know everything that could possibly happen and go wrong up there. Best wishes for you and your family, and I hope all of you stay safe and well, and free of COVID. Keep up the great content! 👍, and I definitely appreciate all the work and time you put into your channel amd your content.
Watch Space Cowboys, Armageddon, Don't Look Up, Sunshine, Deep Impact, and The Black Hole (Disney movie from 1978 or 1979)....., oh and Time Bandits!. That's a good starter list to get you started in this genre. Happy hunting!
I remember watching all of this as it happened. I remember when the four minutes had passed that my mom was ready to burst into tears. Then the TV showed the chutes opening and we heard Lovell on the radio. Everyone at Mission Control went crazy. I remember my mom letting out a yelp and applauding.
Contrary to how he was portrayed in the film, Jack Swigert was one of the most experienced Command Module pilots in the Apollo Program. He helped write the Emergency Procedures manual for the Command Module.
07:55 Seven days prior to the Flight, the astronauts were quarantined to the confines of Cape Kennedy; no contact with anyone not directly involved with the Mission and the Launch.
That's why they couldn't mingle with their families.
It's the same today: now it's two Weeks prior to Launch.
Cassie, now there's no excuse... you have to add From The Earth To The Moon to your viewing Schedule. It is most definitely a MUST SEE, seeing how you reacted to this film.
Yeah... the only fictional part of the movie was the supposed tension between the crewmembers.
@@StevesFunhouse These guys were the crème de la crème. They were all Air Force pilots and you don’t become an astronaut unless you can be unemotional, focused and professional.
@@StevesFunhouse All you have to do is listen to the Air to Ground loops; many of them are online right here. There are four parts from right before the explosion to right after the initial Burn to bring 13 back to its Free Return trajectory.
ruclips.net/video/KWfnY9cRXO4/видео.html
@@StevesFunhouse Ask Fred Haise. Ask Jim Lovell. They're still alive.
Fred Haise himself said the quotes about Jack's qualifications.
Besides, they were ALL Test Pilots at one point. Those guys do not panic.
@@StevesFunhouse No worries at all. Both Brian Grazer and Ron Howard admitted early on that they added the 'tension' between Fred Haise and Jack Swigert purely for dramatic license. If you listen to the Air to Ground loops, their conversations are pretty calm, almost droll. If anything, you can hear the consternation in Lovell's voice as he polls Capcom Jack Lousma about the various tasks he's relaying to the crew. Swigert and Haise are cool as cucumbers, going through Checklists and almost reading Houston's mind as they send up Procedures to both Odyssey and Aquarius.
A personal favorite is "October Sky" from 1999, which is also inspired by a true story.
Oh man that would be awesome!
Also, one that I finally saw and is a classic is 1954's "On the Waterfront."
The fact that this movie was made as close as possible to the real events, is I think, one of best things about it.
Yup, a lot of the dialogue is lifted from the air (or space rather) to ground tapes. They were often "dramaticized" a bit though, since the astronauts themselves spoke in a fairly dull manner, even when under extreme stress.
They didn't speak in a "dull" tone, they were completely calm. These guys were highly trained, and extremely experienced pilots.
Apollo 13 is my favorite movie in the whole world. No contest. I choke up watching this movie all the time because of how incredible it is. I feel like I'm right there with the crew and with Mission Control the whole time. It's a feeling that very few movies I've watched have given me.