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NASA's worst nightmare turned into one of the space agency's most heroic
moments in 1970, when the Apollo 13 crew was forced to hobble home in a
disabled capsule after an explosion seriously damaged the moon-bound spacecraft.
Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton play (respectively) astronauts Jim
Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in director Ron Howard's intense, painstakingly
authentic docudrama. The Apollo 13 crew and Houston-based mission controllers
race against time and heavy odds to return the damaged spacecraft safely
to Earth from a distance of 205,500 miles. Using state-of-the-art special
effects and ingenious filmmaking techniques, Howard and his stellar cast
and crew build nail-biting tension while maintaining close fidelity to the
facts. The result is a fitting tribute to the Apollo
13 mission and one of the biggest box-office hits of 1995.
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