Apollo 13

     

Apollo 131995

Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Rating: PG
Runtime: 140 minutes

Produced a year before Ron Howard's film of the doomed space mission hit Hollywood, To the Edge and Back brings the real faces of the Apollo 13 saga to the forefront. Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise talk about the flight (Jack Swigert died in 1… more »


Gene Kranz:
Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?

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  • Ben Prewitt
    Ben Prewitt
    This is an exceptionally human moment: you're seeing Gene Kranz have to get a handle on a situation while he's in the spotlight.

    It's an amazing moment, if only because Mission Control is an amazing Procenium. For a few seconds, Kranz's best tool, his words, have failed him. And he just has to fake his way through it. 
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