The way Ron explained it to me when we started was, 'Look, I'm not making a documentary. I'm making an entertaining movie ...

Lovell was played by Tom Hanks in the movie that was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. "Apollo 13," directed by Ron Howard, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. It ...

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This celebrated story has been told many times, including in the 1995 film, Apollo 13. Thank you, [Ed], for one of the greatest hacks of all time. May you rest in peace.

Apollo 13 4 Articles . In Memory Of Ed Smylie, ... [Ed] and his team famously designed the required adapter from a small inventory of materials available on the space craft.

An exclusive interview with "Apollo 13: Survival" director Peter Middleton about his documentary full of archival footage and interviews.

Most of us are familiar with NASA's aborted moon landing mission in 1970 from watching director Ron Howard's excellent "Apollo 13" feature film that was released in 1995, and its dire declaration ...

WHEN Marilyn Lovell’s astronaut husband, Jim, blasted off aboard Apollo 13, the world watched with anticipation as he embarked on NASA’s third mission to the moon. But disaster struck 200,000 ...

The Apollo 13 craft blasting off. “As things began to unfold over subsequent hours and days, and certainly once they’d managed to get into their lifeboat — the lunar module ...