It’s good that you spotted they only have one person at Houston talking to them, that obviously was deliberate. That person was always also an astronaut, so that the guys up in space weren’t being told what to do by somebody who didn’t understand what it was like up there.

I loved watching your reaction, it was very refreshing. An fyi, the Kevin Bacon character, Jack Swigert was a miracle for him to be on the ship, he was the one who wrote the emergency procedures manuel for the command module, so no one knew more about procedures than him. Ken Mattingly spent so much time in the simulator that Jack was robbed of some of his training, that being said, these were heroes all!!

Fun fact for ya. Jim lovell was in the film as a cameo. He was the commander that welcomed the crew abroad the carrier

To answer the question *"have we ever been back to the moon"* - we landed six times with the Apollo missions, but haven't been back since 1972 Apollo 7 - first manned test flight of command module in earth orbit Apollo 8 - flew to orbit the moon with just command module Apollo 9 - tested lunar module in earth orbit Apollo 10 - orbited the moon with Lunar Module and did the approach and abort test, basically dress rehearsal for landing approach Apollo 11 - famous first landing with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Apollo 12 - tested if pinpoint landing was possible, aiming for the Surveyor III probe Apollo 13 - "The Successful Failure" Apollo 14 - landed at 13's landing site, first actual geological study mission Apollo 15 - upgraded Lunar Module allowing 3 days instead of 2, as well as the Lunar Rover, exploring mountainous region instead of flat terrain Apollo 16 - more in depth geological study Apollo 17 - Final Lunar Landing, first time an actual Geologist (rather than a pilot) was on the crew Apollo 18 - 20 were cancelled when the NASA budget was cut, starting almost immediately after that first landing. Once we beat Russia to the moon, people stopped caring. But other Apollo spacecraft flew, just not to the moon Spare third-stage rocket originally intended for Apollo 18 was rebuilt as the Skylab space station Three Apollo spacecraft sent crews to Skylab for 1 month, then 2 months, then 3 months The final Apollo to fly was part of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, docking in space with Russian Soyuz 19. Deke Slayton, the Mercury Astronaut who never got the chance to fly because of a heart condition FINALLY got to fly on this one. His words during liftoff - "That was worth waiting 16 years for" The American and Russian crew meeting in space on a good will mission, while the cold war was still going on in 1975, showing that in space, political borders mean nothing. "The best part of a good dinner is not what you eat, but with whom you eat" Aleksey Leonov (Soyuz 19 - ASTP) *Why wouldn't you make stuff standard on everything?* The Apollo Command Module was built by North American Aviation The Lunar Module was built by Grumman Two different contractors designing and building their own craft at the same time, and the only information they share is weight specifications, mission parameters, and size/shape of the docking port. *Did he really get the clap?* No, he did not. That was just a joke he was telling, as Jack was a well known swinger. What Fred Haise had was a urinary infection that had nothing to do with Jack Sweigert or the Measels. *why does entering the atmosphere burn up?* Not going to get into technical details, but the TLDR of it is, you're going through the air at 25,000 miles per hour. The friction is astronomical. Plus the atmosphere is making heavy drag, slowing you down rapidly. All of that kinetic energy of motion being suddenly lost is released in the form of super hot gas.

There is a 12 part miniseries of movies called From the Earth to the Moon that tells the story of the mission to Moon. That mission was an incredible journey and achievement. The movies tell the individual stories much as this does for Apollo 13. (By the way, when Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), in this movie, is explaining to his son about the trouble with the "door" on the capsule, he is referring to the what happened to Apollo I.) I think you, and your viewers would enjoy and appreciate a journey through that miniseries. I know I would like to see those reaction videos. Tom Hanks was executive producer and Ron Howard a producer as well. Quality.

For some historical context. The first flight in an airplane by the Wright brothers took place in 1903. The first human in space happened *58 years* later in 1961. Today in 2020, that first space flight happened *59 years* ago. The last time we visited the moon was with Apollo 17 in 1972. That was 48 years ago.

They kind of did Jack Swigert dirty in this movie, but I get why. In actuality he was incredibly smart and skilled, and what happened was not at all his fault. Thanks for reacting to this one, it is a favorite of mine (and the soundtrack is amazing).

I had the opportunity to see Jim Lovell give a speech in person about 10 years ago. It was so cool, he told a bunch of stories about Apollo 13, what went on behind the scenes, and just to be in the same auditorium as someone that was on the other side of the moon, one of the furthest people ever to be away from the Earth, was insane to think about. It was truly an amazing couple of hours.

Fred Haise just inconveniently got a stomach flu on the mission (the Clap thing was only a joke between Fred & Jims characters). Jack Swigart performed admirably and professionally throughout, as did the others. A lot of the agita depicted was simply dramatization for the film. As Lovell even says in the movie, it didn't matter who flicked the switch; when the call comes in from Houston to mix the O2 tanks whoever is sitting there does it. It was an unseen engineering fault that caused the explosion, as is explained at the end.

From my understanding, the line "Houston, we have a problem." Isn't the actual statement made by Jim Lovell. Jack Swigert actually initially said "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here." Followed by Jim Lovell who said, "Ah, Houston, we've had a problem."

Now another true story of the black women of the space program and their struggles and triumphs, “Hidden Figures”. A must see movie.

If you haven't seen it before, you might enjoy reacting to "The Abyss".

I remember all this happening when I was a kid (I was 13 years old at the time) but, with the optimism of a child, never doubted that they would get home. Another movie with a similar atmosphere is 'The Right Stuff'. Make sure you have plenty of snacks, it's 3 hours long. For another take on the space program, watch 'Hidden Figures'.

Gene Krantz (Ed Harris) pulls a new vest out of a box. Krantz' wife made a new vest for him before every launch.

Lindbergh was the first person to fly across the Atlantic ocean.

FINALLY a reaction on this movie! I've been hoping someone would eventually react to this movie for months now, I'm glad you're here to fill that void :)

Tom Hanks and Ron Howard produced an 8 episode series for HBO called "From the Earth to the Moon" which covers all of the Apollo moon missions. It's amazing and I highly recommend it. Lots of great actors in it.

Both my parents were 15 in 69 when we landed on the moon. And from what they told me, it was a HUGE deal. All three tv channels were on this 24/7 and it's all the country talked about.

And we have more computer power in each of our phones today than they had in all of NASA. They did this with brain power.

Ed Harris is the actor that is directing the Nasa control site. He's in a lot of great movies like the Abyss, check it out! 😎 You're on point with your movie selections!

allow me to say that you are a precious man, and your wife is blessed to have you. keep on trucking fellow human!

Glad you enjoyed it. Space is amazing like the people at NASA. Jim and Fred are still alive but Jack died in '82.

basically, Friction is the reason it heats up. Rub your hands together fast and hard and you'll feel heat. Wind Resistance , the same thing you can feel in your hand or face if you move fast, causes friction. If you Sky Dive or Bungee, You can feel it as well.

I was a young kid when this came out, I remember in the theater the entire building was shaking from the sounds it was so loud! It was soo cool! I really enjoyed this video🙏🏼 Much Respect man🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Fun Fact: The older guy on the left that Tom Hanks is shaking hands with at 30:43 is the real Jim Lovell.

That scene of Jim Lovell (tom Hanks) when they are on the far side of the moon is especially sad. Up to that point, Jim Lovell had the most hours in space flight of any astronaut, as the movie states. His first Apollo mission was Apollo 8, where they were sent to the moon with just the command and service module, and no LEM. They orbited 8 times at 60 nautical miles before returning home. It was the first time humans left the confines of Earth and visited another celestial body. Apollo 13 was Jim's chance at finally landing on the moon, and ending his career in space flight on a high note. Instead, this happened. That scene where Jack and Fred are looking out the window at the moon so close for the first time in their lives, call to Jim to come look at it. Jim looks up and says, "I've seen it." That gets to me every time.

Ken Mattingly did have a role in the simulator, but he wasn't the only one as the movie showed. It was a group of astronauts, John Young among them. Ken Mattingly did eventually go to the moon on Apollo 16 (he stayed in orbit). No, Fred Haise didn't get the Clap, he had a urinary tract infection. The flight controller that said that a triple failure was impossible, is Ron Howard's brother Clint. The priest that was on the couch when the boy said "mommy, you're squeezing me!", is Rance Howard, Ron's father and Jim Lovell's mother in the nursing home, is Jean Howard, Ron Howard's mother. So it was a true family project for the Howard family.

If you want to continue with the space theme, please consider Academy Award-winning 'The Right Stuff' (also starring Ed Harris) about the original Mercury Space Program. I think you would really enjoy this amazing movie.

6:50 "This was my call." I've seen people not get what he was talking about because it was the other guy who forced it, or else misunderstand and try to say he agreed only for selfish reasons, to get himself to the moon faster. You're the first reactor who got it right, that Lovell was being a leader. I respect and appreciate that you got that.

You notice a lot of little bits, it's great! Loved your reaction to this. Yes, in Mission Control, they have only one person talking to the astronauts, that position was called 'CAPCOM" (Capsule Communicator). It was also usually an astronaut that held that position. The reason for having an astronaut as the sole communicator was because they are also a lot more familiar with the space craft's layout and controls than anyone else in the Control Room. So all communication, even from the Flight Director (played by Ed Harris), is channeled to the spacecraft solely thru the CAPCOM. It is still this way today for the most part.

"Charles Augustus Lindbergh" was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris

I never thought id see a reaction to Apollo 13, but here we are. This movie holds a weirdly specific place in my childhood, I was the Space Kid and I used to watch this with my dad all the time. Still a damn fine film

Now you need to react to another Tom Hanks movie about a true story called "Miracle On The Hudson" about a plane that lost both engines after takeoff and could only land in the Hudson River in New York. No passengers or crew were injured.

Charles Lindberg was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean by himself from New Jersey to Paris France nonstop.

12 people ... yes they went back... 2 at a time, all survived.

Loved your reaction, but loved you saying "she's such a lovely woman" about your wife even more ♥ x

Fun Fact: 14:33 This actor is Clint Howard, Ron Howard's younger brother.

Man, I just love your reactions! Thank you so much for keeping them clean and honest.

Another great real-life adventure movie is "Argo" with Ben Affleck.

Fun fact: The captain who salutes them when they are coming off the ship at the end-- is the *_real_* Jim Lovell. As for Tom Hanks, he says in the behind-the-scenes commentary that part of him always wanted to be an astronaut and so playing this role was kind of a wish come true for him in that sense.

Even though I was 2 years old at the time, my parents woke me up to watch the landing and Neil Armstrong's first steps. It's in my memory.

Hey! This movie is a favorite of my dad’s; watched this a lot as a kid. Much as I groan about my dad, he had me watching top-notch movies as a kid. Dad was 8 when the first moon landing happened. Lots of people bought their first color TV (expensive at the time) just to watch the landing in color - of course, the color camera had technical difficulties; people were mega annoyed, though now everyone had color TV just in time for the 70s tv boom. Some people around my young-dad didn’t think much of it, but when he saw the landing he felt like the world had just changed forever. Pleasantly surprised to see so much of my childhood being rediscovered here.

19:18 "If this wasn't real, I would just think it is just made up" - RR . ROFL

Apollo 13- “The Most Successful Failure in History” During the mission, the US government received a message from the Soviet Premier expressing that the Soviet Union expresses a mutual concern for the well-being of the Astronauts and that the Soviet Union is willing to offer any assistance to the recovery and rescue of the American astronauts. Just goes to show how much this event captured the eyes, ears, and prayers of the whole world. Even between feuding Superpowers like the Soviet Union and the United States, there’s a mutual respect for humanity towards the personnel of their space programs.

***Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist. At the age of 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York City to Paris.*** There is a Good Older Movie about his story staring Jimmy Stewart

This is a movie I had forgotten existed. Big fan of the channel, thanks for giving us your time!

Hey man, good to see you doing awesome reactions to great movies! You always provide a focused look at movies that I'm happy to enjoy with my kids and friends!

You might enjoy reacting to the miniseries 'From The Earth To The Moon' that Tom Hanks produced for HBO in 1993.

i love to see someone's face light up during the launch like he did. You don't have to know anything about space travel or even be interested in space at all to appreciate this.

When I was a kid I WATCHED Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. My father was a Quality Test Engineer for GRUMMAN he helped build and test fire the rocket engines on the landing Module ( aka THE LIMB ) I saw where they built the Landing Module

8:42 Same exact thing happened to me! I was wearing the "cheap" ring she gave me to wear when I'm working, big wave hit me, and I knew immediately it was gone. Thankfully the official ring was back at home.

Fred Haise and Jim Lovell (Bill Paxton and Tom Hanks) are still alive but Kevin Bacon’s character died.

2:14 That was an awesome event to see live in 1969. Watched it from Jerusalem. Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly over the Atlantic solo in 1926. Yes, his son was kidnapped & killed about 6 years later. :-( 5:52 Many of the first astronauts had been military test pilots so they had faced death many times. Lovell had been a fighter jet pilot, which was also very risky. And yes, I'd reckon that the men being in deadly danger so much was probably harder on the families. 19:05 We did a total of six successful moon landings. 29:20 The crew did say that having Ken Mattingly grounded and doing simulations for them on the ground helped a lot in getting them back on the ground,

The actual audio from this mission is available on KZfaq. If you didn't pay attention to the words they were saying you'd never know anything was wrong. They were calm throughout the mission. The reason you burn and can ricochet off the atmosphere is due to how fast the spacecraft go. The friction of the air against the spacecraft gets super heated. Luckily up high the air is less dense. If it was as dense as it was down lower, it would be like smacking into the water at 100mph

Stumbled onto your video today.... Enjoyed seeing your reaction to the movie, which is a film I haven’t seen in many years... You inspired me to get the dvd and watch it again. I like what you said about losing your ring and your wife’s reaction...

Your reaction video popped up in my recommended today, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Your joy and humble personality is inspiring and I got to reexperience this great film with you. Thanks, just thanks.

You were asking what happens to the rocket. The first and second stages fall back to Earth. The third stage follows the spacecraft to the moon and eventually impacted the lunar surface. Though it didn't happen until later, Aquarius (the lunar module), after being abandoned, eventually burned up in Earth's atmosphere. The movie exaggerates a bit how nervous people were about Swigert (Kevin Bacon). It's true that he was first Command Module Pilot on a lunar mission who had never flown in space before, but he was still an experienced pilot. Being a CMP was actually considered a greater responsibility than the Lunar Module Pilot, who gets to walk on the surface with the Commander. And if something happens and the other two astronauts could not ascend from the surface, the CMP would have no choice but to leave them there to die and fly back alone. The technical consultant on this film was Dave Scott, who was the CMP on Apollo 9 and Commander of Apollo 15 (he was the first to drive a car on the moon). He also previously flew on Gemini 8, which was Neil Armstrong's first space mission. Gemini 8 was also a near-disaster because a faulty thruster caused the spacecraft to spin out of control, to the point were the astronauts were close to passing out, but Armstrong managed to get the craft under control. This movie was a family affair. During the scene where Marilyn sees Jim off before the launch, the teenage girl with red hair and a yellow dress is Ron Howard's daughter, a then-unknown Bryce Dallas Howard. The guy who says "The Odyssey is dying" is Ron's brother Clint. Their mother Jean Speegle Howard plays Jim's mother, and their father Rance Howard plays the priest. No, Haise did not get the clap. That was just a joke, but he did get a UTI. The Saturn V rocket contains very cold chemicals, like liquid oxygen, that cause a sheet of ice to form around the rocket. When they launch, the ice crumbles away, and that's what you see flaking off during lift off. One last interesting fact: the trajectory caused the crew to fly further from Earth than any human being ever had before or has since. (The 24 Apollo astronauts who flew to the moon from 1968 to 1972 are the only humans who've gotten far enough away to see the whole circle of the Earth with their own eyes).

Brother, You have to watch "From Earth to the Moon" on HBO. It's a Mini series that tells the story from the First American flight in space to the last Moon Mission. It will teach you a lot. It's still entertainment non-fiction so there are some dramatized parts but it's a good start.

Three astronauts were killed while on the launchpad in the early 1960s. The space craft caught fire. Look it up. One of the astronauts was Gus Grissom. This movie is an accurate account of the events in 1970. I was 19 at the time.

For your initial question: Charles Lindbergh was the first man to cross the Atlantic alone, with the famous plane "Spirit of St. Louis". Anyway, the movie is astoundingly accurate. Some semplification for the big audience (in reality, even more shit happened), some drama added (the argument between the crew never had place and was dichiarately added for dramatic purpose; the competence of Sweigert/Bacon was never put in discussion) but overall a film totally respectful of the real event. One of my absolute favs.

What a Fantastic reaction! I love this movie and you nailed about every moment that makes it so great!

Different companies made the different parts of the space ship. GRUMMAN made the LIMB or the Landing Module and another company made the Rocket that took them to space. So that is why they did not have MATCHING components ***MY FATHER*** was Quality Test Engineer for GRUMMAN and he helped build the Landing Module

Ron Howard’s whole family was in this film .. His brother Clint was the bald coke bottle glasses flight controller guy. His mom played Jim Lovell’s mother. His father Rance played the priest in the watch party scene at the end

"Why wouldnt they just make things standard?" - this is when NASA learned to standardize all filters and connections.

Interesting note: the Navy Captain who is saluting/shaking Hanks's hand at 30:40 is none other than CAPT Jim Lovell (USN, Ret.) himself.

Saturn V - Still the most complex and powerful machine humans have ever made. Incredible. Great reaction video. Enjoyed it.

Ron Howard released an AWESOME documentary called.... 'In the Shadow of the Moon'. It's basically 11 of the 12 astronauts who actually made the trip......talking about what the experience was like. The dudes who walked around on the moon.

You have to have played Kerbal or Orbiter (and crashed multiple times, lol) to grasp re-entry vectors and how you might ricochet off the atmosphere. Inbound, usually at more than Mach 27, you must. not. sneeze.

Have you not seen " Forrest Gump"? Maybe the greatest film you will ever see, and Tom Hanks gives maybe the greatest acting performance of all time. He won his second straight Best Actor award for it. Your heart will never forget it.

I teach science to kids and I tell them this...Rub your hands together, feel the heat, from the friction. Well, air causes friction too, and in space there is no air. When they renter the atmosphere, they are traveling at thousands of miles per hour. So when the, all of a sudden, hit air again, the friction is enormous. That’s what causes shooting stars; those little rocks going thousands of miles per hour smoothly through space, suddenly hitting a wall of air.

Oh good choice. Epic movie with a great score. Jim Lovell' own account is fascinating and this movie does a good job. Again great reaction. Still holding out for Paddington

Ayy man I’m trying to sleep 😂😂😂 keep up the awesome reviews

A few things not stated in the movie on the events The shutdown of the center engine on the 2nd stage was due to a low pressure sensor being tripped and thus the computer shut down the engine. However this was not exactly what was going on with the engine. What was going on was something called Pogo oscillation, much like it's name sake the Pogo stick the engine was more or less bouncing up and down in it's mounting (it's not supposed to do that), it was doing this at a rate of 16 times a second with a force of 86 Gs and flexing the mount up to three inches (think of this engine being a multi ton jackhammer). They where fortunate to have the sensor shut down the engine when it did as this was not good for the long term health of the rocket. Though few knew of this at the time of the launch. But Pogo was a known issue with the Saturn V as Apollo 14 was scheduled to have some notable upgrades to the engines to deal with this issue as the Saturn V rocket had a bit of a problem with Pogo see Apollo 6 for that. As for the explosion that happened after the oxygen tanks where stirred, they where also fortunate to have that happen when it did. Now the cause of the failure was due to a failure with this particular units manufacture to upgrade the heaters wiring after they upgraded the heater to a 65 volt unit, due to this the wires shorted out. Due to an unrelated issue (the quantity sensor was not working right) they where stirring the tanks far more often than normal to get better sensor readings and to figure out the issue it was having, now under a normal operation they would stir the tanks once every 24 hours here they where doing it roughly every 10 or 12 hours. Now the Tank failed on it's fifth stir some 56 hours into the mission. (Note the oxygen tanks were part of the Fuel cell system, combine oxygen and hydrogen, you get water, for the crew to use and (IIRC) to also cool the crafts electronics, it also produces electricity to run said electronics. No oxygen (as it all vented to space), no water; no water, no power; no power well no crew...). Now if they did not have this unrelated problem and where stirring the tanks once a day like procedures said they should be doing, then the fifth time they stirred the tank (in this case some 120 hours into the flight) Jim and Fred would be waking up on the moon after their scheduled rest period and getting a frantic call from Jack about a problem he's having on the craft... Chances are in that situation none would of lived. Now if the incident happened on the return trip their in trouble as now they do not have the lifeboat. If it happened earlier in the flight then you run into the issue of available power reserves as they cut it close historically with only a few hours left on their batteries.

the apollo astronauts were all experienced test pilots so used to high pressure environments while operating complex systems

charles lindburgh made the first solo flight from nyc to paris in 1927 which he took a single engine prop plane called the spirit of st louis. it took him 33 and a half hours to do 3600 miles(5800 km). also you asked why the spacecraft burns on re-entry, simple explaination is that their craft is going so fast that when it hits the atmosphere, the air resistance creates massive amounts of friction and heat which ignites the oxygen in the air hitting the spacecraft. if the spacecraft enters into the atmosphere at too steep of an angle, the heat and air resistance will be too much for the men and craft to handle. so basically they would burn up, be minced by the massive g load and would crash into the water when the computers died of overheating. if they go in too shallow, the speed of the air craft combined with the air resistance would kill their descent velocity and cause the space craft to ricochet or bounce off the atmosphere and enter into an unknown trajectory. since the command module has minor/to no ways of controlling itself after that, there would be no way to have a second re entry or safely position the spacecraft for another attempt if the space craft's flight path wasnt skewed back into space.

Enjoyed your comments. I was just a kid, but I remember the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan, the Apollo 1 fire, the Kennedys and Dr King's assassinations, Neil Armstrong's moon walk, Woodstock...and I remember watching the TV newscaster explain about the width of that piece of paper, and what would happen on re-entry if they missed the target. I was terrified, as was everyone I knew. The entire globe stopped everywhere to watch, to see if they would make it. I'll never forget that as long as I live.

Great commentary! I enjoyed watching, it's one of my favorite movies!

Yes, someone kidnapped Charles Lindbergh's baby. That was after he gained so much recognition for being the first pilot to cross the Atlantic. I think it was New York to Paris?

all the scenes of the astronauts in micro gravity, were shot on the actual Vomit Comet, the aircraft used to train astronauts to feel the effects of weightlessness.

Well done Rideout!

Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly across the Atlantic ocean in 1927. New York to Paris (3600 miles) in his plane 'The Spirit Of St-Louis'.

That improvised C02 filter they made is on display at the Houston Space Center.

Great reaction !

Great reaction my friend!

"Hard part's over." Lol 😭

I love Ron Howard's historical movies, another great one of his is 'Rush.' Very underrated

Just discovered your channel. You seem very positive and friendly and you don't talk over the dialogue and you don't cuss. You are an excellent example of what real reactors should be. I will check out more of your videos and then, perhaps, subscribe. Thanks.

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic

The interesting thing was that they actually built the set for the command module and the lunar excursion module inside the aircraft known at nasa as the vomit comet which simulates weightlessness for astronaut candidates during training. To get the weightlessness footage they had to fly in a parabolic trajectory over 600 times, during the filming of this movie, in order to have all the weightlessness footage shot at an average of 25 seconds of weightlessness each time.

I used to watch this on VHS on repeat

they had to assemble the ship that lands on the moon in space. It was the only way to fit it all in the rocket. The Saturn V that they launched in is the largest rocket ever built. Today's rockets are much smaller. Space X is working on their "Starship" which will be about as powerful as the Saturn V rockets that went to the moon.

Paul - things burn up in the atmosphere because of the incredible speeds involved. An object orbiting in Low Earth Orbit, like the ISS for example, is moving at about 17,000mph relative to the surface of the Earth, while an object returning from Lunar orbit like an Apollo mission hits the atmosphere going even faster, going over 24,000mph when they hit the atmosphere. A common misconception is that the incredible heat created during reentry is due to friction (the spacecraft against air) but it's actually due to compression - the spacecraft is moving so fast that the air molecules in front of it are unable to get pushed out of the way in time and are heated up by the compression shockwave moving ahead of the spacecraft. As for ricocheting off of it - if the spacecraft's trajectory is too shallow when entering the atmosphere, it won't lose enough speed to break orbit and will skip back out of the atmosphere.

Most of the really tense and dramatic moments of dialogue were made up to make the film more relatable to the audience. In reality the astronauts and engineers were so well prepared and well seasoned that they mostly kept their cool throughout the entire ordeal.

Another really great documentary, which has an Intro by Ron Howard, is the 2007 film “In the Shadow of the Moon (not the fictional movie that came out in 2019.) It really captures the emotional experience. The DVD set has lots of bonus features including paintings that were done by astronaut Alan Bean (on Apollo 12) who became an artist when he retired.

I remember this it happened when I was 10 or 11 there was nobody on the streets and Jim Lovell turned 92 i dont think anyone else is alive from Apollo 13 but it went through till Apollo 17 my favorite part have it all was When Alan Shepard hit a golf ball off of the Moon

So the fire they refer to at the beginning of the movie was the tragic disaster of Apollo 1. They actually weren’t even taking off, they were just performing a test of the spacecraft’s systems at the time. During the test the space capsule was fully pressurized and the cabin filled with pure oxygen. Well the problem is, in the presence of pure oxygen, even things you wouldn’t think are flammable can catch fire (like steel…yes steel can catch fire). On top of that the main hatch of the capsule opened inward, meaning even a minor amount of interior pressure would make the door impossible to open. All it took was a minor short in a switch that sparked and the entire cabin went up in flames in seconds. The three astronauts died and the entire Apollo program (and with it America’s aspiration to land on the moon) was nearly cancelled.

That ‘clap’ thing was just a joke. He didn’t get the clap.

2 of the actual crew members of the ship are, fred haise, and jim lovell, however, jack swigert passed on from cancer, and sadly enough, bill paxton who played fred haise had passed on also.

I think you would really like We Were Soldiers by Mel Gibson. It is pretty graphic but it is a very well told true story and shows what’s going on with their families while they are gone as well. It has to do with, if I remember correctly, the first battle in Vietnam. As someone who has lost friends to war and watched their families during and after, that movie makes me cry every time.