Movie Review: Apollo 13
The title of this movie is Apollo 13. This movie is a recreation of the horrific events that unfolded in space after a normal maintenance procedure, and the heroic and desperate efforts many people made to ensure that the astronauts made it home safely.
At the beginning of the movie, Jim Lovell is notified that he and his team would be bumped up to the Apollo 13 mission, because Alan Shepard's ear was infected. Lovell and his team were scheduled to be the commander of the Apollo 14 mission. After months of intense training for the Apollo 13 mission, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Ken Mattingly take their official pictures in their spacesuits, just four days before their launch. Then, just two days before launch, an astronaut on the backup crew develops the measles, and the only person on the launch team who has not already had the measles is Ken Mattingly. NASA then decides to replace Ken with someone from the backup crewJack Swigert.......
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