Apollo 13 50th anniversary

[AWS260]

The 50th anniversary of Tom Hanks' NASA engineers' greatest triumph is right around the corner. This is an extremely cool website:

https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/

[Holman]

Very cool!

[LawBeefaroni]

Woah, that's nice.

Thanks.

[AWS260]

We watched the movie last night to mark the anniversary. My 10-year-old really loved it, which made me very happy. And it's just a great movie regardless. Kathleen Quinlan has the toughest role as Marilyn Lovell and she knocks it out of the park.

[Suitably Ironic Moniker]

We watched the movie last night to mark the anniversary. My 10-year-old really loved it, which made me very happy. And it's just a great movie regardless. Kathleen Quinlan has the toughest role as Marilyn Lovell and she knocks it out of the park.

I never really thought about it that way, but you’re right. She has to sell that helplessness and anger over probably becoming a widow and she aced it. In a movie of strong performances, she should have gotten more recognition.

[Kraken]

Apollo 13 exploded on my 13th birthday. I followed that mission obsessively and never doubted that NASA would bring them home. 'Course, they weren't exactly feeding us all the details at the time.

I can't resist telling this story again: The high point of my science museum career was hosting Jim Lovell for a few hours. He was promoting his book prior to the movie coming out, and I'd arranged an afternoon book signing and evening lecture. After the exhibit halls closed, he and I walked to the museum's old Apollo exhibit, which had a mockup of the LEM. He climbed in and showed me the key points of interest.

I was 39 at the time...or 3*13.

Oh...and after spending several hours with my teenage hero? He's the real deal.

[gbasden]

Apollo 13 exploded on my 13th birthday. I followed that mission obsessively and never doubted that NASA would bring them home. 'Course, they weren't exactly feeding us all the details at the time.

I can't resist telling this story again: The high point of my science museum career was hosting Jim Lovell for a few hours. He was promoting his book prior to the movie coming out, and I'd arranged an afternoon book signing and evening lecture. After the exhibit halls closed, he and I walked to the museum's old Apollo exhibit, which had a mockup of the LEM. He climbed in and showed me the key points of interest.

I was 39 at the time...or 3*13.

Oh...and after spending several hours with my teenage hero? He's the real deal.

Of all the things that's one of the few experiences I'm really jealous of. That's super awesome!

[raydude]

Apollo 13 exploded on my 13th birthday. I followed that mission obsessively and never doubted that NASA would bring them home. 'Course, they weren't exactly feeding us all the details at the time.

I can't resist telling this story again: The high point of my science museum career was hosting Jim Lovell for a few hours. He was promoting his book prior to the movie coming out, and I'd arranged an afternoon book signing and evening lecture. After the exhibit halls closed, he and I walked to the museum's old Apollo exhibit, which had a mockup of the LEM. He climbed in and showed me the key points of interest.

I was 39 at the time...or 3*13.

Oh...and after spending several hours with my teenage hero? He's the real deal.

Of all the things that's one of the few experiences I'm really jealous of. That's super awesome!

Agreed, that is truly awesome!