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'Apollo 13' turns 30: How NASA legend Gerry Griffin helped director Ron Howard 'get it right'

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Keeping the production nominal and on track in an official advisory role was NASA living legend ...
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“Apollo 13” turns 30: See what the A-list cast of Ron Howard's Oscar-winning docudrama has been up to the last 3 decades

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton led the cast, each playing the real-life astronauts who manned the mission. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including two acting nominations for ...
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Ars reflects on Apollo 13 turning 30

My mother worked at TRW, the commpany that built the Lunar Module Descent Engine on the LEM that saved Apollo 13. After the mission, the astronauts toured many contractors, including TRW. My mother ...
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'Apollo 13' turns 30: How NASA legend Gerry Griffin helped director Ron Howard 'get it right'

Happy 30th Birthday to "Apollo 13!" Director Ron Howard's harrowing true tale of the unlucky Apollo 13 mission to the moon in 1970 still stands as one of the finest space survival movies of all time ...