[DallasBiff]

Remember this as a kid. Thank god all survived, but it highlights the bad luck of the number 13.

Apollo 13, launched at 13:00(military time), and the explosion happened on April 13th.

[1Old Pro]

good thing there are only 12 months in a year.

[Tell It Right]

Loved Tom Hanks’ portrayal of Lovell in the movie from decades ago. As well as Hanks’ push for the WW2 memorial at around that time. That was before Hanks went out of his way to make it easy to hate him.

[fidelis]

[Jan_Sobieski]

There are some who believe Apollo 13 was a “staged” mishap to make the studio moon landings more believable

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Actually, I think it highlights the atheistic hubris that overtook NASA.

[FamiliarFace]

When the Dragon 9 team landed a few weeks ago, it reminded me of Apollo 13 return. I had to watch the movie agin. To my kids, like most of the space program, it’s a few paragraphs in a history book. For my husband and me, it was a witnessed life event. Televised, yes, but not just words in a book.

[silent majority rising]

Friday the 13th. See, the curse must be true.

[metmom]

I remember that and when the movie came out, my kids and I went to see it at the local IMAX.

My daughter summed it all up perfectly when she said *I didn’t think a movie that you knew the ending of could be so suspenseful.*

And it was.

[A strike]

What do you mean Ill-fated ?
One of the greatest stories of all time.