'Apollo 1' director surprised by details of ill-fated mission in new documentary
It was the opening scene of "Apollo 13" and was recreated for the Neil Armstrong biopic "First Man." It was also included in ...
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NASA Astronaut Butch Wilmore’s Survival Movie Will Be Better Than Tom Hanks’ $335 Million Space Adventure and His Daughter Is Right About It
As much as Apollo 13 was a fantastic flick, the real-life story of Butch Wilmore is poised to surpass any fiction in every ...
NASA Celebrates 97th Birthday Of Jim Lovell, The Real Life Tom Hanks Of Apollo 13 Mission
Lovell's career at NASA began in September 1962 and he embarked on his first space mission for the Gemini 7 mission on ...
Astronaut Butch Wilmore’s daughter reveals how he’s adjusting to gravity: ‘He’s a trooper’
Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore is “doing good ... If you want to call me, I have ideas,” she said. “‘Apollo 13,’ that’s a ...
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Apollo astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly dies aged 87
A NASA astronaut who was removed from the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission but helped bring its crew back home safely thanks to his problem-solving efforts from ground control has died at the age of 87.
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Surviving Apollo 13: Astronaut Fred Haise recounts harrowing mission to Fairbanks elementary students
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third moon landing in 1970. An ...
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‘Apollo 1’ film ‘a great tribute’ to astronauts who paved way to NASA’s future successes, says Rusty Schweickart
“It’s a terrific tribute of course to the way all progress is made,” Rusty Schweickart said of the film. Apollo 9 astronaut and longtime Sonoma resident Rusty Schweickart spoke to a sold-out ...