Apollo 13 movie, fact or fiction?!

FILM REVIEW: Name of film: Apollo 13 Main Actors: Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell Bill Paxton as Fred Haise Kevin Bacon as Jack Swigert Gary Sinise as Ken Mattingly Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell Director: Ron Howard The year Apollo 13 was released: 1995 The historical circumstances in the film are not unlike the actual events surrounding the 1970 incident. Nothing contradicts what really happened. Though it was dramatized to a certain point, such as the explosion the movie …

…unfold as it was happening in space is actually real news footage from America. The movie began with President John F. Kennedy's historic challenge to put a man on the moon by 1970. It also showed footage of Apollo 11 landing on the moon, and the tragic events of a previous mission when astronauts were killed in a fire. This helps hold the historical detail and show what people were thinking about space travel at that time.