Key Takeaways:

The Apollo 13 space mission in April 1970 riveted the public as NASA successfully saved the three astronauts onboard after a mid-flight equipment malfunction.

The survival tale has inspired several movies and books, including a heavily fictionalized 1974 TV movie that Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell called “a disservice.”

Decades later, Lovell consulted on the beloved Ron Howard film Apollo 13 that won two Oscars.

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 astronauts Jim Lovell , Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise were determined to reach the moon as their craft took off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center.

Two days later, they were simply determined to make it back to Earth alive.

The terrifying events of the doomed mission and the ensuing operation to bring the trio home is now wid

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