After watching Apollo 13 I am now aware of how much much the film includes. However, I am not certain that all this fact is true or whether the fact has been changed for a better spectator response. Therefore I am looking at the NASA website to obtain the correct fact.
Basic Fact:
Apollo 13 was meant to land on the Fra Mauro area (the moon). An explosion occurred causing the ship to be unable to land and simply orbit the moo back to earth.
Crew:
Commander - James A. Lovell Jr.
Lunar Module Pilot - Fred W. Haise Jr.
Command Module Pilot - John (Jack) L. Swigert Jr.
Launch:
April 11, 1970; 1:13 p.m. CST
The Explosion:
At 55 hours and 58 minutes into the launch oxygen tank 2 blew up causing oxygen tank 1 to fail also. The quote "Houston, we've had a problem here" was said by Swigert at 9:08pm, April 13. The crew were 200,000 miles from earth.
Much more fact can be sifted from the website and i will continue on to compare the fact in the film and the real events. The website is especially useful as it includes real quotes form the people. I'm interested to see if any of them were used in the film (apart from the famous: Houston we have a problem.)
NASA
(2009) https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo13.html#.WBnumM_tmko
(Accessed: 2 November 2016)
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