T he genre of movies based on the real missions of NASA is actually a fairly succinct conversation when almost no other ...

This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit.

The film focuses on the story of the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and stars Tom Hanks alongside Kevin Bacon and the late Bill Paxton Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine.

James Lovell may be best known as the commander of Apollo 13. During that April 1970 mission, the service module’s cryogenic oxygen system failed, putting the astronauts’ lives in danger.

‘Dad always says: ‘Never leave home without duct tape!’,” chuckles Jeff Lovell, whose father, Jim, is best known for commanding Nasa’s ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in April 1970.

Hours after witnessing the first Earthrise, Jim Lovell told mission control: “The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.” NASA It’s arguably the most iconic ...