As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as ...

Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton led the cast, each playing the real-life astronauts who manned the mission. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including two acting nominations for ...

Excluding culture and politics, those computers were super low level nerds employees. A 90s movie wouldn't have focused on them unless there was a "holy crap there's an issue and the only person who ...

No spoiler warnings were required. When moviegoers first sat down to watch "Apollo 13" in the summer of 1995, they already knew how the story would play out. Those old enough could remember how, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keeping the production nominal and on track in an official advisory role was NASA living legend Gerry Griffin. The former Johnson ...

Houston, we have an anniversary. Ron Howard's Apollo 13 touched down 30 years ago today, captivating audiences with its harrowing real-life tale of a 1970 flight to the moon that nearly ended in ...

My mother worked at TRW, the commpany that built the Lunar Module Descent Engine on the LEM that saved Apollo 13. After the mission, the astronauts toured many contractors, including TRW. My mother ...