The most famous space mission, whose story was adapted for the cinema, is the subject of a new documentary available on Netflix.
“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” This famous expression that has entered popular culture was first uttered during the rescue of the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. An American space mission from the NASA ultra-perilous since the three occupants of the rocket sent to the moon suffer an explosion stopping their ambitions abruptly. Netflix retraces this iconic epic in a British documentary film which will be available from September 5, 2024.
It’s director Peter Middleton (The Real Charlie Chaplin, An Experience in Darkness) who imagined the construction of the story, already exploited in the cinema by Ron Howard with Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon. No casting for this film documentaryjust pictures of the real protagonists, including the three astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert.
What is the plot of the documentary? Apollo 13: Mission Survival ?
Just nine months after Neil Armstrong’s historic moon landing, NASA faced its greatest crisis: in April 1970, three astronauts were sent to our satellite who would never reach their destination. Their spacecraft suffered a breakdown with a terrible explosion, stranding the astronauts between the Earth and the Moon. How did NASA manage this dramatic crisis in the conquest of space?
Who do we see in the documentary? Apollo 13: Mission Survival ?
- Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert
- Commander John W. Young
- Ken Mattingly, the command module pilot
- Charles Duke, the lunar module pilot
Where to watch the documentary Apollo 13: Mission Survival in streaming?
The documentary film Apollo 13: Mission Survival is to be seen exclusively on Netflix from September 5, 2024. It is available on condition of paying a subscription to the platform streaming. There are several options available to you: a paid subscription costing 5.99 euros per month with the Netflix Standard offer with ads, 13.49 euros per month with the standard package (without ads and with two simultaneous screens), 19.99 euros per month (without ads and with 4 different screens at the same time).