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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...