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Hmm, I've read A Man on the Moon and Failure is not an Option and I don't recall any inaccuracies in the Apollo 13 movie. According to the wikipedia there were
by js2 8y ago
Hmm, I've read A Man on the Moon and Failure is not an Option and I don't recall any inaccuracies in the Apollo 13 movie. According to the wikipedia there were a few but it mostly seems like simplifications, not embellishments:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_(film)#Technical_and_historical_accuracy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_(film)#Technical_a...
- fao_ 8y agoAt the time the astronauts were fixing the problem, neither they nor Huston knew they were venting oxygen, just fuel. That's kind of a major plot point, a driver of much of the tension of the movie, and goes a little bit beyond an "embellishment" or "simplification". There are also some other, similar flaws.
- mannykannot 8y agoHaving read a far amount about the mission prior to seeing the movie, I recall thinking at the time that the movie presented the various hacks that saved the mission as being inventions of the astronauts.
- d4mi3n 8y agoWatch again. The whole scene about building the air filter was portrayed as a hack developed by the ground teams while they instructed the astronauts over radio: https://youtu.be/1cYzkyXp0jg https://youtu.be/1cYzkyXp0jg