Tom Hank's Apollo 13 Cache

A cache dedicated to the 1995 movie Apollo 13, a docu-drama of the nearly fatal 3rd Lunar Landing mission starring Ed Harris,Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, and Bill Paxton; directed by Ron Howard.

Apollo 13 Movie Poster

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Cache Info

This container is about the size of a paperback novel, covered in camo tape, and tucked in an inconspicuous/copious bit of foliage. Please sign and date the log and considering living a fav quote or memory of the movie OR of the actual events it depicts.

Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert

Apollo 13

The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's fifth crewed mission to the Moon, which was intended to be the third to land. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of much of its oxygen supply and electrical power, which forces NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing and turns the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.

Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's assistance in astronaut and flight-controller training for his cast and obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the weightlessness experienced by the astronauts in space.

As a child I was completely captivated by the Apollo Space Program and its 6 lunar landings as well as its missions to the first US space station, Skylab. This movie reignited my youthful passion ... and inspired me to build several models of the Saturn V, Apollo Command-Service Module, and the Lunar Lander. I even began creating presentations that I delivered throughout the 2019 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing.

Note

This is a recycled cache that someone requested I move to a different location. Originally it was a cache to celebrate NASA, but since I have created a whole Sci-Fi series, I renamed the cache for one of my favorite Science Non-Fiction (yet still somewhat fictionalized) movies.