Apollo 13 hit cinemas 20 years ago in 1995 and since then we’ve learned a great deal about movie space.
Namely that it’s a pretty terrible place to go.
Apollo 13 was based on the true story of a mission to the moon which was doomed when an on-board explosion wiped out most of their oxygen supply and power meaning the likelihood of the crew returning home was nearly zero. Between the crew and NASA on the ground they had to work out a way of getting… Read the full story