Apollo 13 (1995)

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The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy. Wikipedia ↗

Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama directed by Ron Howard, depicting the harrowing true story of the aborted 1970 lunar mission. Ed Harris plays Gene Kranz, the flight director at Mission Control in Houston who declares "failure is not an option" and leads his team through an impossible engineering challenge to bring the crew home. Ron Howard's direction recreated the experience of spaceflight with meticulous detail — the actors trained in NASA's "Vomit Comet" aircraft to film genuine weightlessness sequences, and the mission control set was an exact replica of the 1970 facility.

Apollo 13 earned $355 million worldwide and received nine Academy Award nominations, winning two for Best Film Editing and Best Sound.