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Apollo 13: Music From The Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the 1995 film Apollo 13 featuring an original score composed, conducted and produced by James Horner.The soundtrack was released on June 27, 1995 by MCA Records that compiled seven tracks of score, eight period songs used in the film, and seven tracks of dialogue by the actors at a running time of nearly 78 minutes.
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
In Chapter 13 of Apollo Expeditions to the Moon (1975), Jim Lovell recalls the event: "Jack Swigert saw a warning light that accompanied the bang, and said, 'Houston, we've had a problem here.' I came on and told the ground that it was a main B bus undervolt. The time was 21:08 hours on April 13." [5]
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Best Original Song: Nominated 1990: Field of Dreams: Best Original Score: Nominated 1996: Apollo 13: Best Original Dramatic Score: Nominated Braveheart: Nominated 1998: Titanic: Won "My Heart Will Go On" (from Titanic; shared with Will Jennings) Best Original Song: Won 2002: A Beautiful Mind: Best Original Score: Nominated 2004: House Of Sand ...
King announced most of the crewed NASA liftoffs between 1965 and 1971 (with the sole exception of Apollo 13, which was called by his deputy, Chuck Hollinshead); the first crewed launch King called was Gemini 4 in June 1965, and the last was Apollo 15 in July 1971. His best-known launch call was Apollo 11 in July 1969.
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (or NASA's Greatest Missions: When We Left Earth in the UK) is a 2008 Discovery Channel HD documentary miniseries consisting of six episodes documenting American human spaceflight from the first Mercury flights and the Gemini program, to the Apollo program and its Moon missions and landings, to the Space Shuttle missions and the construction of the ...
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