"Ride Way. Lovell's formal education consisted of the following: Lovell's awards and decorations include: About a month after the return to Earth of Apollo 13, Lovell and his crewmates, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, appeared on ""The Tonight Show"" with host Johnny Carson. The introduction of this segment of the show is featured on ""Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13"" on the single disc DVD version of the movie. In 1976, Lovell made a cameo appearance in the Nicolas Roeg movie ""The Man Who Fell to Earth"". In 1995, actor Tom Hanks portrayed Lovell in the film ""Apollo 13"","
"Orleans received the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal and a Meritorious Unit Commendation for Somalia related operations from 18 October 1993 to 1 February 1994.[3] ""New Orleans"" next sailed onto the movie screen in November 1994 when astronaut Captain Jim Lovell, USN, director Ron Howard, and actors Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton came aboard to film several portions of the Oscar-winning film ""Apollo 13"". She portrayed the then-decommissioned USS ""Iwo Jima"", one of her sister ships. June 1995 saw ""New Orleans"" underway again for WESTPAC operations. She was present to support the Marine raid on the Al Hamra Facility"
"""Apollo 13"", a 1995 film directed by Ron Howard. The couple describes a 1969 film—never specifically named—in which an astronaut in an Apollo spacecraft ""named Jim"" faces mortal peril. The couple says the film gave Lovell's wife nightmares. Her experience inspired a dream sequence in ""Apollo 13"". There were some discrepancies between real-life procedures and what is shown in the film. For instance, several scenes show various people communicating directly with the astronauts in space. In actuality, only CAPCOM (an astronaut) and astronauts' wives would have been permitted to communicate with the spacecraft, all others in MOCR and AFLCC would"
"the 1995 film ""Apollo 13""—reunited him with Ron Howard. Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. The movie also earned nine Academy Award nominations, winning two. Later that year, Hanks starred in Disney/Pixar's CGI-animated hit film ""Toy Story"", as the voice of Sheriff Woody. Hanks made his directing debut with his 1996 film ""That Thing You Do!"" about a 1960s pop group, also playing the role of a music producer. Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman went on to create Playtone, a"
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a 2005 British-American science fiction comedy film directed by Garth Jennings, based upon previous works in the media franchise of the same name, created by Douglas Adams. It stars Martin Freeman, Sam Rockwell, Mos Def, Zooey Deschanel and the voices of Stephen Fry and Alan Rickman. Adams co-wrote the screenplay with Karey Kirkpatrick but died in 2001, before production began; the film is dedicated to him. The film grossed over $100 million worldwide. The film begins with a Broadway-style number, ""So Long, and Thanks for All"
"11"" (1996), ""From the Earth to the Moon"" (1998), ""The Dish"" (2000), ""Space Race"" (2005), ""Moonshot"" (2009), and ""First Man"" (2018). NASA reports Multimedia Apollo program The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal"
"supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning 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 technical 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. Released to cinemas in the United States on June 30, 1995, ""Apollo 13"" was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture (winning for Best Film"
"landings during the filming of ""2001: A Space Odyssey"", and ""Colour Me Kubrick"" (2005), starring John Malkovich as Alan Conway, a con artist who had assumed Kubrick's identity in the 1990s. Both films were authorized by Kubrick's family. In the 2004 film ""The Life and Death of Peter Sellers"", Kubrick was portrayed by Stanley Tucci, and documents their filming of ""Dr. Strangelove"", rather than ""Lolita"". In April 2018, the month that marked the 50th anniversary of ""2001: A Space Odyssey"", the International Astronomical Union named the largest mountain of Pluto's moon Charon after Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick (; July"
"the film. He next appeared in the films ""The Firm"" (1993) and ""Needful Things"" (1993), before portraying the lead role of Kyle Bodine in the neo noir film ""China Moon"" (1994). In 1995, Harris portrayed Watergate figure E. Howard Hunt in the Oliver Stone biopic ""Nixon"", and received his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his performance as NASA Mercury Mission Control Director Gene Kranz in ""Apollo 13"". In 1996, Harris starred in and executive produced the television adaptation of ""Riders of the Purple Sage"". That same year, he returned to Broadway as Major Steve Arnold in"
"at Kennedy Space Center in the year after the ""Columbia"" disaster that had taken the life of Indian-American astronaut KC Chawla. On television, the 1996 drama ""The Cape"" portrays the lives of a group of NASA astronauts as they prepare for and fly Shuttle missions. ""Odyssey 5"" was a short-lived sci-fi series that features the crew of a Space Shuttle as the last survivors of a disaster that destroys Earth. The 1997–2007 sci-fi series ""Stargate SG-1"" has a shuttle rescue written into an episode. The 2013 film ""Gravity"" features the fictional Space Shuttle ""Explorer"" during STS-157, whose crew are killed"
"Special Venue Film from the Visual Effects Society for their work on the film. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D is a 2005 IMAX 3D documentary film about the first humans on the Moon, the twelve astronauts in the Apollo program. It is co-written, produced and directed by Mark Cowen, and co-written, produced by and starring Tom Hanks. The film includes historical NASA footage as well as re-enactments and computer-generated imagery. Tom Hanks is the narrator, co-writer and co-producer. ""Magnificent Desolation"" is the third Apollo-related project for Hanks: he was previously involved"
"RTS and Grierson awards. His 2015 film for National Geographic - Hubble's Comsic Journey was nominated for an Emmy. He has directed, produced, science consulted or hosted on the following films & TV series (incomplete): In 2009, to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the flight of Apollo 11, he collaborated with the London Science Museum on a novel video installation called ""Apollo Raw and Uncut"" which projected all 23 hours of NASA's 16mm Apollo flight film, shot on Apollo missions AS-501 (Apollo 4) to AS-512 (Apollo 17). Much of this footage, including an almost 8-minute sequence documenting a long"
"Lost Moon Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (published in paperback as Apollo 13), is a non-fiction book first published in 1994 by astronaut James Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger, about the failed April 1970 Apollo 13 lunar landing mission which Lovell commanded. The book is the basis of the 1995 film adaptation ""Apollo 13"", directed by Ron Howard. Apollo 13 was the third mission of the Apollo program intended to land men on the Moon. An explosion of an onboard liquid oxygen tank in the Service Module, when the craft was close to reaching the Moon, crippled"
"Tom Hanks was cast in the role. In order to prepare, Hanks visited Lovell and his wife at their home in Texas and even flew with Lovell in his private airplane. In the film, Lovell has a cameo as the captain of the USS ""Iwo Jima"", the naval vessel that led the operation to recover the Apollo 13 astronauts after their successful splashdown. Lovell can be seen as the naval officer shaking Hanks' hand, as Hanks speaks in voice-over, in the scene where the astronauts come aboard the ""Iwo Jima"". Filmmakers initially offered to make Lovell's character an admiral aboard"
"dead astronaut and taking his jewel-encrusted skull to an ancient, otherworldly town. The astronaut's bones float toward a solar eclipse, while a circle of women perform a ritual with the skull in the town's centre. The film was shot in September 2015 in a studio in Brooklyn. The filmmaking process was highly collaborative, with Bowie making many suggestions and sending Renck sketches of ideas he wanted incorporated. While both men agreed to leave the video open to interpretation (Renck initially refused to confirm or deny that the astronaut in the video was Major Tom), Renck has offered several details regarding"
"during the awards ceremony on March 27, 1995. For only the second time in Oscar history, three of the four acting winners were previous winners. The 11th ceremony held in 1939 previously accomplished this feat. Best Actor winner Tom Hanks became the fifth performer to win consecutive acting Oscars and the second person to do so in the aforementioned category since Spencer Tracy won for his performances in ""Captains Courageous"" and ""Boys Town"". He also was the sixth person to win Best Actor twice. Best Supporting Actress winner Dianne Wiest became the first person to win two acting Oscars for"
"NASA's TV and 16 mm film footage related to the mission, including all TV transmissions from space, training and launch footage, and motion pictures taken in flight. Parts of the Apollo 8 mission can be seen in the 1989 documentary ""For All Mankind"", which won the Grand Jury Prize Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. The television series ""American Experience"" aired a documentary, ""Race to the Moon"", in 2005 during season 18. The Apollo 8 mission was well covered in the 2007 British documentary ""In the Shadow of the Moon"". Parts of the mission are dramatized in the 1998 miniseries"
"October 2015 to a positive reception. In April 2016, Hanks starred as Alan Clay in the comedy-drama ""A Hologram for the King"", an adaptation of the 2012 novel of the same name. Hanks starred as airline captain Chesley Sullenberger in Clint Eastwood's ""Sully"", which was released in September 2016. He next reprised his role as Robert Langdon in ""Inferno"" (2016), and co-starred alongside Emma Watson in the 2017 science fiction drama ""The Circle"". He voiced David S. Pumpkins in ""The David S. Pumpkins Animated Halloween Special"", which aired October 28, 2017, on NBC, a character he had portrayed in episodes"
"the debut of ""From the Earth to the Moon"", a 12-part miniseries that was produced by Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer and based on the Andrew Chaikin book ""A Man on the Moon"". Costing $68 million to produce, it traced the U.S. space program from the U.S./U.S.S.R. space race through the final moon landing, Apollo 17. ""From the Earth to the Moon"" won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries, and helped spur other HBO miniseries based on historical events such as ""61*"", ""Band of Brothers"", ""John Adams"" and ""The Pacific"". That year also saw the debut of the"
"15. Each track is specially chosen, often by their families, and usually has a special meaning to an individual member of the crew, or is applicable to their daily activities. STS-98 was the designation for the fictional NASA mission to destroy an asteroid in ""Armageddon"" (1998 film) STS-98 STS-98 was a 2001 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle "" Atlantis"". It was the first human spaceflight launch of the 21st century. STS-98 delivered to the station the Destiny Laboratory Module. All mission objectives were completed and the shuttle reentered and landed safely at"
"From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries) From the Earth to the Moon is a 12-part 1998 HBO television miniseries co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick, telling the story of the landmark ""Apollo"" expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s in docudrama format. Largely based on Andrew Chaikin's book, ""A Man on the Moon"", the series is known for its accurate telling of the story of Apollo and the outstanding special effects under visual director Ernest D. Farino. The series takes its title from, but is not based upon, the famous Jules"
"work with the Apollo Program has been recounted in Andrew Chaikin's ""A Man on the Moon"" (1994). The book became a TV mini-series in 1998, with David Clennon portraying him in the HBO docu-drama series ""From The Earth To The Moon"". In the series' Episode 10 ""Galileo Was Right"", Silver is shown teaching the Apollo 15 astronauts field geology, and participating from Houston's Mission Control in their lunar extra-vehicular activities (Moonwalks). Silver was interviewed about the episode and he felt that it ""romanticized"" the experience, and had minor historical inaccuracies, but otherwise liked it and showed it at a lecture"
"Mission to Mars Mission to Mars is a 2000 American science fiction adventure film directed by Brian De Palma from an original screenplay written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost. In 2020, a manned Mars exploration mission goes awry. American astronaut Jim McConnell (Gary Sinise) coordinates a rescue mission for a colleague. Principal support actors were Tim Robbins, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, and Kim Delaney. In 2020, the ""Mars I"" mission to planet Mars, is commanded by Luke Graham (Don Cheadle) with fellow astronauts Nicholas Willis (Kavan Smith), Sergei Kirov (Peter Outerbridge), and Renée Coté (Jill"
"planets for possible colonisation. Due to the effects of time dilation, by which astronauts travelling at near-light speed age far more slowly than people on Earth, the ship will be crewed by two whole ""family units"". Arriving in a United Nations shuttle, Doctors Tom and Anna Bowen (Brian Blessed and Joanna Dunham) board ""Altares"" with their son, David (Martin Lev). Meanwhile, Jane Masters (Katharine Levy) leaves her dog, Spring, in the care of station commander Jim Forbes (Don Fellows). Her father, Captain Harry Masters (Nick Tate), engages ""Altares""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s ""photon drive"" and the vessel starts its 4.3-light-year journey to the star"
"subject of refutation in an article published on Seeker nearly half a year later. The 2015 movie ""Moonwalkers"" is a fictional account of a CIA agent's claim of Kubrick's involvement. In December 2015, a video surfaced which allegedly shows Kubrick being interviewed shortly before his 1999 death; the video purportedly shows the director confessing to T. Patrick Murray that the Apollo Moon landings had been faked. Research quickly found, however, that the video was a hoax. In 2002, NASA granted US$15,000 to James Oberg for a commission to write a point-by-point rebuttal of the hoax claims. However, NASA canceled the"
"starring Tom Hanks as Lovell, Bill Paxton as Haise, Kevin Bacon as Swigert, Gary Sinise as Mattingly, Ed Harris as flight director Gene Kranz, and Kathleen Quinlan as Marilyn Lovell. James Lovell, Eugene Kranz, and other principals have stated that this film depicted the events of the mission with reasonable accuracy, given that some dramatic license was taken. For example, the film changes the tense of Lovell's famous follow-up to Swigert's original words from, ""Houston, we've had a problem"", to ""Houston, we ""have"" a problem"". The film was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Harris)"
"Planet 505 Club in Syracuse, New York. ""Jane White Is Sick & Twisted"" won Best B-Movie, Best Director (David Michael Latt), and Best B-Movie Hollywood Appearance/Cameo (Colin Mochrie). The winner of Best Actor was Michael Emanuel for ""Lucky"", Best Actress Andrea Ajemian for ""Rutland, USA"", Best Supporting Actor Graeme Anning for ""P.O.V"", Best Supporting Actress Lara Clancy for ""Summer Rain"". ""Hunting Humans"" won Best Editing and Best Action Sequences. Best Writer was Stephen Sustarsic for ""Lucky"". There was a Special Achievement Winner: Young Man Kang for ""1st Testament CIA Vengeance"" ""Prison-a-Go-Go"", a parody of women in prison films, won Best"
"was published by Dell Comics in October 1967. Countdown (1968 film) Countdown is a 1968 science fiction film directed by Robert Altman, based on the novel ""The Pilgrim Project"" by Hank Searls. It stars James Caan and Robert Duvall as astronauts vying to be the first American to walk on the Moon as part of a crash program to beat the Soviet Union. In the late 1960s, astronauts training in an Apollo simulator have their session ended early. They grumble about it, but their commander, Chiz (Robert Duvall), knows the reason for the abort: the Pilgrim Program. The Russians will"
"Destination Moon (film) Destination Moon (a.k.a. Operation Moon) is a 1950 American Technicolor space exploration science fiction film drama, independently made by George Pal, directed by Irving Pichel, that stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers and Dick Wesson. The film was distributed in the United States and the United Kingdom by Eagle-Lion Classics. With ""Destination Moon"", George Pal produced the first major U.S. science fiction film to deal with the dangers inherent in human space travel and the possible difficulties of America's first lunar mission landing on and safely returning from our only natural satellite. The film's premise is"
"Cast Away Cast Away is a 2000 American survival film directed and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. The film depicts a FedEx employee marooned on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific and his attempts to survive on the island using remnants of his plane's cargo. The film was released on December 22, 2000. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $429 million worldwide, with Hanks being nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards. In December 1995, Chuck Noland is a"
"based on Lovell's book ""Lost Moon"". Lovell himself makes a cameo in this movie, playing the captain of the USS ""Iwo Jima"" at the end of the film. In 1998, actor Tim Daly portrayed Lovell in portions of the HBO miniseries ""From the Earth to the Moon"". The film depicts Lovell during his missions aboard Gemini 12, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13, though he is not seen on screen during the latter mission. Lovell is one of the astronauts featured in the book and documentaries ""In the Shadow of the Moon"" and ""When We Left Earth"". On November 13, 2008,"
"Attila the Hun. Scientists determine explosives planted on the surface of the asteroid may divert it into a stable orbit around Earth. A five-person expedition uses the Space Shuttle ""Atlantis"" to rendezvous with the asteroid and plant the charges. The crew is led by Commander Boston Low (voiced by Robert Patrick), and joined by Dr. Ludger Brink (Steven Blum), a German archaeologist and geologist, Maggie Robbins (Mari Weiss), a linguistics expert and reporter, pilot Ken Borden (David Lodge) and NASA technician Cora Miles (Leilani Jones), who is also running for Congress. Low, Brink, and Robbins spacewalk to the asteroid and"
"Frances (1961), Mark (1963), Brigid (1964), and Jean Marie (1966). Kranz has appeared as a character in several dramatizations of the Apollo program. The first portrayal was in the 1974 TV movie ""Houston, We've Got a Problem"", where he is played by Ed Nelson. He is played by Ed Harris in the 1995 film ""Apollo 13"", who received an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. Matt Frewer portrays him in the 1996 TV movie ""Apollo 11"". He is portrayed by Dan Butler in the 1998 HBO miniseries ""From the Earth to the Moon"". In"