Guest Blogger: Pierre 1

Apollo 13 is a movie based on the true story of the Apollo Space Program supposed to reach the Moon in 1970 for the third time.
En route to the Moon, the Apollo 13 crew, led by the famous astronaut Jim Lovell, found out that the oxygen tank of the spacecraft had exploded, prompting Mission Control to abort the Moon landing, and forcing the crew to hurriedly do their best to fixed it, so it can keep them alive for the return home. At approximately 200 000 miles from the Earth, the three men had to deal with many technical problems and were in lack of oxygen, while their families at home were watching the news and hoping they would survive.
The three main characters, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, are the crew members of Apollo 13. They all play very well their role. Indeed the actors were taught about each command of the spacecraft and recorded some scenes in a special aircraft in order to simulate weightlessness in outer-space. That makes the movie more realistic, which is a point that I actually appreciate.
I agree with many critics that say that this movie has a dramatic impact on its audience. The author uses the drama of whether they live or die as the crux of the movie. He used a true story but concentrated on aspects of it that those of us outside that world never would have thought about. The pressure of the media, the wive's lives, and the psychology of the astronauts themselves made that movie unforgettable. The value of this movie is simply it's documentation of memorable event in U.S. space travel history.
Apollo 13 totally deserved its nominations for many awards and most notably for nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. We can see through this movie a lot of historical facts that happened in the US during the early 1970’s. Therefore I would truly recommend it to anybody willing to learn more about the most amazing challenge in the Human history : the Race to the Moon.