Despite the mission going horribly wrong, a new documentary finds hope for our planet in the failed Moon mission.
A new documentary doesn't just tell the story of Apollo 13, but finds parallels between the mission and the perils we face on Earth.It’s been more than 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, but leaving Earth remains a tricky proposition. One only needs to look at the recent travails of the Boeing Starliner for evidence. That’s easy to forget in an age of ever-increasing space tourism, in which billionaires treat rocket ships as hobbies.
“Apollo 13 is such an iconic story, and, along with Apollo 11, it’s one of the two flights from that Apollo era, which loom the largest in the popular imagination,” saiddirector Peter Middleton in an interview with Gizmodo. “Of course, Apollo 11, to all intents and purposes, was a technological triumph, and Apollo 13 is kind of in the shadow of that.” In the wake of the euphoria of landing on the Moon, Apollo 13 made the public realize, “what can go wrong in deep space,” he said.
Despite the family’s involvement, the film does not contain any new interviews with anyone involved with the mission. Instead, Middleton opted to use only previously recorded clips. What’s often lost is the context in which the mission took place. The Vietnam War was raging. Almost two years to the day before liftoff, Martin Luther King, Jr. had been assassinated, followed by Robert Kennedy. The Cold War had reached a period of detente, but the threat of nuclear annihilation remained. By 1970, a growing number of scientists were becoming alarmed by the increasing amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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