Editing Apollo 13 (section)

== Popular culture, media and 50th anniversary ==
[[File:Universal Studios Hollywood 2012 58.jpg|thumb|alt=see caption|Command module replica used during ''[[Apollo&nbsp;13 (film)|Apollo&nbsp;13]]'' filming]]
The 1974 movie ''[[Houston, We've Got a Problem]]'', while set around the Apollo&nbsp;13 incident, is a fictional drama about the crises faced by ground personnel when the emergency disrupts their work schedules and places further stress on their lives. Lovell publicly complained about the movie, saying it was "fictitious and in poor taste".<ref name=irks>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35088956/the_south_bend_tribune/|title=Apollo 13 Movie Irks Lovell|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=The South Bend Tribune|location=South Bend, Indiana|date=February 28, 1974|page=5|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/13/houston-we-have-a-problem-the-amazing-history-of-the-iconic-apollo-13-misquote/|title='Houston, we have a problem': The amazing history of the iconic Apollo 13 misquote|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521183910/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/13/houston-we-have-a-problem-the-amazing-history-of-the-iconic-apollo-13-misquote/|archive-date=May 21, 2019|url-status=live|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=April 13, 2017|last1=Rosenwald|first1=Michael S.}}</ref>

"Houston{{nbsp}}... We've Got a Problem" was the title of an episode of the [[BBC]] documentary series ''A Life At Stake'', broadcast in March 1978. This was an accurate, if simplified, reconstruction of the events.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35940813/the_observer/|title=The Week in View|last1=Meades|first1=Jonathan|newspaper=The Observer|location=London, England|date=March 26, 1978|page=29|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1994, during the [[Apollo 11 anniversaries|25th anniversary of Apollo 11]], PBS released a 90-minute documentary titled ''Apollo&nbsp;13: To the Edge and Back''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35947551/chicago_tribune/|title=Wednesday Highlights|department=TV Week|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|location=Chicago, Illinois|date=July 17, 1994|page=25|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35947573/florida_today/|title=Space Specials at a Glance|newspaper=Florida Today|department=TV Week|location=Cocoa, Florida|date=July 17, 1994|page=3|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

Following the flight, the crew planned to write a book, but they all left NASA without starting it. After Lovell retired in 1991, he was approached by journalist [[Jeffrey Kluger]] about writing a non-fiction account of the mission. Swigert died in 1982 and Haise was no longer interested in such a project. The resultant book, ''[[Lost Moon|Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo&nbsp;13]]'', was published in 1994.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39589313/the_postcrescent_11_december_1994/|title=Lovell Describes the Dark Side of Moon Shots|newspaper=The Post-Crescent|location=Appleton, Wisconsin|agency=Associated Press|last1=Dunn|first1=Marcia|date=December 11, 1994|page=F-8|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

The next year, in 1995, a film adaptation of the book, ''[[Apollo&nbsp;13 (film)|Apollo&nbsp;13]]'', was released, directed by [[Ron Howard]] and starring [[Tom Hanks]] as Lovell, [[Bill Paxton]] as Haise, [[Kevin Bacon]] as Swigert, [[Gary Sinise]] as Mattingly, [[Ed Harris]] as Kranz, and [[Kathleen Quinlan]] as Marilyn Lovell. James Lovell, Kranz, and other principals have stated that this film depicted the events of the mission with reasonable accuracy, given that some [[artistic license|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]]".<ref name = "journal Houston" /><ref name = "nasaMembers" /> The film also invented the phrase "[[Failure is not an option]]", uttered by Harris as Kranz in the film; the phrase became so closely associated with Kranz that he used it for the title of his 2000 autobiography.<ref name="nasaMembers">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasa.gov/content/members-of-apollo-13-team-reflect-on-nasas-finest-hour|title=Members of Apollo 13 Team Reflect on 'NASA's Finest Hour'|last=Granath|first=Bob|date=April 17, 2015|website=NASA|access-date=July 1, 2019|archive-date=July 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713193613/https://www.nasa.gov/content/members-of-apollo-13-team-reflect-on-nasas-finest-hour/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The film won two of the nine Academy Awards it was nominated for, Best Film Editing and Best Sound.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35088898/the_heraldpalladium/|title=The Winners|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=The Herald-Palladium|location=Saint Joseph, Michigan|date=March 26, 1996|page=4B|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35088927/st_louis_postdispatch/|title='Braveheart', 'Apollo 13' Lead Oscar Nominees|newspaper=St. Louis Post Dispatch|location=St. Louis, Missouri|date=February 14, 1996|page=4A|via=Newspapers.com|last1=Barnes|first1=Harper}}</ref>

In the 1998 miniseries ''[[From the Earth to the Moon (miniseries)|From the Earth to the Moon]]'', co-produced by Hanks and Howard, the mission is dramatized in the episode "We Interrupt This Program". Rather than showing the incident from the crew's perspective as in the ''Apollo&nbsp;13'' feature film, it is instead presented from an Earth-bound perspective of television reporters competing for coverage of the event.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35053645/santa_cruz_sentinel/|title=Tom Hanks Flies us to the Moon via HBO|newspaper=Santa Cruz Sentinel|location=Santa Cruz, California|date=April 5, 1998|page=C-6|agency=The New York Times|via=Newspapers.com|last1=Sterngold|first1=James}}</ref>

In 2020, the [[BBC World Service]] began airing ''13 Minutes to the Moon'', radio programs which draw on NASA audio from the mission, as well as archival and recent interviews with participants. Episodes began airing for Season 2 starting on March 8, 2020, with episode 1, "Time bomb: Apollo 13", explaining the launch and the explosion. Episode 2 details Mission Control's denial and disbelief of the accident, with other episodes covering other aspects of the mission. The seventh and final episode was delayed due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]]. In "Delay to Episode 7", the BBC explained that the presenter of the series, medical doctor [[Kevin Fong]], had been called into service.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads 13 minutes to the moon, season 2, BBC podcast] accessed April 14, 2020</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083wp70 |title=13 Minutes to the moon|date=March 11, 2020 |publisher=BBC|access-date=December 28, 2022}}</ref>

In advance of the 50th anniversary of the mission in 2020, an [[Apollo in Real Time]] site for the mission went online, allowing viewers to follow along as the mission unfolds, view photographs and video, and listen to audio of conversations between Houston and the astronauts as well as between mission controllers.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Relive the drama of Apollo 13 in real time, as it happened|date=April 8, 2020|access-date=April 16, 2020|last=Reichhardt|first=Tony|url=https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/relive-drama-apollo-13-real-time-it-happened-180974625/|publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]]|journal=Air and Space Magazine}}</ref> Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NASA did not hold any in-person events during April 2020 for the flight's 50th anniversary, but premiered a new documentary, ''Apollo 13: Home Safe'' on April 10, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=Celebrate Apollo 13 at 50 with NASA's 'Home Safe' documentary (and much more!)|last=Howell|first=Elizabeth|url=https://www.space.com/apollo-13-50th-anniversary-webcast-digital-celebrations.html|date=April 10, 2020|access-date=April 16, 2020|publisher=space.com}}</ref> A number of events were rescheduled for later in 2020.<ref>{{cite web|title=Houston, we've had a delay: Apollo 13 50th celebrations rescheduled|last=Pearlman|first=Robert Z.|url=https://www.space.com/apollo13-50th-celebrations-rescheduled.html|date=April 9, 2020|access-date=April 16, 2020|publisher=space.com}}</ref>