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Apollo 13 [videorecording] / Imagine Entertainment presents ; a Brian Grazer production; a Ron Howard film ; produced by Brian Grazer ; directed by Ron Howard ; screenplay by William Broyles, jr.
[United States] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1999.
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight - until these words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time and the odds to bring them home.