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From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007

posted 05-21-2026 03:40 PM               

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"Apollo 13," the 1995 Universal Pictures movie, was one of the finest films ever made on space exploration. But the opening monologue states that Apollo 11 occurred "just 18 months after the Apollo 1 fire."

Why wasn't that ever corrected?

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From: Phoenix, AZ
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 05-22-2026 08:03 AM               

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I don't see a connection here: "Apollo 13" was a dramatic movie based on a true event. It was not a documentary. The press was not involved.

At the time the film was released in 1995, the common way that errors were pointed out was in audio commentary tracks. If I recall correctly, the real Jim Lovell points out in one such track recorded with his wife that the film got the color of his Corvette wrong and that the in-space argument between the crew members never happened.

As an aside, the reason the media (including this site) reported that Artemis II was a 10-day mission was because NASA PAO decided to call it such. The actual mission elapsed time was nine days and one hour (and 32 minutes). The space agency has for years rounded up the moment that the MET has gone past the hour when reporting in only days.