Trailer

Apollo 13

Runtime
2hrs 20mins
Directed by
Ron Howard
Featuring
Tom Hanks,
Bill Paxton,
Kevin Bacon
Body

Free outdoor screening in partnership with the Rose Kennedy Greenway! Introduced by Katherine Schauer, Strategic Communications Lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. 

Rain Date: Thursday,  8/22.

Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise), flight director Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) and a heroic ground crew race against time - and the odds - to bring them home.

Screenings will take place at sunset at the Greenway's Wharf District Park (located between Milk Street and Atlantic Avenue in Boston).

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