Apollo 13: The Junior Novelization is a movie novelization written by Dina Anastasio in 1995 and based on the movie Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard in 1995. The movie features Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
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The Movie is based on
Book by Jim Lovell, Jeffrey Kluger
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Storyline
On July 20, 1969, astronaut Jim Lovell hosts a house party where guests watch Neil Armstrong’s televised first human steps on the Moon. Three months later, as Lovell conducts a VIP tour of NASA’s Vertical Assembly Building, his boss Deke Slayton informs him that because of problems with Alan Shepard’s crew, his crew will fly Apollo 13 instead of 14.
Movie vs Book
Year
1995
Minutes
140
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb
Year
1995
Pages
96
Book Rate
6.76
S: Goodreads
Book
Apollo 13: The Junior Novelization
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