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Apollo 13 is a 1995 American biographical drama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris. The film dramatizes the Apollo 13 space mission, which was launched on April 11, 1970, with the intention of landing on the Moon. However, two days into the mission, an oxygen tank exploded, crippling the spacecraft and forcing the crew to abort their lunar landing and return to Earth.