Apollo 13 / The Right Stuff / First Man (3-Movie Collection)

Apollo 13 (1995)

It started out as a "routine" trip to the moon in 1970, but it became a desperate race against time that had an entire world holding its breath. Astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton), and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) are the crew of Apollo 13, forced to improvise a return to Earth when an on-board explosion causes them to lose power and oxygen, in director Ron Howard’s acclaimed drama based on a book by Lovell. With Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan. 140 min. C/Rtg: PG

The Right Stuff (1983)

Writer/director Philip Kaufman brings sweeping action, humor, and human drama to his adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s novel about the birth of the Space Age. As pilot Chuck Yeager (Sam Shepard) pushes the envelope to break the sound barrier, Alan Shepard (Scott Glenn), Gordon Cooper (Dennis Quaid), Gus Grissom (Fred Ward), John Glenn (Ed Harris), and other men with the "right stuff" embark on their challenging new careers as America’s Mercury astronauts. With Barbara Hershey. 193 min. C/Rtg: PG

First Man (2018)

Ryan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in this acclaimed biopic, based on James R. Hansen’s book. In the wake of a family tragedy, Armstrong becomes a major player in NASA’s bid to see that the U.S. finally pulls ahead of the Soviet Union in the Space Race. He works in the Gemini and Apollo programs before being given command of the Apollo 11 mission and becoming the first person to ever walk on the moon on July 20th, 1969. With Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll. 141 min. C/Rtg: PG-13