“‘Hey, we’ve got a problem here.’ The day was April 13, 1970. The voice was that of astronaut Jack Swigert, speaking from aboard the spacecraft Odyssey. Almost immediately, NASA’s Mission Control queried back: ‘This is Houston. Say again, please’” (Useem 114). The men wanted to get the point across that there was a major life or death problem going on. They spread the awareness in both the story and film of Apollo 13. Many stories with a movie or film made along with it most likely have some similarities and differences. The story “The Race to Save Apollo 13” by Michael Useem and the Apollo 13 film by Ron Howard had similarities and differences, two comparisons being that both of NASA’s mission was to land on the moon and they both did not
