We have lift off. Experience the thrilling Apollo 13 in theaters again, exclusively in Imax September 19, 2025 ...

"Apollo 13," which is heading to IMAX, recounts the perilous 1970 efforts of three astronauts to return to Earth safely during a failed lunar mission.

Bettmann/Getty Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise pose for a photo. Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.

Perhaps the ultimate coming-home movie, "Apollo 13," and the ultimate staying-home one, "Home Alone," are both being honored this year, selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

It wasn’t the disaster that came to define Apollo 13. A far worse outcome occurred on January 21, 1967, when all three Apollo 1 astronauts were killed in a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test.

Astronaut Thomas Mattingly II celebrates the successful rescue of the Apollo 13 spacecraft and crew with a box of cigars at the Mission Control of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.