Apollo 13 Level 2 - Penguin Readers Simplified Text Author:Dina Anastasio On the thirteenth minute of the thirteenth hour in 1970, the thirteenth Apollo mission is launched. But something goes wrong. Astronaut, Jim Lovell's space module is failing. Will he and his crew make it back to earth alive? A dramatic true story filmed starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Kathleen Quinlan.