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'Apollo 13: Survival:' Director Peter Middleton on his immersive new Netflix documentary (exclusive)

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British director Peter Middleton 's latest film, " Apollo 13: Survival," is streaming on Netflix .

The film chronicles the Apollo 13 mission in April of 1970 where astronauts Jim Lovell , Jack Swigert and Fred Haise nearly didn't make it back to Earth after their service module suffered an explosion.

The miracle of their safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean united the world for one brief moment in a global vigil of hope and prayer.

" Apollo 13: Survival" streams exclusively on Netflix .

Middleton : "For one minute and twenty-six seconds there's this horrible moment where they should have reestablished radio communication, and they haven't.

NASA had sent camera crews out around the world to record people watching that moment and you see it writ large on their faces.".