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Tom Hanks
Commander Jim Lovell
Bill Paxton
Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise
Kevin Bacon
backup Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert
Gary Sinise
prime Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly
Mark Wheeler
Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong
Larry Williams
Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin
David Andrews
Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad
Ben Marley
Apollo 13 backup Commander John Young
Brett Cullen
capsule communicator (CAPCOM) 1 "Andy" (a composite astronaut
Ned Vaughn
CAPCOM 2 (a composite astronaut)
Ed Harris
White Team Flight Director Gene Kranz .
Chris Ellis
Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton
Joe Spano
NASA Director
Marc McClure
Black Team Flight Director Glynn Lunney
Clint Howard
White Team Electrical
Ray McKinnon
White Team Flight Dynamics Officer (FIDO) Jerry Bostick
Todd Louiso
White Team Flight Activities Officer (FAO)
Gabriel Jarret
White Team Guidance
Andy Milder
White Team Guidance Officer (GUIDO)
Jim Meskimen
White Team Telemetry
Loren Dean
EECOM John Aaron
Christian Clemenson
Flight Surgeon Dr. Charles Berry
Carl Gabriel Yorke
SIM (Simulator) 1
Xander Berkeley
Henry Hurt
Endre Hules
Günter Wendt
Kathleen Quinlan
Marilyn Gerlach Lovell
Jean Speegle Howard (Ron Howard's mother)
Blanche Lovell
Mary Kate Schellhardt
Barbara Lovell
Max Elliott Slade
James "Jay" Lovell
Emily Ann Lloyd
Susan Lovell
Miko Hughes
Jeffrey Lovell
Rance Howard (Ron Howard's father)
the Lovell family minister
Tracy Reiner
Mary Haise
Michele Little
Jane Conrad
Jim Lovell appears
Captain Leland Kirkemo of the recovery ship USS Iwo Jima ; Howard had intended to make him an admiral
Jeffrey Kluger appears
a television reporter.
Horror film director Roger Corman , a mentor of Howard, appears
a congressman being given a VIP tour by Lovell of the Vehicle Assembly Building
Cheryl Howard (Ron Howard's wife) and Bryce Dallas Howard (Ron Howard's eldest daughter)
uncredited background performers in the scene where the astronauts wave goodbye to their families.
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