How Tom Hanks became weightless in Apollo 13. And other reasons why filmmakers choose to film in Houston, Texas

In this edition of the On Location podcast, Julian Newby meets Alfred Cervantes, vice-president and executive director of the Houston Film Commission. In his pre-film commission days Cervantes worked on a number of productions that featured Houston as a location, including 1995’s Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks. In the podcast he explains how the Howard achieved the weightless scenes in the movie – using NASA's KC-135 aircraft, famously nicknamed the Vomit Comet by ca...