That, plus the way the scene is set, you cut to the family not knowing if the astronauts survived. And then the movie cuts out about 4 minutes of waiting between when Apollo 13 regains contact, and when the main chutes are deployed and unreefed - when things seem 100% safe, and everyone starts cheering.

It's a really good decision in a movie that made a lot of them, as it made the relief hit all at once.

And then you see Jim Lovell's cameo as the captain of the Iwo Jima, just to cap the movie off.