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And, 13,
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we're ready on the TV when you are.
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Okay, I'm lookin' out
the right window now,
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and not too far off in the distance,
you can see the objective.
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It's actually beginning to look
a little bigger now.
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Okay.
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We're getting a good, uh, picture
of your destination there.
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We might, uh,
give you a quick shot
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of our entertainment
on board the spacecraft.
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This little tape recorder
has been a big benefit
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in passing some of the time away
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in our transit out to the moon
while it's playing the theme from 2001.
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This is the crew of Apollo 13
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wishing everyone in there
a nice evening and, uh, good night.
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Houston, we've had a problem.
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The Apollo 13 spacecraft
has suffered a major electrical failure.
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Jim Lovell radioed,
"Houston, we've had a problem."
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…a situation.
…hearing a loud bang…
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…emergency…
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At this moment
at Cape Kennedy,
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the Americans are getting ready
to go to the moon again.
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Apollo 13,
which is the fifth lunar flight,
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and it's going to be the third landing.
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Three young Americans.
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The commander of the flight's a man
we've often seen before, Jim Lovell,
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a man who's got four kids
and who's making his fourth space flight.
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Lovell's easygoing manner
has always been a delight
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to his coworkers,
who quickly tire of prima-donna pilots.
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Fred Haise, from Mississippi,
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was a high-school journalist
who once wanted to be a sports reporter.
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As lunar-module pilot,
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he'll travel to the lunar surface
with Commander Lovell.
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Ken Mattingly, who finished
at the top of his test-pilot class,
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he's been almost fearfully dedicated
to his work,
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even by astronaut standards.
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Flying has been his life,
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all he has wanted
since he was about three.
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A lot of people have asked
just why are we going to the moon?
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What's your personal answer
to a question like that?
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The main mission objective
of Apollo 13 is a continuing one.
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We hope to find out a lot
about the origin of the moon
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and from that, the origin
of our own planet, the Earth.
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13 is targeted to land
in a far different area
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than Apollos 11 and 12.
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This one will land in a hilly region
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in the very mountains of the moon,
which makes the flight more risky.
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Some of us think
space travel is, in a sense,
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a search for another Eden.
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Man has despoiled the place where he is
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and that perhaps he ought now
to set out to find another place.
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There's something about the power
of rockets that fascinates people.
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And it was a fascination to me,
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long before there was a NASA
or anything like that.
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Welcome from the moon, uh, Houston.
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I was on the very
first flight to the moon on Apollo 8
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at Christmastime, '68.
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Merry Christmas
up there, Jim.
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We were so curious, so excited,
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like three schoolkids
looking into a candy store window,
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watching those ancient old craters go by
from 60 miles above the surface.
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But we were not able to land.
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Please be informed
there is a Santa Claus.
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You're the best ones to know.
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Jim Lovell intends
to sight a peak
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which has been unnamed so far,
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and when he does,
he's going to name it Mount Marilyn.
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How did you feel
during lunar orbit?
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I was apprehensive.
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I have to admit that.
I wouldn't be normal if I didn't admit it.
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- How'd you feel when they came out?
- I was elated.
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There really is a Santa Claus.
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My husband said it,
and it sounded marvelous,
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and I am so proud of him.
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I then was a backup
to Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11.
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One small step for man.
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One giant leap for mankind.
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I really wanted
to do the same thing.
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I'm ready.
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Jim,
I'm wondering at this point
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just how your wife
and your children feel about all this.
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My wife knows I'm not planning
on doing any more flights.
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She has sort of been a space widow here
for, uh, the last six or seven years,
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but I really, uh…
still look forward to flying.
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It seems to…
You'd be able to get away from everything.
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You leave all your, you know…
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Kids!
Leave all the kids below.
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Um… But you do,
you get a chance to get up,
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and you see things
in a more truer perspective.
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And a space flight, to me,
is about the same way.
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I really wasn't all for him flying again,
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but I never did say anything
to him about it, of course.
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Um… You have to beat the odds.
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He was the first one to go back
to the moon for the second time,
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and I was quite apprehensive about it all.
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Nothing in the world prepared me
for being an astronaut's wife.
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It was like being thrown
into a goldfish bowl.
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Ticker-tape parades
for all these different cities.
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There was the White House.
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Mr. President,
may I present the Lovell family.
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Mr. James Lovell Junior.
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I mean, it was really
quite a celebration after Apollo 8.
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But it was a risky flight.
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I didn't know at the time
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there was only a 50-50 chance
they were going to come back.
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A 50-50 chance.
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You can't just say this to yourself,
"They're not going to come back."
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I've always been asked that question,
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what is it like to be
an astronaut's daughter?
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It always amazes me that anyone
would think it would be any different
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other than just the daughter of my father.
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My parents really brought us up
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to, um, feel like
he might be going to the moon,
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but it would be just like
anybody else's father
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who was getting dressed
to go to the office.
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Jim, after four flights,
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can a man who's done
all you've done find normalcy?
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I sure hope so.
I'm gonna give it a try after this one.
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We were very excited
about Jim walkin' on the moon.
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But why 13?
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Somebody had phoned me
that Marilyn was a little concerned
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about launching Apollo 13
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at 13:13 Central Time.
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Uh…
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It's rather typical
in the brave new world of space flight
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to defy an old superstition
and don't worry about the number 13,
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particularly in a country
which often leaves number 13 out
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in things like the numbering
of floors of buildings
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and the seats in aircraft.
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Jim Lovell, the commander,
is anything but superstitious.
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Fred Haise said he wished
they could launch on a Friday the 13th.
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Ken, are you superstitious
about Apollo 13?
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No, I'm… I'm very happy about it.
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The flight of Apollo 13
has a giant question mark tonight.
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Doctors confirmed beyond doubt
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that astronaut Mattingly has been
exposed to the German measles.
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This leaves two alternatives.
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Postpone the flight at a cost
of several hundred thousand dollars
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or substitute backup crewman
John Swigert Junior
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for Mattingly as command-module pilot.
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Lovell's worked with Mattingly
quite intimately here for a year.
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Isn't he likely to feel,
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"Oh heck, let's wait a month
and let Mattingly get the flight too"?
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This is the… the… the tremendous task
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the command…
the commander of the mission has,
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is to reflect those personal feelings
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against the cost to delay
this mission another month.
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We had already slipped the flight
once from March to April.
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My philosophy is
never miss the chance.
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We had to let Ken go.
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Today,
three more Americans rocket into space
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on probably the most dangerous
Apollo mission to date
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and certainly already unique
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since one of the astronauts didn't know
for sure he was going until yesterday.
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A new member of the crew,
Jack Swigert, delivered papers
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to earn money for his flying lessons.
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It came so fast he didn't even have time
to call his family back in Denver.
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The weight of the country
riding on your mission,
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you don't want to let anybody down.
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This is
Apollo Saturn Launch Control.
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T minus 3 hours, 7 minutes,
26 seconds and counting.
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Just a few minutes ago,
Ken Mattingly arrived in Mission Control.
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Ken will be assisting at the console.
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Sorry to see you here, Ken.
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The adrenaline in the control room
was building up.
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You could feel it. It was palpable.
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Quarterback of the team
is the flight director.
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A flight director's given a team
of between 15 and 21 controllers.
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People that figure out
how to get us to where we wanna go
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and how to get us back to Earth
to a safe landing point.
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We've seen the, uh, triumphs.
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We've seen the loss of crew.
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This is where the business end
of space flight is put together.
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These are
three-stage vehicles.
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Big engines that get you off
of the surface of the Earth.
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The second stage,
and that can get you up into Earth orbit.
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Third stage, where you can get off
on the way to the moon.
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You look up and feel butterflies.
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This is real.
I mean, this is really gonna happen.
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This is
Apollo Saturn Launch Control.
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We're at T minus 25 minutes and counting.
T minus 25 minutes.
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All along I had planned on
not going to the launch,
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and I was finding every excuse possible.
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Well, at the last minute,
I decided I couldn't stand the thought
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of not seeing him again,
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and I had to bring the children down
and say goodbye.
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I grew up with friends whose fathers
had been in accidents or had been killed
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and so always had that fear
in watching them take off,
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and I'd always have this kind of…
this pit in my stomach.
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The launch sequence
has started.
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Fifty-six seconds,
and Apollo 13 continues to be go.
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Inside, there's not much you can do.
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If we had a problem,
have to throw the abort handle,
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and it'd fire the escape rocket.
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You could hear the valves open up
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and the fuel start to rumble down
these big manifolds.
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Thirteen, twelve,
eleven, ten, nine, eight…
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Ignition sequence has started.
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…six, five, four, three, two, one, zero.
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The clock is running.
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We have commit,
and we have liftoff at 2:13.
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We were as close as… as anyone could be.
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The Earth just shook.
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This is Mission Control,
Houston.
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We appear to have a good first stage
at this point.
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Roll complete, and we're pitching.
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Altitude, 1.2 miles.
Velocity, 1,500 feet per second.
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13, Houston, go at one.
We show the cabin relieving.
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Thirteen hundred.
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And at one minute,
ten seconds,
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we show an altitude of 4.1 nautical miles.
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Altitude now 17 miles,
coming up on staging.
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Go for staging.
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Go for staging. Roger.
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Inboard.
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Inboard.
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Jim Lovell just reported
the inboard engine on the second stage
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has shut down early.
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Flight confirmed.
Number five engine down.
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And we heard that
the center engine of the five went out,
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and they are now continuing
on only four out of the five engines.
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Houston,
what's the story on engine five?
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We don't have a story
on why the inboard out was early.
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Booster, you don't see
any problem with that, do you?
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No.
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Negative.
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All the other engines are go.
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The other engines are go.
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You're lookin' good.
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They've been told
they can go on up on those four engines.
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A little bit longer to get there.
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At this point, almost up into orbit.
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Nothin' like an interesting launch.
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Almost every flight,
something goes wrong.
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I told the guys, "That's our crisis."
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"We're on our way."
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During launch, a medic reports
the following maximum heart rates
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for the three crewmen.
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Commander Jim Lovell
had a maximum heart rate of 116,
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Jack Swigert
had a maximum heart rate of 102,
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and Fred Haise
also had a maximum heart rate of 102.
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I tell ya,
it's sure an interesting ride.
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Look at that.
243
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It really is zero G.
244
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Apollo 13, Houston,
your preliminary orbit down here
245
00:19:52,441 --> 00:19:53,859
is lookin' good.
246
00:19:53,942 --> 00:19:57,404
Roger, Houston,
and it looks good to be up here again.
247
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One of the most fascinating parts
of space flight
248
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is the observation of the Earth.
249
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Things get a lot smaller.
250
00:20:27,184 --> 00:20:28,727
The countries look smaller,
251
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,523
and the problems everybody has
appear to be smaller.
252
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It's a very… tranquilizing effect
253
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to sit up there and notice large countries
just pass by so serenely.
254
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It's hard to imagine
255
00:20:52,501 --> 00:20:55,462
why people cannot live more peacefully
with one another.
256
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After the astronauts
have checked all the systems,
257
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the instrument unit,
helped by messages from the computers
258
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in Mission Control in Houston,
259
00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:15,399
tells the third stage to fire again.
260
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,361
And Apollo is on its way to the moon.
261
00:21:20,696 --> 00:21:23,907
The crew quarters of the spacecraft,
the living and working area,
262
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is the command module.
263
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This is the only part
that returns from the moon.
264
00:21:28,745 --> 00:21:32,457
Now, the Apollo spacecraft itself
has a service module,
265
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which houses the tanks
of breathing oxygen,
266
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electronic equipment,
267
00:21:36,628 --> 00:21:38,922
a power supply, and drinking water.
268
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The spacecraft separates
from the third stage,
269
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does a U-turn…
270
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comes back…
271
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docks with the lunar module,
272
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which will carry two astronauts
to the surface of the moon.
273
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We're hard docked, Houston.
Very nice.
274
00:22:05,574 --> 00:22:08,535
And that's the way
the two ships go to the moon.
275
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We show Apollo 13
to be 24,916 nautical miles from Earth.
276
00:22:24,509 --> 00:22:26,428
You know,
we went to watch the take-off,
277
00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:27,888
got back home.
278
00:22:27,971 --> 00:22:32,100
They put little boxes into our home.
They were called squawk boxes.
279
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You could hear
everything that was going on.
280
00:22:35,645 --> 00:22:37,439
We'd like to hear what the news is.
281
00:22:37,939 --> 00:22:39,358
Okay, let's see.
282
00:22:39,441 --> 00:22:42,444
The Beatles have announced
they will no longer perform as a group.
283
00:22:43,987 --> 00:22:45,822
Things had been going smoothly.
284
00:22:46,698 --> 00:22:49,409
You know, it was just another one.
It was his fourth mission.
285
00:22:50,869 --> 00:22:52,996
I had one squawk box in each room.
286
00:22:53,830 --> 00:22:57,376
I had them on all the time.
Even when I went to bed, I had them on.
287
00:22:57,918 --> 00:23:00,670
Now Fred's engaged
in his favorite pastime.
288
00:23:01,546 --> 00:23:03,048
He's rigging his hammock.
289
00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:07,094
It's kinda difficult
getting into a hammock.
290
00:23:07,761 --> 00:23:11,390
I'm not sure if I keep
floating away from it
291
00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:14,184
or it keeps moving away from me.
292
00:23:19,606 --> 00:23:21,316
We're all going to bed now.
293
00:23:21,817 --> 00:23:24,069
Okay, Jim. Good night.
294
00:23:28,365 --> 00:23:32,786
When we were young, we would sit
on the roof of the building I lived in.
295
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,956
Jim would point
the different stars out to me,
296
00:23:36,039 --> 00:23:40,502
and he said, "Just think
that someday, a man might go."
297
00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:44,131
I mean, here he's predicting this in 1952.
298
00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:46,883
Just amazing.
299
00:23:47,592 --> 00:23:49,594
Jim Lovell, he grew up in Milwaukee.
300
00:23:49,678 --> 00:23:52,472
He married his high-school sweetheart,
Marilyn Gerlach.
301
00:23:52,556 --> 00:23:54,599
They have two boys and two girls.
302
00:23:55,642 --> 00:24:00,188
We met in high school.
That was back in the early '40s.
303
00:24:01,982 --> 00:24:05,026
His father was deceased
when Jim was 12 years old.
304
00:24:06,695 --> 00:24:10,490
And, uh… he lived in
this one-room apartment with his mother.
305
00:24:11,158 --> 00:24:13,827
He slept on the couch,
but that's all she could afford
306
00:24:13,910 --> 00:24:15,412
with this little apartment.
307
00:24:17,122 --> 00:24:20,208
He came one day and asked me
if I would do him a favor.
308
00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:23,044
I said, "What?" And he said,
"Would you go to prom with me?"
309
00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:27,007
And I said, "I don't know.
I don't know how to dance."
310
00:24:27,090 --> 00:24:29,134
And he said, "Well, I'll teach you."
311
00:24:38,143 --> 00:24:40,812
When we decided to get married,
I really didn't know
312
00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:42,981
he was going into test piloting.
313
00:24:43,064 --> 00:24:45,192
I knew he always wanted to be a pilot.
314
00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:47,861
And then, before I knew it,
he decided to fly jets,
315
00:24:47,944 --> 00:24:49,279
and I went along with it.
316
00:25:13,094 --> 00:25:15,597
In 1962, he was one of nine men
317
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,600
out of over 200 to survive
the intensive screening
318
00:25:18,683 --> 00:25:21,478
and become a member
of the second group of astronauts.
319
00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:25,232
We were 32 guinea pigs
walking into the door
320
00:25:25,315 --> 00:25:27,442
not knowing what the heck
was gonna hit us.
321
00:25:32,656 --> 00:25:36,201
It was perhaps the worst physical
I have ever had in my life.
322
00:25:44,793 --> 00:25:48,922
Many of the people looked at it and said,
"Hey," you know, "This is a crazy thing."
323
00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:01,434
A rocket was blowing up
almost every other day down at the Cape.
324
00:26:08,441 --> 00:26:10,235
Uh… I lost a lotta friends.
325
00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:18,952
You're always going to a funeral
or something.
326
00:26:22,122 --> 00:26:24,916
Those days were tough on all of us gals.
327
00:26:29,713 --> 00:26:32,048
I think there are few people
that actually thought
328
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:34,718
we were gonna land on the moon
by the end of the decade.
329
00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:41,600
The war in Vietnam ground on.
330
00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:44,644
It was a rather bad time
for the country.
331
00:26:44,728 --> 00:26:47,314
With riots and assassinations…
332
00:26:48,398 --> 00:26:52,444
Dr. Martin Luther King has been
shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.
333
00:26:52,527 --> 00:26:54,112
…and a war going on.
334
00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:57,782
We find ourselves
rich in goods but ragged in spirit,
335
00:26:57,866 --> 00:27:00,910
reaching with magnificent precision
for the moon,
336
00:27:00,994 --> 00:27:03,580
but falling into raucous discord on Earth.
337
00:27:05,582 --> 00:27:08,752
I felt I was part of a thing
that finally gave an uplift
338
00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:10,629
to the American people.
339
00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:16,176
The rewards
far overshadow the risks.
340
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:27,312
Jim, you've been through
more flights than anybody.
341
00:27:27,395 --> 00:27:29,105
Have you ever known fear?
342
00:27:30,565 --> 00:27:34,361
I think that someone who says
they haven't are only kidding themselves.
343
00:27:45,997 --> 00:27:48,625
The Apollo spacecraft
and the three men onboard
344
00:27:48,708 --> 00:27:51,544
are well on their way
to disproving all those theories
345
00:27:51,628 --> 00:27:54,005
about jinxes and the number 13.
346
00:27:55,173 --> 00:27:59,594
Apollo 13, which was launched
at 13 minutes after the hour on Saturday,
347
00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:03,390
is spending
a most uneventful April 13th in space.
348
00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:07,185
In previous flights,
the press room in Houston
349
00:28:07,268 --> 00:28:10,271
was jammed with something
like 2,500 correspondents,
350
00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:13,024
but for this flight,
only about 500 showed up.
351
00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:15,235
Probably because, by this time,
352
00:28:15,318 --> 00:28:17,737
walking on the moon
had become almost routine.
353
00:28:19,197 --> 00:28:21,574
Apollo Control Houston
standing by now
354
00:28:21,658 --> 00:28:23,451
for television transmission.
355
00:28:25,578 --> 00:28:29,791
We all went to Mission Control
to listen to the men.
356
00:28:32,335 --> 00:28:35,755
It just felt reassuring
seeing Jim at this point.
357
00:28:36,256 --> 00:28:38,258
Okay,
you're on Candid Camera.
358
00:28:38,341 --> 00:28:41,428
What we plan to do for you today
is take you on through from Odyssey
359
00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:44,556
into Aquarius, the landing vehicle.
360
00:28:45,473 --> 00:28:48,476
I find myself now standing
with my head on the floor
361
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,228
when I get down inside the LM.
362
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:53,815
This strange-looking bird,
the LM, how does it work?
363
00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:59,154
Well, this is the spacecraft that's used
to take men down to the lunar surface.
364
00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:01,448
And two of the three astronauts
365
00:29:01,531 --> 00:29:03,950
enter the LM by crawling in
through this tunnel.
366
00:29:05,201 --> 00:29:08,538
They detach from
the command and service modules,
367
00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:12,292
and they descend to the lunar surface.
368
00:29:18,047 --> 00:29:21,134
Okay, I'm lookin' out
the, uh, right window now,
369
00:29:21,217 --> 00:29:25,680
and, uh, not too far off in the distance,
you can see the objective,
370
00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:28,808
and it's actually beginning
to look a little bigger now.
371
00:29:32,562 --> 00:29:35,607
This little tape recorder
has been a big benefit
372
00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:38,860
in passing some of the time away
on our transit out to the moon.
373
00:29:40,528 --> 00:29:42,864
This is the crew of Apollo 13
374
00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:46,618
wishing everybody there
a nice evening and, uh, good night.
375
00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:55,168
Everything continues
to go well aboard Apollo 13.
376
00:29:57,295 --> 00:30:00,381
We'd like to check C-4 thruster.
377
00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:04,177
Okay, Jack, the battery charge
has been terminated on battery B.
378
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,890
We have a very detailed
pre-sleep checklist we go through.
379
00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:10,266
Roger. We see it, Jack.
380
00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:12,477
We're getting ready
to close it out.
381
00:30:13,853 --> 00:30:16,606
13, we've got one more item
for you when you get a chance.
382
00:30:17,565 --> 00:30:20,443
We'd like you to, uh,
stir up your cryo tanks.
383
00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:51,266
Okay, Houston,
we've had a problem here.
384
00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:57,689
This is Houston.
Say again, please.
385
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:02,944
Uh, Houston, we've had a problem.
386
00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:06,155
We've had a main B bus undervolt.
387
00:31:09,325 --> 00:31:10,785
Okay, stand by, 13.
388
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:12,287
We're looking at it.
389
00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:22,255
The crew has reported
that the main B shows an undervoltage.
390
00:31:22,338 --> 00:31:25,008
…had a spark there.
391
00:31:25,091 --> 00:31:28,303
The recorded heart rates,
I can't believe one of 'em.
392
00:31:29,512 --> 00:31:31,264
Looks like 189.
393
00:31:31,347 --> 00:31:32,347
Really?
394
00:31:33,391 --> 00:31:35,476
They sure jumped up
when that happened.
395
00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:40,356
Our first thoughts were,
we might have been hit by a meteorite.
396
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,150
We had a pretty large bang
397
00:31:42,233 --> 00:31:44,736
associated with
the Caution and Warning there.
398
00:31:46,404 --> 00:31:50,992
And our O2 number-two tank
is reading zero. Did you get that?
399
00:31:51,993 --> 00:31:53,286
That can't be.
400
00:31:53,369 --> 00:31:55,455
I don't understand. I don't…
401
00:31:55,538 --> 00:31:57,624
You don't believe
that O2 tank one pressure?
402
00:31:57,707 --> 00:31:58,707
No, no.
403
00:31:59,918 --> 00:32:02,128
I mean, that data doesn't make sense.
404
00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:06,090
We still don't have
the slightest clue what's going on.
405
00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:08,676
Is there any leads
we can give 'em?
406
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,763
Are we lookin' at instrumentation,
or we got a real problem or what?
407
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:18,770
Uh, Houston? It looks to me,
lookin' out the hatch,
408
00:32:18,853 --> 00:32:20,647
that we are venting something.
409
00:32:21,147 --> 00:32:24,692
We are… We are venting something
out into the, uh… into space.
410
00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:33,993
It's a gas of some sort.
411
00:32:36,204 --> 00:32:37,372
Jesus Christ.
412
00:32:45,588 --> 00:32:49,050
Here is a special report
on Apollo 13.
413
00:32:49,592 --> 00:32:53,638
The Apollo 13 spacecraft
has suffered a major electrical failure.
414
00:32:53,721 --> 00:32:56,683
Jim Lovell and Fred Haise
reported hearing a loud bang.
415
00:32:56,766 --> 00:32:58,518
They also reported seeing fuel,
416
00:32:58,601 --> 00:33:01,479
apparently oxygen and nitrogen,
leaking from the spacecraft,
417
00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:04,273
and reportedly gauges
for those gases were reading zero.
418
00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:08,820
At that point, we said,
"Hey, this vehicle is dying."
419
00:33:08,903 --> 00:33:11,322
"Very shortly,
we'll be completely out of oxygen."
420
00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:16,369
Houston, are you still readin'?
Affirmative. We're readin' you.
421
00:33:16,452 --> 00:33:19,372
Tryin' to come up with some good ideas
here for you.
422
00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:22,291
I wanna use the cryo
as much as possible.
423
00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:24,627
Assuming you'd want
fastest possible return.
424
00:33:24,711 --> 00:33:26,754
…we have no choice
but to do it.
425
00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:28,881
The pressure continues to drop.
426
00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:37,682
Okay, now,
let's everybody keep cool.
427
00:33:38,349 --> 00:33:39,684
Let's solve the problem,
428
00:33:39,767 --> 00:33:42,520
but let's not make it any worse
by guessin'.
429
00:33:50,528 --> 00:33:51,904
We're in deep shit.
430
00:33:53,614 --> 00:33:55,533
We're about 200,000 miles from Earth,
431
00:33:55,616 --> 00:33:58,077
about 50,000 miles
from the surface of the moon.
432
00:33:58,619 --> 00:34:00,038
We've come to the conclusion
433
00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:03,249
that we had some type of an explosion
on board the spacecraft.
434
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,752
Two of our fuel cells are offline,
435
00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:08,921
and these are
our principal power-generation systems.
436
00:34:10,923 --> 00:34:12,633
Our final fuel cell is dying.
437
00:34:14,093 --> 00:34:16,971
Uh, Flight,
less than two hours now.
438
00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:18,431
That's the end right there.
439
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,518
Uh…
440
00:34:22,602 --> 00:34:24,687
Two of three fuel cells shut down.
441
00:34:24,771 --> 00:34:26,189
We're not going to the moon anymore.
442
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,781
Apollo 13 is now two-thirds
of the way to the moon,
443
00:34:34,864 --> 00:34:36,699
200,000 miles from Earth
444
00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:38,951
at a point where, even in an emergency,
445
00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:41,537
it is more efficient
to swing around the moon and return
446
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:43,915
rather than try an immediate abort.
447
00:34:45,249 --> 00:34:50,296
Our job now
is to start an orderly evacuation
448
00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:53,091
from the command module
into the lunar module.
449
00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:57,303
Okay, all flight controllers,
450
00:34:58,137 --> 00:35:00,973
I want you to get some guys
figuring out minimum power
451
00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:02,934
in the LM to sustain life.
452
00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:17,615
It's pretty hairy.
453
00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:21,828
This is Colonel Stafford
standing by for the Vice President.
454
00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,330
Hello, Mr. Vice President, sir.
455
00:35:24,413 --> 00:35:25,540
How bad is it?
456
00:35:25,623 --> 00:35:29,127
We're activating
the lunar module as a lifeboat, basically,
457
00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:31,337
and thank God that we have it onboard.
458
00:35:31,420 --> 00:35:32,755
Yeah, you said it.
459
00:35:32,839 --> 00:35:36,676
It will supply water, oxygen,
and it will supply electrical power.
460
00:35:36,759 --> 00:35:39,887
We wanna get
the command module down shortly.
461
00:35:39,971 --> 00:35:44,016
So it's a pretty critical situation,
but we're working like mad on it.
462
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:46,185
A frantic scene we're seeing,
463
00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:49,147
a scene of deep concentration
in Mission Control in Houston.
464
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:51,107
And astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise
465
00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:54,652
have now made their way
to their Aquarius lunar module,
466
00:35:54,735 --> 00:35:58,698
so they can have its electrical power
and its oxygen to save their lives.
467
00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:00,740
Activation 20.
468
00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:03,494
"Power up" is a simple term,
469
00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:06,289
but it's not like
a light switch in your house.
470
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:10,668
We'd never powered up a lunar module
in these kinda circumstances,
471
00:36:10,751 --> 00:36:14,505
and we'd never, ever considered
shutting a command module completely off.
472
00:36:14,589 --> 00:36:15,882
- Flight, EECOM.
- Go ahead.
473
00:36:15,965 --> 00:36:18,759
Okay, we've got
an update on the time.
474
00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:20,845
Looks like we've got about 15 minutes.
475
00:36:22,346 --> 00:36:23,389
CAPCOM,
476
00:36:24,098 --> 00:36:26,517
we're gonna be out of power in 15 minutes.
477
00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:32,398
The crew got 15 minutes
to get the lunar module powered up.
478
00:36:34,108 --> 00:36:36,736
It's gonna take
about 20 minutes to do that procedure.
479
00:36:37,361 --> 00:36:39,030
We don't have much time.
480
00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:45,703
Fred, we figure we've got
about 15 minutes' worth of power left
481
00:36:45,786 --> 00:36:46,996
in the command module.
482
00:36:47,705 --> 00:36:48,873
Uh, thank you, Jack.
483
00:36:48,956 --> 00:36:51,834
Fred Haise,
still powering up the lunar module.
484
00:36:51,918 --> 00:36:54,128
Forward Omni. Okay, slow down!
485
00:36:54,962 --> 00:36:57,089
The astronauts
are getting rather harried.
486
00:36:57,173 --> 00:37:00,218
One saying, "Let's take it easy
while we get this problem worked out."
487
00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:03,054
…circuit breaker…
488
00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:05,890
Okay, 13,
you're both talkin' at once.
489
00:37:05,973 --> 00:37:07,892
One at a time please.
490
00:37:12,855 --> 00:37:16,025
But what is most important,
he has to transfer the navigation data
491
00:37:16,108 --> 00:37:18,486
from the command-module computer,
which is dying,
492
00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:20,238
over into the lunar module computer.
493
00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:22,865
Okay, I want you
to double-check my arithmetic.
494
00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:24,700
Three or four minutes,
Flight.
495
00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:27,245
Three or four minutes.
496
00:37:28,204 --> 00:37:31,582
And this data transfer
has to be absolutely perfect.
497
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:35,336
I was so afraid of putting
the wrong numbers in.
498
00:37:35,836 --> 00:37:38,381
Three-five-six, six-nine.
499
00:37:39,257 --> 00:37:41,509
One-six-three, four-two.
500
00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:45,721
Aquarius is three-oh-two, two-six.
501
00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:48,808
Three-four-five, nine-two.
502
00:37:49,308 --> 00:37:52,270
Zero-one-one, seven-nine. Over.
503
00:37:57,191 --> 00:38:00,403
How's the arithmetic?
Stand by. We're checking.
504
00:38:09,328 --> 00:38:11,330
Aquarius,
your arithmetic looks good.
505
00:38:11,831 --> 00:38:13,541
We're getting good LM data.
506
00:38:23,592 --> 00:38:26,429
Well, we're still alive.
We're still sitting there breathin'.
507
00:38:27,513 --> 00:38:28,973
Houston, Aquarius.
508
00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:31,726
Go ahead, Aquarius.
509
00:38:34,145 --> 00:38:36,564
Okay,
Odyssey is completely powered down now.
510
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:39,108
That's where we wanna be, Jim.
511
00:38:42,611 --> 00:38:43,988
We were suckin' air.
512
00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:49,035
We'd picked the path,
and it was only some time downstream
513
00:38:49,118 --> 00:38:52,830
that we would know that the path
we'd picked was the correct one.
514
00:38:56,667 --> 00:38:58,836
We were truly in a survival situation.
515
00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:02,757
The greatest drama yet
in space.
516
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,176
After a mysterious accident last night,
517
00:39:05,259 --> 00:39:08,054
Apollo 13 still is speeding
toward the moon,
518
00:39:08,137 --> 00:39:10,348
but the mission
has been drastically changed.
519
00:39:10,431 --> 00:39:13,934
No longer is it going to put
the astronauts down on the moon's surface.
520
00:39:14,018 --> 00:39:17,480
Instead, the mission, simply
to get the astronauts safely home.
521
00:39:21,108 --> 00:39:22,651
How are you today?
522
00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:24,987
I'm fine, thank you, today.
523
00:39:30,951 --> 00:39:33,245
- Hello?
- Hello, Marilyn. It's Ken.
524
00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:36,999
Hi, listen, uh, Ken,
I'm naturally concerned.
525
00:39:37,083 --> 00:39:40,503
How are things looking this morning?
My kids aren't up yet.
526
00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:42,713
They don't even know what's going on
527
00:39:42,797 --> 00:39:45,633
because they went to sleep
before all this came up last night.
528
00:39:45,716 --> 00:39:47,676
I was wondering what I could tell 'em.
529
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,179
They're now
on a free-return trajectory.
530
00:39:50,262 --> 00:39:52,890
I don't know if that happened
before you went to bed.
531
00:39:52,973 --> 00:39:56,811
I didn't go to bed until
I think it was 4:00, and I got up at 5:00,
532
00:39:56,894 --> 00:39:58,646
so I really haven't had much sleep.
533
00:39:58,729 --> 00:40:02,400
You listen to the TV, and you just…
can't believe everything they say.
534
00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:04,402
It's only by a very narrow margin
535
00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:08,656
that we're going to get
Lovell, Haise, and Swigert back alive.
536
00:40:09,990 --> 00:40:12,993
I'd just come in from
watching Jim over at the space center.
537
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:16,539
The accident actually occurred
from the time I left NASA
538
00:40:16,622 --> 00:40:18,332
until I got back to my house.
539
00:40:18,999 --> 00:40:23,129
We saw the television reviews
on what was going on.
540
00:40:23,212 --> 00:40:26,006
There was so much debris
from the explosion
541
00:40:26,090 --> 00:40:28,050
still swirling around their spacecraft
542
00:40:28,134 --> 00:40:30,928
that they had trouble taking
star sights to align themselves…
543
00:40:31,011 --> 00:40:33,973
There was only a 10% chance
that he would come back.
544
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:45,443
I just had
to get away from everyone.
545
00:40:45,526 --> 00:40:47,903
I mean, every room in my house
was full of people,
546
00:40:47,987 --> 00:40:51,365
and the only place I could get to myself
was my bathroom.
547
00:40:52,408 --> 00:40:55,035
And I literally got down on my knees
and prayed.
548
00:40:59,748 --> 00:41:03,502
How critical is this situation right now,
in your opinion?
549
00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:07,131
Well, uh…
I think it is as critical,
550
00:41:07,214 --> 00:41:10,384
perhaps, probably,
the most critical situation we've faced
551
00:41:10,468 --> 00:41:13,846
so far in a manned space-flight program,
uh, in flight.
552
00:41:14,513 --> 00:41:16,056
Are the astronauts safe?
553
00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:23,022
Well, uh… they're…
554
00:41:23,105 --> 00:41:25,191
They're safe in the sense that, uh…
555
00:41:25,274 --> 00:41:28,277
we have the situation stabilized now,
we think.
556
00:41:28,861 --> 00:41:29,862
Uh…
557
00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:34,283
And we have to continue
to keep the situation that way,
558
00:41:34,366 --> 00:41:36,702
uh… and bring 'em on home.
559
00:41:45,294 --> 00:41:48,047
You can sense trouble in this room.
560
00:41:50,424 --> 00:41:53,594
Okay, everybody, look,
we got a number of long-range problems,
561
00:41:53,677 --> 00:41:56,096
lifeboat problems now
associated with the LM.
562
00:41:58,224 --> 00:42:00,184
Discussions
here in the control room
563
00:42:00,267 --> 00:42:04,021
have to do with, uh, consumables
in the spacecraft.
564
00:42:04,104 --> 00:42:06,524
Electrical power, water…
565
00:42:06,607 --> 00:42:12,446
We had two days of consumables,
oxygen, water, and electrical power,
566
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,325
but it would take us four days
to get the crew back home.
567
00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:29,129
We gotta figure out how to turn
the lifeboat into a survival vehicle.
568
00:42:49,858 --> 00:42:52,528
We knew we were in deep, deep trouble.
569
00:43:01,704 --> 00:43:04,665
The lunar module was only designed
to support two people.
570
00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:12,131
We had three people,
and we were at least 90 hours from home.
571
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:14,967
Aquarius, Houston.
572
00:43:15,050 --> 00:43:16,176
How do you read?
573
00:43:17,553 --> 00:43:19,722
Okay, you're loud and clear there.
574
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:24,226
Roger. Same here.
We're still discussing the next move.
575
00:43:28,897 --> 00:43:30,608
Let's make it a good one.
576
00:43:39,033 --> 00:43:42,620
We have learned that a group
of astronauts are working in a simulator
577
00:43:42,703 --> 00:43:44,580
here at the Manned Spacecraft Center,
578
00:43:44,663 --> 00:43:47,916
trying to duplicate the conditions
of the men out in space.
579
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,419
The backup crew,
including Ken Mattingly,
580
00:43:50,502 --> 00:43:52,087
the man who didn't go,
581
00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:54,798
spent much of the night
trying out various suggestions.
582
00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:56,175
CAPCOM, Flight.
583
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,261
As we, uh, approached the moon,
584
00:43:59,345 --> 00:44:01,764
we had to make a fundamental decision
585
00:44:01,847 --> 00:44:04,308
on how fast
we wanted to get back to Earth.
586
00:44:07,519 --> 00:44:11,732
We would have to improvise ways
to stretch our power, water.
587
00:44:12,775 --> 00:44:15,069
We're gonna have to come up
with an answer in hours and days
588
00:44:15,152 --> 00:44:17,279
in what normally takes months and years.
589
00:44:17,363 --> 00:44:21,533
We're gonna be outside all known design
and test boundaries of the spacecraft.
590
00:44:24,161 --> 00:44:25,829
This is Apollo Control.
591
00:44:25,913 --> 00:44:30,959
A decision has been made to perform
the descent-propulsion-system burn.
592
00:44:33,629 --> 00:44:35,130
The current thinking is to use
593
00:44:35,214 --> 00:44:37,841
the lunar-module
descent-propulsion system,
594
00:44:37,925 --> 00:44:39,426
the big engine of the LM,
595
00:44:40,135 --> 00:44:43,889
to propel the entire spacecraft stack
596
00:44:44,390 --> 00:44:47,559
to a higher velocity
as they go around behind the moon
597
00:44:48,143 --> 00:44:50,562
to come back to Earth a day earlier.
598
00:44:51,980 --> 00:44:54,608
Which will see them rounding the moon
599
00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:57,403
at about 9:00 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time tonight,
600
00:44:57,486 --> 00:45:01,407
and then a burn will be done to speed up
their return toward the Earth.
601
00:45:01,907 --> 00:45:04,952
By putting an extra little burst
into the system, you cut off a day,
602
00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:08,163
and that day may be, literally,
a life-and-death matter.
603
00:45:11,208 --> 00:45:12,960
Hello. What a nightmare.
604
00:45:13,043 --> 00:45:17,256
Well, the plan right now
is to take about an 800-foot burn here.
605
00:45:17,339 --> 00:45:18,340
Yeah.
606
00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:21,677
So, uh, you all keep me posted, okay?
607
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,347
Uh… My mother just did not want me
to know what was going on,
608
00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:28,809
and, um, I remember going to school.
609
00:45:28,892 --> 00:45:30,936
Everybody was coming up to me,
all these kids.
610
00:45:31,019 --> 00:45:33,605
You know, "Are they gonna come back?
Are they gonna come back?"
611
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:37,234
A boy came up to me,
and he said, "I am so sorry
612
00:45:37,317 --> 00:45:39,027
that your father's going to die."
613
00:45:40,654 --> 00:45:43,741
I had to leave. I had to go home.
I couldn't stay at school.
614
00:45:51,331 --> 00:45:54,334
All of my mother's good friends
were all downstairs,
615
00:45:54,877 --> 00:45:56,295
around our coffee table,
616
00:45:56,378 --> 00:45:58,672
and Father Raish
from our church was there.
617
00:45:59,173 --> 00:46:00,799
He was administering communion.
618
00:46:05,095 --> 00:46:10,184
And, um… I ran past all these women,
slammed the door, and ran out,
619
00:46:10,893 --> 00:46:12,519
and my mother came out after me.
620
00:46:13,896 --> 00:46:16,064
She was crying, and she said to me, um,
621
00:46:16,774 --> 00:46:19,109
"They are going to figure out
how to get back."
622
00:46:19,193 --> 00:46:22,905
"Between them and Mission Control,
they will figure out a way to get back."
623
00:46:28,535 --> 00:46:30,829
We must be getting
pretty close to the moon.
624
00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:56,522
Apollo 13
now 421 nautical miles above the moon.
625
00:47:03,821 --> 00:47:04,863
Uh, Houston?
626
00:47:06,406 --> 00:47:08,283
Go ahead, Aquarius.
627
00:47:08,367 --> 00:47:10,744
We're in the shadow of the moon now.
628
00:47:14,706 --> 00:47:16,959
The sun is just about set,
as far as I can see,
629
00:47:17,042 --> 00:47:19,670
and the stars are all comin' out.
630
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:29,721
Man, look at those stars.
631
00:47:42,901 --> 00:47:45,487
I don't think people realize
that, uh,
632
00:47:45,571 --> 00:47:47,573
there is no night out in space.
633
00:47:53,453 --> 00:47:55,247
It's daylight 24 hours a day,
634
00:47:55,330 --> 00:47:58,500
simply because there's nothing
to come between you and the sun.
635
00:48:04,089 --> 00:48:05,799
The first time you see night again
636
00:48:05,883 --> 00:48:08,010
is when you go
into the shadow of the moon.
637
00:48:13,515 --> 00:48:18,687
And I think that the darkness there,
after three days of sunlight,
638
00:48:19,354 --> 00:48:23,275
uh, makes the stars, uh…
exceedingly brilliant.
639
00:48:30,532 --> 00:48:34,411
Good evening, everybody.
In the bleak, black silence of space,
640
00:48:35,203 --> 00:48:36,955
a real cliff-hanger.
641
00:48:37,039 --> 00:48:41,460
The crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft
swinging around the moon,
642
00:48:41,543 --> 00:48:43,962
attempting to limp home as best it can.
643
00:48:44,046 --> 00:48:47,132
Water, oxygen, and power
all happen to be in short supply
644
00:48:47,215 --> 00:48:49,176
with nearly three days yet to go.
645
00:49:09,905 --> 00:49:14,034
We show one hour,
seven minutes away from time of burn.
646
00:49:17,162 --> 00:49:20,290
We were saying,
"Wow, look at that. Look at that."
647
00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:28,256
The ruggedness.
648
00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:30,634
Really chewed up.
649
00:49:30,717 --> 00:49:34,054
A very, uh… unfriendly,
bizarre-lookin' place,
650
00:49:35,013 --> 00:49:39,017
unlike anything, you know, we look at
as a place we'd wanna be.
651
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,691
I can even see Mount Marilyn
from here.
652
00:50:07,087 --> 00:50:10,757
Bein' out there,
you saw the Earth as it truly is.
653
00:50:11,925 --> 00:50:15,137
Just a small planet.
It was very beautiful.
654
00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:21,852
If you hold up your thumb at arm's length,
you could blot it out completely.
655
00:50:27,232 --> 00:50:30,318
And you begin to think,
"Hey, everything that I know,
656
00:50:31,236 --> 00:50:35,407
my family and my friends,
it's all down there on that little thing."
657
00:50:46,376 --> 00:50:49,713
You take your thumb away,
and you say, "I've gotta get back there."
658
00:50:54,384 --> 00:50:56,553
Let's get the cameras
squared away.
659
00:50:56,636 --> 00:50:58,096
Let's get all set to burn.
660
00:50:58,597 --> 00:51:00,098
We got one chance now.
661
00:51:01,892 --> 00:51:06,396
Our countdown clock
shows 49 minutes from time of burn.
662
00:51:07,397 --> 00:51:09,733
The world press
almost was caught napping
663
00:51:09,816 --> 00:51:11,943
during the recent crisis aboard Apollo 13.
664
00:51:12,861 --> 00:51:15,197
But then, suddenly, things changed.
665
00:51:15,697 --> 00:51:18,658
Now the story is being heard
in every language.
666
00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:23,163
One reporter actually missed the crisis,
667
00:51:23,246 --> 00:51:26,917
and on Monday afternoon he got tired
of covering a routine space flight,
668
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,461
so he left and went to Mexico
for a brief vacation.
669
00:51:29,544 --> 00:51:32,756
He came back,
walked into the press room, and asked,
670
00:51:32,839 --> 00:51:33,924
"Did I miss anything?"
671
00:51:37,511 --> 00:51:39,429
Peter, pass me the model, mate.
672
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,849
That model.
Thirty-seven!
673
00:51:42,933 --> 00:51:44,601
Right, take four!
674
00:51:46,103 --> 00:51:48,522
And at the moment, from Apollo 13,
675
00:51:48,605 --> 00:51:50,482
temporary silence as the crew get on
676
00:51:50,565 --> 00:51:53,235
with concentrating on
some of their final preparations
677
00:51:53,318 --> 00:51:56,530
for the burn that will bring them back…
back home to Earth.
678
00:51:56,613 --> 00:52:01,618
First of all, the only engine
that is working is that one there.
679
00:52:01,701 --> 00:52:04,162
The lunar-module descent engine.
680
00:52:04,246 --> 00:52:07,874
The LM's descent-engine system
that should've landed them on the moon
681
00:52:07,958 --> 00:52:10,293
is being utilized to speed up the return
682
00:52:10,377 --> 00:52:13,380
to guarantee that they don't run out
of electrical power.
683
00:52:13,922 --> 00:52:15,757
The thing
we have to be cautious about
684
00:52:15,841 --> 00:52:20,345
is that they have not ever planned
to use these systems
685
00:52:20,428 --> 00:52:21,596
to do these maneuvers.
686
00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:27,519
If the engine shuts down
for some reason during the burn…
687
00:52:28,854 --> 00:52:30,981
Everybody feels
that it will work.
688
00:52:34,818 --> 00:52:39,072
We have these two spacecrafts
that weren't meant to be bolted together
689
00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:40,657
and flown this way.
690
00:52:40,740 --> 00:52:42,534
The result, if successful,
691
00:52:42,617 --> 00:52:45,871
a vital improvement
in that narrow margin of safety.
692
00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:49,374
I believe
that the go/no-go decision is due
693
00:52:49,916 --> 00:52:53,253
any second now
from Flight Director Gene Kranz.
694
00:52:54,212 --> 00:52:56,631
All flight controllers,
I'm comin' around the horn.
695
00:52:56,715 --> 00:52:58,175
Go/no-go for the burn.
696
00:52:58,258 --> 00:52:59,634
- RETRO?
- Go, Flight.
697
00:52:59,718 --> 00:53:00,662
- GUIDO?
- Go.
698
00:53:00,677 --> 00:53:01,677
- Guidance?
- Go.
699
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:02,664
- Control?
- Go.
700
00:53:02,679 --> 00:53:03,623
- TELMU?
- Go.
701
00:53:03,638 --> 00:53:04,638
Okay.
702
00:53:08,977 --> 00:53:11,188
CAPCOM, we're go for the burn.
703
00:53:11,271 --> 00:53:13,190
Com, the computer's his.
704
00:53:13,940 --> 00:53:15,025
Ten seconds to go.
705
00:53:18,570 --> 00:53:20,071
Aquarius, Houston. Over.
706
00:53:21,198 --> 00:53:22,532
Go ahead, Houston.
707
00:53:22,616 --> 00:53:25,619
Jim, you are go
for the burn. Go for the burn.
708
00:53:27,037 --> 00:53:29,122
Roger. Understand. Go for the burn.
709
00:53:29,873 --> 00:53:31,625
We were down to our last engine.
710
00:53:32,584 --> 00:53:34,836
If this thing doesn't work,
we're in real trouble.
711
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,594
We have ignition.
Rodge.
712
00:53:43,178 --> 00:53:44,178
Engines on.
713
00:53:49,184 --> 00:53:50,518
We're burning 40%.
714
00:53:54,231 --> 00:53:55,523
Is it stable, Control?
715
00:53:56,816 --> 00:53:58,443
Looks good now.
Roger.
716
00:54:07,661 --> 00:54:08,745
100%.
717
00:54:08,828 --> 00:54:11,164
Roger.
Throttle up at 100%.
718
00:54:24,386 --> 00:54:27,389
Coming up on three minutes
into the burn.
719
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:31,101
How you lookin', Guidance?
720
00:54:32,185 --> 00:54:34,271
That TCP's a little bit high.
721
00:54:34,771 --> 00:54:35,897
Hot engine.
722
00:54:42,529 --> 00:54:44,239
Watch it real close.
723
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:52,122
CAPCOM, reminder, descent reg 1 off.
724
00:54:52,622 --> 00:54:54,374
Descent reg 1 off, sir.
725
00:54:56,626 --> 00:54:57,961
Ten seconds to go.
726
00:55:12,934 --> 00:55:14,185
Shutdown.
727
00:55:19,816 --> 00:55:22,819
I'd say
that was a good burn. Good burn, Aquarius.
728
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,573
Commander Jim Lovell
reporting shutdown.
729
00:55:26,656 --> 00:55:30,285
Engine is off. We're at 79 hours,
32 minutes into the flight.
730
00:55:32,871 --> 00:55:35,040
Well,
that was a pretty successful burn.
731
00:55:35,123 --> 00:55:37,208
I must say,
I was very impressed
732
00:55:37,292 --> 00:55:38,835
by the coolness of the whole procedure,
733
00:55:38,918 --> 00:55:42,881
particularly from Mission Control
and also from the spacecraft as well.
734
00:55:47,218 --> 00:55:48,720
Good burn, Aquarius.
735
00:55:49,596 --> 00:55:51,973
Roger. Now we wanna power down
as soon as possible.
736
00:55:52,057 --> 00:55:53,808
Roger. Understand.
737
00:55:54,976 --> 00:55:58,188
Lovell asking there
if he can turn off most of the instruments
738
00:55:58,271 --> 00:56:02,192
as soon as possible, in order to conserve
that vital electrical power.
739
00:56:03,276 --> 00:56:05,570
After the burn was over,
740
00:56:05,653 --> 00:56:08,490
we knew we were in the ballpark
for getting the crew back home,
741
00:56:08,573 --> 00:56:10,450
but we didn't know for sure.
742
00:56:14,954 --> 00:56:17,248
The target level
during the power-down
743
00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:19,084
is to keep it to at least 14 amps.
744
00:56:19,876 --> 00:56:22,128
A couple of lightbulbs' worth of power.
745
00:56:32,180 --> 00:56:34,516
We've got a lot of trade-offs
to make here.
746
00:56:34,599 --> 00:56:36,434
Turn the fans and heaters off.
747
00:57:10,301 --> 00:57:15,807
It was quiet. It was, uh… a time
when you really started to think.
748
00:57:32,824 --> 00:57:34,075
Very tough moment.
749
00:57:36,953 --> 00:57:40,748
Second time I had been to the moon
and, uh, so close.
750
00:57:45,587 --> 00:57:48,882
This was the last chance
that, uh… that I'd have to be up here.
751
00:57:55,889 --> 00:57:59,559
So the moon-landing portion
of the Apollo 13 mission
752
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,104
cancelled, scrubbed, and forgotten.
753
00:58:05,982 --> 00:58:09,152
The plan will be to keep the power down.
754
00:58:09,235 --> 00:58:14,032
They'll simply drift in flight
until Friday morning.
755
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:26,044
Apollo 13
is still walking a tightrope
756
00:58:26,127 --> 00:58:27,462
far out in space.
757
00:58:27,545 --> 00:58:29,672
Here at the Command Spacecraft Center
today,
758
00:58:29,756 --> 00:58:32,133
they took one whole shift
of flight controllers
759
00:58:32,217 --> 00:58:33,676
out of Mission Control
760
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:37,889
and set them to thinking up ways
to get around the problems still ahead.
761
00:58:39,224 --> 00:58:42,018
One of these problems
involves the air they breathe.
762
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:44,312
The crew was suffocating.
763
00:58:44,395 --> 00:58:47,148
Their breathing had poisoned
the atmosphere in the spacecraft
764
00:58:47,232 --> 00:58:48,733
with carbon dioxide.
765
00:58:50,693 --> 00:58:54,948
They have set up a jury-rigged system
of cleaning the air of carbon monoxide.
766
00:58:59,536 --> 00:59:02,747
Uh, we recommend
that you either use a wet wipe,
767
00:59:02,830 --> 00:59:06,167
or cut off a piece of a sock
and stuff it in there,
768
00:59:06,251 --> 00:59:09,629
or you can probably even crumple up
some tape and use that. Over.
769
00:59:10,672 --> 00:59:14,634
While this is working,
no one is certain it will go on working.
770
00:59:15,718 --> 00:59:18,846
Will they last
the two and a half days
771
00:59:18,930 --> 00:59:21,057
till they splash down in the Pacific?
772
00:59:23,643 --> 00:59:26,354
But more trouble
could lie ahead for the astronauts.
773
00:59:27,188 --> 00:59:30,066
The latest report says
a tropical storm named Helen
774
00:59:30,149 --> 00:59:34,070
is inching closer towards
the Pacific landing site and building up.
775
00:59:37,031 --> 00:59:39,993
So that's the way we stand
in this Apollo 13 flight.
776
00:59:40,076 --> 00:59:43,079
A flight that, almost uniquely,
seems to have been jinxed
777
00:59:43,162 --> 00:59:44,706
from the very beginning.
778
00:59:44,789 --> 00:59:47,333
And we're not out of the woods yet,
not by a long shot.
779
00:59:50,295 --> 00:59:52,338
But, uh… we were still alive.
780
00:59:54,465 --> 00:59:56,467
We'd better just keep on charging.
781
01:00:23,119 --> 01:00:27,165
Another note of interest
to the crew-systems people.
782
01:00:27,749 --> 01:00:31,169
Tell them they don't have to bother
putting a refrigerator on board.
783
01:00:31,252 --> 01:00:34,589
I just brought out some hot dogs,
and they're practically frozen.
784
01:00:37,133 --> 01:00:39,052
Okay, we copy that, Jim.
785
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:42,972
It appears
to be a little chilly
786
01:00:43,056 --> 01:00:45,558
inside the command-module cabin
at the present time.
787
01:00:45,642 --> 01:00:47,435
We have a reading of 38 degrees.
788
01:00:52,398 --> 01:00:53,983
It was really gettin' cold.
789
01:00:55,026 --> 01:00:57,945
The water was dripping
off the walls and the windows.
790
01:00:59,906 --> 01:01:02,784
We didn't have
the proper clothes for warmth.
791
01:01:11,834 --> 01:01:15,588
Is anybody sleeping
in the command module right now, Jim?
792
01:01:17,924 --> 01:01:20,259
Negative, Joe.
It's just too cold in there,
793
01:01:20,343 --> 01:01:22,345
but I have got Fred
stashed over here to my left.
794
01:01:27,975 --> 01:01:31,979
Thirty-eight is mighty cold.
It's a lot colder than it was last night.
795
01:01:32,563 --> 01:01:34,857
Has Jim gone to bed yet at all,
do you know?
796
01:01:34,941 --> 01:01:36,859
No, uh…
Is he still up?
797
01:01:36,943 --> 01:01:39,195
Let me tell you
what this visual is here.
798
01:01:39,278 --> 01:01:40,947
Jim wasn't sleeping.
799
01:01:42,407 --> 01:01:44,659
Well, the doctors thought
maybe I could come over
800
01:01:44,742 --> 01:01:48,371
and talk Jim into getting some rest
because he never did go to sleep.
801
01:01:51,124 --> 01:01:54,502
I said there's no way I could do that
because I would just get over there,
802
01:01:54,585 --> 01:01:55,586
and I would probably…
803
01:01:55,670 --> 01:01:58,464
I'd probably break down
in front of the world and everyone.
804
01:02:02,093 --> 01:02:03,428
I just couldn't do it.
805
01:02:04,637 --> 01:02:07,140
Because that would've been difficult
for him too.
806
01:02:28,453 --> 01:02:30,580
Although we thought of our families,
807
01:02:30,663 --> 01:02:33,583
uh… we didn't talk about them
among ourselves.
808
01:02:38,796 --> 01:02:43,217
We knew that they were praying
for us, but we were busy getting home
809
01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:45,511
so that they wouldn't
have to worry about us.
810
01:02:52,894 --> 01:02:55,688
Everything's running real smooth
over in Timber Cove, Jim.
811
01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:04,447
That sounds pretty good.
812
01:03:13,998 --> 01:03:16,667
President Nixon drove
through the rain from the White House
813
01:03:16,751 --> 01:03:19,754
to the Goddard Space Flight Center
to be kept up to date on the mission.
814
01:03:19,837 --> 01:03:22,381
A White House spokesman said
the president was concerned
815
01:03:22,465 --> 01:03:25,301
and hopeful
that the astronauts would return safely.
816
01:03:30,264 --> 01:03:33,935
Now, on that maneuver
that we transferred to the manual column,
817
01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:37,772
now, you got that DPS, uh… thrust model
818
01:03:37,855 --> 01:03:40,733
set to 10%
all the way through the burn, didn't you?
819
01:03:40,817 --> 01:03:41,817
Yeah.
820
01:03:42,318 --> 01:03:46,072
Okay. We went back and reconfigured
the target table, didn't we?
821
01:03:46,697 --> 01:03:50,117
There was something
causing the vehicle to drift a little bit.
822
01:03:55,873 --> 01:03:58,835
Best data we've got now,
Flight, you'd have to make the maneuver
823
01:03:58,918 --> 01:04:01,838
because you're not in the corridor.
You're not reentering at the moment.
824
01:04:04,048 --> 01:04:06,926
For some reason,
our trajectory's shallowing out.
825
01:04:08,636 --> 01:04:10,972
We got a quarter
we have to come in through,
826
01:04:11,055 --> 01:04:13,349
and it's only about two,
two and a half degrees wide,
827
01:04:13,432 --> 01:04:16,435
and if you come in too shallow,
we skip off the Earth's atmosphere.
828
01:04:17,103 --> 01:04:19,397
We'd go completely past the Earth.
829
01:04:20,898 --> 01:04:22,567
We'd come back to Earth someday,
830
01:04:22,650 --> 01:04:25,361
but the crew of the spacecraft
would be long gone.
831
01:04:26,821 --> 01:04:29,323
What is happening
that we don't understand?
832
01:04:30,741 --> 01:04:32,493
Why, why, why, why, why?
833
01:04:34,495 --> 01:04:35,621
Uh, this bothered me.
834
01:04:37,832 --> 01:04:40,585
Uh, Jim? Uh…
835
01:04:41,294 --> 01:04:44,922
The situation is that, at the moment,
we're a little bit shallow.
836
01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:49,635
We're shallow?
837
01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:55,766
That's the important thing.
838
01:04:57,393 --> 01:05:00,438
The Apollo 13 spacecraft
is off course.
839
01:05:00,521 --> 01:05:03,524
If the astronauts cannot make
the correction in their flight path,
840
01:05:03,608 --> 01:05:06,027
the three Americans will die in space.
841
01:05:06,861 --> 01:05:08,779
If they didn't make it
through this window,
842
01:05:08,863 --> 01:05:10,656
they would skip off into space,
843
01:05:10,740 --> 01:05:13,534
and they would just go around
until they ran out of oxygen.
844
01:05:14,243 --> 01:05:16,287
And I would picture him like that.
845
01:05:17,997 --> 01:05:20,791
You know, how scary it would be,
what he'd be thinking.
846
01:05:23,502 --> 01:05:27,214
Okay, Jim, to come in
a little more steeply,
847
01:05:27,298 --> 01:05:29,342
it's going to be a manual burn.
848
01:05:30,343 --> 01:05:31,427
A manual?
849
01:05:32,386 --> 01:05:35,640
Sounds like something
that we came up with on Apollo 8.
850
01:05:36,891 --> 01:05:39,727
Everybody wondered
if you'd remember that. By golly, you did.
851
01:05:40,686 --> 01:05:42,980
Although I thought
I'd never have to use it.
852
01:05:47,610 --> 01:05:49,820
Another burn
that's never been done.
853
01:05:49,904 --> 01:05:51,948
So we had to make another burn…
854
01:05:54,075 --> 01:05:57,495
but our computer was down.
Our guidance system wasn't working.
855
01:05:57,578 --> 01:05:59,121
Our autopilot was off.
856
01:06:00,456 --> 01:06:01,916
We had to do it manually.
857
01:06:02,875 --> 01:06:04,919
We had to use the Earth as a target,
858
01:06:05,711 --> 01:06:07,713
line it up with a little gun sight
that we had
859
01:06:07,797 --> 01:06:09,548
in the window of the lunar module.
860
01:06:10,508 --> 01:06:12,510
Earth, uh… in the window.
861
01:06:13,636 --> 01:06:16,013
I know that when that engine goes on
862
01:06:16,097 --> 01:06:19,934
that I'll never be able to keep
the Earth in the window by myself.
863
01:06:20,893 --> 01:06:23,688
"Fred, keep the Earth
from going back and forth too much."
864
01:06:24,230 --> 01:06:26,732
"I'll keep the Earth
from going up and down too much."
865
01:06:27,942 --> 01:06:29,819
"Jack, time it with your wristwatch."
866
01:06:30,903 --> 01:06:33,531
Burn time of 14 seconds.
867
01:06:35,282 --> 01:06:36,492
One minute away now.
868
01:06:39,954 --> 01:06:42,206
This maneuver has to work.
869
01:06:44,208 --> 01:06:46,752
We're flying right now
by the seat of our pants.
870
01:06:47,753 --> 01:06:49,005
I'm ready now.
871
01:06:52,591 --> 01:06:54,218
Ten seconds away now.
872
01:07:03,978 --> 01:07:07,356
Ignition.
We're burning. Copy that, Charlie.
873
01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:14,155
Thrust looks good.
874
01:07:20,661 --> 01:07:22,997
7.6 feet per second.
875
01:07:23,706 --> 01:07:25,082
How do we get that?
876
01:07:36,052 --> 01:07:38,512
Stop the engine.
Shut down.
877
01:07:47,646 --> 01:07:48,981
Okay, now.
878
01:07:49,940 --> 01:07:51,358
Good show.
879
01:07:57,782 --> 01:08:02,536
A real kind of a… a true coordinated
hodge-podge maneuver there.
880
01:08:31,607 --> 01:08:35,569
So the three astronauts
head toward home across a desert of space,
881
01:08:36,112 --> 01:08:38,197
their oxygen and water running low.
882
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:47,081
Perhaps this story
will be seen one day as a parable.
883
01:08:49,291 --> 01:08:51,669
This Earth is also a spinning spaceship.
884
01:08:56,715 --> 01:08:58,259
All of us are astronauts.
885
01:08:59,885 --> 01:09:02,805
And our oxygen and water
are also diminishing.
886
01:09:04,849 --> 01:09:06,809
But we have no place to go.
887
01:09:10,062 --> 01:09:11,689
Is it snowing in there yet?
888
01:09:13,149 --> 01:09:14,358
Is it what?
889
01:09:15,568 --> 01:09:16,568
Oh, snowing.
890
01:09:19,029 --> 01:09:20,823
No, uh… No, not quite.
891
01:09:22,950 --> 01:09:25,286
You'll have some time
on the beach to thaw out
892
01:09:25,369 --> 01:09:26,745
after this experience.
893
01:09:29,165 --> 01:09:31,167
Hey, that sounds great.
894
01:09:33,627 --> 01:09:37,047
We were really worried
about, uh, crew condition here.
895
01:09:39,550 --> 01:09:42,636
Freddo, Fred Haise had developed
a high body temperature,
896
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:46,807
about 104 degrees, severely dehydrated,
bad urinary infection.
897
01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:50,394
We realized how desperate it was
on board the spacecraft.
898
01:09:54,815 --> 01:09:58,444
The entry weather tomorrow
is lookin' better all the time.
899
01:10:00,279 --> 01:10:02,281
Hang in there. It won't be long now.
900
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,871
Less than 14 hours away
from its scheduled return,
901
01:10:08,954 --> 01:10:13,167
the astronauts must feel that each hour
is made up of more than 60 minutes.
902
01:10:15,502 --> 01:10:19,048
We think we've got all
the little surprises ironed out for you.
903
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:22,718
I hope so
because tomorrow is examination time.
904
01:10:49,370 --> 01:10:50,871
Today, around the world,
905
01:10:50,955 --> 01:10:54,458
there were expressions of hope
that the crew's return will be safe.
906
01:10:56,418 --> 01:10:59,964
The entire world was following
the return of Apollo 13.
907
01:11:01,548 --> 01:11:06,136
And in almost every city, people prayed
for the lives of the spacemen.
908
01:11:08,889 --> 01:11:12,601
Ten thousand joined Pope Paul
in prayer at St Peter's Basilica.
909
01:11:14,561 --> 01:11:17,773
I never realized that something like this
would have an impact
910
01:11:17,856 --> 01:11:19,358
on the world like it did.
911
01:11:21,735 --> 01:11:23,320
Never have so many people
912
01:11:23,404 --> 01:11:26,824
prayed at the same time for the safety
of a single operation
913
01:11:26,907 --> 01:11:28,659
such as this.
914
01:11:33,038 --> 01:11:34,707
Thousands who are gathered
915
01:11:34,790 --> 01:11:37,626
in Grand Central Station
here in New York City.
916
01:11:38,961 --> 01:11:42,339
Walter, even though
your reports and others that they've heard
917
01:11:42,423 --> 01:11:43,590
are relatively confident,
918
01:11:43,674 --> 01:11:48,137
I think there still is a sense
of foreboding about this flight.
919
01:11:48,220 --> 01:11:50,306
I think they need a lotta luck
and a lotta prayers,
920
01:11:50,389 --> 01:11:51,890
and we'll bring them home safely.
921
01:12:05,237 --> 01:12:06,780
I'm lookin' out the window now,
922
01:12:06,864 --> 01:12:09,992
and that Earth is whistlin' in
like a high-speed freight train.
923
01:12:12,411 --> 01:12:16,165
This all now had to happen by the clock.
There was no back-out.
924
01:12:17,708 --> 01:12:18,917
We were comin' home.
925
01:12:21,420 --> 01:12:25,591
It's a cruel paradox that the nearer
they come to the safety of the Earth,
926
01:12:25,674 --> 01:12:29,511
the nearer, too, comes the moment
of perhaps the greatest danger.
927
01:12:29,595 --> 01:12:32,348
The reentry sequence
is a very tricky maneuver,
928
01:12:32,431 --> 01:12:34,725
quite different
from the normal return to Earth.
929
01:12:34,808 --> 01:12:37,895
We have the lunar module.
That's our lifeboat.
930
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:43,734
We have a dead service module
where the explosion occurred.
931
01:12:43,817 --> 01:12:45,652
We have the command module,
932
01:12:45,736 --> 01:12:48,781
which is our reentry vehicle
but with limited power.
933
01:12:49,281 --> 01:12:51,408
So we gotta separate all of these pieces
934
01:12:51,492 --> 01:12:54,161
so we can bring this crew
back through the atmosphere.
935
01:12:55,496 --> 01:12:57,706
For the first time
since the accident,
936
01:12:57,790 --> 01:13:00,584
the command module
will be operating on its own.
937
01:13:01,752 --> 01:13:03,629
The command module's heat shield
938
01:13:03,712 --> 01:13:06,507
will absorb
the 5,000-degree heat of reentry.
939
01:13:09,927 --> 01:13:13,430
First of all, the crew
had to power up the command module.
940
01:13:15,015 --> 01:13:16,015
Okay.
941
01:13:16,475 --> 01:13:19,728
We powered it down,
not necessarily gracefully.
942
01:13:19,812 --> 01:13:22,606
We kind of did
what we had to do fairly quickly,
943
01:13:22,689 --> 01:13:26,860
and then it spent four days
in near freezer-like conditions.
944
01:13:28,654 --> 01:13:31,281
Just a lot of unknowns
about how it was gonna behave.
945
01:13:31,824 --> 01:13:34,159
Hello, Aquarius. Houston.
How do you read?
946
01:13:34,243 --> 01:13:35,702
Okay, very good, Ken.
947
01:13:35,786 --> 01:13:38,747
Okay, uh… let me, uh,
take it from the top.
948
01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:42,042
We're starting off with a set of timeline…
949
01:13:42,126 --> 01:13:45,212
Astronaut Fred Haise
has been going through a long checklist
950
01:13:45,295 --> 01:13:46,547
with Mission Control.
951
01:13:46,630 --> 01:13:49,883
…normal entry checklist.
There will be some…
952
01:13:49,967 --> 01:13:53,637
In two hours, all three men
have to be inside the command module
953
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:57,266
and have to be going into reentry,
so this is critical now.
954
01:13:58,642 --> 01:14:00,227
Aquarius. Houston.
955
01:14:01,311 --> 01:14:02,311
Go ahead.
956
01:14:03,188 --> 01:14:06,024
You're go to start
powering up the command module.
957
01:14:06,608 --> 01:14:08,694
Jack's entering
the command module now.
958
01:14:08,777 --> 01:14:10,529
Okay, Jim.
959
01:14:23,959 --> 01:14:25,878
Water was collecting everywhere.
960
01:14:28,130 --> 01:14:31,175
We had to get out a towel
to wipe off the instrument panel
961
01:14:31,258 --> 01:14:32,426
to see the instruments.
962
01:14:40,267 --> 01:14:41,935
Okay, flight controllers.
963
01:14:42,019 --> 01:14:43,937
Let's keep it quiet, monitor the loops
964
01:14:44,021 --> 01:14:46,398
in case they have any problems
in power transfer.
965
01:14:47,983 --> 01:14:49,151
Okay, press on.
966
01:14:51,153 --> 01:14:54,490
We started powering up
the command-module systems,
967
01:14:54,573 --> 01:14:55,908
system by system.
968
01:14:57,451 --> 01:15:02,080
Starting at one row,
pushing six, and stop for a moment.
969
01:15:03,874 --> 01:15:07,336
Wait to see
if we smelled any insulation burning.
970
01:15:38,367 --> 01:15:40,244
Beautiful.
Looks good, Flight.
971
01:15:40,744 --> 01:15:43,163
Houston. Aquarius.
Odyssey is trying to call.
972
01:15:43,247 --> 01:15:44,247
Do you read 'em?
973
01:15:47,709 --> 01:15:49,211
Odyssey. Houston, over.
974
01:15:50,963 --> 01:15:54,007
How do you read?
Okay, read you, babe.
975
01:15:54,758 --> 01:15:56,802
You're looking good
on the ground, Odyssey.
976
01:15:59,596 --> 01:16:02,015
Uh, Ken, this is Jim.
Yes, sir.
977
01:16:02,099 --> 01:16:05,185
Appreciate the work you've done.
Roger.
978
01:16:05,769 --> 01:16:08,689
Of course, we'll be watching you
and anything we can do for you.
979
01:16:08,772 --> 01:16:10,274
Hey, that'd be good, Ken.
980
01:16:12,943 --> 01:16:15,737
They're going to be preparing
to jettison the service module.
981
01:16:16,363 --> 01:16:19,741
We're interested in taking
some pictures of it, if we possibly can.
982
01:16:21,076 --> 01:16:24,079
You can jettison
the service module when you're ready.
983
01:16:25,497 --> 01:16:26,873
Okay, sounds good.
984
01:16:30,002 --> 01:16:32,170
Okay, I've got her, Houston.
985
01:16:34,506 --> 01:16:37,676
And there's one whole side
of that spacecraft missing!
986
01:16:42,848 --> 01:16:47,352
The whole panel is blown out,
almost from the base to the engine.
987
01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:52,816
It's really a mess.
988
01:16:55,736 --> 01:16:57,237
Man, that's unbelievable.
989
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,285
These oxygen tanks were sitting around
under the heat shield.
990
01:17:03,994 --> 01:17:08,165
So when they blew, it obviously had torn
the side outta the vehicle.
991
01:17:09,499 --> 01:17:11,251
The question is what else did it do?
992
01:17:12,002 --> 01:17:13,754
What kinda shape's the heat shield in?
993
01:17:18,967 --> 01:17:23,597
That heat shield
directly was linked to the service module,
994
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:27,142
and all panels of that service module
were blown out.
995
01:17:27,726 --> 01:17:31,688
What condition is the heat shield in?
Their lives depend on that heat shield.
996
01:17:33,315 --> 01:17:37,235
We're standing by now
for reports of jettison
997
01:17:37,319 --> 01:17:38,654
of the lunar module.
998
01:17:41,156 --> 01:17:43,575
This is the time
to bail out of the lifeboat.
999
01:17:44,076 --> 01:17:46,578
Okay, everybody stand by
for LM final sep.
1000
01:17:47,245 --> 01:17:48,872
There'll be
a certain nostalgia,
1001
01:17:48,955 --> 01:17:50,666
I guess, in saying goodbye to…
1002
01:17:51,166 --> 01:17:53,960
Okay, we are in sight.
Stand by.
1003
01:17:57,547 --> 01:17:58,632
LM jettison.
1004
01:18:07,891 --> 01:18:11,353
You could watch it
slowly, uh, driftin' away.
1005
01:18:14,064 --> 01:18:15,482
I was sad to see it go.
1006
01:18:24,241 --> 01:18:26,660
Farewell, Aquarius,
and we thank you.
1007
01:18:34,918 --> 01:18:37,379
These men,
at certain points throughout the mission,
1008
01:18:37,462 --> 01:18:38,964
have come very close to death.
1009
01:18:39,047 --> 01:18:42,384
You cannot emphasize that enough.
They've come very close to death.
1010
01:18:42,467 --> 01:18:45,971
Now as they come down to this reentry
back into the Earth's atmosphere,
1011
01:18:46,054 --> 01:18:49,683
I wonder if we could
just take a cool, schematic look
1012
01:18:49,766 --> 01:18:52,018
at the kind of danger they're facing.
1013
01:18:53,353 --> 01:18:55,522
The spacecraft enters at 400,000 feet.
1014
01:18:55,605 --> 01:18:57,774
It then plows into the atmosphere.
1015
01:18:57,858 --> 01:19:00,402
Eighteen seconds after they arrive,
they're out of communication
1016
01:19:00,485 --> 01:19:03,238
because the atmosphere,
it cuts out radio waves.
1017
01:19:04,281 --> 01:19:07,075
And only at three minutes and 36 seconds
1018
01:19:07,159 --> 01:19:10,287
do they come out
of that communications blackout.
1019
01:19:10,370 --> 01:19:12,497
So, up until three minutes and 36 seconds,
1020
01:19:12,581 --> 01:19:14,916
we won't know
whether the heat shield has worked,
1021
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,334
whether they're still alive,
1022
01:19:16,418 --> 01:19:19,129
whether the stress
has been too much for the command module.
1023
01:19:20,046 --> 01:19:23,008
But after reentry at 25,000 miles an hour,
1024
01:19:23,508 --> 01:19:27,345
their craft hits the water
at no more than 22 miles an hour.
1025
01:19:27,429 --> 01:19:29,806
And if that's not a technological miracle,
nothing is.
1026
01:19:31,016 --> 01:19:34,436
Thirteen minutes now
from predicted time of entry.
1027
01:19:36,813 --> 01:19:41,026
Velocity now reading
35,646 feet per second.
1028
01:19:42,486 --> 01:19:43,486
Rodge.
1029
01:19:44,112 --> 01:19:47,073
Flight Director Gene Kranz
now going around the room
1030
01:19:47,157 --> 01:19:50,118
posting his flight-control team
as to status.
1031
01:19:52,370 --> 01:19:55,874
All flight controllers,
I'm comin' around the horn. Go/no go?
1032
01:19:55,957 --> 01:19:57,209
- RETRO?
- Go, Flight.
1033
01:19:57,292 --> 01:19:58,195
- GUIDO?
- Go.
1034
01:19:58,210 --> 01:19:59,294
- Guidance?
- Go.
1035
01:19:59,377 --> 01:20:00,363
- Control?
- Go.
1036
01:20:00,378 --> 01:20:01,378
- TELMU?
- Go.
1037
01:20:01,421 --> 01:20:02,421
- Surgeon?
- Go.
1038
01:20:02,464 --> 01:20:03,757
- INCO?
- Go, Flight.
1039
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:05,050
- AFD?
- Go.
1040
01:20:05,133 --> 01:20:06,133
Okay.
1041
01:20:06,802 --> 01:20:08,595
Odyssey. Houston, over.
1042
01:20:08,678 --> 01:20:09,930
Go ahead.
1043
01:20:10,013 --> 01:20:13,225
Okay, LOS in a minute
or a minute and a half.
1044
01:20:13,308 --> 01:20:15,477
And welcome home. Over.
1045
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:16,937
Thank you.
1046
01:20:28,156 --> 01:20:32,744
Apollo 13 is traveling
at more than 25,000 miles an hour.
1047
01:20:33,578 --> 01:20:35,789
It's over on the darkened side
of the Earth now,
1048
01:20:35,872 --> 01:20:39,918
descending toward that little spot
plotted out in the Pacific Ocean.
1049
01:20:45,257 --> 01:20:47,759
I know all of us here
want to thank you guys down there
1050
01:20:47,843 --> 01:20:49,386
for the very fine job you did.
1051
01:20:53,473 --> 01:20:56,351
I'll tell you,
we all had a good time doing it.
1052
01:20:59,145 --> 01:21:02,190
Apollo Control, Houston,
we've just had loss of signal
1053
01:21:02,274 --> 01:21:03,650
with Apollo 13.
1054
01:21:10,031 --> 01:21:11,324
We gave it our best shot.
1055
01:21:15,370 --> 01:21:16,370
Countdown.
1056
01:21:17,998 --> 01:21:20,208
It was
an intensely lonely period.
1057
01:21:22,961 --> 01:21:24,588
The crew's on their own,
1058
01:21:25,547 --> 01:21:27,924
and they're left
with the data that you gave 'em.
1059
01:21:29,384 --> 01:21:32,804
Each controller's going back through
everything they did during the mission
1060
01:21:32,888 --> 01:21:34,431
and, "Was I right?"
1061
01:21:36,099 --> 01:21:38,268
And that's the only question
on their mind.
1062
01:21:41,855 --> 01:21:44,733
We're a little shallower
than what we predicted.
1063
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:53,033
There's very little
anybody can do, including the astronauts,
1064
01:21:53,116 --> 01:21:54,534
except wait
1065
01:21:54,618 --> 01:21:57,871
as they come through the uppermost fringes
of the Earth's atmosphere.
1066
01:21:58,788 --> 01:22:02,375
All anybody can do now…
is cross their fingers.
1067
01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:06,922
It was so quiet
that you could hear a pin drop.
1068
01:22:12,677 --> 01:22:14,512
There was nothing else for us to do.
1069
01:22:15,013 --> 01:22:17,140
Confidence has nothing to do with it now.
1070
01:23:34,050 --> 01:23:37,762
Apollo 13 should be
coming up on max G right now.
1071
01:23:42,100 --> 01:23:43,768
Less than 30 seconds to go.
1072
01:23:43,852 --> 01:23:47,647
We will attempt to contact Apollo 13.
1073
01:24:29,689 --> 01:24:33,234
Apollo 13 should be
out of blackout at this time.
1074
01:24:37,238 --> 01:24:40,784
We're standing by
for any reports of acquisition.
1075
01:24:43,286 --> 01:24:45,622
Odyssey, Houston.
Standing by.
1076
01:24:49,375 --> 01:24:51,294
Getting reports
of ARIA acquisition yet?
1077
01:24:51,377 --> 01:24:53,421
Not at this time.
Okay.
1078
01:25:09,771 --> 01:25:13,608
The spacecraft at this moment
is lost to everyone on Earth.
1079
01:25:34,504 --> 01:25:35,797
Odyssey, Houston?
1080
01:25:38,466 --> 01:25:40,552
We oughta be hearing something.
1081
01:25:41,469 --> 01:25:45,098
Shoulda been out of that blackout
a minute and 15 seconds.
1082
01:25:47,225 --> 01:25:49,018
For the first time
in this mission,
1083
01:25:49,978 --> 01:25:54,440
uh… there is the first little bit of doubt
that's coming into this room
1084
01:25:54,524 --> 01:25:57,193
that something happened
and the crew didn't make it.
1085
01:26:03,324 --> 01:26:04,868
"Will you please answer us?"
1086
01:26:15,295 --> 01:26:16,838
He had to come back.
1087
01:26:18,506 --> 01:26:20,049
I couldn't live without him.
1088
01:26:30,268 --> 01:26:32,270
Okay, Joe.
1089
01:26:36,900 --> 01:26:38,651
Okay, we read you, Jack.
1090
01:26:57,420 --> 01:26:58,796
There they are!
1091
01:27:04,802 --> 01:27:07,764
All three chutes out.
Listen to the crowd!
1092
01:27:10,183 --> 01:27:13,186
Got you on television, babe.
They've made it.
1093
01:27:21,527 --> 01:27:22,820
Odyssey, Houston.
1094
01:27:22,904 --> 01:27:25,281
We show you on the mains.
It really looks great.
1095
01:27:29,494 --> 01:27:34,582
They're in, and I make it
no more than five seconds late.
1096
01:27:34,666 --> 01:27:36,501
No more than five seconds late!
1097
01:27:36,584 --> 01:27:38,086
We have splashdown.
1098
01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:40,505
Home at last.
1099
01:28:14,289 --> 01:28:18,001
I think 13 was a milestone in survival.
1100
01:28:20,586 --> 01:28:23,006
The odds were overwhelming.
1101
01:28:25,508 --> 01:28:30,388
And, you know, I'll forever be proud
of being a part of that set of people.
1102
01:28:35,852 --> 01:28:40,148
Today, a plaque for Apollo 13
1103
01:28:40,982 --> 01:28:46,195
has just been placed on the wall
of the mission control room.
1104
01:28:46,279 --> 01:28:48,531
Ironically, that plaque,
of course, says,
1105
01:28:49,198 --> 01:28:52,035
"From the moon, learning."
"Ex luna, science."
1106
01:28:52,118 --> 01:28:53,995
There was a learning of a kind.
1107
01:28:54,662 --> 01:28:56,414
A learning of how to survive.
1108
01:29:10,553 --> 01:29:12,430
Everybody was screaming and yelling.
1109
01:29:12,513 --> 01:29:14,724
They all popped open
the bottles of champagne.
1110
01:29:14,807 --> 01:29:17,226
I even got some that day.
1111
01:29:22,357 --> 01:29:24,442
It was fantastic.
1112
01:29:25,318 --> 01:29:28,404
The biggest relief
I've ever had in my life.
1113
01:29:30,490 --> 01:29:32,867
Is there any way
a wife can prepare herself
1114
01:29:32,950 --> 01:29:34,702
for a critical situation like this?
1115
01:29:34,786 --> 01:29:37,872
No. No. I have never experienced
anything like this in my life,
1116
01:29:37,955 --> 01:29:39,999
and I don't ever care
to experience it again.
1117
01:29:42,168 --> 01:29:47,256
I still feel the emotions within my body
that will probably never, ever leave me.
1118
01:29:49,884 --> 01:29:54,180
I didn't know for four days
if I was a wife or… a widow.
1119
01:30:04,190 --> 01:30:07,568
The Apollo 13 astronauts
flew home to Houston last night,
1120
01:30:07,652 --> 01:30:10,613
and a noisy, happy welcome
from the ground-control scientists
1121
01:30:10,696 --> 01:30:14,325
who helped save them
from disaster far out in space.
1122
01:30:23,376 --> 01:30:26,796
I really wasn't relieved until
I actually saw him and got to hug him.
1123
01:30:29,173 --> 01:30:34,429
You know, just to know that he was real
and he… you know, he survived this.
1124
01:30:36,222 --> 01:30:39,559
And it really made you
appreciate life a little bit.
1125
01:30:41,144 --> 01:30:42,520
We're just so thankful.
1126
01:30:45,648 --> 01:30:46,648
Home.
1127
01:30:48,276 --> 01:30:50,027
It suddenly dawned on us.
1128
01:30:51,404 --> 01:30:53,739
Just suddenly realized what we had done.
1129
01:30:56,617 --> 01:31:00,496
There were times we really didn't think
that we'd make it back here.
1130
01:31:03,833 --> 01:31:07,670
And I can recall,
about a year and a half ago,
1131
01:31:07,753 --> 01:31:11,299
when we were coming home on Apollo 8
and be able to look back on the Earth
1132
01:31:11,382 --> 01:31:14,886
that the Earth is really
the only place we had to go to.
1133
01:31:15,761 --> 01:31:19,474
It was the only place we could see
in the universe that was home to us.
1134
01:31:22,101 --> 01:31:24,562
Of all the welcomes home
that we've had,
1135
01:31:24,645 --> 01:31:26,272
this one means the most
1136
01:31:26,355 --> 01:31:28,107
because it was these people here
1137
01:31:28,191 --> 01:31:30,610
that made it possible
for me to be here tonight.
1138
01:31:40,703 --> 01:31:44,499
What implications
could this accident on Apollo 13…
1139
01:31:44,582 --> 01:31:47,293
You know, uh… a lot of people ask,
1140
01:31:47,376 --> 01:31:50,338
"Do you feel
that Apollo 13 was a failure?"
1141
01:31:52,423 --> 01:31:55,801
I guess if you measure success and failure
1142
01:31:55,885 --> 01:31:59,805
on the basis of "Did you accomplish
what you started out to do?"
1143
01:32:00,389 --> 01:32:02,308
Apollo 13 was, indeed, a failure.
1144
01:32:07,980 --> 01:32:09,774
But Apollo 13 did something
1145
01:32:09,857 --> 01:32:12,693
that's never happened before
in the history of man.
1146
01:32:18,533 --> 01:32:23,162
That for a brief instant of time,
the whole world was together.
1147
01:32:27,041 --> 01:32:31,587
Offers of help and messages of concern
came from every country in the world.
1148
01:32:34,674 --> 01:32:37,885
And maybe if you measure Apollo 13,
1149
01:32:37,969 --> 01:32:41,180
and it is possible
for the world to live together,
1150
01:32:41,264 --> 01:32:45,893
then Apollo 13
was most eminently successful.
1151
01:33:50,166 --> 01:33:51,959
I don't look back too often.
1152
01:33:55,379 --> 01:34:00,843
If you don't look forward, then you lose
some of the meaning of… of life.
1153
01:34:04,263 --> 01:34:08,517
But being up there
and seeing the Earth as it really is…
1154
01:34:11,187 --> 01:34:13,856
and realizing how fortunate we are…
1155
01:34:25,451 --> 01:34:28,454
It's like a blue-and-white
Christmas-tree ball
1156
01:34:28,537 --> 01:34:30,748
hanging in an absolutely black sky.
1157
01:34:38,422 --> 01:34:40,633
And, of course, you don't see cities.
1158
01:34:41,425 --> 01:34:43,052
Don't see boundaries.
1159
01:34:44,220 --> 01:34:47,014
You see the Earth as it really is.
1160
01:34:51,894 --> 01:34:55,815
A grand oasis… in the vastness of space.