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-[beep]
-[man 1] And, 13,

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-we're ready on the TV when you are.
-[beep]

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[man 2] 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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-[beep]
-[man 1] Okay.

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We're getting a good, uh, picture
of your destination there.

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[man 3] We might, uh,
give you a quick shot

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of our entertainment
on board the spacecraft.

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[twangy notes playing over droning music]

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[man 3] 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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["Also sprach Zarathustra"
by Richard Strauss playing]

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[beep]

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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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[music fades]

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[rumbling, creaking]

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[beeping]

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-[crackling, booming]
-[alarm beeping]

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[muffled radio chatter]

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[gentle chatter]

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[man 3] Houston, we've had a problem.

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[suspenseful music playing]

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[reporter 1] 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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-[reporter 2] …a situation.
-[reporter 3] …hearing a loud bang…

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[voices overlapping]

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…emergency…

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[voices continue]

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[radio static]

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[vehicle rumbling]

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[reporter 1] 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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[hopeful music playing]

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[reporter 1] 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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[reporter 2] 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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[upbeat music playing]

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[interviewer] 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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[foreboding music playing]

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[music fades out]

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[gulls cawing]

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[reporter] 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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[calm music playing]

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[Jim] 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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[Jim over radio]
Welcome from the moon, uh, Houston.

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[Jim in interview] I was on the very
first flight to the moon on Apollo 8

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at Christmastime, '68.

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[controller] Merry Christmas
up there, Jim.

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[Jim] 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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[Jim over radio] Please be informed
there is a Santa Claus.

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[controller] You're the best ones to know.

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[reporter] 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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[interviewer] 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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-[man] How'd you feel when they came out?
-I was elated. [chuckles]

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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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[Jim] I then was a backup
to Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11.

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[Neil Armstrong] One small step for man.

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One giant leap for mankind.

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[bright string chord plays]

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[Jim] I really wanted
to do the same thing.

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I'm ready.

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[ominous music plays, fades]

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[interviewer] 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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[Jim] 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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-[light chuckling]
-You leave all your, you know…

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-[Marilyn] Kids!
-[Jim] 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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[wistful music playing]

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[Marilyn] 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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[both laughing]

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[Marilyn] There was the White House.

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[aide] Mr. President,
may I present the Lovell family.

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-[applause]
-Mr. James Lovell Junior.

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[Marilyn] I mean, it was really
quite a celebration after Apollo 8.

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[distant cheering]

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[Marilyn] 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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[child shouts indistinctly]

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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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[interviewer] 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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[camera clicks]

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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…
-[audience laughter]

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[reporter 1] 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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[reporter 2] 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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[interviewer] Ken, are you superstitious
about Apollo 13?

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[chuckles]

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No, I'm… I'm very happy about it.

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[tense music playing]

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[reporter] 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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[camera clicks]

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[Jim] We had already slipped the flight
once from March to April.

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[camera clicks]

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[Jim] My philosophy is
never miss the chance.

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[camera clicks]

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[Jim] We had to let Ken go.

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[foreboding music plays, fades]

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[distant mechanical clunking, beeping]

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[reporter 1] 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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[reporter 2] 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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[hopeful music playing]

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[controller] This is
Apollo Saturn Launch Control.

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T minus 3 hours, 7 minutes,
26 seconds and counting.

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[ducks quacking]

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[controller] 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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[music intensifies]

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[Walter Cronkite] 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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[Haise] You look up and feel butterflies.

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This is real.
I mean, this is really gonna happen.

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[controller] 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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[controller] 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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[controller] 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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[suspenseful music playing]

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-[Jim] The clock is running.
-[beeping]

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[controller] We have commit,
and we have liftoff at 2:13.

241
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[applause]

242
00:15:48,739 --> 00:15:51,408
We were as close as… as anyone could be.

243
00:15:52,242 --> 00:15:53,619
The Earth just shook.

244
00:16:08,342 --> 00:16:10,302
[controller] This is Mission Control,
Houston.

245
00:16:10,386 --> 00:16:12,638
We appear to have a good first stage
at this point.

246
00:16:16,266 --> 00:16:18,310
[Jim] Roll complete, and we're pitching.

247
00:16:19,395 --> 00:16:22,815
[controller 1] Altitude, 1.2 miles.
Velocity, 1,500 feet per second.

248
00:16:26,276 --> 00:16:29,154
[controller 2] 13, Houston, go at one.
We show the cabin relieving.

249
00:16:32,574 --> 00:16:33,826
[controller 3] Thirteen hundred.

250
00:16:39,665 --> 00:16:41,458
[controller 1] And at one minute,
ten seconds,

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we show an altitude of 4.1 nautical miles.

252
00:16:48,716 --> 00:16:51,010
[hopeful music playing]

253
00:16:54,638 --> 00:16:56,640
[tense music playing]

254
00:17:13,615 --> 00:17:16,577
[controller 1] Altitude now 17 miles,
coming up on staging.

255
00:17:17,369 --> 00:17:18,996
-[beep]
-[controller 2] Go for staging.

256
00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:20,664
[Jim] Go for staging. Roger.

257
00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:32,593
[alarm beeping]

258
00:17:35,262 --> 00:17:36,096
[Jim] Inboard.

259
00:17:37,890 --> 00:17:38,849
Inboard.

260
00:17:40,684 --> 00:17:43,812
[controller] Jim Lovell just reported
the inboard engine on the second stage

261
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has shut down early.

262
00:17:45,230 --> 00:17:47,733
[director] Flight confirmed.
Number five engine down.

263
00:17:48,233 --> 00:17:52,404
[reporter] And we heard that
the center engine of the five went out,

264
00:17:52,488 --> 00:17:56,450
and they are now continuing
on only four out of the five engines.

265
00:17:57,159 --> 00:17:58,160
[beeping]

266
00:17:58,243 --> 00:18:00,245
[Jim] Houston,
what's the story on engine five?

267
00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:04,958
[controller] We don't have a story
on why the inboard out was early.

268
00:18:06,210 --> 00:18:08,212
[beeping]

269
00:18:11,381 --> 00:18:13,759
Booster, you don't see
any problem with that, do you?

270
00:18:14,676 --> 00:18:15,719
[engineer] No.

271
00:18:17,304 --> 00:18:19,306
[beeping]

272
00:18:22,768 --> 00:18:24,186
[engineer] Negative.

273
00:18:25,604 --> 00:18:27,231
All the other engines are go.

274
00:18:29,817 --> 00:18:32,069
-[beep]
-[controller] The other engines are go.

275
00:18:32,152 --> 00:18:33,570
-You're lookin' good.
-[beep]

276
00:18:33,654 --> 00:18:36,573
[gentle music playing]

277
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[reporter] They've been told
they can go on up on those four engines.

278
00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:42,037
A little bit longer to get there.

279
00:18:42,538 --> 00:18:44,623
At this point, almost up into orbit.

280
00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:48,168
[Jim over radio]
Nothin' like an interesting launch.

281
00:18:50,003 --> 00:18:52,965
[Jim in interview] Almost every flight,
something goes wrong.

282
00:18:53,465 --> 00:18:55,217
I told the guys, "That's our crisis."

283
00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:58,137
"We're on our way."

284
00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:19,575
[reporter] During launch, a medic reports
the following maximum heart rates

285
00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:21,160
for the three crewmen.

286
00:19:22,369 --> 00:19:26,748
Commander Jim Lovell
had a maximum heart rate of 116,

287
00:19:26,832 --> 00:19:30,377
Jack Swigert
had a maximum heart rate of 102,

288
00:19:30,460 --> 00:19:34,673
and Fred Haise
also had a maximum heart rate of 102.

289
00:19:40,262 --> 00:19:42,389
[Swigert] I tell ya,
it's sure an interesting ride.

290
00:19:43,223 --> 00:19:44,474
[Haise] Look at that.

291
00:19:44,558 --> 00:19:46,268
It really is zero G.

292
00:19:46,351 --> 00:19:47,769
[chuckling]

293
00:19:49,354 --> 00:19:52,357
[controller] Apollo 13, Houston,
your preliminary orbit down here

294
00:19:52,441 --> 00:19:53,859
-is lookin' good.
-[beep]

295
00:19:53,942 --> 00:19:57,404
[Jim] Roger, Houston,
and it looks good to be up here again.

296
00:19:57,487 --> 00:19:59,489
[ethereal music playing]

297
00:20:13,670 --> 00:20:16,381
One of the most fascinating parts
of space flight

298
00:20:16,465 --> 00:20:18,467
is the observation of the Earth.

299
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Things get a lot smaller.

300
00:20:27,184 --> 00:20:28,727
The countries look smaller,

301
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,523
and the problems everybody has
appear to be smaller.

302
00:20:36,151 --> 00:20:38,195
It's a very… tranquilizing effect

303
00:20:38,278 --> 00:20:42,950
to sit up there and notice large countries
just pass by so serenely.

304
00:20:51,416 --> 00:20:52,417
It's hard to imagine

305
00:20:52,501 --> 00:20:55,462
why people cannot live more peacefully
with one another.

306
00:21:04,763 --> 00:21:07,849
[reporter] After the astronauts
have checked all the systems,

307
00:21:08,433 --> 00:21:11,311
the instrument unit,
helped by messages from the computers

308
00:21:11,395 --> 00:21:12,896
in Mission Control in Houston,

309
00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:15,399
tells the third stage to fire again.

310
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,361
And Apollo is on its way to the moon.

311
00:21:20,696 --> 00:21:23,907
The crew quarters of the spacecraft,
the living and working area,

312
00:21:23,991 --> 00:21:25,284
is the command module.

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This is the only part
that returns from the moon.

314
00:21:28,745 --> 00:21:32,457
Now, the Apollo spacecraft itself
has a service module,

315
00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:35,127
which houses the tanks
of breathing oxygen,

316
00:21:35,210 --> 00:21:36,545
electronic equipment,

317
00:21:36,628 --> 00:21:38,922
a power supply, and drinking water.

318
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:42,509
The spacecraft separates
from the third stage,

319
00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:45,178
does a U-turn…

320
00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:49,016
comes back…

321
00:21:52,853 --> 00:21:54,604
docks with the lunar module,

322
00:21:55,605 --> 00:21:58,692
which will carry two astronauts
to the surface of the moon.

323
00:22:01,278 --> 00:22:04,114
-[Jim] We're hard docked, Houston.
-[controller] Very nice.

324
00:22:05,574 --> 00:22:08,535
[reporter] And that's the way
the two ships go to the moon.

325
00:22:11,788 --> 00:22:13,790
[birdsong]

326
00:22:18,754 --> 00:22:23,633
[controller] We show Apollo 13
to be 24,916 nautical miles from Earth.

327
00:22:24,509 --> 00:22:26,428
[Susan] You know,
we went to watch the take-off,

328
00:22:26,511 --> 00:22:27,888
got back home.

329
00:22:27,971 --> 00:22:32,100
They put little boxes into our home.
They were called squawk boxes.

330
00:22:32,768 --> 00:22:35,145
You could hear
everything that was going on.

331
00:22:35,645 --> 00:22:37,439
[Jim] We'd like to hear what the news is.

332
00:22:37,939 --> 00:22:39,358
[controller] Okay, let's see.

333
00:22:39,441 --> 00:22:42,444
The Beatles have announced
they will no longer perform as a group.

334
00:22:43,987 --> 00:22:45,822
Things had been going smoothly.

335
00:22:46,698 --> 00:22:49,409
You know, it was just another one.
It was his fourth mission.

336
00:22:50,869 --> 00:22:52,996
I had one squawk box in each room.

337
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.

338
00:22:57,918 --> 00:23:00,670
[Jim] Now Fred's engaged
in his favorite pastime.

339
00:23:01,546 --> 00:23:03,048
He's rigging his hammock.

340
00:23:04,216 --> 00:23:07,094
[Haise] It's kinda difficult
getting into a hammock.

341
00:23:07,761 --> 00:23:11,390
I'm not sure if I keep
floating away from it

342
00:23:11,473 --> 00:23:14,184
or it keeps moving away from me.

343
00:23:19,606 --> 00:23:21,316
[Jim] We're all going to bed now.

344
00:23:21,817 --> 00:23:24,069
-[controller] Okay, Jim. Good night.
-[beeping]

345
00:23:28,365 --> 00:23:32,786
When we were young, we would sit
on the roof of the building I lived in.

346
00:23:33,412 --> 00:23:35,956
Jim would point
the different stars out to me,

347
00:23:36,039 --> 00:23:40,502
and he said, "Just think
that someday, a man might go."

348
00:23:41,545 --> 00:23:44,131
I mean, here he's predicting this in 1952.

349
00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:46,883
Just amazing.

350
00:23:47,592 --> 00:23:49,594
Jim Lovell, he grew up in Milwaukee.

351
00:23:49,678 --> 00:23:52,472
He married his high-school sweetheart,
Marilyn Gerlach.

352
00:23:52,556 --> 00:23:54,599
They have two boys and two girls.

353
00:23:55,642 --> 00:24:00,188
[Marilyn] We met in high school.
That was back in the early '40s.

354
00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:01,898
[camera clicks]

355
00:24:01,982 --> 00:24:05,026
[Marilyn] His father was deceased
when Jim was 12 years old.

356
00:24:05,527 --> 00:24:06,611
[camera clicks]

357
00:24:06,695 --> 00:24:10,490
[Marilyn] And, uh… he lived in
this one-room apartment with his mother.

358
00:24:11,158 --> 00:24:13,827
He slept on the couch,
but that's all she could afford

359
00:24:13,910 --> 00:24:15,412
with this little apartment.

360
00:24:15,912 --> 00:24:17,038
[camera clicks]

361
00:24:17,122 --> 00:24:20,208
[Marilyn] He came one day and asked me
if I would do him a favor.

362
00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:23,044
I said, "What?" And he said,
"Would you go to prom with me?"

363
00:24:23,795 --> 00:24:27,007
And I said, "I don't know.
I don't know how to dance."

364
00:24:27,090 --> 00:24:29,134
And he said, "Well, I'll teach you."

365
00:24:29,217 --> 00:24:30,427
[camera clicks]

366
00:24:31,553 --> 00:24:33,638
[camera clicking]

367
00:24:38,143 --> 00:24:40,812
[Marilyn] When we decided to get married,
I really didn't know

368
00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:42,981
he was going into test piloting.

369
00:24:43,064 --> 00:24:45,192
I knew he always wanted to be a pilot.

370
00:24:45,275 --> 00:24:47,861
And then, before I knew it,
he decided to fly jets,

371
00:24:47,944 --> 00:24:49,279
and I went along with it.

372
00:24:51,656 --> 00:24:53,658
[stirring music playing]

373
00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:12,344
[whimsical music playing]

374
00:25:13,094 --> 00:25:15,597
[reporter] In 1962, he was one of nine men

375
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,600
out of over 200 to survive
the intensive screening

376
00:25:18,683 --> 00:25:21,478
and become a member
of the second group of astronauts.

377
00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:25,232
[Jim] We were 32 guinea pigs
walking into the door

378
00:25:25,315 --> 00:25:27,442
not knowing what the heck
was gonna hit us.

379
00:25:32,656 --> 00:25:36,201
It was perhaps the worst physical
I have ever had in my life.

380
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."

381
00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:55,262
[somber music playing]

382
00:25:58,223 --> 00:26:01,434
[Jim] A rocket was blowing up
almost every other day down at the Cape.

383
00:26:08,441 --> 00:26:10,235
Uh… I lost a lotta friends.

384
00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:18,952
You're always going to a funeral
or something.

385
00:26:22,122 --> 00:26:24,916
Those days were tough on all of us gals.

386
00:26:29,713 --> 00:26:32,048
[Jim] I think there are few people
that actually thought

387
00:26:32,132 --> 00:26:34,718
we were gonna land on the moon
by the end of the decade.

388
00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:41,600
[reporter] The war in Vietnam ground on.

389
00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:44,644
[Jim] It was a rather bad time
for the country.

390
00:26:44,728 --> 00:26:47,314
-[shrieking]
-[Jim] With riots and assassinations…

391
00:26:48,398 --> 00:26:52,444
Dr. Martin Luther King has been
shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

392
00:26:52,527 --> 00:26:54,112
[Jim] …and a war going on.

393
00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:57,782
[Richard Nixon] We find ourselves
rich in goods but ragged in spirit,

394
00:26:57,866 --> 00:27:00,910
reaching with magnificent precision
for the moon,

395
00:27:00,994 --> 00:27:03,580
but falling into raucous discord on Earth.

396
00:27:05,582 --> 00:27:08,752
[Jim] I felt I was part of a thing
that finally gave an uplift

397
00:27:08,835 --> 00:27:10,629
to the American people.

398
00:27:10,712 --> 00:27:12,797
[hopeful music playing]

399
00:27:13,465 --> 00:27:16,176
[Jim] The rewards
far overshadow the risks.

400
00:27:19,721 --> 00:27:21,723
[solemn music playing]

401
00:27:24,184 --> 00:27:27,312
[interviewer] Jim, you've been through
more flights than anybody.

402
00:27:27,395 --> 00:27:29,105
Have you ever known fear?

403
00:27:30,565 --> 00:27:34,361
[Jim] I think that someone who says
they haven't are only kidding themselves.

404
00:27:45,997 --> 00:27:48,625
[reporter 1] The Apollo spacecraft
and the three men onboard

405
00:27:48,708 --> 00:27:51,544
are well on their way
to disproving all those theories

406
00:27:51,628 --> 00:27:54,005
about jinxes and the number 13.

407
00:27:54,089 --> 00:27:55,090
[phone rings]

408
00:27:55,173 --> 00:27:59,594
[reporter 1] Apollo 13, which was launched
at 13 minutes after the hour on Saturday,

409
00:27:59,678 --> 00:28:03,390
is spending
a most uneventful April 13th in space.

410
00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:07,185
[reporter 2] In previous flights,
the press room in Houston

411
00:28:07,268 --> 00:28:10,271
was jammed with something
like 2,500 correspondents,

412
00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:13,024
but for this flight,
only about 500 showed up.

413
00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:15,235
Probably because, by this time,

414
00:28:15,318 --> 00:28:17,737
walking on the moon
had become almost routine.

415
00:28:19,197 --> 00:28:21,574
[controller] Apollo Control Houston
standing by now

416
00:28:21,658 --> 00:28:23,451
for television transmission.

417
00:28:25,578 --> 00:28:29,791
We all went to Mission Control
to listen to the men.

418
00:28:32,335 --> 00:28:35,755
It just felt reassuring
seeing Jim at this point.

419
00:28:36,256 --> 00:28:38,258
[controller] Okay,
you're on Candid Camera.

420
00:28:38,341 --> 00:28:41,428
[Jim] What we plan to do for you today
is take you on through from Odyssey

421
00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:44,556
into Aquarius, the landing vehicle.

422
00:28:45,473 --> 00:28:48,476
I find myself now standing
with my head on the floor

423
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,228
when I get down inside the LM.

424
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:53,815
This strange-looking bird,
the LM, how does it work?

425
00:28:54,566 --> 00:28:59,154
Well, this is the spacecraft that's used
to take men down to the lunar surface.

426
00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:01,448
And two of the three astronauts

427
00:29:01,531 --> 00:29:03,950
enter the LM by crawling in
through this tunnel.

428
00:29:05,201 --> 00:29:08,538
They detach from
the command and service modules,

429
00:29:10,039 --> 00:29:12,292
and they descend to the lunar surface.

430
00:29:13,084 --> 00:29:15,086
[atmospheric music playing]

431
00:29:18,047 --> 00:29:21,134
[Haise] Okay, I'm lookin' out
the, uh, right window now,

432
00:29:21,217 --> 00:29:25,680
and, uh, not too far off in the distance,
you can see the objective,

433
00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:28,808
and it's actually beginning
to look a little bigger now.

434
00:29:29,309 --> 00:29:31,186
[control-room chatter]

435
00:29:32,562 --> 00:29:35,607
[Jim] This little tape recorder
has been a big benefit

436
00:29:35,690 --> 00:29:38,860
in passing some of the time away
on our transit out to the moon.

437
00:29:40,528 --> 00:29:42,864
This is the crew of Apollo 13

438
00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:46,618
wishing everybody there
a nice evening and, uh, good night.

439
00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:55,168
[controller] Everything continues
to go well aboard Apollo 13.

440
00:29:57,295 --> 00:30:00,381
-[beep]
-[Lousma] We'd like to check C-4 thruster.

441
00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:04,177
[Swigert] Okay, Jack, the battery charge
has been terminated on battery B.

442
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,890
We have a very detailed
pre-sleep checklist we go through.

443
00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:10,266
[Lousma] Roger. We see it, Jack.

444
00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:12,477
[Kranz] We're getting ready
to close it out.

445
00:30:13,853 --> 00:30:16,606
[Lousma] 13, we've got one more item
for you when you get a chance.

446
00:30:17,565 --> 00:30:20,443
We'd like you to, uh,
stir up your cryo tanks.

447
00:30:21,861 --> 00:30:23,863
[beeping]

448
00:30:26,616 --> 00:30:28,409
[booming]

449
00:30:30,620 --> 00:30:32,914
[indistinct radio chatter]

450
00:30:32,997 --> 00:30:34,999
[alarm bleeping]

451
00:30:35,083 --> 00:30:37,085
[radio chatter continues]

452
00:30:43,341 --> 00:30:45,343
[indistinct chatter]

453
00:30:45,844 --> 00:30:47,846
[radio static]

454
00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:51,266
[Swigert] Okay, Houston,
we've had a problem here.

455
00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:57,689
[Lousma] This is Houston.
Say again, please.

456
00:31:01,109 --> 00:31:02,944
[Jim] Uh, Houston, we've had a problem.

457
00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:06,155
We've had a main B bus undervolt.

458
00:31:09,325 --> 00:31:10,785
[Lousma] Okay, stand by, 13.

459
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:12,287
-We're looking at it.
-[beep]

460
00:31:12,370 --> 00:31:14,414
[dramatic music playing]

461
00:31:18,418 --> 00:31:22,255
[man 1] The crew has reported
that the main B shows an undervoltage.

462
00:31:22,338 --> 00:31:25,008
[indistinct] …had a spark there.

463
00:31:25,091 --> 00:31:28,303
The recorded heart rates,
I can't believe one of 'em.

464
00:31:29,512 --> 00:31:31,264
Looks like 189.

465
00:31:31,347 --> 00:31:32,307
[man 2] Really?

466
00:31:33,391 --> 00:31:35,476
[man 1] They sure jumped up
when that happened.

467
00:31:36,978 --> 00:31:40,356
Our first thoughts were,
we might have been hit by a meteorite.

468
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,150
[Haise] We had a pretty large bang

469
00:31:42,233 --> 00:31:44,736
associated with
the Caution and Warning there.

470
00:31:46,404 --> 00:31:50,992
[Jim] And our O2 number-two tank
is reading zero. Did you get that?

471
00:31:51,993 --> 00:31:53,286
[man 3] That can't be.

472
00:31:53,369 --> 00:31:55,455
[Kranz] I don't understand. I don't…

473
00:31:55,538 --> 00:31:57,624
[man 3] You don't believe
that O2 tank one pressure?

474
00:31:57,707 --> 00:31:58,541
[Jim] No, no.

475
00:31:59,918 --> 00:32:02,128
I mean, that data doesn't make sense.

476
00:32:03,463 --> 00:32:06,090
We still don't have
the slightest clue what's going on.

477
00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:08,676
[Lousma] Is there any leads
we can give 'em?

478
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,763
Are we lookin' at instrumentation,
or we got a real problem or what?

479
00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:14,098
[beeping]

480
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:18,770
[Jim] Uh, Houston? It looks to me,
lookin' out the hatch,

481
00:32:18,853 --> 00:32:20,647
that we are venting something.

482
00:32:21,147 --> 00:32:24,692
We are… We are venting something
out into the, uh… into space.

483
00:32:24,776 --> 00:32:26,778
[ominous music playing]

484
00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:33,993
[Jim] It's a gas of some sort.

485
00:32:36,204 --> 00:32:37,372
[Lousma] Jesus Christ.

486
00:32:38,998 --> 00:32:39,832
[indistinct]

487
00:32:45,588 --> 00:32:49,050
[Jules Bergman] Here is a special report
on Apollo 13.

488
00:32:49,592 --> 00:32:53,638
The Apollo 13 spacecraft
has suffered a major electrical failure.

489
00:32:53,721 --> 00:32:56,683
Jim Lovell and Fred Haise
reported hearing a loud bang.

490
00:32:56,766 --> 00:32:58,518
They also reported seeing fuel,

491
00:32:58,601 --> 00:33:01,479
apparently oxygen and nitrogen,
leaking from the spacecraft,

492
00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:04,273
and reportedly gauges
for those gases were reading zero.

493
00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:08,820
At that point, we said,
"Hey, this vehicle is dying."

494
00:33:08,903 --> 00:33:11,322
"Very shortly,
we'll be completely out of oxygen."

495
00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:16,369
-[Swigert] Houston, are you still readin'?
-[Lousma] Affirmative. We're readin' you.

496
00:33:16,452 --> 00:33:19,372
Tryin' to come up with some good ideas
here for you.

497
00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:22,291
[controller 1] I wanna use the cryo
as much as possible.

498
00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:24,627
[controller 2] Assuming you'd want
fastest possible return.

499
00:33:24,711 --> 00:33:26,754
[controller 3] …we have no choice
but to do it.

500
00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:28,881
The pressure continues to drop.

501
00:33:28,965 --> 00:33:30,967
[indistinct overlapping radio chatter]

502
00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:37,682
[Kranz] Okay, now,
let's everybody keep cool.

503
00:33:38,349 --> 00:33:39,684
Let's solve the problem,

504
00:33:39,767 --> 00:33:42,520
but let's not make it any worse
by guessin'.

505
00:33:43,730 --> 00:33:45,898
-[tense music playing]
-[indistinct chatter]

506
00:33:50,528 --> 00:33:51,904
[Kranz] We're in deep shit.

507
00:33:53,614 --> 00:33:55,533
We're about 200,000 miles from Earth,

508
00:33:55,616 --> 00:33:58,077
about 50,000 miles
from the surface of the moon.

509
00:33:58,619 --> 00:34:00,038
We've come to the conclusion

510
00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:03,249
that we had some type of an explosion
on board the spacecraft.

511
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,752
Two of our fuel cells are offline,

512
00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:08,921
and these are
our principal power-generation systems.

513
00:34:10,923 --> 00:34:12,633
Our final fuel cell is dying.

514
00:34:14,093 --> 00:34:16,971
[controller] Uh, Flight,
less than two hours now.

515
00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:18,431
That's the end right there.

516
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,518
Uh…

517
00:34:22,602 --> 00:34:24,687
[Kranz in interview]
Two of three fuel cells shut down.

518
00:34:24,771 --> 00:34:26,189
We're not going to the moon anymore.

519
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,781
Apollo 13 is now two-thirds
of the way to the moon,

520
00:34:34,864 --> 00:34:36,699
200,000 miles from Earth

521
00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:38,951
at a point where, even in an emergency,

522
00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:41,537
it is more efficient
to swing around the moon and return

523
00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:43,915
rather than try an immediate abort.

524
00:34:45,249 --> 00:34:50,296
[Kranz] Our job now
is to start an orderly evacuation

525
00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:53,091
from the command module
into the lunar module.

526
00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:57,303
Okay, all flight controllers,

527
00:34:58,137 --> 00:35:00,973
I want you to get some guys
figuring out minimum power

528
00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:02,934
in the LM to sustain life.

529
00:35:13,986 --> 00:35:16,280
[overlapping radio chatter]

530
00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:17,615
[man] It's pretty hairy.

531
00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:21,828
This is Colonel Stafford
standing by for the Vice President.

532
00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,330
Hello, Mr. Vice President, sir.

533
00:35:24,413 --> 00:35:25,540
[Agnew] How bad is it?

534
00:35:25,623 --> 00:35:29,127
[Stafford] We're activating
the lunar module as a lifeboat, basically,

535
00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:31,337
and thank God that we have it onboard.

536
00:35:31,420 --> 00:35:32,755
[Agnew] Yeah, you said it.

537
00:35:32,839 --> 00:35:36,676
[Stafford] It will supply water, oxygen,
and it will supply electrical power.

538
00:35:36,759 --> 00:35:39,887
We wanna get
the command module down shortly.

539
00:35:39,971 --> 00:35:44,016
So it's a pretty critical situation,
but we're working like mad on it.

540
00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:46,185
[Bergman] A frantic scene we're seeing,

541
00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:49,147
a scene of deep concentration
in Mission Control in Houston.

542
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:51,107
And astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise

543
00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:54,652
have now made their way
to their Aquarius lunar module,

544
00:35:54,735 --> 00:35:58,698
so they can have its electrical power
and its oxygen to save their lives.

545
00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:00,700
Activation 20.

546
00:36:01,701 --> 00:36:03,494
"Power up" is a simple term,

547
00:36:03,578 --> 00:36:06,289
but it's not like
a light switch in your house.

548
00:36:07,165 --> 00:36:10,668
We'd never powered up a lunar module
in these kinda circumstances,

549
00:36:10,751 --> 00:36:14,505
and we'd never, ever considered
shutting a command module completely off.

550
00:36:14,589 --> 00:36:15,882
-Flight, EECOM.
-Go ahead.

551
00:36:15,965 --> 00:36:18,759
[controller] Okay, we've got
an update on the time.

552
00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:20,845
Looks like we've got about 15 minutes.

553
00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:22,263
[chuckles]

554
00:36:22,346 --> 00:36:23,389
[Lunney] CAPCOM,

555
00:36:24,098 --> 00:36:26,517
we're gonna be out of power in 15 minutes.

556
00:36:28,853 --> 00:36:32,398
[Kranz] The crew got 15 minutes
to get the lunar module powered up.

557
00:36:34,108 --> 00:36:36,736
[controller] It's gonna take
about 20 minutes to do that procedure.

558
00:36:37,361 --> 00:36:39,030
[Lunney] We don't have much time.

559
00:36:41,532 --> 00:36:45,703
[Lousma] Fred, we figure we've got
about 15 minutes' worth of power left

560
00:36:45,786 --> 00:36:46,996
in the command module.

561
00:36:47,705 --> 00:36:48,873
[Haise] Uh, thank you, Jack.

562
00:36:48,956 --> 00:36:51,834
[controller] Fred Haise,
still powering up the lunar module.

563
00:36:51,918 --> 00:36:54,128
[Jim] Forward Omni. Okay, slow down!

564
00:36:54,962 --> 00:36:57,089
[reporter] The astronauts
are getting rather harried.

565
00:36:57,173 --> 00:37:00,218
One saying, "Let's take it easy
while we get this problem worked out."

566
00:37:00,301 --> 00:37:03,054
-[indistinct radio chatter]
-[Haise] …circuit breaker…

567
00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:05,890
[Lousma] Okay, 13,
you're both talkin' at once.

568
00:37:05,973 --> 00:37:07,892
-One at a time please.
-[beep]

569
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:10,811
[exhales]

570
00:37:12,855 --> 00:37:16,025
But what is most important,
he has to transfer the navigation data

571
00:37:16,108 --> 00:37:18,486
from the command-module computer,
which is dying,

572
00:37:18,569 --> 00:37:20,238
over into the lunar module computer.

573
00:37:20,321 --> 00:37:22,865
[Jim] Okay, I want you
to double-check my arithmetic.

574
00:37:22,949 --> 00:37:24,700
[controller] Three or four minutes,
Flight.

575
00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:27,245
Three or four minutes.

576
00:37:28,204 --> 00:37:31,582
[Kranz] And this data transfer
has to be absolutely perfect.

577
00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:35,336
I was so afraid of putting
the wrong numbers in.

578
00:37:35,836 --> 00:37:38,381
[Jim over radio] Three-five-six, six-nine.

579
00:37:39,257 --> 00:37:41,509
One-six-three, four-two.

580
00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:45,721
Aquarius is three-oh-two, two-six.

581
00:37:46,430 --> 00:37:48,808
Three-four-five, nine-two.

582
00:37:49,308 --> 00:37:52,270
Zero-one-one, seven-nine. Over.

583
00:37:57,191 --> 00:38:00,403
-How's the arithmetic?
-[controller] Stand by. We're checking.

584
00:38:01,404 --> 00:38:02,321
[indistinct]

585
00:38:02,405 --> 00:38:04,407
[dramatic music building]

586
00:38:09,328 --> 00:38:11,330
[Lousma] Aquarius,
your arithmetic looks good.

587
00:38:11,831 --> 00:38:13,541
-We're getting good LM data.
-[beep]

588
00:38:23,592 --> 00:38:26,429
Well, we're still alive.
We're still sitting there breathin'.

589
00:38:27,513 --> 00:38:28,973
[Jim] Houston, Aquarius.

590
00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:31,726
-[beep]
-[Lousma] Go ahead, Aquarius.

591
00:38:34,145 --> 00:38:36,564
[Jim] Okay,
Odyssey is completely powered down now.

592
00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:39,108
-[beep]
-[Lousma] That's where we wanna be, Jim.

593
00:38:42,611 --> 00:38:43,988
We were suckin' air.

594
00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:49,035
We'd picked the path,
and it was only some time downstream

595
00:38:49,118 --> 00:38:52,830
that we would know that the path
we'd picked was the correct one.

596
00:38:56,667 --> 00:38:58,836
We were truly in a survival situation.

597
00:39:00,629 --> 00:39:02,757
[Cronkite] The greatest drama yet
in space.

598
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,176
After a mysterious accident last night,

599
00:39:05,259 --> 00:39:08,054
Apollo 13 still is speeding
toward the moon,

600
00:39:08,137 --> 00:39:10,348
but the mission
has been drastically changed.

601
00:39:10,431 --> 00:39:13,934
No longer is it going to put
the astronauts down on the moon's surface.

602
00:39:14,018 --> 00:39:17,480
Instead, the mission, simply
to get the astronauts safely home.

603
00:39:21,108 --> 00:39:22,651
[reporter] How are you today?

604
00:39:23,361 --> 00:39:24,987
I'm fine, thank you, today.

605
00:39:30,951 --> 00:39:33,245
-[Marilyn] Hello?
-Hello, Marilyn. It's Ken.

606
00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:36,999
[Marilyn] Hi, listen, uh, Ken,
I'm naturally concerned.

607
00:39:37,083 --> 00:39:40,503
How are things looking this morning?
My kids aren't up yet.

608
00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:42,713
They don't even know what's going on

609
00:39:42,797 --> 00:39:45,633
because they went to sleep
before all this came up last night.

610
00:39:45,716 --> 00:39:47,676
I was wondering what I could tell 'em.

611
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,179
[Ken] They're now
on a free-return trajectory.

612
00:39:50,262 --> 00:39:52,890
I don't know if that happened
before you went to bed.

613
00:39:52,973 --> 00:39:56,811
[Marilyn] I didn't go to bed until
I think it was 4:00, and I got up at 5:00,

614
00:39:56,894 --> 00:39:58,646
so I really haven't had much sleep.

615
00:39:58,729 --> 00:40:02,400
You listen to the TV, and you just…
can't believe everything they say.

616
00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:04,402
It's only by a very narrow margin

617
00:40:04,485 --> 00:40:08,656
that we're going to get
Lovell, Haise, and Swigert back alive.

618
00:40:08,739 --> 00:40:09,907
[camera clicks]

619
00:40:09,990 --> 00:40:12,993
[Marilyn] I'd just come in from
watching Jim over at the space center.

620
00:40:13,077 --> 00:40:16,539
The accident actually occurred
from the time I left NASA

621
00:40:16,622 --> 00:40:18,332
until I got back to my house.

622
00:40:18,999 --> 00:40:23,129
We saw the television reviews
on what was going on.

623
00:40:23,212 --> 00:40:26,006
There was so much debris
from the explosion

624
00:40:26,090 --> 00:40:28,050
still swirling around their spacecraft

625
00:40:28,134 --> 00:40:30,928
that they had trouble taking
star sights to align themselves…

626
00:40:31,011 --> 00:40:33,973
[Marilyn] There was only a 10% chance
that he would come back.

627
00:40:34,807 --> 00:40:36,517
[camera clicking]

628
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:45,443
[Marilyn] I just had
to get away from everyone.

629
00:40:45,526 --> 00:40:47,903
I mean, every room in my house
was full of people,

630
00:40:47,987 --> 00:40:51,365
and the only place I could get to myself
was my bathroom.

631
00:40:52,408 --> 00:40:55,035
And I literally got down on my knees
and prayed.

632
00:40:59,748 --> 00:41:03,502
How critical is this situation right now,
in your opinion?

633
00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:07,131
[Lunney] Well, uh…
I think it is as critical,

634
00:41:07,214 --> 00:41:10,384
perhaps, probably,
the most critical situation we've faced

635
00:41:10,468 --> 00:41:13,846
so far in a manned space-flight program,
uh, in flight.

636
00:41:14,513 --> 00:41:16,056
[reporter] Are the astronauts safe?

637
00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:23,022
Well, uh… they're… [clears throat]

638
00:41:23,105 --> 00:41:25,191
They're safe in the sense that, uh…

639
00:41:25,274 --> 00:41:28,277
we have the situation stabilized now,
we think.

640
00:41:28,861 --> 00:41:29,862
Uh…

641
00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:34,283
And we have to continue
to keep the situation that way,

642
00:41:34,366 --> 00:41:36,702
uh… and bring 'em on home.

643
00:41:36,785 --> 00:41:38,787
[suspenseful music playing]

644
00:41:45,294 --> 00:41:48,047
You can sense trouble in this room.

645
00:41:50,424 --> 00:41:53,594
[Lunney] Okay, everybody, look,
we got a number of long-range problems,

646
00:41:53,677 --> 00:41:56,096
lifeboat problems now
associated with the LM.

647
00:41:58,224 --> 00:42:00,184
[controller] Discussions
here in the control room

648
00:42:00,267 --> 00:42:04,021
have to do with, uh, consumables
in the spacecraft.

649
00:42:04,104 --> 00:42:06,524
Electrical power, water...

650
00:42:06,607 --> 00:42:12,446
[Kranz] We had two days of consumables,
oxygen, water, and electrical power,

651
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,325
but it would take us four days
to get the crew back home.

652
00:42:19,578 --> 00:42:21,580
[indistinct chatter]

653
00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:29,129
[Kranz] We gotta figure out how to turn
the lifeboat into a survival vehicle.

654
00:42:29,630 --> 00:42:31,549
[indistinct chatter]

655
00:42:49,858 --> 00:42:52,528
We knew we were in deep, deep trouble.

656
00:43:01,704 --> 00:43:04,665
The lunar module was only designed
to support two people.

657
00:43:09,003 --> 00:43:12,131
We had three people,
and we were at least 90 hours from home.

658
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:14,967
-[beep]
-[Lousma] Aquarius, Houston.

659
00:43:15,050 --> 00:43:16,176
How do you read?

660
00:43:17,553 --> 00:43:19,722
[Haise] Okay, you're loud and clear there.

661
00:43:21,015 --> 00:43:24,226
[Lousma] Roger. Same here.
We're still discussing the next move.

662
00:43:24,310 --> 00:43:25,311
[beep]

663
00:43:28,897 --> 00:43:30,608
[Haise] Let's make it a good one.

664
00:43:33,652 --> 00:43:35,654
[helicopter blades whirring]

665
00:43:39,033 --> 00:43:42,620
[Cronkite] We have learned that a group
of astronauts are working in a simulator

666
00:43:42,703 --> 00:43:44,580
here at the Manned Spacecraft Center,

667
00:43:44,663 --> 00:43:47,916
trying to duplicate the conditions
of the men out in space.

668
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,419
[reporter] The backup crew,
including Ken Mattingly,

669
00:43:50,502 --> 00:43:52,087
the man who didn't go,

670
00:43:52,171 --> 00:43:54,798
spent much of the night
trying out various suggestions.

671
00:43:54,882 --> 00:43:56,175
[Lunney] CAPCOM, Flight.

672
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,261
As we, uh, approached the moon,

673
00:43:59,345 --> 00:44:01,764
we had to make a fundamental decision

674
00:44:01,847 --> 00:44:04,308
on how fast
we wanted to get back to Earth.

675
00:44:04,391 --> 00:44:06,644
-[phone ringing]
-[determined music playing]

676
00:44:07,519 --> 00:44:11,732
[Kranz] We would have to improvise ways
to stretch our power, water.

677
00:44:12,775 --> 00:44:15,069
We're gonna have to come up
with an answer in hours and days

678
00:44:15,152 --> 00:44:17,279
in what normally takes months and years.

679
00:44:17,363 --> 00:44:21,533
We're gonna be outside all known design
and test boundaries of the spacecraft.

680
00:44:21,617 --> 00:44:23,619
[indistinct chatter]

681
00:44:24,161 --> 00:44:25,829
[controller] This is Apollo Control.

682
00:44:25,913 --> 00:44:30,959
A decision has been made to perform
the descent-propulsion-system burn.

683
00:44:33,629 --> 00:44:35,130
The current thinking is to use

684
00:44:35,214 --> 00:44:37,841
the lunar-module
descent-propulsion system,

685
00:44:37,925 --> 00:44:39,426
the big engine of the LM,

686
00:44:40,135 --> 00:44:43,889
to propel the entire spacecraft stack

687
00:44:44,390 --> 00:44:47,559
to a higher velocity
as they go around behind the moon

688
00:44:48,143 --> 00:44:50,562
to come back to Earth a day earlier.

689
00:44:51,980 --> 00:44:54,608
Which will see them rounding the moon

690
00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:57,403
at about 9:00 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time tonight,

691
00:44:57,486 --> 00:45:01,407
and then a burn will be done to speed up
their return toward the Earth.

692
00:45:01,907 --> 00:45:04,952
By putting an extra little burst
into the system, you cut off a day,

693
00:45:05,035 --> 00:45:08,163
and that day may be, literally,
a life-and-death matter.

694
00:45:11,208 --> 00:45:12,960
[Marilyn] Hello. What a nightmare.

695
00:45:13,043 --> 00:45:17,256
[man] Well, the plan right now
is to take about an 800-foot burn here.

696
00:45:17,339 --> 00:45:18,340
[Marilyn] Yeah.

697
00:45:19,049 --> 00:45:21,677
So, uh, you all keep me posted, okay?

698
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,347
[Susan] Uh… My mother just did not want me
to know what was going on,

699
00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:28,809
and, um, I remember going to school.

700
00:45:28,892 --> 00:45:30,936
Everybody was coming up to me,
all these kids.

701
00:45:31,019 --> 00:45:33,605
You know, "Are they gonna come back?
Are they gonna come back?"

702
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:37,234
A boy came up to me,
and he said, "I am so sorry

703
00:45:37,317 --> 00:45:39,027
that your father's going to die."

704
00:45:40,654 --> 00:45:43,741
I had to leave. I had to go home.
I couldn't stay at school.

705
00:45:45,159 --> 00:45:47,161
[somber music playing]

706
00:45:51,331 --> 00:45:54,334
All of my mother's good friends
were all downstairs,

707
00:45:54,877 --> 00:45:56,295
around our coffee table,

708
00:45:56,378 --> 00:45:58,672
and Father Raish
from our church was there.

709
00:45:59,173 --> 00:46:00,799
He was administering communion.

710
00:46:05,095 --> 00:46:10,184
And, um… I ran past all these women,
slammed the door, and ran out,

711
00:46:10,893 --> 00:46:12,519
and my mother came out after me.

712
00:46:13,896 --> 00:46:16,064
She was crying, and she said to me, um,

713
00:46:16,774 --> 00:46:19,109
"They are going to figure out
how to get back."

714
00:46:19,193 --> 00:46:22,905
"Between them and Mission Control,
they will figure out a way to get back."

715
00:46:28,535 --> 00:46:30,829
[Jim] We must be getting
pretty close to the moon.

716
00:46:36,293 --> 00:46:38,295
[unsettling music playing]

717
00:46:52,559 --> 00:46:56,522
[controller] Apollo 13
now 421 nautical miles above the moon.

718
00:47:03,821 --> 00:47:04,863
[Jim] Uh, Houston?

719
00:47:06,406 --> 00:47:08,283
-[beep]
-[controller] Go ahead, Aquarius.

720
00:47:08,367 --> 00:47:10,744
[Jim] We're in the shadow of the moon now.

721
00:47:14,706 --> 00:47:16,959
The sun is just about set,
as far as I can see,

722
00:47:17,042 --> 00:47:19,670
and the stars are all comin' out.

723
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:29,721
Man, look at those stars.

724
00:47:31,932 --> 00:47:33,934
[dreamy music playing]

725
00:47:42,901 --> 00:47:45,487
[Swigert] I don't think people realize
that, uh,

726
00:47:45,571 --> 00:47:47,573
there is no night out in space.

727
00:47:53,453 --> 00:47:55,247
It's daylight 24 hours a day,

728
00:47:55,330 --> 00:47:58,500
simply because there's nothing
to come between you and the sun.

729
00:48:04,089 --> 00:48:05,799
The first time you see night again

730
00:48:05,883 --> 00:48:08,010
is when you go
into the shadow of the moon.

731
00:48:13,515 --> 00:48:18,687
And I think that the darkness there,
after three days of sunlight,

732
00:48:19,354 --> 00:48:23,275
uh, makes the stars, uh…
exceedingly brilliant.

733
00:48:30,532 --> 00:48:34,411
[newsreader] Good evening, everybody.
In the bleak, black silence of space,

734
00:48:35,203 --> 00:48:36,955
a real cliff-hanger.

735
00:48:37,039 --> 00:48:41,460
The crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft
swinging around the moon,

736
00:48:41,543 --> 00:48:43,962
attempting to limp home as best it can.

737
00:48:44,046 --> 00:48:47,132
Water, oxygen, and power
all happen to be in short supply

738
00:48:47,215 --> 00:48:49,176
with nearly three days yet to go.

739
00:49:09,905 --> 00:49:14,034
[controller] We show one hour,
seven minutes away from time of burn.

740
00:49:17,162 --> 00:49:20,290
We were saying,
"Wow, look at that. Look at that."

741
00:49:22,793 --> 00:49:24,753
[eerie music playing]

742
00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:28,256
[Haise] The ruggedness.

743
00:49:29,091 --> 00:49:30,634
Really chewed up.

744
00:49:30,717 --> 00:49:34,054
A very, uh… unfriendly,
bizarre-lookin' place,

745
00:49:35,013 --> 00:49:39,017
unlike anything, you know, we look at
as a place we'd wanna be.

746
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,691
[Jim] I can even see Mount Marilyn
from here.

747
00:49:53,865 --> 00:49:55,867
[epic music playing]

748
00:50:07,087 --> 00:50:10,757
Bein' out there,
you saw the Earth as it truly is.

749
00:50:11,925 --> 00:50:15,137
Just a small planet.
It was very beautiful.

750
00:50:17,389 --> 00:50:21,852
If you hold up your thumb at arm's length,
you could blot it out completely.

751
00:50:27,232 --> 00:50:30,318
And you begin to think,
"Hey, everything that I know,

752
00:50:31,236 --> 00:50:35,407
my family and my friends,
it's all down there on that little thing."

753
00:50:46,376 --> 00:50:49,713
[Jim] You take your thumb away,
and you say, "I've gotta get back there."

754
00:50:54,384 --> 00:50:56,553
[Jim over radio] Let's get the cameras
squared away.

755
00:50:56,636 --> 00:50:58,096
Let's get all set to burn.

756
00:50:58,597 --> 00:51:00,098
We got one chance now.

757
00:51:01,892 --> 00:51:06,396
[controller] Our countdown clock
shows 49 minutes from time of burn.

758
00:51:07,397 --> 00:51:09,733
[reporter] The world press
almost was caught napping

759
00:51:09,816 --> 00:51:11,943
during the recent crisis aboard Apollo 13.

760
00:51:12,861 --> 00:51:15,197
But then, suddenly, things changed.

761
00:51:15,697 --> 00:51:18,658
Now the story is being heard
in every language.

762
00:51:20,660 --> 00:51:23,163
One reporter actually missed the crisis,

763
00:51:23,246 --> 00:51:26,917
and on Monday afternoon he got tired
of covering a routine space flight,

764
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,461
so he left and went to Mexico
for a brief vacation.

765
00:51:29,544 --> 00:51:32,756
He came back,
walked into the press room, and asked,

766
00:51:32,839 --> 00:51:33,924
"Did I miss anything?"

767
00:51:37,511 --> 00:51:39,429
[man 1] Peter, pass me the model, mate.

768
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:42,849
-That model.
-[woman] Thirty-seven!

769
00:51:42,933 --> 00:51:44,601
Right, take four!

770
00:51:46,103 --> 00:51:48,522
And at the moment, from Apollo 13,

771
00:51:48,605 --> 00:51:50,482
temporary silence as the crew get on

772
00:51:50,565 --> 00:51:53,235
with concentrating on
some of their final preparations

773
00:51:53,318 --> 00:51:56,530
for the burn that will bring them back…
back home to Earth.

774
00:51:56,613 --> 00:52:01,618
First of all, the only engine
that is working is that one there.

775
00:52:01,701 --> 00:52:04,162
The lunar-module descent engine.

776
00:52:04,246 --> 00:52:07,874
The LM's descent-engine system
that should've landed them on the moon

777
00:52:07,958 --> 00:52:10,293
is being utilized to speed up the return

778
00:52:10,377 --> 00:52:13,380
to guarantee that they don't run out
of electrical power.

779
00:52:13,922 --> 00:52:15,757
[man 2] The thing
we have to be cautious about

780
00:52:15,841 --> 00:52:20,345
is that they have not ever planned
to use these systems

781
00:52:20,428 --> 00:52:21,596
to do these maneuvers.

782
00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:27,519
[controller 1] If the engine shuts down
for some reason during the burn…

783
00:52:28,854 --> 00:52:30,981
[controller 2] Everybody feels
that it will work.

784
00:52:31,606 --> 00:52:33,608
[hopeful music playing]

785
00:52:34,818 --> 00:52:39,072
We have these two spacecrafts
that weren't meant to be bolted together

786
00:52:39,156 --> 00:52:40,657
and flown this way.

787
00:52:40,740 --> 00:52:42,534
[reporter] The result, if successful,

788
00:52:42,617 --> 00:52:45,871
a vital improvement
in that narrow margin of safety.

789
00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:49,374
I believe
that the go/no-go decision is due

790
00:52:49,916 --> 00:52:53,253
any second now
from Flight Director Gene Kranz.

791
00:52:54,212 --> 00:52:56,631
[Kranz] All flight controllers,
I'm comin' around the horn.

792
00:52:56,715 --> 00:52:58,175
Go/no-go for the burn.

793
00:52:58,258 --> 00:52:59,634
-RETRO?
-Go, Flight.

794
00:52:59,718 --> 00:53:00,594
-GUIDO?
-Go.

795
00:53:00,677 --> 00:53:01,636
-Guidance?
-Go.

796
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:02,596
-Control?
-Go.

797
00:53:02,679 --> 00:53:03,555
-TELMU?
-Go.

798
00:53:03,638 --> 00:53:04,472
Okay.

799
00:53:08,977 --> 00:53:11,188
CAPCOM, we're go for the burn.

800
00:53:11,271 --> 00:53:13,190
Com, the computer's his.

801
00:53:13,940 --> 00:53:15,025
Ten seconds to go.

802
00:53:15,525 --> 00:53:17,068
[dramatic music playing]

803
00:53:18,570 --> 00:53:20,071
[controller] Aquarius, Houston. Over.

804
00:53:21,198 --> 00:53:22,532
[Jim] Go ahead, Houston.

805
00:53:22,616 --> 00:53:25,619
[controller] Jim, you are go
for the burn. Go for the burn.

806
00:53:27,037 --> 00:53:29,122
[Jim] Roger. Understand. Go for the burn.

807
00:53:29,873 --> 00:53:31,625
We were down to our last engine.

808
00:53:32,584 --> 00:53:34,836
If this thing doesn't work,
we're in real trouble.

809
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:36,922
[clunking]

810
00:53:37,464 --> 00:53:39,382
[whooshing]

811
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:42,594
-We have ignition.
-[Jim] Rodge.

812
00:53:43,178 --> 00:53:44,137
[BBC man] Engines on.

813
00:53:46,139 --> 00:53:47,390
[beeping]

814
00:53:49,184 --> 00:53:50,518
[Jim] We're burning 40%.

815
00:53:54,231 --> 00:53:55,523
[man] Is it stable, Control?

816
00:53:56,816 --> 00:53:58,443
-Looks good now.
-[man] Roger.

817
00:54:02,030 --> 00:54:04,032
[low-pitched grinding]

818
00:54:07,661 --> 00:54:08,745
[Jim] 100%.

819
00:54:08,828 --> 00:54:11,164
-[controller 1] Roger.
-[controller 2] Throttle up at 100%.

820
00:54:12,666 --> 00:54:14,334
[whooshing]

821
00:54:20,257 --> 00:54:22,259
[beeping]

822
00:54:24,386 --> 00:54:27,389
[controller] Coming up on three minutes
into the burn.

823
00:54:29,599 --> 00:54:31,101
How you lookin', Guidance?

824
00:54:32,185 --> 00:54:34,271
[controller] That TCP's a little bit high.

825
00:54:34,771 --> 00:54:35,897
Hot engine.

826
00:54:40,235 --> 00:54:42,445
[beeping]

827
00:54:42,529 --> 00:54:44,239
Watch it real close.

828
00:54:49,119 --> 00:54:52,122
CAPCOM, reminder, descent reg 1 off.

829
00:54:52,622 --> 00:54:54,374
Descent reg 1 off, sir.

830
00:54:56,626 --> 00:54:57,961
[controller] Ten seconds to go.

831
00:55:00,463 --> 00:55:02,465
[frenetic music playing]

832
00:55:12,934 --> 00:55:14,185
[controller] Shutdown.

833
00:55:14,269 --> 00:55:16,271
[music fades]

834
00:55:19,816 --> 00:55:22,819
[controller 1] I'd say
that was a good burn. Good burn, Aquarius.

835
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,573
[controller 2] Commander Jim Lovell
reporting shutdown.

836
00:55:26,656 --> 00:55:30,285
Engine is off. We're at 79 hours,
32 minutes into the flight.

837
00:55:32,871 --> 00:55:35,040
[BBC man 1] Well,
that was a pretty successful burn.

838
00:55:35,123 --> 00:55:37,208
[BBC man 2] I must say,
I was very impressed

839
00:55:37,292 --> 00:55:38,835
by the coolness of the whole procedure,

840
00:55:38,918 --> 00:55:42,881
particularly from Mission Control
and also from the spacecraft as well.

841
00:55:47,218 --> 00:55:48,720
[controller] Good burn, Aquarius.

842
00:55:49,596 --> 00:55:51,973
[Jim] Roger. Now we wanna power down
as soon as possible.

843
00:55:52,057 --> 00:55:53,808
-[controller] Roger. Understand.
-[beep]

844
00:55:54,976 --> 00:55:58,188
[BBC man 1] Lovell asking there
if he can turn off most of the instruments

845
00:55:58,271 --> 00:56:02,192
as soon as possible, in order to conserve
that vital electrical power.

846
00:56:03,276 --> 00:56:05,570
After the burn was over,

847
00:56:05,653 --> 00:56:08,490
we knew we were in the ballpark
for getting the crew back home,

848
00:56:08,573 --> 00:56:10,450
but we didn't know for sure.

849
00:56:13,244 --> 00:56:14,871
[clicking]

850
00:56:14,954 --> 00:56:17,248
[controller] The target level
during the power-down

851
00:56:17,332 --> 00:56:19,084
is to keep it to at least 14 amps.

852
00:56:19,876 --> 00:56:22,128
A couple of lightbulbs' worth of power.

853
00:56:32,180 --> 00:56:34,516
[Lunney] We've got a lot of trade-offs
to make here.

854
00:56:34,599 --> 00:56:36,434
-[beep]
-Turn the fans and heaters off.

855
00:56:37,435 --> 00:56:39,229
[clicking]

856
00:56:51,866 --> 00:56:54,369
-[low rumbling]
-[stark music playing]

857
00:57:10,301 --> 00:57:15,807
It was quiet. It was, uh… a time
when you really started to think.

858
00:57:24,941 --> 00:57:26,943
[gentle music playing]

859
00:57:32,824 --> 00:57:34,075
[Jim] Very tough moment.

860
00:57:36,953 --> 00:57:40,748
Second time I had been to the moon
and, uh, so close.

861
00:57:45,587 --> 00:57:48,882
This was the last chance
that, uh… that I'd have to be up here.

862
00:57:55,889 --> 00:57:59,559
[Cronkite] So the moon-landing portion
of the Apollo 13 mission

863
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,104
cancelled, scrubbed, and forgotten.

864
00:58:05,982 --> 00:58:09,152
The plan will be to keep the power down.

865
00:58:09,235 --> 00:58:14,032
They'll simply drift in flight
until Friday morning.

866
00:58:15,617 --> 00:58:17,619
[siren wailing]

867
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:26,044
[reporter] Apollo 13
is still walking a tightrope

868
00:58:26,127 --> 00:58:27,462
far out in space.

869
00:58:27,545 --> 00:58:29,672
Here at the Command Spacecraft Center
today,

870
00:58:29,756 --> 00:58:32,133
they took one whole shift
of flight controllers

871
00:58:32,217 --> 00:58:33,676
out of Mission Control

872
00:58:33,760 --> 00:58:37,889
and set them to thinking up ways
to get around the problems still ahead.

873
00:58:39,224 --> 00:58:42,018
One of these problems
involves the air they breathe.

874
00:58:42,519 --> 00:58:44,312
The crew was suffocating.

875
00:58:44,395 --> 00:58:47,148
Their breathing had poisoned
the atmosphere in the spacecraft

876
00:58:47,232 --> 00:58:48,733
with carbon dioxide.

877
00:58:50,693 --> 00:58:54,948
They have set up a jury-rigged system
of cleaning the air of carbon monoxide.

878
00:58:59,536 --> 00:59:02,747
[controller] Uh, we recommend
that you either use a wet wipe,

879
00:59:02,830 --> 00:59:06,167
or cut off a piece of a sock
and stuff it in there,

880
00:59:06,251 --> 00:59:09,629
or you can probably even crumple up
some tape and use that. Over.

881
00:59:10,672 --> 00:59:14,634
[reporter] While this is working,
no one is certain it will go on working.

882
00:59:15,718 --> 00:59:18,846
[Cronkite] Will they last
the two and a half days

883
00:59:18,930 --> 00:59:21,057
till they splash down in the Pacific?

884
00:59:23,643 --> 00:59:26,354
[reporter] But more trouble
could lie ahead for the astronauts.

885
00:59:27,188 --> 00:59:30,066
The latest report says
a tropical storm named Helen

886
00:59:30,149 --> 00:59:34,070
is inching closer towards
the Pacific landing site and building up.

887
00:59:37,031 --> 00:59:39,993
[Bergman] So that's the way we stand
in this Apollo 13 flight.

888
00:59:40,076 --> 00:59:43,079
A flight that, almost uniquely,
seems to have been jinxed

889
00:59:43,162 --> 00:59:44,706
from the very beginning.

890
00:59:44,789 --> 00:59:47,333
And we're not out of the woods yet,
not by a long shot.

891
00:59:50,295 --> 00:59:52,338
[Jim] But, uh… we were still alive.

892
00:59:54,465 --> 00:59:56,467
We'd better just keep on charging.

893
01:00:09,397 --> 01:00:11,399
[disturbing music playing]

894
01:00:23,119 --> 01:00:27,165
[Jim] Another note of interest
to the crew-systems people.

895
01:00:27,749 --> 01:00:31,169
Tell them they don't have to bother
putting a refrigerator on board.

896
01:00:31,252 --> 01:00:34,589
I just brought out some hot dogs,
and they're practically frozen.

897
01:00:37,133 --> 01:00:39,052
[controller] Okay, we copy that, Jim.

898
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:42,972
[reporter] It appears
to be a little chilly

899
01:00:43,056 --> 01:00:45,558
inside the command-module cabin
at the present time.

900
01:00:45,642 --> 01:00:47,435
We have a reading of 38 degrees.

901
01:00:52,398 --> 01:00:53,983
It was really gettin' cold.

902
01:00:55,026 --> 01:00:57,945
The water was dripping
off the walls and the windows.

903
01:00:59,906 --> 01:01:02,784
We didn't have
the proper clothes for warmth.

904
01:01:11,834 --> 01:01:15,588
[controller] Is anybody sleeping
in the command module right now, Jim?

905
01:01:17,924 --> 01:01:20,259
[Jim] Negative, Joe.
It's just too cold in there,

906
01:01:20,343 --> 01:01:22,345
but I have got Fred
stashed over here to my left.

907
01:01:27,975 --> 01:01:31,979
Thirty-eight is mighty cold.
It's a lot colder than it was last night.

908
01:01:32,563 --> 01:01:34,857
[Marilyn] Has Jim gone to bed yet at all,
do you know?

909
01:01:34,941 --> 01:01:36,859
-[Ken] No, uh…
-[Marilyn] Is he still up?

910
01:01:36,943 --> 01:01:39,195
[Ken] Let me tell you
what this visual is here.

911
01:01:39,278 --> 01:01:40,947
Jim wasn't sleeping.

912
01:01:42,407 --> 01:01:44,659
Well, the doctors thought
maybe I could come over

913
01:01:44,742 --> 01:01:48,371
and talk Jim into getting some rest
because he never did go to sleep.

914
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,

915
01:01:54,585 --> 01:01:55,586
and I would probably…

916
01:01:55,670 --> 01:01:58,464
I'd probably break down
in front of the world and everyone.

917
01:02:02,093 --> 01:02:03,428
I just couldn't do it.

918
01:02:04,637 --> 01:02:07,140
Because that would've been difficult
for him too.

919
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,642
[ethereal music playing]

920
01:02:28,453 --> 01:02:30,580
[Jim] Although we thought of our families,

921
01:02:30,663 --> 01:02:33,583
uh… we didn't talk about them
among ourselves.

922
01:02:34,250 --> 01:02:36,252
[distant echoing laughter]

923
01:02:38,796 --> 01:02:43,217
[Jim] We knew that they were praying
for us, but we were busy getting home

924
01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:45,511
so that they wouldn't
have to worry about us.

925
01:02:52,894 --> 01:02:55,688
[Lousma] Everything's running real smooth
over in Timber Cove, Jim.

926
01:03:02,487 --> 01:03:04,447
-[Jim] That sounds pretty good.
-[beep]

927
01:03:13,998 --> 01:03:16,667
[reporter] President Nixon drove
through the rain from the White House

928
01:03:16,751 --> 01:03:19,754
to the Goddard Space Flight Center
to be kept up to date on the mission.

929
01:03:19,837 --> 01:03:22,381
A White House spokesman said
the president was concerned

930
01:03:22,465 --> 01:03:25,301
and hopeful
that the astronauts would return safely.

931
01:03:30,264 --> 01:03:33,935
[controller] Now, on that maneuver
that we transferred to the manual column,

932
01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:37,772
now, you got that DPS, uh… thrust model

933
01:03:37,855 --> 01:03:40,733
set to 10%
all the way through the burn, didn't you?

934
01:03:40,817 --> 01:03:41,651
[Jim] Yeah.

935
01:03:42,318 --> 01:03:46,072
Okay. We went back and reconfigured
the target table, didn't we?

936
01:03:46,697 --> 01:03:50,117
There was something
causing the vehicle to drift a little bit.

937
01:03:55,873 --> 01:03:58,835
[controller] Best data we've got now,
Flight, you'd have to make the maneuver

938
01:03:58,918 --> 01:04:01,838
because you're not in the corridor.
You're not reentering at the moment.

939
01:04:04,048 --> 01:04:06,926
For some reason,
our trajectory's shallowing out.

940
01:04:08,636 --> 01:04:10,972
We got a quarter
we have to come in through,

941
01:04:11,055 --> 01:04:13,349
and it's only about two,
two and a half degrees wide,

942
01:04:13,432 --> 01:04:16,435
and if you come in too shallow,
we skip off the Earth's atmosphere.

943
01:04:17,103 --> 01:04:19,397
We'd go completely past the Earth.

944
01:04:20,898 --> 01:04:22,567
We'd come back to Earth someday,

945
01:04:22,650 --> 01:04:25,361
but the crew of the spacecraft
would be long gone.

946
01:04:26,821 --> 01:04:29,323
What is happening
that we don't understand?

947
01:04:30,741 --> 01:04:32,493
Why, why, why, why, why?

948
01:04:34,495 --> 01:04:35,621
Uh, this bothered me.

949
01:04:37,832 --> 01:04:40,585
-[beep]
-[controller] Uh, Jim? Uh…

950
01:04:41,294 --> 01:04:44,922
The situation is that, at the moment,
we're a little bit shallow.

951
01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:49,635
[Jim] We're shallow?

952
01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:55,766
[Swigert] That's the important thing.

953
01:04:57,393 --> 01:05:00,438
[reporter] The Apollo 13 spacecraft
is off course.

954
01:05:00,521 --> 01:05:03,524
If the astronauts cannot make
the correction in their flight path,

955
01:05:03,608 --> 01:05:06,027
the three Americans will die in space.

956
01:05:06,861 --> 01:05:08,779
If they didn't make it
through this window,

957
01:05:08,863 --> 01:05:10,656
they would skip off into space,

958
01:05:10,740 --> 01:05:13,534
and they would just go around
until they ran out of oxygen.

959
01:05:14,243 --> 01:05:16,287
And I would picture him like that.

960
01:05:17,997 --> 01:05:20,791
You know, how scary it would be,
what he'd be thinking.

961
01:05:23,502 --> 01:05:27,214
[Lousma] Okay, Jim, to come in
a little more steeply,

962
01:05:27,298 --> 01:05:29,342
it's going to be a manual burn.

963
01:05:30,343 --> 01:05:31,427
[Jim] A manual?

964
01:05:32,386 --> 01:05:35,640
Sounds like something
that we came up with on Apollo 8.

965
01:05:36,891 --> 01:05:39,727
[Lousma] Everybody wondered
if you'd remember that. By golly, you did.

966
01:05:40,686 --> 01:05:42,980
[Jim] Although I thought
I'd never have to use it.

967
01:05:44,398 --> 01:05:46,484
[indistinct]

968
01:05:46,567 --> 01:05:47,526
[radio interference]

969
01:05:47,610 --> 01:05:49,820
[Haise] Another burn
that's never been done.

970
01:05:49,904 --> 01:05:51,948
[Jim] So we had to make another burn…

971
01:05:54,075 --> 01:05:57,495
but our computer was down.
Our guidance system wasn't working.

972
01:05:57,578 --> 01:05:59,121
Our autopilot was off.

973
01:06:00,456 --> 01:06:01,916
We had to do it manually.

974
01:06:02,875 --> 01:06:04,919
We had to use the Earth as a target,

975
01:06:05,711 --> 01:06:07,713
line it up with a little gun sight
that we had

976
01:06:07,797 --> 01:06:09,548
in the window of the lunar module.

977
01:06:10,508 --> 01:06:12,510
[man] Earth, uh… in the window.

978
01:06:13,636 --> 01:06:16,013
[Jim] I know that when that engine goes on

979
01:06:16,097 --> 01:06:19,934
that I'll never be able to keep
the Earth in the window by myself.

980
01:06:20,893 --> 01:06:23,688
"Fred, keep the Earth
from going back and forth too much."

981
01:06:24,230 --> 01:06:26,732
"I'll keep the Earth
from going up and down too much."

982
01:06:27,942 --> 01:06:29,819
"Jack, time it with your wristwatch."

983
01:06:30,903 --> 01:06:33,531
[controller] Burn time of 14 seconds.

984
01:06:35,282 --> 01:06:36,492
One minute away now.

985
01:06:39,954 --> 01:06:42,206
[Bergman] This maneuver has to work.

986
01:06:44,208 --> 01:06:46,752
[Jim] We're flying right now
by the seat of our pants.

987
01:06:47,753 --> 01:06:49,005
[Haise] I'm ready now.

988
01:06:52,591 --> 01:06:54,218
[controller] Ten seconds away now.

989
01:06:54,301 --> 01:06:56,303
[rapid ticking]

990
01:07:00,641 --> 01:07:01,475
[clunk]

991
01:07:01,559 --> 01:07:03,477
[booming]

992
01:07:03,978 --> 01:07:07,356
[controller] Ignition.
We're burning. Copy that, Charlie.

993
01:07:12,570 --> 01:07:14,155
[controller] Thrust looks good.

994
01:07:14,989 --> 01:07:17,033
[intense music playing]

995
01:07:17,533 --> 01:07:19,535
-[whooshing]
-[rattling]

996
01:07:20,661 --> 01:07:22,997
[controller 1] 7.6 feet per second.

997
01:07:23,706 --> 01:07:25,082
[controller 2] How do we get that?

998
01:07:36,052 --> 01:07:38,512
-[Lousma] Stop the engine.
-[controller] Shut down.

999
01:07:38,596 --> 01:07:40,806
[music fades to suspenseful chord]

1000
01:07:47,646 --> 01:07:48,981
[controller 1] Okay, now.

1001
01:07:49,940 --> 01:07:51,358
[controller 2] Good show.

1002
01:07:57,782 --> 01:08:02,536
A real kind of a… a true coordinated
hodge-podge maneuver there.

1003
01:08:05,414 --> 01:08:07,416
[peaceful music playing]

1004
01:08:31,607 --> 01:08:35,569
[newsreader] So the three astronauts
head toward home across a desert of space,

1005
01:08:36,112 --> 01:08:38,197
their oxygen and water running low.

1006
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:47,081
Perhaps this story
will be seen one day as a parable.

1007
01:08:49,291 --> 01:08:51,669
This Earth is also a spinning spaceship.

1008
01:08:56,715 --> 01:08:58,259
All of us are astronauts.

1009
01:08:59,885 --> 01:09:02,805
And our oxygen and water
are also diminishing.

1010
01:09:04,849 --> 01:09:06,809
But we have no place to go.

1011
01:09:10,062 --> 01:09:11,689
[controller] Is it snowing in there yet?

1012
01:09:13,149 --> 01:09:14,358
[Haise] Is it what?

1013
01:09:15,568 --> 01:09:16,527
Oh, snowing.

1014
01:09:19,029 --> 01:09:20,823
No, uh… No, not quite.

1015
01:09:22,950 --> 01:09:25,286
[controller] You'll have some time
on the beach to thaw out

1016
01:09:25,369 --> 01:09:26,745
after this experience.

1017
01:09:29,165 --> 01:09:31,167
-[Haise] Hey, that sounds great.
-[beep]

1018
01:09:33,627 --> 01:09:37,047
We were really worried
about, uh, crew condition here.

1019
01:09:39,550 --> 01:09:42,636
Freddo, Fred Haise had developed
a high body temperature,

1020
01:09:42,720 --> 01:09:46,807
about 104 degrees, severely dehydrated,
bad urinary infection.

1021
01:09:47,433 --> 01:09:50,394
We realized how desperate it was
on board the spacecraft.

1022
01:09:54,815 --> 01:09:58,444
[controller] The entry weather tomorrow
is lookin' better all the time.

1023
01:10:00,279 --> 01:10:02,281
Hang in there. It won't be long now.

1024
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,871
[reporter] Less than 14 hours away
from its scheduled return,

1025
01:10:08,954 --> 01:10:13,167
the astronauts must feel that each hour
is made up of more than 60 minutes.

1026
01:10:15,502 --> 01:10:19,048
[Ken] We think we've got all
the little surprises ironed out for you.

1027
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:22,718
[Swigert] I hope so
because tomorrow is examination time.

1028
01:10:34,146 --> 01:10:36,148
[suspenseful music playing]

1029
01:10:49,370 --> 01:10:50,871
[Cronkite] Today, around the world,

1030
01:10:50,955 --> 01:10:54,458
there were expressions of hope
that the crew's return will be safe.

1031
01:10:56,418 --> 01:10:59,964
The entire world was following
the return of Apollo 13.

1032
01:11:01,548 --> 01:11:06,136
And in almost every city, people prayed
for the lives of the spacemen.

1033
01:11:08,889 --> 01:11:12,601
Ten thousand joined Pope Paul
in prayer at St Peter's Basilica.

1034
01:11:14,561 --> 01:11:17,773
I never realized that something like this
would have an impact

1035
01:11:17,856 --> 01:11:19,358
on the world like it did.

1036
01:11:21,735 --> 01:11:23,320
[Cronkite] Never have so many people

1037
01:11:23,404 --> 01:11:26,824
prayed at the same time for the safety
of a single operation

1038
01:11:26,907 --> 01:11:28,659
such as this.

1039
01:11:33,038 --> 01:11:34,707
Thousands who are gathered

1040
01:11:34,790 --> 01:11:37,626
in Grand Central Station
here in New York City.

1041
01:11:38,961 --> 01:11:42,339
[reporter] Walter, even though
your reports and others that they've heard

1042
01:11:42,423 --> 01:11:43,590
are relatively confident,

1043
01:11:43,674 --> 01:11:48,137
I think there still is a sense
of foreboding about this flight.

1044
01:11:48,220 --> 01:11:50,306
I think they need a lotta luck
and a lotta prayers,

1045
01:11:50,389 --> 01:11:51,890
and we'll bring them home safely.

1046
01:11:51,974 --> 01:11:53,976
[tense music playing]

1047
01:12:05,237 --> 01:12:06,780
[Jim] I'm lookin' out the window now,

1048
01:12:06,864 --> 01:12:09,992
and that Earth is whistlin' in
like a high-speed freight train.

1049
01:12:12,411 --> 01:12:16,165
This all now had to happen by the clock.
There was no back-out.

1050
01:12:17,708 --> 01:12:18,917
We were comin' home.

1051
01:12:21,420 --> 01:12:25,591
It's a cruel paradox that the nearer
they come to the safety of the Earth,

1052
01:12:25,674 --> 01:12:29,511
the nearer, too, comes the moment
of perhaps the greatest danger.

1053
01:12:29,595 --> 01:12:32,348
The reentry sequence
is a very tricky maneuver,

1054
01:12:32,431 --> 01:12:34,725
quite different
from the normal return to Earth.

1055
01:12:34,808 --> 01:12:37,895
[Kranz] We have the lunar module.
That's our lifeboat.

1056
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:43,734
We have a dead service module
where the explosion occurred.

1057
01:12:43,817 --> 01:12:45,652
We have the command module,

1058
01:12:45,736 --> 01:12:48,781
which is our reentry vehicle
but with limited power.

1059
01:12:49,281 --> 01:12:51,408
So we gotta separate all of these pieces

1060
01:12:51,492 --> 01:12:54,161
so we can bring this crew
back through the atmosphere.

1061
01:12:55,496 --> 01:12:57,706
[reporter] For the first time
since the accident,

1062
01:12:57,790 --> 01:13:00,584
the command module
will be operating on its own.

1063
01:13:01,752 --> 01:13:03,629
The command module's heat shield

1064
01:13:03,712 --> 01:13:06,507
will absorb
the 5,000-degree heat of reentry.

1065
01:13:09,927 --> 01:13:13,430
[Kranz] First of all, the crew
had to power up the command module.

1066
01:13:15,015 --> 01:13:15,849
Okay.

1067
01:13:16,475 --> 01:13:19,728
We powered it down,
not necessarily gracefully.

1068
01:13:19,812 --> 01:13:22,606
We kind of did
what we had to do fairly quickly,

1069
01:13:22,689 --> 01:13:26,860
and then it spent four days
in near freezer-like conditions.

1070
01:13:28,654 --> 01:13:31,281
Just a lot of unknowns
about how it was gonna behave.

1071
01:13:31,824 --> 01:13:34,159
[Ken] Hello, Aquarius. Houston.
How do you read?

1072
01:13:34,243 --> 01:13:35,702
[Swigert] Okay, very good, Ken.

1073
01:13:35,786 --> 01:13:38,747
Okay, uh… let me, uh,
take it from the top.

1074
01:13:39,248 --> 01:13:42,042
We're starting off with a set of timeline…

1075
01:13:42,126 --> 01:13:45,212
[reporter 1] Astronaut Fred Haise
has been going through a long checklist

1076
01:13:45,295 --> 01:13:46,547
with Mission Control.

1077
01:13:46,630 --> 01:13:49,883
[Ken] …normal entry checklist.
There will be some…

1078
01:13:49,967 --> 01:13:53,637
[reporter 2] In two hours, all three men
have to be inside the command module

1079
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:57,266
and have to be going into reentry,
so this is critical now.

1080
01:13:58,642 --> 01:14:00,227
[controller] Aquarius. Houston.

1081
01:14:01,311 --> 01:14:02,146
[Jim] Go ahead.

1082
01:14:03,188 --> 01:14:06,024
[controller] You're go to start
powering up the command module.

1083
01:14:06,608 --> 01:14:08,694
[Jim] Jack's entering
the command module now.

1084
01:14:08,777 --> 01:14:10,529
-[controller] Okay, Jim.
-[beep]

1085
01:14:23,959 --> 01:14:25,878
Water was collecting everywhere.

1086
01:14:28,130 --> 01:14:31,175
We had to get out a towel
to wipe off the instrument panel

1087
01:14:31,258 --> 01:14:32,426
to see the instruments.

1088
01:14:38,807 --> 01:14:40,184
[indistinct]

1089
01:14:40,267 --> 01:14:41,935
[Kranz] Okay, flight controllers.

1090
01:14:42,019 --> 01:14:43,937
Let's keep it quiet, monitor the loops

1091
01:14:44,021 --> 01:14:46,398
in case they have any problems
in power transfer.

1092
01:14:47,983 --> 01:14:49,151
[controller] Okay, press on.

1093
01:14:51,153 --> 01:14:54,490
We started powering up
the command-module systems,

1094
01:14:54,573 --> 01:14:55,908
system by system.

1095
01:14:57,451 --> 01:15:02,080
Starting at one row,
pushing six, and stop for a moment.

1096
01:15:03,874 --> 01:15:07,336
Wait to see
if we smelled any insulation burning.

1097
01:15:07,836 --> 01:15:09,838
[unsettling music playing]

1098
01:15:17,095 --> 01:15:19,097
[clicking, rattling]

1099
01:15:26,230 --> 01:15:28,232
[beeping]

1100
01:15:38,367 --> 01:15:40,244
[controller] Beautiful.
Looks good, Flight.

1101
01:15:40,744 --> 01:15:43,163
[Jim] Houston. Aquarius.
Odyssey is trying to call.

1102
01:15:43,247 --> 01:15:44,081
Do you read 'em?

1103
01:15:47,709 --> 01:15:49,211
-[beep]
-Odyssey. Houston, over.

1104
01:15:49,294 --> 01:15:50,379
-[beep]
-[radio static]

1105
01:15:50,963 --> 01:15:54,007
-[Swigert] How do you read?
-[controller] Okay, read you, babe.

1106
01:15:54,758 --> 01:15:56,802
You're looking good
on the ground, Odyssey.

1107
01:15:59,596 --> 01:16:02,015
-[Jim] Uh, Ken, this is Jim.
-[Ken] Yes, sir.

1108
01:16:02,099 --> 01:16:05,185
-[Jim] Appreciate the work you've done.
-[Ken] Roger.

1109
01:16:05,769 --> 01:16:08,689
Of course, we'll be watching you
and anything we can do for you.

1110
01:16:08,772 --> 01:16:10,274
[Jim] Hey, that'd be good, Ken.

1111
01:16:12,943 --> 01:16:15,737
They're going to be preparing
to jettison the service module.

1112
01:16:16,363 --> 01:16:19,741
We're interested in taking
some pictures of it, if we possibly can.

1113
01:16:21,076 --> 01:16:24,079
[controller] You can jettison
the service module when you're ready.

1114
01:16:25,497 --> 01:16:26,873
[Jim] Okay, sounds good.

1115
01:16:30,002 --> 01:16:32,170
Okay, I've got her, Houston.

1116
01:16:34,506 --> 01:16:37,676
And there's one whole side
of that spacecraft missing!

1117
01:16:42,848 --> 01:16:47,352
The whole panel is blown out,
almost from the base to the engine.

1118
01:16:51,440 --> 01:16:52,816
[Haise] It's really a mess.

1119
01:16:55,736 --> 01:16:57,237
Man, that's unbelievable.

1120
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,285
These oxygen tanks were sitting around
under the heat shield.

1121
01:17:03,994 --> 01:17:08,165
So when they blew, it obviously had torn
the side outta the vehicle.

1122
01:17:09,499 --> 01:17:11,251
The question is what else did it do?

1123
01:17:12,002 --> 01:17:13,754
What kinda shape's the heat shield in?

1124
01:17:18,967 --> 01:17:23,597
[Bergman] That heat shield
directly was linked to the service module,

1125
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:27,142
and all panels of that service module
were blown out.

1126
01:17:27,726 --> 01:17:31,688
What condition is the heat shield in?
Their lives depend on that heat shield.

1127
01:17:33,315 --> 01:17:37,235
[controller 1] We're standing by now
for reports of jettison

1128
01:17:37,319 --> 01:17:38,654
of the lunar module.

1129
01:17:41,156 --> 01:17:43,575
This is the time
to bail out of the lifeboat.

1130
01:17:44,076 --> 01:17:46,578
[controller 2] Okay, everybody stand by
for LM final sep.

1131
01:17:47,245 --> 01:17:48,872
[reporter] There'll be
a certain nostalgia,

1132
01:17:48,955 --> 01:17:50,666
I guess, in saying goodbye to…

1133
01:17:51,166 --> 01:17:53,960
-[Jim] Okay, we are in sight.
-[controller] Stand by.

1134
01:17:57,547 --> 01:17:58,632
[Jim] LM jettison.

1135
01:17:59,299 --> 01:18:01,301
[emotional music playing]

1136
01:18:07,891 --> 01:18:11,353
You could watch it
slowly, uh, driftin' away.

1137
01:18:14,064 --> 01:18:15,482
I was sad to see it go.

1138
01:18:24,241 --> 01:18:26,660
[controller] Farewell, Aquarius,
and we thank you.

1139
01:18:34,918 --> 01:18:37,379
[BBC man 1] These men,
at certain points throughout the mission,

1140
01:18:37,462 --> 01:18:38,964
have come very close to death.

1141
01:18:39,047 --> 01:18:42,384
You cannot emphasize that enough.
They've come very close to death.

1142
01:18:42,467 --> 01:18:45,971
Now as they come down to this reentry
back into the Earth's atmosphere,

1143
01:18:46,054 --> 01:18:49,683
I wonder if we could
just take a cool, schematic look

1144
01:18:49,766 --> 01:18:52,018
at the kind of danger they're facing.

1145
01:18:53,353 --> 01:18:55,522
The spacecraft enters at 400,000 feet.

1146
01:18:55,605 --> 01:18:57,774
It then plows into the atmosphere.

1147
01:18:57,858 --> 01:19:00,402
Eighteen seconds after they arrive,
they're out of communication

1148
01:19:00,485 --> 01:19:03,238
because the atmosphere,
it cuts out radio waves.

1149
01:19:04,281 --> 01:19:07,075
And only at three minutes and 36 seconds

1150
01:19:07,159 --> 01:19:10,287
do they come out
of that communications blackout.

1151
01:19:10,370 --> 01:19:12,497
So, up until three minutes and 36 seconds,

1152
01:19:12,581 --> 01:19:14,916
we won't know
whether the heat shield has worked,

1153
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,334
whether they're still alive,

1154
01:19:16,418 --> 01:19:19,129
whether the stress
has been too much for the command module.

1155
01:19:20,046 --> 01:19:23,008
But after reentry at 25,000 miles an hour,

1156
01:19:23,508 --> 01:19:27,345
their craft hits the water
at no more than 22 miles an hour.

1157
01:19:27,429 --> 01:19:29,806
And if that's not a technological miracle,
nothing is.

1158
01:19:31,016 --> 01:19:34,436
[controller] Thirteen minutes now
from predicted time of entry.

1159
01:19:36,813 --> 01:19:41,026
Velocity now reading
35,646 feet per second.

1160
01:19:42,486 --> 01:19:43,361
Rodge.

1161
01:19:44,112 --> 01:19:47,073
[controller] Flight Director Gene Kranz
now going around the room

1162
01:19:47,157 --> 01:19:50,118
posting his flight-control team
as to status.

1163
01:19:52,370 --> 01:19:55,874
[Kranz] All flight controllers,
I'm comin' around the horn. Go/no go?

1164
01:19:55,957 --> 01:19:57,209
-RETRO?
-Go, Flight.

1165
01:19:57,292 --> 01:19:58,126
-GUIDO?
-Go.

1166
01:19:58,210 --> 01:19:59,294
-Guidance?
-Go.

1167
01:19:59,377 --> 01:20:00,295
-Control?
-Go.

1168
01:20:00,378 --> 01:20:01,338
-TELMU?
-Go.

1169
01:20:01,421 --> 01:20:02,380
-Surgeon?
-Go.

1170
01:20:02,464 --> 01:20:03,757
-INCO?
-Go, Flight.

1171
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:05,050
-AFD?
-Go.

1172
01:20:05,133 --> 01:20:05,967
Okay.

1173
01:20:06,802 --> 01:20:08,595
[controller] Odyssey. Houston, over.

1174
01:20:08,678 --> 01:20:09,930
[Swigert] Go ahead.

1175
01:20:10,013 --> 01:20:13,225
[controller] Okay, LOS in a minute
or a minute and a half.

1176
01:20:13,308 --> 01:20:15,477
-And welcome home. Over.
-[beep]

1177
01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:16,937
[Swigert] Thank you.

1178
01:20:17,020 --> 01:20:19,022
[dramatic music playing]

1179
01:20:28,156 --> 01:20:32,744
[Bergman] Apollo 13 is traveling
at more than 25,000 miles an hour.

1180
01:20:33,578 --> 01:20:35,789
It's over on the darkened side
of the Earth now,

1181
01:20:35,872 --> 01:20:39,918
descending toward that little spot
plotted out in the Pacific Ocean.

1182
01:20:45,257 --> 01:20:47,759
[Swigert] I know all of us here
want to thank you guys down there

1183
01:20:47,843 --> 01:20:49,386
for the very fine job you did.

1184
01:20:53,473 --> 01:20:56,351
[controller 1] I'll tell you,
we all had a good time doing it.

1185
01:20:59,145 --> 01:21:02,190
[controller 2] Apollo Control, Houston,
we've just had loss of signal

1186
01:21:02,274 --> 01:21:03,650
with Apollo 13.

1187
01:21:10,031 --> 01:21:11,324
We gave it our best shot.

1188
01:21:15,370 --> 01:21:16,204
Countdown.

1189
01:21:17,998 --> 01:21:20,208
[Lunney] It was
an intensely lonely period.

1190
01:21:22,961 --> 01:21:24,588
The crew's on their own,

1191
01:21:25,547 --> 01:21:27,924
and they're left
with the data that you gave 'em.

1192
01:21:29,384 --> 01:21:32,804
Each controller's going back through
everything they did during the mission

1193
01:21:32,888 --> 01:21:34,431
and, "Was I right?"

1194
01:21:36,099 --> 01:21:38,268
And that's the only question
on their mind.

1195
01:21:41,855 --> 01:21:44,733
[Lunney] We're a little shallower
than what we predicted.

1196
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:53,033
[reporter] There's very little
anybody can do, including the astronauts,

1197
01:21:53,116 --> 01:21:54,534
except wait

1198
01:21:54,618 --> 01:21:57,871
as they come through the uppermost fringes
of the Earth's atmosphere.

1199
01:21:58,788 --> 01:22:02,375
All anybody can do now…
is cross their fingers.

1200
01:22:03,460 --> 01:22:06,922
It was so quiet
that you could hear a pin drop.

1201
01:22:12,677 --> 01:22:14,512
There was nothing else for us to do.

1202
01:22:15,013 --> 01:22:17,140
Confidence has nothing to do with it now.

1203
01:22:18,433 --> 01:22:20,435
[climactic music playing]

1204
01:22:36,743 --> 01:22:38,745
[rumbling]

1205
01:22:55,387 --> 01:22:57,389
[music fades to droning note]

1206
01:23:06,648 --> 01:23:08,650
[rattling]

1207
01:23:30,046 --> 01:23:32,132
[music screeches, fades]

1208
01:23:34,050 --> 01:23:37,762
[controller 1] Apollo 13 should be
coming up on max G right now.

1209
01:23:42,100 --> 01:23:43,768
Less than 30 seconds to go.

1210
01:23:43,852 --> 01:23:47,647
We will attempt to contact Apollo 13.

1211
01:24:19,554 --> 01:24:21,556
[beeping]

1212
01:24:29,689 --> 01:24:33,234
[controller 2] Apollo 13 should be
out of blackout at this time.

1213
01:24:37,238 --> 01:24:40,784
We're standing by
for any reports of acquisition.

1214
01:24:43,286 --> 01:24:45,622
[controller 3] Odyssey, Houston.
Standing by.

1215
01:24:49,375 --> 01:24:51,294
[Kranz] Getting reports
of ARIA acquisition yet?

1216
01:24:51,377 --> 01:24:53,421
-[controller] Not at this time.
-[Kranz] Okay.

1217
01:25:05,058 --> 01:25:07,060
[beeping]

1218
01:25:09,771 --> 01:25:13,608
[reporter] The spacecraft at this moment
is lost to everyone on Earth.

1219
01:25:34,504 --> 01:25:35,797
Odyssey, Houston?

1220
01:25:38,466 --> 01:25:40,552
[Cronkite] We oughta be hearing something.

1221
01:25:41,469 --> 01:25:45,098
Shoulda been out of that blackout
a minute and 15 seconds.

1222
01:25:47,225 --> 01:25:49,018
[Kranz] For the first time
in this mission,

1223
01:25:49,978 --> 01:25:54,440
uh… there is the first little bit of doubt
that's coming into this room

1224
01:25:54,524 --> 01:25:57,193
that something happened
and the crew didn't make it.

1225
01:26:03,324 --> 01:26:04,868
"Will you please answer us?"

1226
01:26:07,537 --> 01:26:09,539
[radio static]

1227
01:26:15,295 --> 01:26:16,838
[Marilyn] He had to come back.

1228
01:26:18,506 --> 01:26:20,049
I couldn't live without him.

1229
01:26:30,268 --> 01:26:32,270
-[radio crackles]
-[Swigert] Okay, Joe.

1230
01:26:32,353 --> 01:26:34,898
[enthusiastic cheering and applause]

1231
01:26:36,900 --> 01:26:38,651
[controller] Okay, we read you, Jack.

1232
01:26:39,277 --> 01:26:41,279
[triumphant music playing]

1233
01:26:57,420 --> 01:26:58,796
[reporters] There they are!

1234
01:27:04,802 --> 01:27:07,764
[reporter 1] All three chutes out.
Listen to the crowd!

1235
01:27:07,847 --> 01:27:10,099
[cheering and whistling]

1236
01:27:10,183 --> 01:27:13,186
-[controller] Got you on television, babe.
-[reporter 2] They've made it.

1237
01:27:21,527 --> 01:27:22,820
[controller] Odyssey, Houston.

1238
01:27:22,904 --> 01:27:25,281
We show you on the mains.
It really looks great.

1239
01:27:29,494 --> 01:27:34,582
[BBC man 1] They're in, and I make it
no more than five seconds late.

1240
01:27:34,666 --> 01:27:36,501
No more than five seconds late!

1241
01:27:36,584 --> 01:27:38,086
[controller] We have splashdown.

1242
01:27:39,254 --> 01:27:40,505
[reporter] Home at last.

1243
01:27:46,636 --> 01:27:48,638
[buoyant music playing]

1244
01:27:58,940 --> 01:28:00,942
[cheering]

1245
01:28:07,824 --> 01:28:09,826
[indistinct]

1246
01:28:14,289 --> 01:28:18,001
I think 13 was a milestone in survival.

1247
01:28:20,586 --> 01:28:23,006
The odds were overwhelming.

1248
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.

1249
01:28:35,852 --> 01:28:40,148
[reporter 1] Today, a plaque for Apollo 13

1250
01:28:40,982 --> 01:28:46,195
has just been placed on the wall
of the mission control room.

1251
01:28:46,279 --> 01:28:48,531
[reporter 2] Ironically, that plaque,
of course, says,

1252
01:28:49,198 --> 01:28:52,035
"From the moon, learning."
"Ex luna, science."

1253
01:28:52,118 --> 01:28:53,995
There was a learning of a kind.

1254
01:28:54,662 --> 01:28:56,414
A learning of how to survive.

1255
01:29:10,553 --> 01:29:12,430
Everybody was screaming and yelling.

1256
01:29:12,513 --> 01:29:14,724
They all popped open
the bottles of champagne.

1257
01:29:14,807 --> 01:29:17,226
I even got some that day. [chuckles]

1258
01:29:22,357 --> 01:29:24,442
It was fantastic. [chuckles]

1259
01:29:25,318 --> 01:29:28,404
The biggest relief
I've ever had in my life. [chuckles]

1260
01:29:30,490 --> 01:29:32,867
[reporter] Is there any way
a wife can prepare herself

1261
01:29:32,950 --> 01:29:34,702
for a critical situation like this?

1262
01:29:34,786 --> 01:29:37,872
No. No. I have never experienced
anything like this in my life,

1263
01:29:37,955 --> 01:29:39,999
and I don't ever care
to experience it again.

1264
01:29:42,168 --> 01:29:47,256
I still feel the emotions within my body
that will probably never, ever leave me.

1265
01:29:49,884 --> 01:29:54,180
I didn't know for four days
if I was a wife or… a widow.

1266
01:30:04,190 --> 01:30:07,568
[reporter] The Apollo 13 astronauts
flew home to Houston last night,

1267
01:30:07,652 --> 01:30:10,613
and a noisy, happy welcome
from the ground-control scientists

1268
01:30:10,696 --> 01:30:14,325
who helped save them
from disaster far out in space.

1269
01:30:15,076 --> 01:30:17,078
[cheering]

1270
01:30:23,376 --> 01:30:26,796
I really wasn't relieved until
I actually saw him and got to hug him.

1271
01:30:29,173 --> 01:30:34,429
You know, just to know that he was real
and he… you know, he survived this.

1272
01:30:36,222 --> 01:30:39,559
And it really made you
appreciate life a little bit.

1273
01:30:41,144 --> 01:30:42,520
We're just so thankful.

1274
01:30:45,648 --> 01:30:46,482
[Jim] Home.

1275
01:30:48,276 --> 01:30:50,027
It suddenly dawned on us.

1276
01:30:51,404 --> 01:30:53,739
Just suddenly realized what we had done.

1277
01:30:56,617 --> 01:31:00,496
There were times we really didn't think
that we'd make it back here.

1278
01:31:03,833 --> 01:31:07,670
And I can recall,
about a year and a half ago,

1279
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

1280
01:31:11,382 --> 01:31:14,886
that the Earth is really
the only place we had to go to.

1281
01:31:15,761 --> 01:31:19,474
It was the only place we could see
in the universe that was home to us.

1282
01:31:22,101 --> 01:31:24,562
[Swigert] Of all the welcomes home
that we've had,

1283
01:31:24,645 --> 01:31:26,272
this one means the most

1284
01:31:26,355 --> 01:31:28,107
because it was these people here

1285
01:31:28,191 --> 01:31:30,610
that made it possible
for me to be here tonight.

1286
01:31:30,693 --> 01:31:32,695
[applause]

1287
01:31:40,703 --> 01:31:44,499
[interviewer] What implications
could this accident on Apollo 13...

1288
01:31:44,582 --> 01:31:47,293
You know, uh… a lot of people ask,

1289
01:31:47,376 --> 01:31:50,338
"Do you feel
that Apollo 13 was a failure?"

1290
01:31:52,423 --> 01:31:55,801
I guess if you measure success and failure

1291
01:31:55,885 --> 01:31:59,805
on the basis of "Did you accomplish
what you started out to do?"

1292
01:32:00,389 --> 01:32:02,308
Apollo 13 was, indeed, a failure.

1293
01:32:07,980 --> 01:32:09,774
But Apollo 13 did something

1294
01:32:09,857 --> 01:32:12,693
that's never happened before
in the history of man.

1295
01:32:18,533 --> 01:32:23,162
That for a brief instant of time,
the whole world was together.

1296
01:32:27,041 --> 01:32:31,587
Offers of help and messages of concern
came from every country in the world.

1297
01:32:34,674 --> 01:32:37,885
And maybe if you measure Apollo 13,

1298
01:32:37,969 --> 01:32:41,180
and it is possible
for the world to live together,

1299
01:32:41,264 --> 01:32:45,893
then Apollo 13
was most eminently successful.

1300
01:33:20,219 --> 01:33:22,221
[pensive music playing]

1301
01:33:50,166 --> 01:33:51,959
[Jim] I don't look back too often.

1302
01:33:55,379 --> 01:34:00,843
If you don't look forward, then you lose
some of the meaning of… of life.

1303
01:34:04,263 --> 01:34:08,517
But being up there
and seeing the Earth as it really is…

1304
01:34:11,187 --> 01:34:13,856
and realizing how fortunate we are…

1305
01:34:25,451 --> 01:34:28,454
It's like a blue-and-white
Christmas-tree ball

1306
01:34:28,537 --> 01:34:30,748
hanging in an absolutely black sky.

1307
01:34:38,422 --> 01:34:40,633
And, of course, you don't see cities.

1308
01:34:41,425 --> 01:34:43,052
Don't see boundaries.

1309
01:34:44,220 --> 01:34:47,014
You see the Earth as it really is.

1310
01:34:51,894 --> 01:34:55,815
A grand oasis… in the vastness of space.

1311
01:35:16,919 --> 01:35:19,338
[ethereal music playing]