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now on mission control

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excuse me

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in mission control our job is not over

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until we hand over responsibility

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uh for the crew to the recovery task

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force commander

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and as soon as the cruise feet hit the

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carrier deck we start that handover

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process and when it is complete and only

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one is complete do we celebrate

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by now we have pre-positioned about 700

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of the best cigars we can find

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from the west coast of the united states

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all the way to the east coast of the

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united states and several locations

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where he didn't have enough to go around

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we instruct the people to cut them in

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half

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and then in national tv we count down to

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light up those cigars and that is

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probably the sweetest smoke

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that i think any of us have ever had

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second phase in celebration is back out

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of a condition we call battle short

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during all critical phases at that time

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we used to actually physically block

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power breakers coming into the building

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and lock all doors

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i locked the doors of the main control

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room and now we back out of the battle

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short condition and the real heroes of

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13 come in and join us which are the

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folks in the back room

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because they're the ones that gave us

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the answers we needed when we needed

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them

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all we did in the main control room is

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count cadence and assemble the pieces

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into the proper sequence

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third phase in celebration is a

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tradition we started when we set our

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first space record as americans

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we pass out an american flag to every

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controller and on the staff of that flag

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you write the mission

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you write your name you write the

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landing time the job you were doing in

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mission control

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and we continued this tradition all the

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way through

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the early shuttle program it's one of

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our most treasured possessions

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president nixon came down and visited we

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got some nice atta boys in houston then

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he went out two days later

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to greet the crew out in hawaii

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and give them the well-deserved

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recognition for their absolutely superb

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performance during the course of the

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mission

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a lot of times we're asked and i think

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both level myself and hayes all agree

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what was the real key to this mission

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was absolute trust

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that existed within this team

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it wasn't a group of individuals it was

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one team all the way

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we always operated with four flight

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directors and we did this to balance the

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training load

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uh because training's pretty intense and

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it's very lengthy for the missions

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shifts run between 12 and 14 hours most

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of the time

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and that way we could pull a team out of

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rotation a midpoint of the mission

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probably the most important reason

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though is one team was always designated

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as a crisis management team before

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liftoff and that happened to be my

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responsibility as lead team when the

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time came the way you had the problem

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was up to me to get my shift out of my

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team out of the shift rotation and

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basically come up with the answers and

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return the console only when we had the

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answers

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glenn lenny was the youngest of the

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flight directors he was 32 years old at

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the time of apollo 13.

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a case a team caller black came to us

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from case institute in cleveland was the

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first person ever worked with

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who knew anything about a computer so he

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was the go-to guy

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for the answers we needed out of the

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machines

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the remaining three flight directors i

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was the oldest at 37 we had milt whitler

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and jerry griffin milt with the murray

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and jerry griffin with the gold remain

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i mean three of us were all fighter

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pilots

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we flew the late subsonic and early

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supersonic aircraft in the 50s i believe

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it was this background in aviation at

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that time that really helped us keep our

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poise during the mission

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our nation abandoned the moon in

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december 1972 gene cernan was the last

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human ever to walk on the surface of the

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moon

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and for us this was a marvelous time to

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live because we believed in the stream

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that were given by john f kennedy

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we considered ourselves privileged and

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proud to be part of the brotherhood that

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formed in the early years of space

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and we thanked our country that they

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gave us a chance to participate in this

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great adventure

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so this is the the story of mission

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control star of apollo 13 story of a

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team of young young americans

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united through leadership trust

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values and a clear objective

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and a team that truly believes that in