April 30 1970 the mood could only be
described as relaxed Apollo 13 man's v
Lulu mission the third scheduled to land
on the moon continuing its tranquil
Coast Thursday we've got one more item
for you when you get a chance we might
get there stir up your cryo things in
addition our chef and onions okay for
look at the common Bennet if you needed
okay HAP I hear something in please
remain beautiful okay stand by Thursday
and we're looking at it if we had a
pretty large batch of the ranges with
the brush warning there I'm gonna call
BP with one that said error and spike on
it was before any area but the battle
against April 11 1970 launch day the
crew of Apollo 13
jim lovell commander and veteran approve
devious measurements he had orbited the
moon Christmas 1968 on Apollo 8 fred a's
his first time up lunar module pilot
Jack Swigert command module pilot three
days ago he was on the backup crew now
he replaced Ken Mattingly Mattingly had
been dropped from the mission because he
had been explored to German measles he
would launch the launch from Houston
Mission Control auto-sync listening to
the flame for the first impression by
Buster as one team prepares company for
an entire hour ago Roger has a low-key
conjugates favorite oil King
MCC record suffice
why product rejected confirm stationing
driving price listed $84 layering okay
I'd like to confer first feel senior
problem I got those days when I get my
right now flying all day or anything you
go the next step in the routine and
lunar flight was to burn out of Earth
orbit toward the moon then full three of
the third stage and dock with the lunar
module Aquarius at the controls of the
command module Odyssey Jack Swagger they
pull Aquarius away from the Saturn third
stage the s4 be honest thing and
Aquarius moved away from Earth toward
the moon
so then we've had a hardware ring-spun
learning more in are you not at all
wonderful
you see an AC bus undervolt they're dead
for eco- I believe the crew reported for
your Ramsey internal we leave that in
imitation fell by brunch and we had a
pretty large bearing from rotated with
the project warning the sensation I had
that I had felt a vibration accompanying
the bang not a large vibration or
shredder running kind of lazily remember
when you're looking at instrumentation
we had a real problem for lunch we're
eating everyone to pressure and fuel
cell 113 psi on fuel cell 302 pressure
what do you want to do open circuit fuel
so on a trip a trip down and reactants
found and I ask for confirmation since
when you do that it's sort of
irreversible if you shot one these
things down can be restarted from ground
support equipment looking off the so we
are everybody think of the kind of
things we keep setting you can see you
get an earring that looks abnormal in
here so all about shoes we can't see
anything good when still a baby they've
got this representing its firm flight
when you look at the system for those
events effect okay Darren here is a
bulletin from ABC News the Apollo 13
spacecraft is not a serious power supply
malfunction that could cause the lunar
landing mission
literally I assume you've called in your
backup becomes right there again it's
all in your backup become a surrogate
small brain Carmen Taiwan your body at
the moment the astronauts are continuing
to try to isolate their trouble a label
closes the spacecraft mal is operating
on battery power alone all unnecessary
equipment is being turned off okay now
let's everybody keep girl we got legs
still attached well in a spacecrafts
good so we need to get back home we've
gotta learn to do a good course of it
with okay let's make sure we don't do
anything that's going to blow our CSM
electrical power with the batteries or
it will cause us to lose the main or the
fuel cell number two okay we want to
keep the o2 and that kind of stuff
working with right there of RCS but we
get the command module system so we're
in good shape if we need to get home
we'll install the problem but let's not
make it any worse by Jessie my concern
was increasing all the time it's going
from I want to look this is going to be
to the landing so I wonder if we can get
back home again okay a local Electrike
go ahead I think the best thing to do
right now to start our day right if I
daniel said it was quite apparent to me
that it was just a question of time if
the command module was going to be when
you don't want to people show up uncle
do you we can do that future number one
fine okay well let's make sure we don't
blow elision okay it concerns me it is
hurting his phone equipment we had a
probably don't know the cause of the
problem but right I have got a feeling
we've lost you to yourself I hate to put
it that way but I don't know why Rossum
this is an old tag of networks for
Blanke right now are bring me up another
computer in the RTCC William
we got spell what machine on Caucasian
feel that's dual safety national ok I
want another machine up there at PCC I
want to put the guys people are running
D logs down there
what all this means is only speculation
at this point
first builder has been so many tumbling
or rotation of the spacecraft we have
pronounced do not a clear to be in any
immediate danger I'll tell you what can
sing can you get somebody in the back
room to try to figure out what the photo
itself as he is we're getting the lead
and see if we can backtrack to see we
can figure out what's Betty Roger there
to translate okay when I looked up and
saw boo I'm thinking pleasures one
athlete is zero another one going down
is burn on me I'm sure dejected but
about the same time but we were indeed
in a serious trouble the only way to
survive the situation were to transfer
to be 120 count regarding the pressure
no triptank water all the way down a 297
either think about getting in the lab or
you go on system
I'd say this is a serious of situations
we have ever had an mainstage point
we've always call around hundred
lifeboat under those circumstances if at
any time when admission however when I
had separated and we've gotten ourselves
into a rondelay situation or the command
module ring around the moon then what
you say is absolutely true it would be a
fatal situation
tell me it'll fly I want you to get some
guys figuring out their own power in the
lemon to stay alive
the accident had occurred 200,000 miles
from her levels
rygart and Hayes Road in the lunar
module attached to a lifeless command
module Apollo 13 had started as a
mission of scientific exploration it was
now a matter of survival
since the command module was dead except
for the oxygen and power awarded for
reentry a guidance platform of Aquarius
designed to land on and take off from
the moon would have to be used the first
milestone and I consider exactly
actually I guess more or less the two
widely now the first milestone was to
get alignment on a level platform
alignments are important you know
because without knowing exactly which
way the attitude of the spacecraft in
space is he'll learn how to learn or how
goodness use the engines of that space
back to get the propulsive proper
exactly needs to come home the position
we are in our green plane we have to go
around the familiar to get back to the
balloon to defend him
we haven't had enough capability with
the SPS engine they forgot where you
said man but we have to go for the back
side of the road and come down to get
into the correct orbit around the moon
the crew had burned out of a trajectory
that would automatically bring them back
to earth they would have to get back
onto a safe course toward Earth he needs
to produce a bottle to man also like
travel to mere point after that
everything
this maneuver again was completed on
time and because it was a manual burn we
had a feeling that operation Jack good
day take care of the climb you tell us
them to light off the engine when we
stopped it
red handle girl which maneuver I handled
the world globally when I push the
button to start and stop the engines
require you go for the burn
okay query she's looking good the first
problem was solved they were back on the
path to work but there were many other
problems we saw from a building at
Houston's manned spacecraft Center
systems experts coordinating the
coast-to-coast
effort to get the crew back one of the
big problems was consumables there will
be enough to eat and drink but in space
there are other factors oxygen to
breathe electrical power to keep the
spacecraft alive water to clean the
equipment and keep it operating but
we'll be doing till we get them back on
the water is concentrating on everything
that is their lives and dependent upon
at the moment rather than worrying about
the accident because there's nothing we
can do about that now as it appears its
presence and on it everything is under
control
and that we have a safe situation at the
moment are you guys okay we are about 17
hours from home and we think we have the
situation in control we've checked the
consumables as I've described and we
have a plan for carrying out the rest of
the mission but there is going to be no
relaxation at all as far as that goes
fanatical splash there was a key
decision to be made before Apollo 13
went behind the moon where we bring
down there present course was taken to
the Indian Ocean where recovery would be
difficult a burn to bring home quicker
would take them to the Pacific Ocean
near the recovery forces bringing them
home even fast to replace them in the
South Atlantic again
away from recovery forces it was decided
to take them to the Pacific soon ladies
culture and educate the conscious
continuously ever since left last night
we tried to simulate virtually anything
we've had the cool to do that is not
normal they didn't prove the most fair
thing that we've been able to run on the
simulator part of pants me up there may
be some detailing of them but basically
we've checked the feasibility everything
we've been and will continue to be Bay
they past 137 miles from the moon for
level it was the second time that he had
seen the moon so near but there was no
time for contemplation
there was another critical burn coming
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and in Houston the news men poured him
to tell an anxious world the story
shortly after Apollo 13 had separated
from the Saturn third stage the states
have been sent on to a trajectory toward
the moon its impact would be recorded by
the seismometer left by Apollo 12 by the
way the plan 3c resulting from pro
seismometer that's like your booster
just hit the moon and it's rocking it a
little bit while these cook for work the
perfect answer glad we didn't have any
I'll live impact to Jim you are go for
the burn go for the burn
Roger our current global firm guidance
okay put your trust in Charles okay okay
five down
let's go fight take their okay we're
dirtfoot ground confirmed recognition
for burning 44s or a houston you're
looking good
Roger shut down Roger shut down potatoes
a dead bird charges I want to borrow
dollars any possible literature to
conserve the electric power and cooling
water the crews shut down all over the
vital life-sustaining systems of the
length
I think the blend spacecrafts in
excellent shape and I think it's fully
capable of getting the clear dr. I think
as we get found before we turn and we
put the limb spacecraft to a test
it's always done much more than was
guaranteed be doing I think this is a
good case in point from sort of the
consumables cooling water electric power
they when water gun was leaking and when
we set that off I guess it makes about a
quart of water or destiny but it took me
about two days to get my feet dry and of
course it is I think we're all aware
that the temperatures were going down
and the both vehicles in and that made
for very cold feet a couple lives
Lord your astronauts will come back see
if I may be serious for one moment and
ask the entire audience for a moment of
prayer for the two men of the Apollo 13
we'll all silence Romano
a standard 52 percent and 2 percent
going down in temperature but I think
fundamentally we found about 38 degrees
along a path below sort of chilling for
those three roles of perspiring but when
they get completely wet because it
wasn't too healthy unequality hot dogs
when they were puppies into the food or
food
handle the situation what happened we
haven't exactly I would expect
completely everybody's well on top of it
as anybody could be
when we were here which isn't very much
like to admit presence they did
everything right within the college it
was available tuition of the time the
fashion which is that's two always
threatening to get a beautiful job
that's the one I wrote little Sophie's
language president put on and come off a
little bit warm
the astronauts faced another problem
their own exhaled breath the lithium
hydroxide chemical to take carbon
dioxide out of the air was not
sufficient in the lunar module they
would have to adapt the canisters from
the command module to fit the hoses in
the LEM on the ground an adapter was
fashioned from materials that crew have
had available in the lab cardboard from
a checklist plastic bags and tape after
checkout in an environmental chamber the
directions for construction were sent up
to Aquarius at this point I'm I think
the particle pressure of carbon dioxide
was reading about fifteen millimeters
and we constructed two of these things
and put them on a line and I think
within an hour the partial pressure of
co2 was down to two tenths but isn't it
their survival rod now began one OPA of
emotionalism ingenuity there was one was
the ground continually helpless
there are all kinds of people on the
ground trying to think of ways of
extending our lifetime
there would be still another brownie
I'll get close correction we get Apollo
13 into the narrow corridor through the
atmosphere for a safe return to work
forever has replied college big national
dress looks good
shut down hang an era won't be long
there are moments when I didn't know how
much jingles had where we can make you
guys come out but this is always why I
thought there's only one thing you can
do we'll just keep going and you just
keep thinking up the way you can get
more continue and so that's exactly what
we did on April 17th they prepared for
reentry
after the small course collecting burn
begins in the damaged service module is
that right next they got back into
Odyssey to jettison Aquarius prior to
entering into the atmosphere healthcare
yellow s and a half entry attitude we
like auntie charlie
Odyssey Houston standing by
I recall getting the van I spoke to you
on the phone you said that you regretted
that you were unable to complete your
mission
I hereby declare that this was a
successful mission from the start the
exploration of space has been positive
Spencer the voyage of Apollo 13 drama
tile is to twist the men of Apollo 13 by
their poise and skills under the most
intense kind of pressure it minimize the
character that accepts danger and
surmounted there is the spirit that
built America
your missions serve your country it
serve to remind us all of our poverty of
a nation to remind us that in this age
of technicians and scientific marvels
that the individual still counts that in
a crisis the character of America or of
men will make fit gets a certain
procedures on telly FDL flexible
go-getter so Artie see you on any
conference are you okay all flight
controllers let's play pool