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apollo 13 was a team effort from the

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very beginning to the end

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okay you know we've had a problem here

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we've had a hardware race car i don't

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when the crew threw the switches

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to start the crowd stir a spark jump

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between the fan and the heater assembly

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and

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the pressure in that tank

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rose very rapidly because the insulation

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had been damaged on the system

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and we now had a fire inside the tank

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that blew the dome of the tank off

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that series of events started the saga

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and we had a pretty large bang

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associated with the

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caution and warning there

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the uh exact words i used in mission

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control is we have never lost an

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american in space

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and we sure as hell aren't going to lose

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when this crew is coming home

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you got to believe it your team must

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believe it and we must make it happen

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you're looking

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uh something when we suddenly realized

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the truth is significance

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of the explosion seeing the oxygen

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escape from the rear on my spacecraft

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and consequently losing all the

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electrical power and the propulsion

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system

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we knew we were in serious trouble have

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you called in your backup ecommerce now

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see if we can get some more brain power

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in this we've got one here raj

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throughout the entire apollo 13 mission

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the teams in mission control

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changed shifts almost regularly at eight

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hour intervals

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and the teams kept the mission going

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kept working the problem as my teams

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tried to come up with the answers

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go ahead i want you to get some guys

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figuring out minimum power in the limb

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to sustain life fortunately the lunar

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module was attached to us

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and when that occurred with oxygen

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almost

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gone in the command module

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we transferred the command to the lunar

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module and tried to use it somehow some

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way as a lifeboat to get home let's

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solve the problem but let's not make it

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any worse by guessing i got a lot of

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recognition

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for the work that we did but the real

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heroes of apollo 13 were the people in

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the back rooms and over in the

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engineering facilities who came up with

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the answers we needed we never

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talked among ourselves about not making

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it back home

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it was like

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playing a game of solitaire as long as

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we had a card and we could put it

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someplace the game kept going

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and every crisis that we came up to we

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found a solution as we rounded the moon

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and my two companions uh looked at the

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place where we were supposed to land and

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there were very much disappointment i

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said

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we're on our way home

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let's get home successfully and forget

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about the landing and there's one whole

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side of that

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is that right well the whole panel is

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blown out almost from the uh

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base to the uh it's just really a mess

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man that's unbelievable

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i'm just

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okay copy that

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farewell

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aquarius thank you apollo 13 has to rate

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with

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anything we ever do because it took

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a great deal of ingenuity

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a great deal of preparation years of

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preparation

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a lot of guts

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on the part of the astronauts themselves

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to bring that off

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odyssey houston standing by

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over 13 apollo 13 as there's a recovery

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look good

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and so you have to say that apollo 13

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was a fantastic moment in the history of

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manned space flight

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i will tell you that we had one of the

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most bodacious

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splashdown parties that i can remember

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looking great 20 feet

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shot here

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all right charlie such a form

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how about that

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i'm going out for a ballet when i get

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back

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you learn another line of work up here

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john you're just beautiful that is

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that is the most beautiful sight

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what's this you're standing there on a

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round of that crater oh god i've never

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well he's not real well

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actually he is on this thing i'll tell

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he's a big rooster tail out of all four

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wheels and as he turns he skids back in

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breaks loose just like on snow

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rod

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now i tell you i can't see to the bottom

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of it i'm as close to the edge as i'm

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going to get

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all the different steps

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and all the different pieces of hardware

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and all of it had to work

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and it's just inconceivable

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that we could do something like that the

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motivation was well it ain't gonna be my

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part that

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screws up you know i'm gonna get it

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right

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and apparently everybody else felt the

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same way and we did it and did it and

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apollo 17 was probably one of the more

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interesting

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missions because

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we had a real geologist

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there and they landed in a

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you know wonderfully interesting

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the valley of tourist litro was picked

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as a landing site for a couple different

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reasons uh number one it was in an area

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the moon we had never even come close to

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and it was a valley some 20 miles long

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and five miles across which was

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literally surrounded by mountains higher

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yeah 1.2 kilometers is a long way from

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the left look at the challenger down

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there

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they can get a feel for how big this

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valley really is i'd rather not

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holy smolly

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no

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we stopped uh obviously at uh a lot of

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different plan places and we did

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everything from drilling core samples to

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center experiments to drilling trenches

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and so forth there is orange soil well

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don't move it till i see it

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and i thought

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okay

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this scientist has been on the moon too

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long he's been he's been breathing too

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much oxygen there's not going to be any

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orange soil hey it is i can see it from

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here it's orange

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we not only did a lot of work on the

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moon but we had a good time

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and you know you're only going to come

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in may every month of december

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may bay

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i just looked around and no one we were

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leaving no we weren't coming back and i

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i said we now leave as we once came

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and god willing

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as we shall return this valley of

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history has

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seen mankind complete its first

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evolutionary steps into the universe

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leaving the planet earth and going

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forward into the universe no more

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significant contribution as apollo made