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again please

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it was plagued by

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uh bad omens

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and bad luck

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looks good here flight good agreement

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years before the flight

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when the spacecraft was being built

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a damaged

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liquid oxygen tank

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was installed in the spacecraft the tank

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had been

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dropped on the factory floor

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a little piece of plumbing and prevented

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the normal procedure for removing oxygen

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after a routine test

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prior to the flight and then on the day

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before flight

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we filled up the tank again with liquid

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oxygen

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and it was a bomb

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and get back

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actually it was the end of the work day

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we were fixing to go to bed after we did

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a few things to clean up and the next

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morning going to luna orbit and get

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ready to land and then it was a large

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bang when the explosion first occurred

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we didn't know what happened

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and that just rang through the metallic

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i was in the lunar module and then i

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went down to the command module we may

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have had an instrumentation problem

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flight raj

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and we had a pretty large bank

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associated with the crushing and warning

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there we started the look at the

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instrument panels one of the quantity

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cages of one of the tanks was zero that

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was the tank that had blew

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i then looked out the window

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and saw escaping at a high rate of speed

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a gaseous oxygen because the explosion

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occurred on the first the damage tank

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but that also ruptured the second tank

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just blew the entire side of the

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spacecraft off

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my immediate feeling was just a sick

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feeling of pit of my stomach or

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disappointment

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i knew we had lost the landing

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and from then on

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it was not a third letting on the moon

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but a survival of how to get home

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okay i want you to double check my

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arithmetic to make sure we've got a good

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towards the line

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go fly how's the arithmetic standby

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we're checking

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we were handling something that we knew

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was

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out of control and

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every team that came on was dealing with

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a major set of problems to deal with

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they just uh jumped to the task and they

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knew what they had to do

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okay now let's everybody keep cool we

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got limbs still attached the lemon

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spacecraft's good so if we need uh to

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get back home we got a limb to do a good

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one of the biggest things we had to do

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in the dying moments of the electrical

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system

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and the command module was to transfer

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the guidance system

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and transfer the angle numbers from the

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command module to the lunar module

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and we only had about 15 minutes to do

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about 20 minutes after the explosion it

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was obvious

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that

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we weren't coming

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to a landing in the moon we were going

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to go around it glenn had already been

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down in the trench with trajectory guys

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and came up with five trajectory return

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to earth options so we would not we

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would have missed the earth had we done

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nothing so the first thing was to get us

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in the right direction to go around the

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moon

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and that was the first maneuver

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we made we used the landing engine the

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engine we normally would land it on the

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everybody seemed to be moving in the

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right directions without being directed

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everybody had a sense of what had to be

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done the training guys brought the

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simulators up over there and the crews

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were over in the simulators tracking

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virtually everything they were doing

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there every configuration change

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that was proposed to be done was already

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being worked over in the simulators

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there so you start getting answers from

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all these various directions

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the command module was very wet there

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was water everywhere on every in the

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limb there's no inner walls

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so you can see water on all the

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connectors wire bundles

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plumbing every turn of global water

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and command module we actually had to

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get towels out to wipe off the

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instrument panel

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to see the instruments we copied that

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report uh from jim lovell of service

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module separation at 138 hours

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and there's one whole side of that

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this one

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is that right

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farewell aquarius thank you

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so it was a question of getting this

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entire world

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geared and oriented

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to one single job get the crew home

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teamwork was necessary

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good leadership

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initiative to think out outside of the

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box when things go wrong how do we

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repair them those are the three things

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that were absolutely necessary

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i was most

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proud of

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being in this team

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that knew what they had to do

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and there was no doubt about it

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the team

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completely faced up to what had to be

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done in this case it was a survival

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challenge that we were faced with so