Okay, uh, good evening, America, and welcome aboard Apollo 13. I'm Jim Lovell, and we're...
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Jim Lovell:
Okay, uh, good evening, America, and welcome aboard Apollo 13. I'm Jim Lovell, and we're broadcasting to you tonight from an altitude of almost 200,000 miles away from the... the face of the Earth, and we have a pretty good show in store for you tonight. We are going to show you just what, uh, life is like for the three of us in the vast expanse of outer space.
[a controller at Houston glances at a TV and sees a baseball game is on instead]
Jim Lovell:
Okay, one of the first things we'd like to do is provide you with the appropriate background music. So, uh, hit it there, Freddo.
Fred Haise:
[playing Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky"]
Hello, world!
Jim Lovell:
That, uh, was supposed to be the theme to "2001", in honor of our command module Odyssey, but there seems to have been a last-minute change in the program.
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Fred Haise was going back fo the moon on Apollo 1 8
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but his mission was cancelled due to budget cuts
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He never flew in space again
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Nor did Jack Swigert who left the Astronaut Corps
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and was elected to Congress from the state of Colorado
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But he died of cancer before he was able to take office
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Ken Mattingly orbited the moon as command module pilot of Apollo 16
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and flew the Space Shuttle having never gotten the measles
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Gene Kranz retired as Director of Flight Operations just not long ago
Clip duration: 34 seconds
Views: 170
Timestamp in movie: 02h 12m 45s
Uploaded: 18 March, 2022
Genres: adventure, drama, history
Summary: NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
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00:12 We're gonna get that procedure to you as soon as we...
00:40 We sure could use the re entry procedure up here
00:04 Let's hope we don't have to do that again
00:18 FRED Mare Tranquillitatis
00:15 How are you feeling Freddo
00:15 FlDO Flight we're still shallowing up a bit in the re...
00:19 ANCHORMAN lf the heat shield is even slightly cracked
00:16 Gentlemen you've given our guys enough to survive till...
00:33 Gene we have a situation brewing with the carbon dioxide
00:28 CAPCOM 2 Jim we've got another course correction for...
00:25 Let me put it this way
00:09 Haise is running a temperature and no one has slept
00:09 What happened
00:09 This is it A few bumps and we're hauling the mail
01:38 Our mission was called a successful failure
00:12 Kinda used to the pilot's seat
00:10 This could be the worst disaster NASA has experienced
00:18 Are you scared
00:03 Houston we have a problem
00:08 We never lost an American in space