"We have the crew crossing gantry for capsule ingress." "Roger that." "America has risen to the challenge of what he called the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked. horrible fire on the launchpad during a routine test that killed astronauts Gus Grissom Fire in the cockpit!" "Ed White and Roger Chaffee Get us outta here!" "there were serious doubts that we could beat the Russians to the moon." "a mere 18 months after the tragedy of Apollo 1 the entire world watched in awe as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon." "The big news came just a moment ago." "Mission Control gave the spacecraft permission to go for the extravehicular activity for the walk on the moon" "9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time." "Important thing when you're penetrating the lunar module is your attitude and your relative speed." "Let's say this is me in the command module and this is you" "All right." "in the LEM." "This thing sticks out." "That's called a probe." "is that true?" "Absolutely." "everything's clickin' it's like no other feeling in the world." "A little liquid propulsion." "What's the big occasion?" "How's it goin' at Mission Control?" "smokin' like chimneys." "Gene Kranz is gonna have puppies." "Jim Lovell." "Hi." "This is Tracey." "Tracey?" "This is the man." "Gemini 7." "Gemini 12." "Apollo 8." "They were the first around the moon." "This guy did ten laps." "With one hand on the wheel." "Make yourselves at home." "Marilyn." "Where have you been?" "This is the last champagne in Houston." "Very good." "Very good." "Everything else all right?" "Everything's on course." "Looks okay." "Hey!" "Cadet Lovell." "Dad." "Put this on ice." "Make sure it's cold." "You gonna get a haircut this week?" "I'm on vacation." "get a haircut." "hello there." "who wouldn't." "Don't worry." "Our day's comin'." "They're not gonna cut the program before number 14." "my cousin called." "Uhhuh." "Asked who we bribed to get on Jim Lovell's crew." "Yeah." "I told him they wanted to make sure he got the best." "they got that right." "What network do we want?" "Come on!" "Walt!" "Hey!" "Put on Walter!" "Walter!" "Jules Bergman!" "turn it up!" "has completed putting on the spacesuits and the boots." "uhl really appreciate you all coming to this dress rehearsal party for my Apollo 12 landing." "Conrad." "I think we should all take a moment to recognize damn near heroic effort displayed by Neil Armstrong's backup for this historic moon walk his crew." "Ken Mattingly and Fred Haise." "There he is!" "There he is!" "Everybody quiet down!" "Hey!" "Kids!" "We had a good touchdown." "We can verify the position of the opening I ought to have on the camera." "What?" "Think it's too late for him to abort?" "He still has time to get out." "Neil!" "Pull up!" "Pull up!" "we can see you coming down the ladder now." "Look at those pictures." "Wow." "at the foot of the ladder." "uh one or two inches." "It's almost like a powder." "Armstrong is on the moon." "38 year old American standing on the surface of the moon" "1969." "That's one small step for man one giant leap for mankind." "His quote was one giant leap for mankind." "Somewhere" "Beyond the sea" "Somewhere waiting' for me" "Lovell." "Yeah." "I'm not used to the champagne." "Me neither." "I can't deal with cleaning up." "Let's sell the house." "let's sell the house." "They're back inside now lookin' up at us." "Isn't that somethin'?" "I bet Jannie Armstrong doesn't get a wink of sleep tonight." "I didn't sleep at all." "I just vacuumed over and over again." "Charles Lindbergh and Neil Armstrong." "Neil Armstrong." "we live in a world where man has walked on the moon." "It's not a miracle." "We just decided to go." "we were so close just 60 nautical miles down and" "It was like I could just step out and walk on the face of it." "I want to go back there." "Where's my mountain?" "it Up there." "right up by the do you see where the shadow crosses the white area there?" "That's the Sea of Tranquility and your mountain's right there on the edge of that." "Marilyn." "Mount Marilyn." "I don't see it." "you gotta look harder." "You You You look harder" "Jim." "while I" "Jim!" "Groovin'" "Down a crowded avenue" "The astronaut is only the most visible member and all of us down to the guy sweeping the floor are honored to be a part of it." "What did the man say? "Give me a lever long enough and I'll move the world"?" "That's exactly what we're doing here." "This is divine inspiration." "the belief that anything is possible." "Things like a computer that can fit into a single room and hold millions of pieces of information or the Saturn 5 rocket." "This is the actual launch vehicle that will be taking Alan Shepard and his crew on the first leg of the Apollo 13 mission." "Jim?" "I'm slated to be the commander of Apollo 14 sometime late next year." "If there is an Apollo 14." "people in my state have been asking why we're continuing to fund this program now that we've beaten the Russians to the moon." "Imagine if Christopher Columbus had come back from the new world and no one returned in his footsteps." "all personnel." "Clear level three." "Are there any other questions?" "How do you go to the bathroom in space?" "it's a highly technical process uh there's Deke Slayton." "you might be able to answer this lady's question." "ladies and gentlemen." "Now he's our boss." "He hands out the astronauts' flight assignments so naturally we kick back part of our salaries to Deke." "How much this month?" "Can I have a minute?" "Something's come up." "Henry?" "Hey!" "Mom!" "You don't understand!" "I worked so hard on this!" "Maybe I don't understand but you are not wearing that out in this neighborhood." "She's not even wearing a bra!" "You can see everything!" "Shut up!" "trick or treat." "Jim." "You know that Easter vacation trip we had planned for Acapulco?" "Uhoh." "I was thinkin' there might be a slight change in destination." "Really?" "say the moon." "Al Shepard's ear infection has flared up and we've all been bumped up to the prime crew of Apollo 13." "Straight to the head of the line and the Fra Mauro highlands." "Six months?" "You're moving up six months?" "can I please wear this?" "Sure." "Jim." "No!" "No." "Absolutely not." "Don't you want somebody to love This stinks!" "are they?" "You're gonna be ready in six months?" "I wouldn't want to be around Al Shepard tonight." "I gotta get over there." "We're gonna have to get up to speed on this." "Go." "Go." "Marilyn." "I know. I can't believe it." "it's 13." "Why 13?" "hon." "you are go for bio arming docking." "All systems are nominal and on the line." "slot panels are drifting free." "The drogue is clear." "The docking target is clear." "I'm comin' up on that now." "Two one mark." "Seventy five feet." "We're comin' up on docking." "Let's shut down some thrusters on 'em." "We'll see what he does with this one." "Whoa." "Wait a minute." "I lost something here." "I can't translate up." "we are drifting down and away." "no I got it I got it." "I mean let me just try and get it stable here." "Huston I'm gonna reset the high gain." "Got the target back in the reticle." "Okay we're stable." "Go ahead and recycle the valves." "Forty feet." "They're all gray." "Twenty." "Easy." "Ten feet." "Capture." "That's it!" "Ken." "Beautiful." "that woke me up." "you're up in the simulator." "gentlemen." "That's three hours of boredom followed by seven seconds of sheer terror." "guys." "You just won the Christmas turkey." "brother." "but it wasn't perfect." "Used up too much fuel." "You're above the curve." "I wanna work it again." "0700?" "I know but my rate of turn is still a little slow." "I really think we should work it again." "Frank." "13 backup crew." "It'll have to wait." "baby." "we show S4B shutdown and all systems are nominal." "set the Sband omni to B two forward." "Good shape over here." "we got a problem." "get your helmet on!" "I can't get it locked!" "God!" "Jim!" "I thought the stars would fall down on you." "That's silly." "Stars can't fall on us." "You're a smarter kid than I was." "How long will it take to get to the moon?" "Four days." "But that's pretty fast." "this is the Saturn 4B booster and it shoots us away from the Earth as fast as a bullet from a gun until the moon's gravity actually grabs us and pulls us into a circle around the moon which is called an orbit." "All right?" "Fred and I float down the tunnel into the lunar module this spidery lookin' guy." "and it's just for landing' on the moon." "And I take the controls and I steer it around and I fly it down roll soft landing on the moon." "Better than Neil Armstrong." "Way better than Pete Conrad." "Dad did you know the astronauts in the fire?" "I did. I knew the astronauts in the fire." "All of 'em." "Could that happen again?" "I'll tell ya somethin' about that fire." "a lot of things went wrong." "uh The door." "It's called the hatch." "They couldn't get it open when they needed to get out." "uh a lot of things went wrong in that fire." "Did they fix it?" "yes." "Absolutely." "We fixed it." "It's not a problem anymore." "I can't believe they still have you doing public appearances." "Henry Hurt was all over me." "I know." "But with a training schedule this tight it's NASA." "aren't ya?" "Hey!" "Lucky 13!" "Right on!" "That's the second time it's done that." "I was looking at the kids' school schedule coming up." "Yeah?" "It's a very busy week." "Yeah." "I'm thinking about not going to the launch." "Huh." "honey." "we've had these kids for awhile now." "They've never kept you from comin' to the other launches." "But now we have your mother." "She's just had this stroke." "Mom's fine." "It's not like I've never been to a launch." "The other wives have not done three." "I just don't think I can go through all that." "I'll just be glad when this one's over." "you're gonna miss a hell of a show." "guys." "See ya in a few weeks." "Take care." "Bring us back a moon rock." "So the number 13 doesn't bother you." "Phil." "lifting off at 1300 hours and 13 minutes and entering the moon's gravity on April 13?" "Ken Mattingly here has been doing some scientific experiments haven't you?" "walk over a broken mirror under the lunar module ladder." "It didn't seem to be a problem." "We're considering a letter we got from a fella who said we oughta take a pig with us for good luck." "Does it bother you that the public regards this flight as routine?" "There's nothing routine about flying to the moon. I can vouch for that." "I think that an astronaut's last mission his final flight well that's that's always going to be very special." "Jim?" "I'm in command of the best ship with the best crew that anybody could ask for and I'll be walking in a place where there's 400 degrees difference between sunlight and shadow." "ever topping that." "We have that scheduled for 0900 hours tomorrow." "Walter." "Why?" "Freddo and I are gonna be goin' over the lunar surface experiments tomorrow and Ken's gonna be back in the simulator." "We're gonna be goin' over the flight plan tonight." "Gonna pay a visit to this machine after you're hard down." "Thanks." "we've got a problem." "We just got some blood work back from the lab." "Charlie Duke has the measles." "So we need a new backup." "I've had the measles." "Ken Mattingly hasn't." "You wanna break up my crew two days before the launch read the tone of each other's voices?" "Ken Mattingly will be getting seriously ill precisely when you and Haise will be ascending from the lunar surface." "That's a lousy time for a fever." "Jack Swigert has been out of the loop for weeks." "He's fully qualified to fly this mission." "but when was the last time he was in a simulator?" "Jim." "I understand how you feel." "We can do one of two things." "We can either scrub Mattingly and go with Swigert or we can bump all three of you to a later mission." "I've trained for the Fra Mauro highlands" "Deke!" "you will not be on Apollo 13." "It's your decision." "let it ring." "ll gotta take that." "why?" "Because I'm on the backup crew and the backup crew has to set up the guest list and book the hotel room." "Swigert." "Yeah." "I looked all around I understand." "little girl" "On a magic carpet ride you don't know what we can see" "Why don't you tell your dreams to me" "uh" "Damn." "Medical guys." "uh l mean Jesus!" "boy." "uh" "He's strong." "It'll be a hell of a mission." "One for the books." "You sure about this?" "Why don't I talk to Deke?" "I'm sure we can work this out." "This was my call." "Must've been a tough one." "I don't have the measles." "I'm not gonna get the measles." "wait up." "Trajectory is holding steady." "We're right on the line." "so we're feeling that gravity now." "000 feet passing entry interphase." "About to lose signal." "and we have radio blackout." "What's the story here?" "I got a corridor light." "We're comin' in too shallow." "I'm goin' to manual." "Thirteen." "we're at three Gs." "Five Gs." "We're comin' in too steep." "see if I can pull us out." "We're at eight Gs." "Nine." "Ten." "We're at 12 Gs." "Twelve Gs." "We're burnin' up." "Damn it!" "I gave 'em a false indicator light at entry interphase." "Even Mattingly didn't get it the first time." "Freddo?" "Charbroiled." "So what happened?" "Came in too steep." "We're dead." "we were into program 67 there." "obviously but give us a minute to get our switches reset." "could we have a word?" "Deke." "We're going to drop off line and debrief." "So?" "Well if I had a dollar for every time they killed me in this thing" "Deke." "we have two days." "We'll be ready." "Let's do it again." "Do it again." "come here!" "Daddy!" "Watch out!" "You'll fall!" "We can't go across that road." "We don't want Daddy to get our germs and get sick in outer space." "are ya?" "you look beautiful." "Jack!" "that looks like Marilyn Lovell." "But it can't be." "She's not coming to the launch." "I heard it was gonna be a hell of a show." "Who told you that?" "Some guy I know." "You can't live without me." "folks." "Let's say good night." "We got a big day tomorrow." "Good night!" "You hear about Ken?" "Yeah." "two." "please." "Guenter Wendt." "I wonder where Guenter went?" "Jim." "we walk and and we talk on ze moon." "How do you feel?" "Pretty good?" "huh?" "How are you today?" "Ready?" "Good." "Yeah." "Oh!" "Oh!" "Jeez!" "Oh!" "no!" "no." "we have the oxygen burn system?" "Check." "We have the helmet restraint ring?" "Check." "Communication umbilical on." "Fred." "What?" "sorry." "Thanks." "I'm gonna give these guys a beautiful ride." "Jack." "You need more air?" "You want some apple?" "hey!" "Mary." "I hate this already." "are you?" "No. I got 30 days 'til this blastoff." "This is for Gene." "Mrs. Kranz has pulled out the needle and thread again." "The last one looked like he bought it off a gypsy." "you can't argue with tradition." "Copy that." "Gene." "Tom." "I was startin' to get worried." "There we go." "Gene." "you're all set." "Very sharp." "I guess we can go now." "guys." "listen up." "no go for launch." "Booster." "Go." "RETRO." "Flight." "Guidance." "Guidance go." "Surgeon." "Flight." "EECOM." "Flight." "GNC." "We're go." "Flight." "Procedures." "Go." "Inco." "Go." "FAO." "We are go." "Network." "Recovery." "Go." "Go." "Flight." "this is Houston." "We are go for launch." "Houston." "what's your status?" "We are go for launch." "T minus 60 seconds and counting." "Stand by." "Roger." "Fuel pumps." "This is it." "A few bumps and we're haulin' the mail." "this is Guidance." "They're ready for takeoff." "We are go for launch." "T minus 15 14 13 12 11" "10 9 8 7" "6 ignition sequence starts 3 2 1 ignition!" "The clock is running!" "We have lift off!" "we have cleared the tower at 13:13." "we got it." "baby." "Come on." "Altitude is on the line." "Velocity right on the line." "Roll complete." "We are pitching." "stand by for mode one Bravo." "how we lookin'?" "Flight." "Right down the middle." "Thirteen." "Roger." "E.D.S. to manual." "Inboard." "fellas." "That was some little jolt." "Tower jett." "we've got a center engine cut off." "Go on the other four." "Thirteen." "We show the same." "can you confirm that cut off?" "what's that going to do?" "Flight." "I need to know if the l.U.'s correcting for the shutdown." "what's the story on engine five?" "We're still go." "We'll be all right as long as we don't lose another one." "we're not sure why the inboard was out so we're gonna burn those engines a little bit longer." "Roger that." "Our gimbals are good." "Our trim is good." "Looks like we just had our glitch for this mission." "stand by for staging." "Roger that." "S2 shutdown." "S4B ignition." "Flight." "S4B cut off in ten seconds." "over." "Coming up on 12 minutes 34." "And SECO!" "Shutdown." "is how we do that." "boy." "Hope I can sleep." "that was loud." "hold my hand." "I can't believe you did this four times." "The worst part's over." "It is?" "this doesn't stop for me until he lands on that aircraft carrier." "you just look so calm about it." "I'd be grounded." "Mrs. Lovell!" "Mrs. Haise!" "Can we speak to you?" "Can we just have a word with you?" "happy and thrilled." "Mrs. Lovell!" "very proud and we're thrilled." "Booster." "I show S4B shutdown." "Flight." "fido." "guys." "We're goin' to the moon." "we have reacquisition of signal at Hawaii." "everything looks good." "Houston." "C.M.P. here." "I've exchanged couches with Jim." "I'm in the pilot's seat." "I'm gonna go ahead and get set for transposition and docking." "Jack." "you okay?" "let's get turned around and pick up the lunar module. and we recommend you secure cabin pressurization." "Roger that." "we're ready for C.S.M. separation." "S.M.R.C.S. isol valves are all gray." "command module pilot she's all yours." "we've got a good separation." "The S4B is stable." "Translation looks good." "Thirteen." "We're gonna start to pitch around to line up with the LEM." "Frank Borman was upchuckin' most of the way to the moon on Apollo 8." "I'm all right. I just ate too much breakfast." "Let's go to work." "And pitching up." "2.5 degrees per second." "Jack." "We see you pitching around." "Keep an eye on that telemetry." "we don't have a mission." "How's the alignment?" "G.D.C. align." "Thrusting forward." "One hundred feet." "now." "guys." "I'm on top of it." "let's uplink that." "How we lookin'?" "We're not there yet." "Forty feet." "Twenty." "park that thing." "Ten feet." "Capture." "That's it." "Talk back is barber pole." "Go ahead and retract." "we have hard dock." "Jack." "Let's start back up with procedure 17." "we have LEM extraction." "Thirteen." "Now you're off to the Fra Mauro highlands." "we are ready for the beginning of the P.T.C" "Jack and I will eat." "I'm hungry." "Are you sure?" "I could eat the ass out of a dead rhinoceros." "huh?" "By the numbers so far." "We just ran a minimum load test on the cooling system." "Let me clean this up." "See you tomorrow." "Take care." "It's too bad we can't demonstrate this on TV." "What a shame." "Okay." "Overboard dump comin' up." "Here it comes the constellation Urion." "that's a beautiful sight." "we are going to your father's broadcast." "No!" "I'm never coming out!" "I hate Paul!" "No one else can ever play their records again!" "She's still going on about the stupid Beatles breaking up?" "They're not stupid!" "You're stupid!" "Barbara!" "I know you're in mourning." "Mom!" "Dad won't know if we're there!" "and so are we." "Excuse me while I" "America and welcome aboard Apollo 13." "and we're broadcasting to you tonight 000 miles away from 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" "Susan." "Barbara." "our life is like for the three of us in the vast expanse of outer space." "Double!" "One of the first things we'd like to do is provide you with the appropriate background music." "Freddo." "world!" "was supposed to be the theme to 2001 in honor of our command module Odyssey but there seems to have been a change in the program." "I'm gonna take my entire collection of Johnny Cash along." "Marilyn." "Where's their broadcast?" "All the networks dumped us." "One of them said we made goin' to the moon as exciting as a trip to Pittsburgh." "My son's supposed to be on." "He's in outer space." "Mrs. Lovell." "It's that damn TV Guide again." "Ruthless porters." "Savage baggage masters" "When I was just a lad of ten" "My father said to me" "Come here and take Do they know they're not on the air?" "We'll tell them when they get back." "my boy" "My father said to me l.R.S. is watching I forgot to file my 1040 return." "uh" "That's no joke." "They'll jump on him." "let's head on down to the lunar excursion module." "Follow me." "when we get ready to land on the moon" "Fred Haise and I will float through this access tunnel leaving that stir's gonna be is that correct?" "the spacecraft will remain connected." "as you can probably tell the Aquarius isn't much bigger than a couple of telephone booths." "The skin of the LEM in some places is only as as thick as a couple of layers and that's all that protects us from the vacuum of space." "We get away with this because the LEM is designed only for flight in outer space." "Renaissance man." "we'll head back up the tunnel now and back into the Odyssey." "When you and your baby have a fallin' out we've returned to the" "Houston." "Gotcha!" "that bang you heard was Fred Haise on the cabin repress valve." "He gets our hearts goin' every time with that one." "We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town about to close out the Aquarius return to the Odyssey." "Our next broadcast will be from Fra Mauro on the surface of the moon." "this is the crew of the Apollo 13 wishing everyone back on Earth a a pleasant evening." "All right." "Daddy was funny." "They might air a few minutes of it on the news tonight." "You'd think so." "Bye." "Bye." "between Jack's back taxes and the Fred Haise Show I'd say that was a pretty successful broadcast." "Houston." "We've got a couple of housekeeping procedures." "We'd like you to roll right to 060 and null your rates." "060." "And then if you could give your oxygen tanks a stir." "Roger that." "we've got a problem here." "What did you do?" "Nothing. I stirred the tanks." "Whoa!" "Hey!" "this is Houston." "Say again please." "we have a problem." "We have a main bus B undervolt." "We've got a lot of thruster activity here." "What's with the computer now?" "It just went off line." "There's another master alarm." "I'm checking the quad." "That was no repress valve." "Maybe it's in quad C. I'm gonna reconfigure the R.C.S. We've got a computer restart." "We've got a ping light." "The way these are firing doesn't make sense." "Houston." "We've got to reset and restart." "I'm going to S.C.S." "their heart rates are skyrocketing." "what's your data telling you?" "O2 tank two not reading at all." "Tank one is at 725 psi and falling." "uh let me get back to you." "GNC." "They're all over the place." "They keep yawing close to gimbal lock." "I keep losing radio signal." "their antennae must be flipped around." "They're gonna have to do it manually if they do it at all." "people." "is this an instrumentation problem or are we looking at real power loss?" "It's reading a quadruple failure." "That can't happen." "It's got to be instrumentation." "Let's get the hatch buttoned." "The LEM might have been hit by a meteor." "The tunnel's really torquin' with all this movement." "we had a pretty large bang there associated with a master alarm." "it's main bus A." "Main bus A undervolt?" "Main bus A undervolt down to lt's reading 25 and a half." "Main bus B is reading zip now." "We got a wicked shimmy up here." "These guys are talking about bangs and shimmies." "Doesn't sound like instrumentation." "13." "Can't get this hatch to seal." "we'd be dead by now." "I'm gonna try to get us out of this lurch." "did you say switch to omni Bravo?" "Thirteen." "The signal strength went way down." "It's fighting me." "What's the story?" "We keep flirting with gimbal lock." "We need a confirmation." "What systems do you have down?" "Rick." "S.M.R.C.S. Helium one." "Did you say switch to omni Charlie?" "A and C are barber pole." "I'm switching over quad C to main A." "Thirteen." "fuel cell three." "suit compressor." "A.C. bus two command module computer and O2 flow high." "I don't know." "Maybe this is a caution and warning failure." "we are venting something out into space." "I can see it outside of window one right now." "uh a gas of some sort." "It's got to be the oxygen." "Odyssey." "We copy your venting." "Give me an alignment." "Let's think about the kind of things we can connect." "Let's start back at the beginning." "Anything look abnormal?" "people." "people." "I need another computer up in the R.T.C.C." "I want everybody to alert your support teams." "Wake up anybody you need and get them in here." "people." "Let's not make things worse by guessing'." "this is Houston." "We are going around the room." "We're gonna get you answers." "we're gonna keep hitting the edge of that deadband." "Take a look at the O2 on number one." "200 pounds and falling." "O2 tank two still zero." "Tank one: 218 psi and falling." "is that what you're gettin'?" "Confirm." "Sy?" "Let's look at this thing from a standpoint of status." "What have we got on the spacecraft that's good?" "Gene." "We're not gonna have power much longer." "The ship's bleedin' to death." "EECOM." "I recommend we shut down the reactant valves of the fuel cells." "What the hell good is that gonna do?" "we can isolate it." "and we can run on the good cell." "you can't open 'em again." "You can't land on the moon with one healthy fuel cell." "the Odyssey is dying." "this is the last option." "Sy." "let's have them close the reactant valves." "this is Houston." "We want you to close react valves on cells one and three." "Do you copy?" "Are you saying you want the whole smash?" "Closing down the react valves for fuel cells shut down?" "Shutting down the fuel cells?" "Did I hear you right?" "they heard me right." "Tell them we think that's the only way they can stop the leak." "Jim." "We think that closing the react valves may stop the leak." "Jim?" "we copy." "We just lost the moon." "shut those down." "Let's see what this does." "If this doesn't work we're not gonna have enough power left to get home." "Shit!" "Goddamn it!" "O2 on one is still falling." "how long does it take to power up the LEM?" "Three hours by the checklist." "We don't have that much time." "Shit!" "before the batteries completely die on us in here let's power down everything so we can save as much as we can for reentry." "Fifteen minutes of oxygen and that's it." "The command module will be dead." "listen up." "Here's the drill." "We're moving the astronauts over to the LEM." "We've got to get some oxygen up there." "I want emergency power procedure; essential hardware only." "we're gonna be shutting down the command module at the same time." "We'll have to transfer the guidance system from one computer to the other so I want those numbers up and ready when our guys are in position." "We've gotta transfer all control data over the LEM computer before the command module dies." "The lunar module just became a lifeboat." "this is Houston." "We need you to power down immediately." "so you better get somebody over there." "Houston." "We've got serious time pressure. and you've got to do it before you're out of power in the command module or you're not gonna be able to navigate up there." "How much time?" "Can you give me a number?" "we're looking at less than 15 minutes of life support in the Odyssey." "Freddo." "It's worse than I thought." "be aware I've moved from the command module into the LEM." "If Jack can't get that guidance computer data transferred before they go dead" "They won't even know which way they're pointed." "That's right." "That's a bad way to fly." "I'll be in 210 if you need me." "this is Thirteen." "Are you back with me now?" "this is Houston." "You now have about 12 minutes to power up." "there's a lot of debris floating' around out there." "I have completed the steps on page 15." "Now I'm ready to power down the computer." "Jack" "Jim." "I need this back to me before they power down." "all right." "I got it." "Hold on." "our computer is up." "Roger." "Stand by." "we need to proceed with steps 12 through 17 quickly." "You're down to about eight minutes remaining." "tank two off." "check me. I have completed these gimbal conversions but I need a double check of the arithmetic." "Jim." "The roll CAL angle is minus two." "Lunar module roll is 355.57." "Pitch:" "1678Correction." "Pitch: 167.78." "Yaw is 351.87." "Stand by." "We're checking it. who knows where we'll end up out here?" "Flight." "It's all right." "Good here." "Andy." "We'll go on those numbers." "Freddo." "turn off the l.M.U. Switch to S.C.S." "Stand by to turn off the thrusters." "Over." "It's a great day in New York." "It's girl watchers' weather." "I like those ingenious girl watchers who put on Con Edison helmets and dig trenches in the street to get a better view. did you know that our first bachelor astronaut is on his way to the moon?" "first bachelor." "has a girl in every port." "He has that reputation." "Hershey bars to the moon." "Did you read that three million" "What do you say?" "Less viewers or fewer viewers?" "watched the space shot than did the last one." "I Colonel Borman is h" "An ABC New" "Here is ABC science editor Jules Bergman." "Fred Haise and Jack Swigert so they'll have electrical power for their radios on the command module." "Apollo 13 is apparently also losing breathing oxygen" "Slow down." "An electrical failure." "What exactly does that mean?" "The emergency has ruled out any chance of a lunar landing and could endanger the lives of the astronauts themselves can't last them until they can get back to Earth." "What do you mean there's no immediate danger?" "I just heard they're losing oxygen." "Can they get back?" "The LEM's descent rocket engine will be used in aborting the mission and getting the astronauts safely back to Earth." "Recapping what has happened:" "The Apollo 13 astronauts may be in grave danger." "don't give me that NASA bullshit!" "I want to know what's happening with my husband!" "We want to switch control to the Aquarius now." "wait!" "Jack." "Be aware our R.C.S. isn't up here yet." "We have no attitude control on Aquarius." "They don't have control?" "Did we miss a step here?" "what the hell happened?" "What?" "I don't know." "but we're yawing to the left." "Why can't I null this out?" "She wasn't designed to fly attached like this." "It's like flying with a dead elephant on our back." "Guidance." "We're getting awfully close to center here." "Watch that middle gimbal." "We don't want you tumbling off into space." "inform Houston I'm well aware of the goddamn gimbals!" "Houston." "I don't need to hear the obvious." "we're on VOX." "this is Houston." "We've got you both on VOX." "You want what?" "You want us to go to VOX?" "You have a hot mike." "We are reading everything you say." "Jim." "It's only by a very narrow margin" "Haise and Swigert back alive." "Marilyn?" "I'm sorry." "Jeffrey's calling for you." "the terseness of Kraft and the grim lines of Jim McDivitt." "This has been a very close call." "We're not out of the woods yet." "Jeffrey?" "Why are so many people here?" "you know your dad's flying his mission." "He said he was going to get me a moon rock." "Right." "Well and he's gonna have to turn around before he even gets to the moon." "Was it the door?" "Houston." "We still show that venting pushing you around." "Aquarius." "but we are doing better now." "Aquarius." "Have him close it out." "we can close out your procedure now." "Do we know for sure that we can power this thing back up?" "It's gonna get awfully cold in here." "Jack." "We'll just have to deal with that later." "Computer off." "We're clear." "We're going to the LEM." "Jack." "Lunar module now in control." "Houston." "This is Odyssey signing off." "we're gonna have to execute some sort of burn." "It's just a matter of when." "Did they shut us all down in there?" "Yeah." "Didn't think we'd be back in here so soon." "how far off course do you project we are?" "Over." "listen up!" "I want you all to forget the flight plan." "we are improvising a new mission." "Sorry about that." "We'll get somebody to look at that." "Find a bulb around here." "How do we get our people home?" "They are here." "direct abort?" "Yes!" "Gene I can't guarantee the burn yet." "sir!" "We get them on a free return trajectory." "It's the option with the fewest question marks for safety." "I agree with Jerry." "We use the moon's gravity to slingshot them around." "The LEM will not support three guys for that amount of time." "It barely holds two." "bring the guys right home." "Get 'em back soon." "Absolutely." "We don't even know if the Odyssey's engine's working." "If there's been serious damage to this spacecraft" "They blow up and they die!" "That is not the argument!" "We are talking about time!" "Jesus!" "Come on!" "I'm not gonna sugarcoat this for you!" "hold it." "Let's hold it down." "Let's hold it down." "The only engine with enough power for a direct abort is the S.P.S. on the service module. so let's consider that engine dead." "could blow the whole works." "It's just too risky." "We're not gonna take that chance." "About the only thing the command module is good for is reentry." "which means free return trajectory. pick up some speed and get 'em home as quick as we can." "I'm wondering what the Grumman guys think about this. not fire the engine out there for course corrections." "are we?" "I don't care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do." "okay?" "he says it will be ready in time." "we've got to build some time in the flight plan for sleep." "Run it by the F.A.O. I've run it by the F.A.O." "Do we know how long we're gonna fire that burn?" "He specifically wanted a quote from a flight director." "Who wanted a quote?" "The President." "The President?" "Nixon." "He wants odds." "We are not losing the crew." "I gotta give him odds." "Five to one against?" "Three to one?" "I don't think they're that good." "We are not losing those men!" "How long are they gonna have to burn the engine?" "tell him three to one." "Expect loss of signal in less than one minute." "When we pick you back up we will have your P.C. plus two burn data." "Houston." "We'll hear from you again at acquisition of signal." "You wanna look?" "look at that." "Wow." "that's 30 seconds until loss of signal." "Mare Tranquillitatis." "Neil and Buzz's old neighborhood." "Comin' up on Mount Marilyn." "you gotta take a look at this." "I've seen it." "this is Houston." "We expect loss of signal in approximately ten seconds." "Earth." "Catch you on the flip side." "When you go into the shadow of the moon you see stars that are more brilliant than anything you've ever seen on the clearest nights here on Earth." "And then you pass into the lunar sunrise over the lunar surface." "It must be an aweinspiring sight." "I can't wait to see it myself. which is vitally needed for the cooling operations to maintain the electronic systems and so forth." "it's Fra Mauro." "I can see our landing site." "Wow." "Look at the Tsiolkovskii crater." "I can't believe how bright the ejecta blanket is." "It's like snow. lt's beautiful." "That's Mare Imbrium to the north." "this is Houston." "We're reading your telemetry." "It's good to see you again." "Houston." "062 feet per second at a distance from the moon of 56 nautical miles." "Stand by for your P.C. plus two burn data." "do some prospecting'." "we were close." "what are your intentions?" "I'd like to go home." "We got a burn coming up." "We're gonna need a contingency if we lose comm with Houston." "let's get an idea where we stand on the consumables." "get into the Odyssey and bag up all the water you can before it freezes in there." "Let's go home." "we got some P.C. plus two burn data for you fellas." "So you're telling me you can only give our guys 45 hours?" "That brings them to about there." "that's not acceptable." "we've got to talk about power." "guys!" "Power is everything!" "Power is everything." "What do you mean? they don't turn the heat shield around." "now." "They're not gonna make it to reentry." "the LEM draws 60 amps." "not 45." "And so is the crew." "We gotta get them down to 12 amps." "Twelve amps?" "How many?" "John. the whole smash." "Whoa!" "Guidance computer." "What if they need to do another burn?" "They won't even know which way they're pointed." "the more juice they waste." "That's the deal?" "That's the deal." "we'll power down the LEM." "All right." "we're gonna have a frozen command module up there." "We're gonna have to power it up using nothing but the reentry batteries." "That's never been tried." "We've never even simulated it before." "we're gonna have to figure it out." "I want people in our simulators working reentry scenarios." "every transistor and every light bulb that's up there." "Then talk to the guy in the assembly line who actually built the thing." "Find out how to squeeze every amp out of both of these goddamn machines." "I want this mark all the way back to Earth with time to spare." "We never lost an American in space." "We're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch." "Failure is not an option." "Ken?" "Ken?" "you're not dead." "I've been trying to get in touch with you for 45 minutes." "what are you doing here?" "I gotta get you in the simulators." "We got a ship to land." "What?" "There's been an explosion." "Oxygen tanks are gone." "Two fuel cells gone." "Command module shut down." "What about the crew?" "Crew's fine so far." "Trying to keep them alive in the LEM." "We're gonna have to shut that down pretty soon too." "Ken." "Nobody's too sure how much power we're gonna have when we hit reentry." "The command module's gonna be frozen up pretty good by then." "powerup is no good." "that's sayonara for the guidance computer." "Our guys can't reenter." "Okay?" "How much power do we have to play with?" "Barely enough to run this coffee pot for nine hours." "Ken Mattingly just got here." "Copy." "He's here." "They've been losing heat since the accident." "They're gonna start getting water condensation on the control panels." "glad you're here." "You know what's going on?" "John's brought me up to speed." "What do we have left in the batteries?" "We don't really know." "We gotta get started on some shortcuts for powerup." "You know how short? turn things on in the right order I agree." "but it's your ship." "We gotta get you in there." "Okay." "I need the sim cold and dark." "Give me the exact same conditions they've got in there now." "I need present status of every instrument." "You got it." "I need a flashlight." "That's not what they have up there." "Don't give me anything they don't have on board." "fellas." "the quad heater circuit breakers are open." "Copy that. and we're switching to aft omni when we see the moon." "Thirteen." "we don't want you to make any more waste dumps." "The venting may push you off course." "Christ." "What's up?" "No more waste dumps." "We're just gonna have to store it." "we're gonna need some more urine bags. which I'm shutting down now." "And that's it." "We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver's seat." "is it A.M. or P.M.?" "very A.M." "and none of them has slept." "I can't order these guys to go to sleep." "Could you sleep up there?" "It's gonna get awful cold in there for those guys." "we have a situation brewing with the carbon dioxide." "We got a CO2 filter problem on the lunar module." "Five filters on the LEM." "Meant for 2 guys for a day and a half." "I told the doc They're already up to 8 on the gauges. beginnings of brain asphyxia." "What about the scrubbers on the command module?" "They take square cartridges." "The ones on the LEM are round." "Tell me this isn't a government operation." "This just isn't a contingency we've remotely looked at." "Those CO2 levels are gonna be getting toxic." "I suggest you invent a way to put a square peg in a round hole rapidly." "listen up." "and we gotta come through." "We gotta find a way to make this fit into the hole for this using nothing but that." "let's build a filter." "someone." "Texas." "Mississippi. but he never dreamt of flying. and I only went into the flying business as a means to getting a commission." "Good morning." "Henry." "Don't you ever sleep?" "I have a request from the news people." "Uhhuh." "They want to put a transmitter up on the lawn." "Transmitter?" "It's kind of a tower for a live broadcast." "They didn't care about this mission." "They didn't even run Jim's show." "Well it's more dramatic now." "Suddenly people are" "Landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them." "Why should not landing be? but the whole world is caught up in it." "Henry." "Those people don't put one piece of equipment on my lawn." "they can take it up with my husband." "He'll be home on Friday." "When you are sad and lonely" "And have no place to go baby and bring along some dough" "And we'll go honky tonkin' Honky tonkin' honey baby" "We'll go honky tonkin' 'round this town" "Freddo." "It's too cold in there." "Yeah." "That's a nice one of Mary." "Freddo." "I'll survive." "There's aspirin in the medical kit." "I took some." "I'm all right." "Mary gettin' pregnant." "You should have seen the look on my face when she told me." "that has a tendency to happen." "Yeah." "I wonder if it's a boy or a girl." "You're gonna find out soon enough." "Sure." "I never dreamed I'd ever get to do something like this:" "come up here on a real mission." "Most of the guys I graduated high school with and here I am." "yeah here you are." "It hurts when I urinate." "you're not gettin' enough water." "I'm drinking my ration the same as you." "I think old Swigert gave me the clap." "He's been pissin' in my relief tube." "Well that will be a hot one at the debriefing for the flight surgeon." "That's another first for America's space program. and I'm a little worried about this cold affecting our battery efficiency." "so that's not helping." "It could cost us amp hours on the back end?" "That's a possibility." "I've been goin' over the numbers again." "Have they called up with a reentry plan yet?" "We're comin' in too shallow and fast." "We're workin' on something." "Hold on." "I can't remember the ratio to temperature." "We got no references on board." "Let's see if Houston can pull up the mill specs." "listen!" "They gave us too much Delta V. They had us burn too long." "and we're never gonna get back." "What are you talkin' about?" "How'd you figure that?" "I can add." "They've got half the Ph.D.s on the planet working on this." "Houston says we're on the money." "What if they made a mistake and there was no way to reverse it?" "Do you think they would tell us?" "There's no reason to tell us." "What do you mean?" "That's bullshit!" "There's a thousand things that have to happen in order." "We are on number eight." "You're talking about number 692." "I'm trying to tell you we're coming in too fast." "and that's why we don't have a goddamn reentry plan." "Jack." "Ow!" "Goddamn this piece of shit!" "Hey!" "This piece of shit's gonna get you home." "All right." "Jack!" "Fred?" "I think you know what I'm saying." "Now wait a minute." "All I did was stir those tanks." "What was that gauge reading before you hit the switch?" "do you?" "They brought me in to do a job!" "and I stirred the tanks!" "Stop kicking yourself in the ass." "This is not my fault!" "No one is saying it is." "I stir the tanks." "tell him that." "and you don't know!" "we're not doing this." "We are not gonna do this." "We're not gonna go bouncing off the walls for ten minutes because we're just gonna end up right back here with the same problems!" "Try to figure out how to stay alive!" "this is Houston." "we're not on VOX." "this is Aquarius." "Go ahead." "could you check your CO2 gauge for us?" "we were just looking at that." "Our CO2 measurement has jumped four notches in the last hour." "That can't be right." "I went over those numbers three times." "that sounds about right." "We were expecting that." "Houston." "What do we do about it?" "We're working on a procedure down here for you." "Christ." "we're standing by for those procedures." "I know why my numbers are wrong." "I only figured it for two people." "Maybe I should just hold my breath." "The deadly CO2 gas is poisoning the astronauts with every breath in and out." "Heads up." "Heads up." "go!" "Someone get that." "Damn." "people." "Look out now." "What's this?" "That's what they gotta make." "I hope you got the procedures for me." "Right here." "That's it?" "this is Houston." "Do you have a flight plan?" "Andy." "Jack's got one right here." "we have an unusual procedure for you here." "We need you to rip the cover off." "He wants you to rip the cover off the flight plan." "With pleasure." "The other materials you're gonna need here are two." "Two lithium hydroxide canisters." "I'm sorry." "A roll of gray tape." "Duct tape." "Duct tape." "You need an L.C.G. bag Two L.C.G. bags." "and you've got the flight plan cover." "Can you give me a timetable?" "Henry!" "Henry!" "What about their level of carbon dioxide?" "climbing." "You're saying that they're almost out of breathable air?" "Wait a second." "That's not what he said." "He said we're working on it." "You want to cut the duct tape three feet long." "Tell him to use his arm." "Just use your arm." "It's a good arm length." "I see what you're getting at." "Hold on." "tear that piece of tape down the middle length wise." "Houston. one thing they have too much of is carbon dioxide." "the three men expel and the scrubbers intended to keep the atmosphere breathable are quickly becoming saturated." "shit. I tore it." "Shit!" "what do we do if we ripped the bag?" "Can we tape it?" "no." "stand by." "What should I tell 'em to do?" "They should have one more." "But they've still got a long way to come." "their emergency facilities." "they're in real trouble." "there is no rescue possible in space flight." "AAny rescue system the space agency has long since calculated" "Hold this a minute." "Since any rescue system the space agency calculated we're gonna want you to bungee Work it in. right above the LEM canister." "We're getting close to 15." "So how does this flight compare to other emergency situations you've faced?" "I'd have to say that this is the most serious situation we've ever encountered in manned space flight." "filter's in place." "Cabin gas return to egress." "Suit circuit relief to close." "CO2 canister select to secondary." "All right." "Here goes." "I can hear air moving." "fellas." "please advise on CO2 status." "we're taking a look at those numbers now." "Houston." "Roger that." "Standing by." "the CO2 level has dropped to nine and it is still falling." "you guys." "Aquarius." "are a steelyeyed missile man." "spacecraft control to computer." "Damn!" "Damn." "We overloaded." "We used way too much power." "There must be a sneak circuit between step seven and ten." "John." "The sequence was wrong." "We just have to go back and try 'em one at a time." "Ken?" "I don't get one." "get me another one." "Mrs. Lovell." "Blanch." "They can't fix a thing in this place." "it's Marilyn." "Grandma." "I was gonna see Jimmy." "I know. I know." "We came to tell you something." "There's been an accident." "Jimmy's okay." "He's all right." "But he's not gonna get to walk on the moon." "they said he was." "I know. I know." "Um that was before." "and they're all okay." "They're all right." "But now they're just going to try to figure out a way to get them home." "And" "And it's a little bit dangerous." "sweetie." "Are you scared?" "honey. my Jimmy could land it." "You saw me standing alone" "Without a dream in my heart" "Without a love of my own and he's gonna grant you an extension on your income taxes since you are most decidedly out of the country." "Houston." "That's wonderful news." "Tell them they have to sleep." "Haise is running a fever of 104." "we've had another request from the flight surgeon that you fellas get more sleep." "He doesn't like his readings down here." "Let's see how he feels about this." "I am sick and tired of the entire western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!" "I just lost Lovell!" "this is Houston." "we just had a dropout on your biomed sensors." "Houston." "Jim." "Copy that." "Now I'm losing all three of 'em!" "Doc." "I'm sure the guys are still with us." "okay?" "it's the angle. but we are definitely shallowing again." "We are up to a 5.9." "Damn it." "they nick the earth's atmosphere and bounce off into space." "We need another burn to get them back in the corridor." "Definitely another burn." "Another burn." "Copy that." "Fire the engines and get 'em on course." "this is Houston." "Aquarius." "we've got another course correction for you." "What's up?" "Something about another course correction." "Houston." "Be advised it's gonna take Freddo and I a while to power up the computer for the alignment platform if we have to fire the engine." "Jim." "We can't spare power for the computer." "We gotta do this blind?" "what do we use for orientation?" "We've got to be able to give these guys something." "we can't give them a reading." "I'm talking about reference." "there's no references." "We have debris up there." "what's the story with this burn?" "Aquarius." "Stand by." "Houston." "All we need to hold attitude is one fixed point in space." "Jim." "we've got one. all I have to know is: how long do we need to burn the engine?" "Jim." "Can they fly it manually and still shut it down on time without the computer?" "I guess that's the best we can do." "We're out of time. the crew must aim for a corridor just two and a half degrees wide." "they'll incinerate in the steadily thickening air." "they'll ricochet off the atmosphere like a rock skipping off a pond." "so narrow that if this basketball were the Earth the crew would have to hit a target no thicker than this piece of paper." "on your toes." "We're doing this one blind." "I want you to understand we've never tried this before:" "manual control." "will it not?" "I just want you to know the engine's never been tried like this." "That's all I'm trying to tell you." "I know what you're trying to do." "I won't hold you personally responsible." "it lights." "Let Lovell do the rest." "Okay. attempting to keep the Earth in the window." "this is gonna take all three of us." "Freddo you handle the pitch." "all backwards. not forward." "I'll do the same on mine with everything else." "We're going to burn at ten percent thrust for 39 seconds." "you time us." "Got it." "Give us a count of the last ten seconds up to 39." "Let's not miss this." "Freddo?" "I'm with you." "Standing by for corridor control burn." "you can fire when ready." "You are go for the manual burn." "X plus button at ten seconds." "Mark." "Ullage is go." "ignition!" "yeah." "here we go." "10°/° thrust." "but it's draggin'." "Freddo." "hold what you got." "I'll roll it." "Back off." "I can't get it stable." "She's dancin' all over the place!" "Come to the right a little bit." "Fifteen seconds." "She's drifting'." "I'm losin' attitude." "back!" "Shit!" "I'm losin' it!" "Bring the Earth up." "Fred." "Come on." "Forward." "I lost it!" "Where is it?" "Where is it?" "7:00." "Helium regulator's closed." "Freddo." "Just nose it down." "I got it!" "Thirty seconds." "Little farther." "Ease your touch!" "that's mine." "That's me." "Around." "that's it." "Hold it." "Damn it!" "nine!" "Shutdown!" "we have shutdown." "Jim." "Good work." "huh?" "How about it?" "Guess you can keep your job." "You betcha." "stand by." "We're evaluating our power usage on that burn." "let's hope we don't have to do that again." "you've given our guys enough to survive 'til reentry." "Well done." "so tell me about the powerup procedures." "Here's the order of what I want to do. warm up the pyros for the parachutes and the command module thrusters." "The thrusters are gonna put you over budget on amps." "John." "They gotta be heated." "something." "what's the point?" "You're telling me what you need. I'm telling you what we have to work with at this point." "I'm not making this stuff up." "John." "Ken." "We just don't have it." "I'm gonna go back and reorganize the sequencing again and find more power." "Let's start from scratch." "Clear the board." "I don't know where the hell we're gonna find it. and I asked him recently if he ever was scared." "I've had an engine flame out a few times in an aircraft they seem to work out." "is there an instance in an airplane emergency when you can recall fear? so there's no running lights on the carrier." "and we were in the Sea of Japan." "and my homing signal was gone and so it was leading me away from where l was supposed to be." "so I flip on my map light." "everything shorts out right there in my cockpit." "All my instruments are gone." "My lights are gone and I can't even tell what my altitude is." "so I'm thinking about ditching into the ocean. there's this green trail." "It's like a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. lt was the algae." "It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship." "it was just leading me home. there's no way I'd have ever been able to see that." "you never know what events are going to transpire to get you home." "no stranger to emergencies." "Fred?" "I'm okay." "What the hell was that?" "Let's hope it was just the burst disk." "Can you confirm a burst helium disk?" "We confirm that." "entry angle at all?" "Aquarius." "uh we sure could use the reentry procedure up here." "When can we expect that?" "Aquarius." "we" "We just can't throw this together at the last minute." "here's what you're gonna do. so there's no foulups." "I don't have to tell you we're all a little tired up here." "The world's getting awfully big in the window." "this is Deke." "It's Deke." "They don't know how to do it." "Deke." "What's the story?" "We're gonna get that powerup procedure to you." "We're gonna get it as soon as we possibly can." "Ken Mattingly's in the simulator right now." "Ken's working on it?" "Look" "John." "The sequence looks good." "We're just over budget on the amperage." "By how much?" "Three or four amps." "John!" "is it three or four?" "Four." "Four!" "Four more amps." "right?" "Yeah." "We have an umbilical that provides power from the command module to the LEM." "It's backup for the LEM power supply." "I'm listening." "So reverse it." "Reverse the flow and see if we can draw these four amps from the LEM batteries before we cut it lose." "Why can't we do that?" "We don't have a procedure for that?" "Ken." "but all we're talking about here is four amps." "I want whatever you guys got on these power procedures." "just a couple of chapters." "We've got to get something up to these guys." "They're working on it." "I'll call the simulator and get an estimate." "Goddamn it!" "I don't want another estimate!" "I want the procedures now!" "l.M.U. is up." "so far." "Say again." "You're under the limit." "Keep going." "Okay." "Floodlights to fixed." "I'm bringing up the guidance." "Here we go." "C.M.C. attitude l.M.U." "C.M.C. source." "and we're on the computer." "Ken?" "Go ahead." "is your computer on now?" "Up and running." "How do we look?" "John?" "buddy." "right?" "Yeah." "gentlemen." "I was getting a little blurry there." "Here's Ken." "Here's John." "Ken." "This is the sequence." "Was it tried on the hardware yet?" "We didn't have time." "Houston." "Do you read?" "Ken." "Are the flowers blooming in Houston?" "Jim." "I don't have the measles." "is Jack in there with you?" "stand by one." "We gotta get him on comm." "Jackie." "I think it would really help if you could just distract her when the heavy predictions come in." "yeah." "We'll give it a shot." "Thanks." "Blanch." "young men are gonna watch the television with you." "and this is Buzz Aldrin." "Nice to meet you." "Hi." "Are you boys in the space program too?" "give me a readback on that last procedure." "Ken." "I'm having trouble reading my own writing." "I guess I was a little more tired than I thought." "Jack." "I'll talk you through it." "find the main bus breakers on panel 11." "main bus breakers." "Got it." "Close main bus B." "there's an awful lot of condensation on these panels." "What's the word on these things shorting out?" "Jack." "It's like tryin' to drive a toaster through a car wash." "Main bus B is closed." "we're coming up on entry interface." "we're still shallowing up a bit in the reentry corridor." "It's almost like they're underweight." "Now how could they be underweight?" "We didn't land on the moon." "Rocks?" "That's affirm." "Jim." "we'd like you and Freddo to transfer some ballast over to the command module." "Houston." "Ballast?" "that's affirm." "We got to get the weight right." "We were expecting you to be toting a couple hundred pounds of moon rocks." "Houston." "Ken." "panel five." "Circuit breaker caution and warning main B closed." "Main B closed." "Master alarm off." "power to warmup." "power to warmup done." "Sequential logic one and two on." "Sequential logic two on." "C.M.R.C.S. pressure on." "C.M.R.C.S. pressurization. her neighbors" "Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin." "is absent as he holds vigil with his classmates at the St. Johns Military Academy in Wisconsin." "ABC News science editor Jules Bergman. there can be no easy maneuver." "Their LEM lifeboat is doing things and working longer than it was ever intended to." "It's a race against time until splashdown." "we're ready to see if the computer will accept the l.M.U. is up." "We got our eightballs back." "Copy that." "right?" "That's affirm." "Go ahead and try it." "Come on." "Uplink completed." "Yeah." "That's more like it." "We're back in business." "let's go." "Look at your amps." "How we doin'?" "Ken." "I wish you were here to see it." "I'll bet you do." "Jack." "RETRO." "we are looking at a typhoon warning" "RETRO." "We are looking at a typhoon warning on the edge of the prime recovery area." "This is just a warning." "It could miss them." "Only if their luck changes." "we're ready for S.M. jettison!" "on three!" "Onetwo upward thrust." "We're loose!" "Reverse thrust!" "We have service module jettison." "service module is free." "We're gonna take a look at what we have here." "Copy that." "There it is. I see it!" "Oh." "we're getting our first look at the service module now." "One whole side of the spacecraft is missing. right up to our heat shield." "Aquarius." "It looked like it got the engine bell too." "Can you see that?" "that's incredible." "The heat shield." "000 degrees Fahrenheit." "000 degrees." "Blanch?" "Blanch?" "Did Jim make Eagle Scout or not?" "he did." "He did. the extreme cold could have split it wide open." "if the pyrotechnics that control the parachutes but at a suicidal 300." "Perhaps never in human history has the entire world been united by such a global drama." "thousands of people have gathered to watch updates of the mission in Times Square." "and the State Department said it would ask for it if it were needed." "The House and Senate passed resolutions calling on the American people to pray tonight for the astronauts." "000 people in prayers for the safe return of the astronauts." "prayers at the Wailing Wall." "Freddo." "Freddo?" "You okay?" "uh l'm freezing." "Can you hold out just a little longer?" "come on." "Freddo." "Just a little while longer." "We're gonna hit that water in the South Pacific." "Open up that hatch." "It's 80 degrees out there." "Eighty degrees." "You are a mess." "Yeah." "guys?" "We're closing in on lunar module jettison." "that is time critical." "We should be making our move into the command module. let us know how you're doing." "Roger that." "Freddo." "We're coming up on LEM jettison." "Ken?" "We're getting real close." "we're coming up on LEM jettison." "Stand by." "Have you got everybody in the Odyssey?" "I'm gonna check those pyro batteries one more time here." "the pyro batts look good." "I don't think we're gonna have to tie the other batteries." "this is an old habit." "I'm kind of used to the pilot's seat." "She's yours to fly." "I want to double check some reentry procedures which is coming up in 30 seconds." "What is that? and I didn't want to cut the LEM loose with you guys still in it." "That's good thinking." "Houston." "We have lunar module jettison." "She sure was a good ship." "and we thank you." "Mary?" "honey." "Flight 966406." "Let me put it this way." "The trajectory may be off." "Their thrusters may be frozen." "Their guidance system might be malfunctioning." "Their heat shield could be cracked." "And their parachutes might be three blocks of ice." "we have some obstacles to overcome." "when will we know?" "blackout lasts for three minutes." "we'll know." "802 feet per second." "625 nautical miles." "Copy that." "we are aligned for reentry." "we're going to need that computer reentry program." "how are the batteries looking?" "Okay." "Batt A looks good." "Reentry interface in one minute the amps are okay." "and 30 seconds." "Batt C only two amps." "It may die before the main chutes open." "Roger." "Let's tie all the batteries onto main A and main B." "they're still shallowing a bit up there." "Do you want to tell 'em?" "Flight." "do they?" "Copy that." "RETRO says the typhoon is still a presence in the splashdown area? the angle of trajectory and the typhoon." "I'm a little at a loss I know what the problems are." "This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever experienced." "I believe this is going to be our finest hour." "Okay." "Expect entry interface in 45 seconds." "your velocity 245 feet per second." "Mark 35 seconds to entry interface." "Gentlemen it's been a privilege flying with you." "we have loss of radio contact." "Roger that." "Expect to regain signal in three minutes." "It all depends on the heat shield." "Back to the Iwo Jima and our live cameras there. waiting for first radar contact." "Coming up now on three minutes until time of drogue deployment." "what time you got?" "Standing by for any reports of acquisition." "One minute and 30 seconds to end of blackout." "No reentering ship has ever taken longer than three minutes to emerge from blackout." "This is the critical moment." "Will the heat shield hold?" "Will the command module survive the intense heat of reentry?" "there'll only be silence." "sweetie." "It's okay." "that's three minutes." "We are standing by for acquisition." "Copy that." "Houston." "Do you read me?" "this is Houston." "Do you read? has come and gone." "About all any of us can do now is just listen and hope. has withstood the inferno of reentry." "this is Houston." "Do you read me?" "Houston." "Do you read?" "30 seconds." "Standing by." "Houston." "Do you read?" "this is Houston." "Do you read me?" "That's four minutes." "Standing by." "Houston." "Do you read?" "this is Odyssey." "It's good to see you again." "Houston." "Welcome home." "We're glad to see you." "Ken." "Good job." "Thank you." "They made it." "They made it." "Yeah!" "Lunney." "we're at stable one." "The ship is secure." "This is Apollo 13 signing off." "Good job. but never made it to the moon." "it was determined that a damaged coil built inside the oxygen tank sparked during our cryo stir and caused the explosion that crippled the Odyssey." "It was a minor defect that occurred two years before I was named the flight's commander. but his mission was canceled because of budget cuts." "He never flew in space again." "who left the astronaut corps and was elected to Congress from the state of Colorado." "But he died of cancer before he was able to take office." "Ken Mattingly orbited the moon as command module pilot of Apollo 16 having never gotten the measles." "Gene Kranz retired as Director of Flight Operations just not long ago. but some are still there." "And as for me the seven extraordinary days of Apollo 13 were my last in space. all from the confines of Mission Control and our house in Houston. thinking of the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of us home." 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