This. It is playing the theme from 2001. Narrator april 13, 1970. The mood could only be described as relaxed. Apollo 13, mans fifth lunar mission. The third scheduled landing on the moon. Weve got one more item for this is the crew, ready to close out aquarius and get back to a pleasant evening in odyssey. Good night. 13, weve got one more item for you. We would like you to stir up your cryo tanks. Ok. Standby. Houston, we have a problem here. This is houston, say again. Weve had a main b bus undervoltage. We had a pretty large bang associated with this. As i recall,b was the one that had a spike on at once before. Announcer april 11, 1970. Launch day. , jimrew of apollo 13 level, the commander of three previous missions. He had orbited the moon on apollo eight. Fred hayes, his first time up. Lunar module pilot. Schweigert. Jack he replaced ken mattingly. Mattingly had been dropped from the mission because he had been exposed to german measles. He would watch the launch from mission c
Buffering the outside world from the technical decisions these guys had to make. Part, peoplein like kraft had the same experiences you had, wouldnt you say as a formal as a former flight director he knew . Washristopher columbus entirely appropriate for this guy. Pioneer in Mission Control. He launched each one of the mercury missions. But he was the mentor, teacher and tutor for this young generation who became known as Mission Controllers. He set the mold for everything that would be done thereafter and in particular, he set the and for the flight director the flight director being able to take any action necessary for crew safety and mission success. He had done that in the beauty of the thing was even though he physically had left the console, wase he knew his job now to give them the confidence to make the technical decisions and he was going to broker whatever political fallout might occur. A spectacular man. He was the interface between the top level and politics. I found that
Thank you. I would like to start off the briefing by saying i am not a superstitious person. Therefore, when we were assigned apollo 13, i thought nothing of myas a matter of fact, so friends of italian descent said that 13 was a lucky number and they were happy i got that number. All of this started before the flight, as was well documented, as we are approaching the final phase of our training, the last couple of days are usually ones which are taken very leisurely, try to keep a couple of days free to let ourselves unwind for the training cycle, get plenty of rest so when we launch, we are in good shape and we can go with an easy mine. Easy mind. As you know, a turn of events occurred and ken mattingly, our command module pilot was exposed to the measles. At that time, we had to make a big decision of bring jack along or delay the flight. It was one that was not easy for me to help decide and when they asked me what i wanted to do, because we had worked as a team for a long time, bu
13, weve got one more item for you when youve got a chance wed like you to startup your cryo tanks. Okay. Standby. We have a problem here. This is houston. Say again please. Houston weve had a problem. Weve had a main bust on a volt. Standby 13, were looking at it. April 11, 1970, launch day. The crew of apollo 13, commander and veteran of three previous missions, he had orbited the moon christmas 1968 on apollo 8. Fred hayes, his first time up, lunar module pilot. Jack swaggert, command module pilot. Mattingly had been dropped from the mission because hed been exposed to german measles. He would watch the mission from houstons mission control. Roger. Were on internal power. Hows it look . Ignition. Roger. Hows it look . Looks good here. Booster, how do you look . Look good. Were go flight. Looks good here. Looks good, mike. You dont see a problem do you . Not yet. All engines are a go. The next step of lunar flight was to burn out of earth orbit toward the moon and pull free of the th
That was a test. My father had told me stories from sky lab about he had always seen the fires in the amazon and people were clearcutting it. I hadnt thought about it for 35 years. I remember when i was a kid, there were a lot of tv things about it about save the rainforest, shockingly you dont see much these day. Boy, is it still burning and so was big areas of the green belt through central africa, but for me, the great epiphany came on this day. This was probably day eightish. It was the first time i had after having that information about the earth pour into your mind, i finally saw a place i knew personally very well. There is my house off a lake in austin, texas, i could also see houston where i grew up around nasa. I could see the gulf coast where i played on beaches as a kid, up in dallas where i had driven many times, i had driven and walked and biked those areas intimately. I knew the size of it. I knew how big it was. At the time, i could see the whole earth and suddenly tha