And checkout, of which i was the capcom, we just sort of moved over to apollo 11 for that same phase. And the only additional thing was going to be the landing. Apollo 10 went through the descent, didnt land. Came back up, aborted. Then rendezvoused. Well, were gonna do the whole thing. And so ive got to give Mission Control credit during this descent. And all of the troubles and problems that they had on apollo 11 on the descent. Mission control actually saved the day on just about every mission. Those 1201, 1202 warnings that could have aborted . Not really. We thought so. I thought so. This was abort. Oh no, computers frozen up or something, so it was a computer overload alarm that i didnt recognize. But the gnn guys did. And they said were going, that alarm. The apollo computer had a set compute cycle. And it cued up the jobs. And if it had too much to do in that milliseconds or whatever it was, it just dropped off the last jobs, told you it was overloaded, and it flipped back to t
Johnson wrote lectures for him for free. What he did was write his way to the stability of the truth. He just tried to describe accurately the world he tethered himself to that. Many of his effort is hims contain that stability, realism, intense honest realism. One is that a man of genius is seldom ruined by himself. It was an impressive struggle. That is the final thing we would say about solitude, i mean come about character. The people who have character are not the people who climb an external climb. If you see this dr. Seuss book it is about the external climb to success. The eulogy virtues is not about an external struggle, but the internal struggle about the things you fear about yourself. Johnson took all the things he feared about himself, his sloth, his envy, and he wrote about them headon and named them and grab them and they went away. Whether it is lover suffering or self defeat, it is that same shape that is falling down and coming up. I think the people who have characte
Theme from 2001. April 13, 1970, the moon could only be described as relaxed apollo 13, mans fifth lunar mission. The third scheduled to land on the moon continued its tranquil coast. Its a nice evening and we are going to close out on a pleasant evening. 13, we have got one more item for you when you have a chance. Stir up your cry of tanks. Ok. Were looking for compensation if you need it. Ok, stand by. Ok, weve had a problem here. Say that again, please . Weve had a main be interval. Ok, standby we are looking at it. Had a pretty large bang associated with the caution and warning. It spiked on us once before. We are starting to button up the tunnel again. April 11, 1970. Launch day. Jim lovell, commander in veteran of three Previous Missions had orbited the moon christmas, 1968 on apollo eight. Fred hayes his first time up lunar module pilot. Jack swaggart, command module pilot. Three days ago he was on the backup crew. Now he replaced ken mattingly. Mattingly had been dropped from
Oh, my god. Oh, no. Describing mo, my god. Fred hayes was watching planes land when he captured something unbelievable on his cell phone. Thats asia shana flight 214 careening down the runway before comes to rest in a cloud of dust and smoke. I thought he was going to take off and go up, and he just kept going down, and then i thought, okay, he is a little high, and then, of course, you know, the shock of seeing the accident and hearing the noise. Hayes says he hopes investigators can learn something from the video. We have Live Team Coverage of this story. Well start at sfo. Reporter the ntsb says the flight and voice data recorders from the airplane show a problemfree flight up until all of a sudden the last seven seconds. What must have been a harrowing seven seconds for the crew, who tried literally at the last second to abort the landing. This ntsb picture shows the voice and flight data recording boxes from the flight. The socalled black boxes were flown to the washington, dc lab
Abc 7 news starts right now with live breaking news. Oh my god oh, its an accident. Oh, youre filming it too. Oh my god. The moment of impact of flight 214 captured on camera. And tonight there is word the pilot may have had very little experience flying this type of jet. Good evening, everyone, im carolyn johnson. And im dan ashley. In for ama daetz tonight. New focus on the asiana pilot at the controls. Lee kangkook had only 43 hours of experience with the boeing 777, the plane that crashed, and it was his first time landing the plane at sfo. The ntsb revealed lee and the captain trying to abort the landing seconds before it crashed. Warnings went off in the cockpit before it crashed. And preliminary finds from the flight data recorder show the plane was flying below the target speed. Now we have Live Team Coverage on these developments, and some amazing survival stories. Lets start with the investigation into what went wrong. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live at sfo tonight.