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>> we have broken into space. >> as the world watched ground control in houston faced a formidable task. think of a way for the crew to fix their space ship, test it and then write out step by step procedures for the astronauts to follow just to get home. >> we immediately went to the simulators to try to do in the simulators what they had to do in the damaged apolo 13 spacecraft to get them home. >> we are trying to come up with some good ideas for you. >> one was to shutdown the command module to conserve the remaining energy and use the lunar module. a it was used for shuttling the members ...

Weightlessness. >> this is the crew i of apolo 13. >> nine minutes later, oxygen tank number two blew up causing the number one tank to also fail. >> houston, we have a problem. >> houston, we have a problem. words that would be forever linked to commander jim level. >> when the explosion occurred , i thought to myself, why me? for a little while i couldn't believe what was happening. then all of a sudden i said, well, it is me and it is now. so what's next? >> the command module's normal supply of electricity, light and water all lost. there was no heat source. they were 200,000 miles from ea...

I guess i was all charged up. >> they were sick, freezing and tired. but they were safe for now. mission control's next task was to get the broken down craft out of the lunar landing course and back on a free return to earth's trajectory. engineers in houston figured the crew could do this by executing two separate burns or accelerations made from the limping command module. towering that up after the long, cold fleet with one of mission's control's greatest achievements. w flat controllers generated the necessary procedure to do this in three days. something t like that would normally take th...

From the command module and guided safely to the moovenlt on the way down armstrongaldrin re long beyond the landing duck and into a boulder. that's when armstrong took over diverting from the plan he was now flying above unfamiliar territory searching for a safe spot to land while running low on fuel. >> we are on far side. looking at the altitude and it is about 100 feet. >> 60 seconds. >> 60 seconds. >> we are still a ways off the ground we have 60 seconds. i am getting concerned. >> we got very tense in mission control biteling our nails and holding our breath because we are running out of...

Two separate burns made from the command module. it was one of mission's control greatest achievement. it generated necessary procedures to do this in three-days. something like that would normally take three months. >> we got smarter and smarter and smarter. then it became less don't make no mistake. >> people hoped for a miracle. they got one. apollo 13 crashed down safely on april 17th. >> it was a failure in the initial mission but in reality it was a triumph in the go sabi of people to over come adversity. >> the triumph gave shepherd the courage to walk on the moon five months later.