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Tonight the real people. [We had a pretty large ***]
[associated with the, uh, caution and warning there.]
The real pictures. [And there's one whole side of the spacecraft missing]
The real story of Apollo 13 [Uh, Houston, we've had a problem]
It's a story od icy calm in the face of death
[LOVELL: The odds were very small that we're going to get out of this alive.]
Of absolute refusal to admit defeat.
[KRANZ: We will never surrender. We will never give up a crew.]
Of hope against all odds.
[Ms. LOVELL: I just knew he'd come back] An ordeal that lasted less than six days,
but still echoes decades later every time a spacecraft
splits the heavens. [And liftoff.]
April 1970. America was convulsed over the vietnam war.
Airport was the big hit in theaters. And the news on April 10th
that the Beatles were breaking up far overshadowed the moon mission
scheduled the next day
LOVELL: As a matter of fact, before we took off I think the only mention of Apollo 13
in The New York Times was on the weather page about 97 pages in.
Mission commander Jim Lovell was one of nasa's
most experienced astronauts
he's been a backup pilot for the first moon landing in July
69 a crime health care program
Apollo 11 had transfixed the world but then came
Apollo 12 and now 13 moonshot
had come to seem routine so you weren't front page news did that bother you at
all
no because this is what I wanted to do apollo thirteen would bring back
rock and soil samples from a hilly region on the moon
a much trickier landing site than those a previous missions
levels fellow astronauts Jack Swagger and Fred Haise
were both on their first space flight if the party gonna move just so in
credible that I couldn't pass up a chance as Hayes and the others tell it
today
none of them gave a moment's thought to the one thing about the mission that did
catch the
average person's attention a lot of people just don't even deal with the
number 13 they don't want to talk about it
did it register with you at all it did I didn't think about the number being
superstitious
that is not true with my wife all white balance said
why 30 it did bother me yes I said what happened to 14
but unlike an elevator nasa didn't skip 13
superstation can't have any place as if to drive home the point lead flight
director Gene Kranz recalls that nasa scheduled apollo thirteen
launch for 1:13 p.m. more
in military time 1313 you were kinda
flaunting the fact that you didn't care about superstation I thank God every
person that was in this room I live to
to plot the odds we were working on my ragged edge have all knowledge how
technology and all experience in this room
this rule was Krantz is domain mission control
in Houston it had been a and the smell
lovely cigarette smoke I mean we all smoke very heavily
pipes cigars cigarettes coffee pot that we had been boiled over in a burned-out
krantz oversaw a 24-17 that young engineers
who controlled every aspect of spaceflight the astronauts' lives
in their hands you guys had to look around and each other and think we're
kind of a group of bad assets in here
I get a feel pretty good about yourself well that culture of this world
was literally miraculously it seems like whatever happened
we were better as a total team than the summer
perch the same of course could be said for the three men riding the rocket
all of them former test pilot sparkle mortal danger
was just part of the job
when you became an astronaut did you feel special did you feel invincible at
all
I didn't feel invisible let me know their wars involved overcame the risk
that was about
for families at home a different equation
did you ever get used to the risk involved
Maryland no put it on your mind but
I can say that it was easy at times
so the day before launch you're out at the beach house
and get ready to see your husband for the last time before he heads into space
in something strange happened with your wedding ring what happened well
I was taking a shower and I i it just slipped right of my hand and went into
the drain
and I just was terrified because to me it was like an omen
that something really was going to happen it shook you up
where did shake me up did you ever tell Jim about it before the flight
are no on now you would never let that thought enter is my before he's about to
jump on my rocket
now that for some reason either the astronaut lives just never
discussed anything that that are worrying
their husbands I am before the one on the flight
I mean we kept everything to ourselves
the No
several hours before launching you guys get in that elevator
that takes you for the ride alongside up and then eventually to the top
on the Saturn rock that's a law
elevator ride up with three other thirty-something not
just think group three of us and a couple service check out people
our kids the spacecraft because it's basically a huge bomb
that your you're riding up alongside five and a half billion pounds of high
explosives in the formal oxygen hydrogen and everything else
any jitters no yes to like many others
one somewhere they say Italian live
for Lee cool
Mon the No go ahead here on the world
we have been left and we have left of it
no
where we left off most people think that would be a big picture and starts off
very slowly
because the vehicle way so much no has a by venue tryna
and prime growing up in Crown Point on them from her
on the power that's what you have your head close to the border
switched the case anything goes wrong and something
did go wrong one of the engines in the second stage of the rocket shut down
prematurely
forcing mission control to make a series up quick calculations
are the remaining engines although do we have enough propellant
to get the crop in order but within seconds mission controllers determine
that despite the malfunction apollo thirteen was good to go
for the mood the bike as I said health
every flight has a christ's something always goes wrong
this happen earlier the flight that work alfre Claire
many other things go wrong and he was right
for about 55 hours
lemme
gone
on April 11 1970 two hours and 35 minutes after Lee
apollo thirteen pirated rock exhilarating 24,000 miles an hour and
left Earth's orbit found for the moon
and people always say jim they say into the common the peace since
outer space outer space is a pretty hostile environment isn't it
well thats the you have to be prepared for it
outside was a complete vacuum if the ship's whole failed the crew would die
in seconds if the power failed they freeze to death
in hours everything they needed to survive
air water food in fueled had to be carefully managed
even when things are going smoothly it's a high stress environment is
all that I might think the hopeful they have those days
otherwise specified it certainly was on the ground in the pressure cooker
that was mission control watching listening
here crude I is something that well
impressed that event up on your mind level
gene krantz had been a flight director when just three years earlier
Apollo 1 caught fire on the launch pad incinerating astronauts Gus Grissom
and white and Roger JP soon after krantz helped write a document called
foundations a mission controlled I'm gonna read you a passage from its as
quote suddenly and unexpectedly
we may find ourselves in a role where our performance has
ultimate consequence the work in this room
is final the decisions are final the team
in this room must be paired not only to make those decisions
but to live with the results that occur but the first two days of Apollo 13's
missions
hardly seemed like life-or-death spacecraft for forecasters town hack
the spacecraft had three parts the cone-shaped command module
was where all three men would ride for most of the trip to the moon
and then back to earth the spidery lunar module
or lamb would carry two astronauts to the lunar surface
then be left behind the last critical piece was the service module
which contained the main engine an oxygen tanks
30 it but we got a crew PPP pic
55 hours and 11 minutes into the mission Apollo 13's crew made time for an
important dude
public relations they bring back a live TV show to her
something nasa like to do so taxpayers could see
what they were up to fred hayes was the actor this whole thing
what a la Jolie open up the bed that he was gonna sleep clock so the havoc
have to try to show people how was asleep on his bed Accorsi zero gravity
circuit piles up about
at contacthelp.com act like an apec
compact light-hearted look at life in space
from character great show
except dole's watch explain why that was
what that work had that capitalize shows I think I second that work had a rerun
of
Lucy at the third network at least to the city of Houston Texas
the baseball game what's going on everybody
was watching that included the people the control center here we had been to
the moon twice
and in some ways ho-hum had said it
the place is a Jim's wife Marilyn and daughters Barbara and Susan did watch
the show
in a private viewing room at mission control and when you found out that
not one of the networks carried that broadcasts headed that make you feel
pretty bad did upset me yes
but they got to see something the rest of the world didn't
an example afraid haces unusual sense if humor
you pulled something during that event that kinda
got everyone's attention engine level commented on talk to me about it
there is a valve in the lamina repress valve that when cycled
does make a fairly pronounced ***
pays turn the valve on live TV and the ***
startled commander jim lovell under for
are deep throws at like is a big bag you know
inside the space desires is absolutely every we look good say
I'll thats days ago no harm done
for for it was after the broadcast gym that that mission control radios up and
and they ask you to do something as
from it was fairly routine involving one of the
without secured two tanks have super cool liquid oxygen where the ship's most
precious resource
providing both air and fuel to get an accurate readings from the tanks mission
controllers had to make sure the liquid didn't settle at the bottom
when they ask you did it's a little like mush
the slick budgeted so there's a fair not the bottled
inside the tank at a little here's a list
so question was with you turn up
that the fair better system master of the art
in to accomplish that inside the spacecraft what did you have to do
actually just flip the switch
really for the Swiss they were about 200,000 miles from earth
when Jack Swagger flip the switch the data either way
was April 13 we might be better
for a beer growler governed
seconds later the men apollo thirteen were fighting for their lives
on are credible
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at precisely fifty five hours 53 minutes in
18 seconds into the flight apollo thirteen astronaut Jack Swagger
followed mission control's instruction to flip the switch
that stirred the liquid oxygen tanks everything seemed normal
and then it just had a
Big *** a one-time at so we all the trial
what happened was that I like to befriend days to see if he do
what was going up remember Hayes like to play tricks with the pressure valve
immediately jim lovell looks over to see has spread has pulled another fast one
on me
a jury sought my eyes and he saw wasn't smiling
I could tell from his expression yet no idea so this was one of his practical
jokes with the pressure
he had no idea case was in the tunnel between the command module
and the lunar module but I heard a loud *** and a
metallic sound that has the way the the vehicle contorted actually
twisted enough in the tunnel area that krikalev metal
could hear that metal grey clay did your heart jump up into your throat
I mean at thats that's not a sound you wanna hear 200,000 miles from home
absolutely and I knew it right away was not not an almost circumstance
Jack Swagger radioed mission control
there are proper gonna they can't wait
15 seconds later lovell repeated the message
are never had a problem I listen to that radio
transmitter that is probably as famous as the flight itself
those five words Houston we've had a problem and I listen to the common your
voice
were you as calm as you sound I can I think so
I mean I was faced with a problem and sell
if I did nothing but you know her
it bounce off the walls for Tibet's I be right back to where their problems
things were not so calm in Mission Control
as soon as we receive this call achieve their data just went wild
at risk right and for about 60 seconds it was literally
chaos in this room you note sixty seconds it seemed in every controller
and every console saw a problem with apollo thirteen
if like me had a computer restart other controllers as main bus on a proper one
size antenna switch
it did not seem possible are so many things
to go wrong at the same time they thought it had to be a fault in their
communications with air monitoring systems
not the spacecraft itself we may have had an expectation from play I
immediately thought but OK
so minor electrical problem will work this one the chefs over
the astronauts new it was much worse than that
they thought they'd been hit by a meteor or bread hates
called mission control 50 seconds into the crisis
bruner partner are her aircraft carrier
or walk in the first few minutes
there was a absolute disbelief the controllers had never
come face to face with a real problem
that we didn't have any immediate answers for crucial minutes ticked by
jim lovell stared at his instrument had one arch
tankage applauded Reds syrup at the other one
like to see that they will start to go down ever so slightly at that's when I
try to overcome look up the
side I sites KP at a high rate of speed
gaseous substance from the rear by spacecraft
the crisis was now in minute 14
over looking out for your I we r
are rrrr ok it out career
are roderick up you're going gym this isn't like getting a blow out of your
tire on highway
0 you are 200 thousand miles
0 into outer space drifting
further and further away from earn
much commotion at that moment what I'll tell you that very first like
the type of why did this happen up
apollo 12 or why did the way for apollo forty percival
or chrome okay can you tell them about the reading
for were coming from governor I don't know why I'm right now
do the astronauts seem abnormally calm
France says there's a reason this is why we flew experimental test pilots and the
spacecraft
their demeanor was such when you listen to these reports and get a reporting
this coming in
they're just reporting a %ah situation on board the space craft
but everyone who heard lovell's report instantly knew
what it meant we had an explosion what an enormous amount a corollary damage
in fact they came to learn apollo thirteen had suffered
a catastrophic failure there was a faulty wiring
inside liquid oxygen tank to jack swaggert stirred the tag
a spark started the fire fueled by pure oxygen
the tank blew up taking out the ship's main supplies
a air and power I realize that gas escaping
at it'll my second at last
attack the club to gauge was what are the same and surely
will be completely on a botched completely
out oxygen speeding away from Earth at two thousand miles per hour
I think every controller at that time recognize when a column
but also its gonna be tossed amt of
to get the crew of Apollo 13 on the odds were very small
at that time among ourselves that we're gonna get on the salon
I'll
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the night of April 13th marilyn lovell and her daughter's return home from
Mission Control
we're just minutes earlier they'd watch jam and his crew on TV from outer space
bridge dropped in after not pete conrad
and his wife on the phone rang it was another friend
who work for nasa and the ceremonial I just want you to know that
to all these different countries have offered to help you know in the recovery
in whatever
I couldn't understand what he was talking about my said Jerry
I see if you've been drinking she know sooner hung up then another phone a
direct line to nasa
started ringing and immediately Pete came out and I can still see him
standing across the room from
eyes as large as saucers and he said you know we have to talk
he filled her in they turned on the TV apollo thirteen different once the
got moon flynt suddenly the biggest story
on earth apollo card payments power sources by the dominant
it mission to the moon handed at astronauts unrestrained more severe than
any others
I V I am your the ship was crippled from leaking oxygen created a mission to the
moon
over the three astronauts wanna ban her husband
were probably dupe I just couldn't believe what I was hearing
at that moment the house which is telling the people people
didn't know what to say to me best friends they couldn't say anything
and says jim lovell he in mission control we're not sure what to say to
each other
either of utmost abortive you mad virtual they didn't want to say to us
you have a real problem that we didn't want to say to them
I think we got a real problem I mean we knew that
but is that just the bravado about test pilot and astronaut
knowledge I think that's the case a were beyond that now
we have a we have a problem with how to make others but what what do we do
we don't know yet though just what the steps are to do that
but gene krantz new date all had to start making some decisions
and fast I was a fighter pilot find a patch lifetime use the words looking
into the eye
a tiger and this was feeling I had
when I recognized we're in survival mode and we had
kickin and get going as a team to help the screw up the first problem
oxygen the command module was going to run out in a matter of minutes
may have to figure out a way to save level keys
and swagger fast the only option was one they played out in simulations
but never expected to do bro
now they start looking at the lunar module did you ever think you'd have to
use that module is a lifeboat
on never thought I'd have to use that as a light moan the lunar module
the spidery looking craft they plan to land on the moon and then leave behind
you had its own supply of an air water and battery power
the lunar module was so fragile you too much on homes
when we had love that because in her arms what the lunar module could not do
was reenter the earth's atmosphere
could not get them home so even though the command module was crippled
they had to save whatever air and power it had left
the only thing and the command module was a little battery
at a larger tank for the final plunge to the Earth's atmosphere
jack's like it was a command module pilot liza Jack you powered out this
command module save what you care
were going into the lunar module powered up answer basic YouTube you're buying
time
you're stalling for time in that lunar module
so you can get back to that command module for that precise moment you need
it
to get back into the earth's atmosphere that's right
the command module is yours that he chill one hour now into the crisis
it was a race powered down the command module before its batteries ran out
power up the lunar module before oxygen ran out they'd all trained for years
but never for this a new the command module had only so much
life lap and we
we very quickly had to get to a point and a startup
them a module before the command module completely bad
the command modules computers contain critical data
the crew had transferred to the Lambs computer fast
and they had to do it the old-fashioned way so when people look at their
BlackBerry today are there
iPhone they're holding something in their hand that has
far more computing capabilities then the spacecraft you were flying
in outer space with all yes jack swaggert call me all the numbers
and I wrote the data that we have a conversion table
for the Lunar Module and I did the refer tech
to get their numbers that I call mission controllers which you check by
apply or reports that for a place to make sure I public interest rate to make
a mistake a well and I think it'll cost you your life that's ready for use
all the assets I have that included the control center
they got into the lunar module with moments to spare
but now another decision looms how to get back to earth
I had a very fundamental decision I had to make
I we could execute what we call a direct important come around the front side
alone and be home in a day and a half
it was the quickest way home but it would mean using the main engine
the one nearest the explosion what if that engine failed
or blew up as well if this maneuver is a
executed perfectly you're gonna impact the man
the spacecraft would actually go right into the surface of the Moon yeah
yep krantz didn't want to take the risk
the other option like you have to go completely around the moon take between
four and five days to get back home
the problem with that was obvious to the astronauts themselves
well we starting with a little on July realize it was designed for two guys for
two days
and I kinda the crew will have to three guys for four days
simple arithmetic that meant they could run out of the air
power and water long before reaching Earth
in the end it was the flight director's decision and it was purely an adult
feeling that says
go around the world take your chances crushed your team to find the answers
in other words take the long way home and risk losing their crew
in space
for local colour now local court ok with that
five and a half hours after an explosion crippled their spaceship the crew of
Apollo 13 was riding in a lifeboat
three men in a lunar module met for two
the lamb was designed to carry them just sixty miles
from lunar orbit to the surface now they had to use the Lambs rocketing away its
designers never intended
to steer them around the moon the man set their coursework
earth order million miles away
did you ever have any doubts about whether you could accomplish 'em
what actually I think everybody does in a situation like this
they had a tiny margin for error and no second chances
that's not just dying Jimmy it's the kind of Dell
its 0 and I thought about this %uh
its running at a box and drifting in space
perhaps paraben how did you deal postal
call we didn't think about I'll what the final
results today everyone successful what would fly to get to us
what I love a whole has a legit apollo
get a ride to orbit that we could correct at being
orbit around the Earth for horses
the left one out you could %uh come into steep into the earth's atmosphere and
burn out
I would've rather dull or America rock your particular 100 burger
Rupert Goold
did you allow yourselves to have those emotional discussions did anybody
start talking about family and what if what if we don't make
to ourselves we thought about family not to each other
even bring that up with no we did not bring that up
I'll we up yes we did not want to get
do bosley the disturbed or
challenge for the job that we have to do and
putt for the families
there was no other job ok you wanted life to go on as normal
but in your heart it couldn't have been anything close to normal
no friends of mine tell me that I was in a daze relations
the house was packed and I just have to be myself and I'm
I just left everyone that comes in bathroom and I kneeled on the tile
flooring prayed
it was much worse for the level kids at school
and everybody came up to me and said I'm so sorry your dad's gonna die
April 14th 21 hours after the explosion
crippled ship rounded the far side of the Moon
in the midst of this incredibly tense and stressful flight
wherein in many ways this crew was fighting for their lives
you got to see something you've never seen before what was that experience
like
I well let they're worth obviously a
to make great to have the opportunity even just a loop around the moon
Jack to and I did a lot of sightseeing
as we went around the back sack
level who had already circled the moon in apollo eight
got a little impatient with all the photos he shipmates were taking
unite lol for him it would help get back you not gonna get a blue belt
you are basically running a bare-bones operation at that time you are
shutting down everything you can because everything the board that
module drains power and you need
all the power you can you can safe exactly right and we had a turn off all
the electrical system
that's what the temp like a problem the non
would like that they were garner card on for bigger
we knew it was gonna get as cold as a meat locker inside that spacecraft
so in other words you're saying look guys you're going to be cold
and thirsty and hungry for four days but you're gonna go through that because if
we do
anything else that you're not getting home that's correct you
so how cold did you get its but they're temperature a refrigerator
got pretty miss what we had a bridge
got out of storage all our spare underwear so we had three sets about to
wear on
but about food how much food did you have way to the bus food
upgrades to the water was crazy the flu this
game froze to too cold to eat
too cold to sleep I found out that I could be it for this rappel
what my things together close my eyes for about three minutes
be asleep wake up refreshed so essentially the actually the states that
we got on the way home
the Maple 50 30 hours after the explosion
something else threatened to kill them something
they couldn't even see in layman's terms your own
exultation the fact that the three have you breathing out
we're creating so much carbon dioxide that it was going to kill you
that that's absolutely correct remember
the lunar module was only designed to support two men for two days
its air purifiers we're maxed out the dead command module was still attached
they could get more filters there but they were the wrong shape
square and wouldn't fit the round openings in the lamb
Adams course is a big edge in every group that we didn't have the same
canister for both sides we gotta come up with a solution here
engineers had to design an adapter literally
make a square peg bit in a round hole they had to do it quickly
and they can only use what was on the spacecraft part of a flight manual
plastic bags duct tape they did a mock up up and down on the ground in Houston
and then they told you basically had to do it
and you must have thought they were grazing yeah I said I'll take three feet
up duct tape
that we should let me think they said yeah arms like the duct tape and
the new the strange looking contraption
worked its save their lives and for two more days
call hungry sleepless the three astronauts hunker down
the men will their way home at some point
mission control instructed you to stop
sending your urine are out love the spacecraft and
some people might think that's the ultimate indignity these guys are
toughen up straight as it is
what was the reason for that matter well what they said was we don't want it
under balanced force month is because we want to get you back that for return
course for a safe
approach the atmosphere and 11 others are when you expel urine
they would change the course of is like a lot so now you've got bags have your
in floating around the name
in the space craft as well he tried and tried to figure out what about that and
making all but stop drinking water
are dehydration said in prayed hey soon developed an infection
and feet are that was all bad but now
even as Earth looked in the window there was yet another crisis
they call us at where extrapolated records all about a girl that you're
gonna miss me remember I was drifting
yeah by security article miles which
that all that it says that your blog the
the new nearly four days after the crippling explosion as Apollo 13
against all odds seemed about to make it home
mission control discovered something potentially devastating
the spacecraft was drifting off the trajectory model it was drifting off
and we didn't understand what was happening apollo thirteen was going to
come in
too shallow bouts of the Earth's atmosphere
and be lost forever we have to call perform
another emergency maneuver
the engineers calculated the precise directions and amount of rocket thrust
needed to correct the course then the crew had to make it happen
firing the Rockets manually steering by citing the earth
and moon through the windows nobody had ever done that before
this was a team effort right i mean you're you're handling one aspect trying
to keep the earth
from moving up and down and read hayes is like still
to be given for go inside once that person is sick at this time
that jack is typing as well because our clock has stopped the course
were you worried at all gene that after all they had been through over those
three or four days the
the cold the sleep deprivation attention and the stress
that they may just make a simple mistake that they simply weren't up to the task
getting all
no now this is the kinda relationship but we must have what r crook
the crew totally depends upon us to come up the right answers we depend upon them
to provide the information
actually so so if you're looking for setting gestation ship
is absolute absolute trust is really the key
go for the burn are very important for her and the crew made the tricky
maneuver like they done it a thousand times
there was a member Friday April 17 just
hours from Earth now the astronauts needed to get back into the command
module
it had been shut down frozen for days
engineers on the ground were working feverishly
on the way to start it up again perawan are
we went through four different versions on this check blush we have a
procedure or getting are from the lamp fire alarm for later
the nyquil testing and I said look at everest
the proper information the war no less
it was a critical time normally the command module was powered up before
launch
on electricity was unlimited never had a command module been shut down
in flight then restarted with just battery power
if the batteries died so with the crew
and you talk about this procedure over 500 steps
and they had to then radio those steps and they had to be written down
one after the other we had no black paper so we had to rip
covers and bags of crack last the and use
at the to write this checklist which was very lengthy
now checklist in hand 3 cold
hungry sleepless men had to executed perfectly
okay you know you're gonna start the heart of my heart hightower
are the gran Madre become fully up
I'll hopefully solar powered up high relief there i mean that you that your
ride home
it was rad home ready or not back in the command module now less than five hours
from earth
the crew jettison the part in the spacecraft that exploded
and nearly killed the mall copy that service what your separate for 138 hours
a
even if a sec hey what for the very first time they could see
just how bad the damage was as a for the way
client this it follows this all that tire pell had blown
the matter
for right by retired down all my life brought out a whole
from there I that had to set up some appears in this room that
that explosion also damaged the heat shield %uh on the command module cuz
they sit right next to each other
and would they be able to survive reentering Carolina business
the only worry about those things that you can do something about it
so all the things you have done for the four days prior
all the perot efforts have everyone would have been for not
had there been a major flaw in that heat shield just wouldn't matter
that's right there's nothing we can do about it their Google outsider
repair like that so we just we just
took it for granted that the chills gonna they'll
next day jettison the lamp their lifeboat
which they've nicknamed Aquarius for asking
it was time Maryland use you seem like it
a tough gal but I am however there had to be times
when you win over in your mind how you would tell the kids if it didn't turn
out well
actually I really don't believe I'm
really thought about it because I really didn't give up
I just knew he'd come the
it had been the moon mission people ignored and now
the whole world was watching can breed we are just fast and we just held our
breath
and we held with the were on the move apollo thirteen plunged into the earth's
atmosphere
on Friday April 17 after nearly six days in space
during reentry the five thousand agreed fireball surrounding the ship
blacked out all radio transmissions the crew is now
on their own the market back the blackout was expected to last four
minutes
senate Minority Report the more more MORE acquisition
wrong there's no response and we call again it's now one minute since we
should I heard from the script power
13 should be a out of blackout at this time every controller
in this room is standing staring at those clocks
on
on one minute 27 seconds after we should I heard from the crew we get a ray of
hope
file
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from the emotional relations in this room
the show 10 said literally every controller
standing trying are
a bottle practically guy
when that space grasp lashed out at warner cable or the
over the windows I said hey bro
with her handshakes in the capsule with their tears.
what was going on in there it was just glad
that we bring we ship others and said
capsule was still cold even after Andrea
smoky air across the airport outta the hatch winner
diver open the hatch this
proven been living in a meat locker slimy
out in the war on terror other south pacific Sunwear
HomeAway hold what was the first thing you said Tim Allen
got back to I said
gathered up became clear to me that he that's right
but here are the facts in apollo thirteen
to this day forty years later no human beings have
ever ventured farther from home and to this day
no astronaut have overcome so many disasters
large and small to make it back alive