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🗓️ 9 March 2020
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“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe would take just the flick of a single switch. Why Nasa’s third bid to land on the Moon was flawed from the start. #13MinutestotheMoon For videos and more space stories: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong Archive: Nasa and CBS Starring: Jim Lovell Marilyn Lovell Fred Haise John Aaron Gerry Griffin Gene Kranz, courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Charlie Duke Jay Lovell Sy Liebergot Jack Lousma Written by Kevin Fong and Andrew Luck-Baker Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music BBC Radio Science Unit for the BBC World Service This episode was updated on 16 March 2020.
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0:00.0 | What is love? |
0:03.0 | Is it chemistry, fate or a disaster waiting to happen? |
0:07.0 | Sometimes you mistake other things for love. |
0:10.0 | Join me, Ryland, on my new podcast as I ask experts and a few familiar faces what love really means. |
0:16.3 | Because it turns out it's a bit more complicated than happily ever after. |
0:20.7 | You should think of it as the daily commitment you make to someone that you care about. |
0:25.2 | Ryland, how toth, 1970. |
0:42.1 | This is the closing act of the mission of Apollo 13, NASA's aborted expedition to the moon. |
0:49.4 | Four days ago, their spacecraft was crippled by an explosion. |
0:53.6 | Since then, mission control has battled round the clock just to keep the crew alive. |
0:59.0 | Across the globe, millions of radios and television sets are tuned in to witness the astronaut's fate. |
1:06.0 | The world is watching, waiting. |
1:09.0 | We're now coming to the moment, the last moments of Apollo 13, as it comes in, as it begins |
1:15.6 | its re-entry. The best thing we can do now is just to listen and hope. |
1:20.6 | The last few seconds down to re-entry, at this point there's very little anybody can do, including the astronauts, |
1:28.3 | except wait as they come in through the uppermost fringes of the Earth's atmosphere. |
1:33.3 | You're coming back from the moon at 35,000 feet per second. That is haul in the mail. And you've got to do it just right. |
1:45.9 | The computers put them on course. |
1:49.3 | All anybody can do now is cross their fingers. |
1:53.6 | NASA has never known anything like it. |
1:57.1 | An explosion, hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth, a spacecraft leaking oxygen and losing power. |
2:04.0 | A crew freezing in the darkness at risk of suffocation. |
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