Apollo 13: 3. Lifeboat

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

9.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Apollo 13 astronauts escape to the lunar module, but their problems are far from over. The crew must now survive in a spacecraft never meant for such a journey. Will this fragile refuge be enough? Meanwhile, Nasa mission control faces a critical test of leadership and ingenuity to keep the space crew alive. At home, Marilyn Lovell waits anxiously, unsure what to tell her kids.

Hosted by Kevin Fong.

Archive: Nasa Johnson Space Center Oral History Project

Starring: Glynn Lunney Ken Mattingly (courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project) Merlin Merritt Jim Lovell John Aaron Fred Haise John Devaney Jerry Bostick Poppy Northcutt George Kalan Dave Reed Chuck Deiterich Marilyn Lovell Susan Lovell Jay Lovell

Written by Kevin Fong and Mark Rickards

Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music. Produced by the BBC Radio Science Unit for the BBC World Service.

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0:00.0	I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's social media investigations correspondent.
0:06.0	In my podcast, I've been investigating what happened to the daughter of a conspiracy theorist who died having rejected chemotherapy.
0:13.0	It would mean the world to me if I could make it that she wasn't just another in the long line of people that die in this way.
0:19.0	How does this reflect the rise of health conspiracy theories on social media and beyond?
0:24.8	The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:34.5	Crippled by an explosion, Apollo 13's command and service module Odyssey is bleeding to death.
0:41.4	In a matter of minutes, it will be out of power and oxygen, unfliable and uninhabitable.
0:48.0	The three men on board have had to give up on their dreams of going to the moon.
0:52.8	Now they're going to have to fight for their lives.
0:57.1	It is 57 hours into the mission, and it's been 83 minutes since the explosion.
1:03.5	Gladie kind of looked like we got about 40 minutes left in that tank.
1:06.2	Okay, does it look like it's still going down?
1:08.3	That's affirmed, yes.
1:09.7	You're 200,000 miles out.
1:12.0	You're in a spacecraft that's dying.
1:14.8	We don't have much time.
1:15.9	We were losing the whole electrical power system
1:18.7	and an auction system of the command module of the mother ship.
1:35.1	From the BBC World Service, this is 13 Minutes to the Moon, season two.
1:47.0	I'm Kevin Fong and this is the incredible story of the flight of Apollo 13, told by the people who flew it and saved it. We got more than a problem. We've got've had a problem here.
2:03.2	We've got more in a problem.
2:04.2	We lost O2 tank two pressure.
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