Apollo 13: 3. Lifeboat

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Technology, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The astronauts are fighting for their lives. As the oxygen level plummets, they must escape to the lunar lander. It's a desperate act of survival for which the crew has never trained. #13MinutestotheMoon See our film about the Lovell family: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong. Archive: Nasa 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 BBC Radio Science Unit for the BBC World Service

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0:00.0	Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.
0:05.1	My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.
0:08.7	It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,
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0:19.1	And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music
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0:43.4	Crippled by an explosion, Apollo 13's command and service module Odyssey is bleeding to death.
0:50.3	In a matter of minutes, it will be out of power and oxygen, unfliable and uninhabitable.
0:56.7	The three men on board have had to give up on their dreams of going to the moon.
1:01.7	Now they're going to have to fight for their lives.
1:05.8	It is 57 hours into the mission,
1:08.8	and it's been 83 minutes since the explosion.
1:12.3	Gladie Com looked like we got about 40 minutes left in that tank.
1:15.1	Okay, does it look like it's still going down?
1:17.2	That's affirmed to, yes.
1:18.5	You're 200,000 miles out.
1:20.9	You're in a spacecraft that's dying.
1:23.7	We don't have much time.
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