Apollo 13: 4. Power brokers

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Technology, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Power must be brutally rationed after the crew fly around the Moon. As systems are switched off, their cold, dark ship is reduced to little more than a husk coasting in space. #13MinutestotheMoon Watch videos about the Apollo 13 mission: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong. Archive: Nasa Starring: Gerry Griffin Jim Kelly Gene Kranz, courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project John Aaron Jim Lovell Fred Haise Dave Reed Jerry Bostick Chuck Deiterich Merlin Merritt Bill Peters 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,
0:13.5	moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.
0:19.1	And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music
0:21.7	means we can tell those stories like no one else. We were, are and always will be right there
0:27.2	at the centre of the narrative. So whether you want an insightful take on music right now, or a
0:32.0	nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music, check out the music
0:36.8	podcasts on BBC Sounds.
0:39.0	I'm Maire TIGeroff and just before 13 Minutes to the Moon starts, I've been given
0:44.1	13 seconds to tell you about my podcast, Death in Ice Valley. Okay, here goes.
0:51.4	It's about something else that happened in the same year as Apollo 13, in Norway,
0:57.1	the discovery of an unidentified body of a woman. Who was she? I've been trying to find out. That's
1:03.4	Death in Ice Valley.
1:04.9	Music Apollo 13 is approaching the fourth day of its ill-fated flight.
1:23.5	Nine hours ago, an explosion crippled their command module.
1:32.3	They have battled against failing systems and a dying spacecraft ever since. It's now all about creating what opportunities they can from moment to moment,
1:38.3	and this is how they hope to buy their survival.
1:42.3	Across the United States, millions tune in to the television
1:46.2	coverage. Veteran CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite leads the nation through the crisis.
1:53.0	The flight of the Apollo 13 to the moon is in serious jeopardy this morning and is not going to make a moon landing.
2:03.6	And this is indeed the gravest emergency probably yet in the American space program.
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