Apollo 13: 4. Power brokers

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

9.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Apollo astronauts freeze in darkness, struggling to save power. If the battery dies, so do the space crew. And as the damaged spacecraft loses its navigation systems, they must rely on the Sun for guidance. The astronauts' plight becomes a national crisis. Millions across the world tune in to the television coverage. Meanwhile, Nasa mission control faces a race against time to devise a plan, launching one of the greatest rescue missions in the history of space exploration.

Hosted by Kevin Fong.

Archive: Nasa Johnson Space Center Oral History Project

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.

Produced by the BBC Radio Science Unit for the BBC World Service.

Transcript

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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.
0:27.8	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:30.1	I'm Mare Tegroff and just before 13 Minutes to the Moon starts,
0:34.6	I've been given 13 seconds to tell you about my podcast, Death in Ice
0:39.4	Valley.
0:40.3	Okay, here goes.
0:42.5	It's about something else that happened in the same year as Apollo 13, in Norway, the discovery
0:48.8	of an unidentified body of a woman.
0:51.6	Who was she?
0:52.5	I've been trying to find out.
0:56.0	That's Death in Ice Valley.
1:13.6	Apollo 13 is approaching the fourth day of its ill-fated flight. Nine hours ago, an explosion crippled their command module.
1:18.6	They have battled against failing systems and a dying spacecraft ever since.
1:23.6	It's now all about creating what opportunities they can from moment to moment,
1:29.3	and this is how they hope to buy their survival.
1:33.3	Across the United States, millions tune in to the television coverage.
1:38.3	Veteran CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite leads the nation through the crisis.
1:45.0	The flight of the Apollo 13 to the moon is in serious jeopardy this morning and is not going
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