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🗓️ 12 April 2020
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The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home and without a guidance computer. Their lives now depend on their flying skills - and Jim Lovell’s wristwatch. #13MinutestotheMoon For more Apollo films and photos: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong. Archive: Nasa Starring Chuck Deiterich Jim Lovell Poppy Northcutt Fred Haise Jim Kelly John Aaron Joe Kerwin Written by Kevin Fong and Chris Browning 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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0:39.0 | Hi, this is Jackie Leonard from the Global News podcast, and it's my turn to have a go at the 13-second challenge. |
0:44.8 | Here goes. |
0:48.0 | The Global News podcast does exactly what the title suggests. It's the news from around the world every day, in fact, twice, most days, for a truly global perspective on the news. Just search for Global News Podcast. Now, over to Kevin. 200,000 miles from home, the crew of Apollo 13 are falling from an enormous distance back towards Earth, |
1:25.5 | travelling faster and faster thousands and then tens of thousands of |
1:29.5 | miles per hour as they get closer. |
1:32.5 | But to enter the atmosphere safely, they'll need precision as well as speed. |
1:37.5 | Ever since the long PC Plus 2 burn they did after swinging around the moon, retro flight |
1:43.0 | controller Chuck Dietrich has been closely |
1:45.3 | tracking the spacecraft's trajectory. |
1:47.7 | And he's noticed they're off course. |
1:51.8 | After PC Plus 2, we were going to actually miss the Earth, and we had a resulting perigee |
2:00.5 | of 87 miles. Paragie is how far miss the Earth, and we had a resulting perigee of 87 miles. |
2:01.6 | And the perigee? |
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