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🗓️ 12 April 2020
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The Apollo 13 spacecraft goes off course. With no computer to guide them, the astronauts must rely on their flying skills to perform a high-stakes manoeuvre, timed with Commander Jim Lovell’s wristwatch, to get them back on target. If they fail, they risk being marooned in space. Their spaceflight home hangs in the balance.
Hosted 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.
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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 |
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| 0:30.1 | Hi, this is Jackie Leonard from the Global News podcast and it's my turn to have a go at the 13-second |
| 0:35.0 | challenge. Here goes. |
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| 0:51.8 | Now, over to Kevin. |
| 1:15.6 | 200,000 miles from home, the crew of Apollo 13 are falling from an enormous distance back towards Earth, travelling faster and faster thousands and then tens of thousands of miles per hour as they get closer. |
| 1:23.6 | But to enter the atmosphere safely, they'll need precision as well as speed. |
| 1:28.5 | Ever since the long PC Plus 2 burn they did after swinging around the moon, |
| 1:33.6 | retro flight controller Chuck Dietrich has been closely tracking the spacecraft's trajectory. |
| 1:38.9 | And he's noticed they're off course. |
| 1:43.0 | After PC Plus 2, we were going to actually miss the earth, |
| 1:49.0 | and we had a resulting perigy of 87 miles. |
| 1:53.0 | And the perigee? |
| 1:54.0 | Paragy is how far above the earth you are. |
| 1:57.0 | And we needed to be down a parogy around 20 miles |
| 2:00.0 | to even be out of the atmosphere. |
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