Apollo 13: 7. Resurrection

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Technology, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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“I still have nightmares about this.” Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere? An error could see them either incinerated or becoming lost forever in deep space. #13MinutestotheMoon For more Apollo films and photos: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong. Archive: Nasa Starring Jim Lovell John Aaron Dave Reed Hal Loden Jerry Bostick Jim Kelly Fred Haise Charlie Duke Joe Kerwin Gene Kranz, courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Chuck Dietrich Marilyn Lovell Gerry Griffin Written by Kevin Fong and Andrew Luck-Baker 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	What is love?
0:03.0	Is it chemistry, fate or a disaster waiting to happen?
0:07.0	Sometimes you mistake other things for love.
0:10.0	Join me, Ryland, on my new podcast as I ask experts and a few familiar faces what love really means.
0:16.3	Because it turns out it's a bit more complicated than happily ever after.
0:20.7	You should think of it as the daily commitment you make to someone that you care about.
0:25.2	Ryland, how to be in love. Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:30.3	Well, this is it. The season two finale of 13 Minutes to the Moon is just about to begin.
0:36.5	I'm Patrick Ayi, and as a huge fan of 13
0:38.9	minutes, here's my 13 seconds to tell you about my podcast, also from the BBC World Service,
0:46.0	30 animals that made us smarter. Here goes. There's a cartwheeling acrobatic spider which could
0:52.3	help us explore the surface of Mars.
0:58.1	It's led to an extraordinary robotic design perfect for space exploration.
1:03.0	That's just one of 30 stories about amazing things humans have learned from the animal kingdom.
1:07.5	Search for 30 animals that made us smarter.
1:11.3	And now, this is what we've all been waiting for.
1:29.3	Apollo 13 is within hours of plunging into Earth's atmosphere. From the lunar module, Commander Jim Lovell sees the world growing ever larger, ever faster.
1:36.3	I'm looking out the winter now, Jack, and that Earth is whistling in like a high-need-free train.
1:41.3	Scattered clouds and oceans begin to stretch out ahead of them. Their view of the Earth is expanding
1:46.9	rapidly. Lovell, Hayes and Swiger must now reckon with grave unknowns. The Command Module Odyssey
1:54.2	is the only vehicle built and equipped to get them through the Earth's atmosphere and safely into the ocean.
2:08.6	But for the past four days, they've been forced to leave that spacecraft switched off, completely without power. Its cabin, frozen, dark, dead.
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