Apollo 13: Bonus 1. Jim Lovell

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

9.5 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell talks to Kevin Fong about the doomed Nasa mission, from the shocking moment of the explosion to the enormous relief of splashdown. Lovell reflects on survival, the global impact of Apollo 13, and what it meant to finally come back to Earth. He also shares the story of the lunar landmark he named in honour of his wife.

Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music.

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0:30.4	Hi, I'm Andrew Lockbaker, the series producer of 13 Minutes to the Moon.
0:35.4	This is one of two bonus episodes for you,
0:38.1	released in the week of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13.
0:42.3	It's an edited version of the conversation
0:44.8	that Kevin and I recorded with the legend
0:47.4	that is Captain Jim Lovell,
0:49.9	commander of that mission.
0:51.8	We had the great privilege of interviewing him over two mornings at the
0:56.7	community library near his home north of Chicago. Now, we knew we were going to get some great
1:01.9	storytelling because we'd interviewed Jim about his first flight around the moon on Apollo 8 for
1:07.4	season one. But I'd forgotten about his sense of humour and the love or laugh,
1:12.7	which rings out not infrequently between Jim's tales of danger after danger and threat after threat.
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