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13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Technology

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Jump on board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story, told by the people who flew it and saved it. Lift off is on 9 March. #13MinutestotheMoon Presenter: Kevin Fong Written by Kevin Fong and Andrew Luck-Baker Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music

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0:00.0	I still have nightmares about this.
0:06.0	An explosion in a spacecraft when it's way to the moon.
0:11.0	Okay, you know, here we have an problem here.
0:13.0	It rocked everything.
0:15.0	It's like his eyes were as white as saucers.
0:18.0	Three astronauts aboard a ship with failing systems, 200,000 miles from home.
0:24.0	Here's the problem. We got more than a problem.
0:26.0	We lost the O2 tank to pressure.
0:28.0	Nothing made sense in those first few seconds.
0:31.0	No one knew what exactly had happened.
0:34.0	We are ready to something out in space.
0:36.0	It's the guy in the snowstorm.
0:38.0	It's going down. We're losing it.
0:40.0	Yes, we are.
0:46.0	From the BBC World Service, 13 minutes to the moon, season two,
0:51.0	the incredible story of the flight of Apollo 13.
0:56.0	Four days in space in 1970 with the astronauts' lives under constant threat.
1:03.0	We were in our car, we were going to get the crew back.
1:05.0	I was thinking that we weren't going to survive.
1:08.0	But we were going to try our best all the way out until the oxygen left us and that was the end of the deal.
1:15.0	As far as he was concerned, they really didn't have much of a chance of coming back.
1:21.0	And doctors fell apart.
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