S2 Ep.03 Lifeboat

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Technology

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The astronauts are fighting for their lives. As the oxygen level plummets, they must escape to the lunar lander. It's a desperate act of survival for which the crew has never trained. #13MinutestotheMoon See our film about the Lovell family: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong. Archive: Nasa Starring: Glynn Lunney Ken Mattingly (courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project) Merlin Merritt Jim Lovell John Aaron Fred Haise John Devaney Jerry Bostick Poppy Northcutt George Kalan Dave Reed Chuck Deiterich Marilyn Lovell Susan Lovell Jay Lovell Written by Kevin Fong and Mark Rickards 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	Crepault by an explosion Apollo 13's command and service module Odyssey is bleeding to death.
0:11.0	In a matter of minutes it will be out of power and oxygen, unfliable and uninhabitable.
0:18.0	The three men on board have had to give up on their dreams of going to the moon.
0:22.0	Now they're going to have to fight for their lives.
0:27.0	It is 57 hours into the mission and it's been 83 minutes since the explosion.
0:33.0	Glad you come, looks like we've got about 40 minutes left in that tank.
0:36.0	Okay, does it look like it's still going down?
0:38.0	That's a firm to get.
0:39.0	You're 200,000 miles out.
0:42.0	You're in a spacecraft that's dying.
0:45.0	We are here much time.
0:46.0	We were losing the whole electrical power system and oxygen system of the command module of the Mother Ship.
0:58.0	From the BBC World Service, this is 13 minutes to the moon, season two.
1:07.0	I'm Kevin Fong and this is the incredible story of the flight of Apollo 13,
1:14.0	told by the people who flew it and saved it.
1:28.0	Okay, here we have inner problem here.
1:32.0	We got more of a problem.
1:33.0	We lost the O2 tank to pressure.
1:35.0	That can't be.
1:36.0	Let's make sure we don't blow the whole mission.
1:39.0	There's one whole side of that thing that fits us.
1:42.0	That's the end right there.
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