S2 Ep.05 Life support

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Technology

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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“We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.” Carbon dioxide threatens to kill the crew. Mission control must improvise as the most fragile system of all is under threat: the astronauts themselves. #13MinutestotheMoon For a film about how the crew made the makeshift CO2 adaptors: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong. Archive: Nasa Starring: Jim Lovell Merlin Merritt Anthony England Ed Smylie, courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Fred Haise Marilyn Lovell Ken Mattingly Charles A Berry Joe Kerwin Gerry Griffin Written by Kevin Fong and Chris Browning 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	It's my turn to be given 13 seconds before 13 minutes to the moon begins to talk about
0:06.6	my podcast, The Hurricane Tapes.
0:09.4	I'm Steve Crossman, let's start that watch.
0:14.2	Three years before Apollo 13, Boxer Ruben Hurricane Carter was convicted of murdering three
0:19.4	people in a bar in racially charged Patterson, New Jersey.
0:23.5	I uncovered new evidence and 40 hours of tape recordings.
0:29.8	And that's my 13 seconds, search for The Hurricane Tapes.
0:33.6	Now, over to the main event.
0:44.4	A new toxic threat is creeping up on the crew of Apollo 13.
0:59.3	In the perishing cold darkness of the lunar module, the air is becoming poisonous to breathe.
1:06.1	We were exhaling carbon dioxide and slowly that gas was building up and it was of course
1:12.2	very dangerous to breathe at high concentrations.
1:16.7	We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.
1:20.7	We were in deep trouble again.
1:29.3	From the BBC World Service, this is 13 minutes to the moon, season two.
1:41.3	I'm Kevin Fong and this is the incredible story of the flight of Apollo 13 told by the
1:49.0	people who flew it and saved it.
1:59.3	We got more of a problem.
2:08.2	We lost the O2 tank to pressure.
2:09.9	That can't be.
2:10.9	Let's make sure we don't blow the whole mission.
2:13.5	There's one whole side of that big vessel.
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