S2 Ep.06 Earth in view

13 Minutes to the Moon

BBC

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, Technology

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home and without a guidance computer. Their lives now depend on their flying skills - and Jim Lovell’s wristwatch. #13MinutestotheMoon For more Apollo films and photos: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong. Archive: Nasa Starring Chuck Deiterich Jim Lovell Poppy Northcutt Fred Haise Jim Kelly John Aaron Joe Kerwin 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	Hi, this is Jackie Leonard from the Global News Podcast, and it might turn to have a go at the
0:04.1	13-second challenge. Here goes.
0:09.2	The Global News Podcast does exactly what the title suggests. It's the news from around the world
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0:18.4	search for Global News Podcast. Now, over to Kevin.
0:30.0	The Global News Podcast
0:37.9	200,000 miles from home, the crew of Apollo 13 are falling from an enormous distance
0:44.8	back towards Earth, traveling faster and faster, thousands and then tens of thousands of
0:50.5	miles per hour as they get closer. But to enter the atmosphere safely, they'll need precision
0:56.4	as well as speed. Ever since the long PC Plus 2 burn they did after swinging around the moon,
1:03.3	retroflight controller Chuck Dietrich has been closely tracking the spacecraft's trajectory,
1:08.8	and he's noticed they're off course.
1:13.1	After PC Plus 2, we were going to actually miss the Earth and we had a resulting
1:21.2	paraget of 87 miles. And the paraget is how far above the Earth you are, and we needed to be down
1:28.4	a paraget around 20 miles to even be out of the atmosphere.
1:33.6	Of course, by almost 70 miles, and entering a two shallow and angle,
1:37.8	this trajectory will see the astronauts ricochet off the upper layers of the atmosphere
1:42.3	and maroon them in space. They need to take action. They need to correct their course,
1:48.3	but flying their powered down spacecraft comes with a host of new challenges.
1:54.2	Our game system was all like a lot. How can we make a change if we don't know where we are?
1:59.6	How do we make a change? And then where are we supposed to go?
2:05.9	From the BBC World Service, this is 13 minutes to the moon, season 2.
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