Space Rocket History #265 – Apollo 13 – Translunar Coast – The Calm Before the Storm

Space Rocket History Podcast

Michael Annis

History, Technology

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🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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As Lovell prepared for the thruster adjustments, Haise finished closing down the LEM and drifted through the tunnel back toward the command module and Swigert threw the switch to stir all 4 cryogenic tanks.

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0:00.0	We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy,
0:08.0	but because they are hard.
0:10.0	Godspeed, John Glenn.
0:12.0	Roger, zero G, and I feel fine.
0:15.0	Okay, I'm out.
0:17.0	How does it feel for the United States to be the new record holder?
0:21.6	At last, huh?
0:22.6	In that baby lights, there's no doubt about it.
0:26.6	Lift-off.
0:27.6	We have a lift-off.
0:28.6	32 minutes past the hour.
0:30.6	Lift-off in Apollo 11.
0:32.6	Listing, uh, Tranquility base here.
0:35.6	The Eagle has landed. That's one small step for man one giant leap for man
0:48.2	hello and welcome this is michael annis and you're listening to Episode 265 of the Space Rocket History podcast.
0:57.9	And now, Apollo 13, Transluner Coast.
1:02.8	On the first full day of Apollo 13's flight, mission control was settling into the routine.
1:10.9	The previous shifts had watched and worked with Jack Swigard,
1:15.6	gauging his performance and finding him a very capable stand-in for Ken Mattingly.
1:21.9	During the Transluner Coast period,
1:25.1	both crew and controllers prepared for the events scheduled for lunar orbit
1:29.2	when things would get quite busy. As the meticulous checkout of spacecraft and trajectory
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