Space Rocket History #268 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 3

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Michael Annis

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🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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As near as Lovell could tell, it would be a while before the ship’s endgame would play out. He had no way of calculating the leak rate in the tank, but if the moving needle was any indication, he had … Continue reading →

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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 mankind
0:50.3	hello and welcome this is michael annis and you're listening to episode 268 of the Space Rocket History podcast.
0:58.3	And now, Apollo 13. Houston, we've had a problem. Part 3.
1:04.6	The mission control really did not get in the loop and realized this was a real problem for 18 minutes.
1:12.6	We had so many caution warning lights on, seven of them,
1:15.6	master alarm and a blue computer restart light in addition.
1:19.6	They assumed it was instrumentation problem,
1:22.6	that these were lights were false and not representative of a real problem because they crossed systems which were not connected in any way and it just didn't seem possible that one failure would cause problems across that many systems at one time and in the interim we were busy trying to just keep electric power because the explosion had closed valves on two,
1:47.0	reactant valves on two of the fuel cells, two of the three.
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