Space Rocket History #271 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 1

Space Rocket History Podcast

Michael Annis

History, Technology

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Kraft wanted to fire the descent engine now, get the ship back on its free-return slingshot course, and when it emerged from behind the moon and reached the PC+2 point, execute any maneuvers that might be required to refine the … 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.
0:40.4	That's one small step for man.
0:44.4	One giant leap for mankind.
0:51.7	Hello and welcome.
0:58.0	This is Michael Annas, and you're listening to Episode 271 of the Space Rocket History podcast. And now, Apollo 13, free return.
1:02.0	Excuse me, Wally, Roy Neal has been in Mission Control. Let's listen in.
1:07.0	Good.
1:08.0	The control in Houston are gathered around the console. They are talking at the moment through the capsule communicator Jack Lausma with astronauts
1:15.6	James Lovell and Fred Hayes in Aquarius, the lunar module, which is in control of the situation
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