Space Rocket History #289 – Apollo 13 – Splashdown

Space Rocket History Podcast

Michael Annis

History, Technology

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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“During blackout every team member does his own soul searching, reviewing the decisions and the data, knowing they had to be nearly perfect and knowing how tough perfection is.” Gene Kranz

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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.
0:44.3	One giant leap for mankind.
0:51.8	Hello and welcome.
0:58.0	This is Michael Annis, and you are listening to episode 289 of the Space Rocket History podcast. And now, Apollo 13, Splashdown.
1:03.0	We're now coming to the moment, the last moments of Apollo 13 as it comes in as it begins its re-entry.
1:10.0	The best thing we can do now is just to listen and hope.
1:16.6	The last few seconds down to reentry. At this point there's very little anybody can do, including the astronauts, except wait as they come in through the uppermost fringes of the Earth's atmosphere.
1:28.3	The computers put them on course.
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