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00:00:00The movie of the week.
00:00:19Presenting the world premiere of an original motion picture produced especially for ABC.
00:00:25Tonight on the movie of the week.
00:00:55At 1.13 p.m. April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 lifted off on its way to the moon.
00:01:06This was to be America's third lunar landing mission in a series that had been so letter-perfect until now
00:01:12that the public was beginning to complain they were too routine.
00:01:16But instead of a routine mission, Apollo 13 was headed for the first accident in space.
00:01:23It's actually beginning to look a little bigger now.
00:01:30You can see quite distinctly some of the features with the naked eye.
00:01:35Apollo 13, Houston.
00:01:48The next thing we'd like you to do is to...
00:01:50Oh, go ahead.
00:01:52We'd like you to roll right to 060 and know your rates for photography of the comet Bennett.
00:01:59To do that, we'd like you to enable quads C and D for the maneuver. Use all your quads.
00:02:07And one other request we'd like to have you...
00:02:09Okay, will do.
00:02:10One other request we'd like to have you verify your high-gain configuration.
00:02:14We'd like to know what track mode, what servo, and what beam width.
00:02:19Okay, Jack.
00:02:20During the TV, we were auto-track, narrow beam width, and the primary electronics.
00:02:29And we had a good lockup.
00:02:31Just after we started the maneuver, I was able to lock you up and get real good signal strength.
00:02:37And it just seemed that right there at about 239 degrees in yaw, that the signal strength would just drop off and yaw would go to 0 and pitch would go to 90.
00:02:54Roger, we copy.
00:02:56And the TV show was great.
00:02:59Okay, real fine.
00:03:02Okay, I'm going to maneuver to 060, 090 and 0.
00:03:09And 13, we'd like you to check C4 thruster.
00:03:15Okay, Jack.
00:03:19The battery charge has been terminated on the battery beam.
00:03:22Roger, we see you, Jack.
00:03:2413, we've got one more item for you when you get a chance.
00:03:27We'd like it to stir up your cryo tanks.
00:03:31In addition, I have a shaft in trunnion.
00:03:33Okay.
00:03:34For a look at the Comet Bennett if you need it.
00:03:40It is now 55 hours, 50 minutes since liftoff.
00:03:45Disaster is two minutes away and counting.
00:03:48Much of what you are about to see is true.
00:03:52The events of the last four days of the Apollo 13 mission are real.
00:03:57The voices of the astronauts from space are real.
00:04:01Most of NASA personnel are portrayed as themselves.
00:04:05However, as in all recreated history, some of the characters are fictionalized.
00:04:11And are meant to represent the spirit of the Apollo 13 flight controllers.
00:04:16And all the other men and women of NASA to whom this film is dedicated.
00:04:21There are few heroes in the world.
00:04:24This is the story of four heroes.
00:04:27Four flight controllers who gave and gave all they had.
00:04:32And then gave more.
00:04:34Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here.
00:04:42This is Houston. Say again, please.
00:04:43Houston, we've had a problem.
00:04:45We've had a main B bus undervolt.
00:04:48Roger, main B undervolt.
00:04:55Stand by, 13. We're looking at it.
00:04:57Okay, right now, Houston, the voltage is...
00:05:02It's looking good.
00:05:05And we had a pretty large bank associated with the caution and warning there.
00:05:11And if I recall, B-B was the one that had an amp spike on it once before.
00:05:17That's affirmative.
00:05:19Houston, I've gone to Tiberium for Firehose.
00:05:23We've got a great backup.
00:05:24We've got a great backup.
00:05:25That's just great.
00:05:26Yeah.
00:05:27Yeah, Steve.
00:05:28What's up?
00:05:29I'm in mission control.
00:05:30I've got trouble.
00:05:31Could be big trouble.
00:05:32I'm not quite sure what happened yet, but they're losing power in the CSM.
00:05:35Hey, he said there was a bang somewhere on board.
00:05:38I think something blew.
00:05:39Blue?
00:05:40You mean explosion?
00:05:41We're just guessing so far, but it looks more like it every minute.
00:05:44I thought you might want to get in early and get on top of things.
00:05:46All right.
00:05:47All right.
00:05:48I'll see you.
00:05:49Well, I'm up for the night.
00:05:50How about some gin rummy?
00:05:51Come on.
00:05:52Come on.
00:05:53You know Stie wouldn't call us.
00:05:54It was important.
00:05:55Oh, I'm sure it's important.
00:05:56Oh, I'm sure it's important.
00:05:57Oh, I'm sure it's important.
00:05:58Oh, you know, Steve wouldn't call us.
00:05:59It was important.
00:06:00Oh, I'm sure it's important.
00:06:01What's it?
00:06:02Don't you know, Steve?
00:06:03What's happening, Steve?
00:06:05Somebody said there was a bang somewhere on board.
00:06:06I think something's blue.
00:06:07Blue?
00:06:08You mean explosion?
00:06:09We're just guessing so far,
00:06:11but, uh, it looks more like it every minute.
00:06:12Thought you might want to get in early and get on top of things.
00:06:14Oh, I'm sure it's important.
00:06:16I mean, everything about that marvelous job of yours is so important.
00:06:22You know, darling, sometimes I can hardly stand it.
00:06:26Well, we are a little hostile tonight, aren't we?
00:06:29Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:06:29We're a little hostile and bad-tempered and thoroughly spoiled.
00:06:36You forgot sexy.
00:06:38You know that?
00:06:39That's the part that makes it worthwhile.
00:06:41Mm-hmm.
00:06:44What are you doing?
00:06:49I'm going to work.
00:06:50That's what the call was about.
00:06:51I'm wide awake.
00:06:52Now, what am I supposed to do?
00:07:00Why are you with your father coming home?
00:07:10Angie, will you grow up?
00:07:12Oh, you know, I am so sick of you being so self-righteous and so self-assured.
00:07:18What good is this?
00:07:19What good is it?
00:07:21What good is all this?
00:07:22The only satisfaction I get out of life is yelling at you.
00:07:25That's great.
00:07:27That's great.
00:07:28Come on.
00:07:29Come on.
00:07:29Come on back to that lousy job of yours and leave me alone.
00:07:32For the first 45 minutes following the explosion aboard Apollo 13, mission control tried every
00:07:41means available to restore life to the dying command module.
00:07:45The real problem was no one knew the extent and seriousness of damage to the spacecraft.
00:07:51Apollo control, Houston, continuing to troubleshoot with the Apollo 13 crew, closely watching oxygen
00:07:58quantities and pressures in the command module.
00:08:00Aquarius.
00:08:01Go ahead, Aquarius.
00:08:05Here are the gimbal angles in the command module.
00:08:07Hi, Lisa.
00:08:27Hi.
00:08:28I thought my husband was the only one who came in hours early for a shift.
00:08:32Well, he's the one that called me in.
00:08:34How are you?
00:08:34Everything okay?
00:08:35Oh, sure.
00:08:36I just got out of a movie.
00:08:37I decided to drop over and kiss Steve goodnight.
00:08:39I never get a chance to at home during a mission.
00:08:42You know, you're really something.
00:08:43You and Angie ought to spend more time together.
00:08:45Maybe a little bit of patience and understanding would rub off on her.
00:08:48How is Angie?
00:08:48Not very patient or understanding.
00:08:50Is that what you're saying?
00:08:51She just gets a little uptight sometimes.
00:08:53Come on.
00:08:53I've got to hurry.
00:08:54Yeah.
00:08:54Here in mission control, we are now assuming that the command module power system will continue inoperative.
00:09:01Procedures for swinging around the moon and using the lunar module power systems are now in effect.
00:09:07We now show a velocity of 3,210 feet per second.
00:09:11This is Apollo Control, Houston.
00:09:14Roger.
00:09:154.0.
00:09:15Say again what it is, please.
00:09:21Three.
00:09:22Able.
00:09:22Three.
00:09:23Eight.
00:09:24Three.
00:09:24Three.
00:09:24Three.
00:09:25Three.
00:09:25Three.
00:09:26Three.
00:09:26Three.
00:09:26Three.
00:09:27Three.
00:09:27Three.
00:09:27Three.
00:09:28Three.
00:09:28Three.
00:09:29One.
00:09:29Three.
00:09:30Three.
00:09:30Three.
00:09:31One.
00:09:31Three.
00:09:32Three.
00:09:32One.
00:09:33One.
00:09:33Nine.
00:09:34Five.
00:09:34And, uh, Houston, 13, no to the tank pressure, no one is, uh, less than 300 now.
00:09:38Roger.
00:09:39We're seeing that.
00:09:40We're confirming.
00:09:41Thirteen Houston.
00:09:42We're going to have to have you, uh, go through the shutdown procedure and fuel cells.
00:09:44Roger.
00:09:45We're seeing that.
00:09:46We're confirming.
00:09:47Thirteen Houston.
00:09:48Thirteen Houston, we're going to have to have you, uh, go through the shutdown procedure
00:09:53and fuel cell one.
00:09:55Our O2, uh, pressure is going down, as you note, and the, uh, temperature confirms it.
00:10:03Thirteen Houston, uh, we're working on the big dish now, so, uh, turn...
00:10:07Hey.
00:10:08How you doing, babes?
00:10:09What?
00:10:10We're up to our necks right now.
00:10:11I can't talk.
00:10:12What's going on?
00:10:13Things can't be as bad as you look, can it?
00:10:15Uh, don't bet on it.
00:10:16Don't bet on nothing.
00:10:17Okay, Dad.
00:10:18Let me, uh, grab the mouth bank.
00:10:20We've got also a restart.
00:10:21Uh, did you copy that?
00:10:22No, it's okay.
00:10:24What are we holding hands for?
00:10:26Because you were shaking.
00:10:28Take it easy.
00:10:29You're not supposed to push yourself too hard, I mean.
00:10:32Please.
00:10:33Don't do that.
00:10:34Coming down.
00:10:35To me, not in here.
00:10:38Okay, Jack.
00:10:39Looks like...
00:10:40Oh, two, three, one, three...
00:10:41I'm sorry.
00:10:42Yeah.
00:10:43I don't worry.
00:10:44Yeah.
00:10:45Okay.
00:10:46I'll be, uh, late or something.
00:10:49I, I really don't know.
00:10:50Okay, does it look like it's still going down?
00:10:54It's, uh...
00:10:55So, what else is new?
00:10:56We're, uh, starting to think about, uh, land lifeboat.
00:11:00Yeah, that's what we're thinking about, too.
00:11:04Do you want me to do a quick T-52?
00:11:07Kind of looks like...
00:11:13We align our, uh, land platform with our platform and then power down to see him.
00:11:19Uh, keep the lamp powered up.
00:11:21Doing, uh, dips, uh, whatever dips burns you give us.
00:11:25Uh, 13, uh, we're not going to, uh, concern, uh, uh...
00:11:30That's not going to be, uh, Dean.
00:11:31I don't want to get the feet six hundred...
00:11:32It's a nice wall and let go.
00:11:33Thank you, um, one, three.
00:11:34Oh, it's clear to me.
00:11:35See you...
00:13:16Hello?
00:13:18Tim, where are you? I've been worried.
00:13:22Honey, I'm sorry. I couldn't call before. I mean, things are wild around here.
00:13:26Look, there's a lot of extracurricular stuff because of the Apollo 13 trouble, and I'm not going to be able to get home.
00:13:31Is this the way it's going to be? I mean, every time we have a fight, you're just going to go off and sulk.
00:13:35Angie, we...
00:13:36Tim, Tim, move back to the stomach, Ann.
00:13:38All right, I'll be right there. Honey, I've got to go.
00:13:40Fine. First you tell me to listen, now you tell me you have to go.
00:13:45Angie, I want you to do something for me. Tomorrow's the 15th, income tax deadline. I haven't even started the return. Can you take a whack at it?
00:13:51Income tax? You mean you want me... I don't know anything about filling out returns.
00:13:57Tim, you're the one who always does these things.
00:13:58Honey, there's nothing to it. Just work from last year's return and follow the directions, okay?
00:14:04All right, I've got to go. Bye-bye.
00:14:20Huh? Serves him right.
00:14:23Uh, yes, uh, I'd like the phone number for Mr. Michael Jarvis. He's a CPA in downtown Houston.
00:14:34Yes.
00:14:36So that's the way it stands, ladies and gentlemen.
00:14:40The lunar landing has been scrubbed, and right now we're leaning away from a deep space abort.
00:14:45We expect Apollo 13 to continue its flight around the moon, and then she'll come home.
00:14:53Uh, if you'll excuse me, that's all, all right?
00:15:00Okay, Prance, that was all very reassuring, but what's really going on?
00:15:03I can't give you any more, Freddie.
00:15:05Off the record, Gene. Off the record.
00:15:07I know all those guys. How bad is it?
00:15:10Well, Freddie, we don't know how bad.
00:15:13There's a distinct chance that everything we're doing right now may be a waste of time.
00:15:17You mean they can't be saved?
00:15:18We don't know. If there was an explosion out there and it got to the heat shield,
00:15:24and there's a thousand other things could go wrong before re-entry.
00:15:28Hell, they could be gone in an hour.
00:15:31Does that answer your question?
00:15:3212.35 a.m., April 14th, three and a half hours since the explosion aboard Apollo 13.
00:15:40In space, the astronauts are now crowded into the lunar module.
00:15:45It has become their lifeboat, and at mission control, crucial decisions must be made.
00:15:50Okay, okay, let's gather around, white team, so nobody will have to do any shouting to be heard.
00:15:57Here you go, Lou, take a look at this, will you?
00:15:58Bell, what are our options, then?
00:16:02All right.
00:16:04I think we got three choices. None of them great.
00:16:08First, we make a small burn with the lamb.
00:16:12Just enough to put them back in a free return.
00:16:15That'll give a splashdown in something like 110 hours.
00:16:19Uh, 110, no, no, no good.
00:16:23Consumer balls and the lamb will not stretch that far.
00:16:27We got to get them back sooner.
00:16:28That's right. Option two.
00:16:31We wait till they go around the moon.
00:16:35Then do a super burn on the lamb.
00:16:39Speed them up so we can get splashed down in about two and a half days.
00:16:42Yeah, I don't like that one, Retro.
00:16:45A burn like that would use too much fuel.
00:16:47We'd have no margin for mid-course corrections.
00:16:49Yeah, that's right.
00:16:51I told you none of these are great.
00:16:53Number three.
00:16:56For my money, it's the best.
00:16:58It's a combination of the first two procedures.
00:17:00We do a small burn right away, put them back on a free return.
00:17:04Then a second burn after they've come around the moon.
00:17:07To refine course and gain speed,
00:17:09my figures say
00:17:11a four-minute burn there should do it.
00:17:17I know you don't like the idea of two burns.
00:17:19I'm not in love with it either, but those are the choices.
00:17:22If anybody can come up with something better, let's hear it.
00:17:27Okay.
00:17:27Okay, I buy it.
00:17:29Start putting your numbers together.
00:17:30We'll read them up to the guys as soon as we go on ship.
00:17:32Makes a little tough on us.
00:17:36Two burns in 18 hours.
00:17:37Well, it'll keep us off the street nights.
00:17:41Okay, here's about three minutes to go.
00:17:43We're all spread away.
00:17:45Gene Kranz, flight director.
00:17:47He's promised not to change that vest
00:17:49until Apollo 13 is safely home.
00:17:52First problem.
00:17:53Stop them from going into outer space.
00:17:55Swing them around the moon.
00:17:58Okay, Master, arms on.
00:17:59One minute.
00:18:01Roger, Aquarius.
00:18:02You are go for the burn.
00:18:04Capcom, the capsule communicator.
00:18:07He has direct voice contact with the spacecraft.
00:18:11Ecom, with overall responsibility for the command module.
00:18:15GNC, responsible for guidance, navigation, and propulsion.
00:18:20Telmu, responsible for the LEM's vital systems.
00:18:24And Control, responsible for the LEM's guidance,
00:18:26navigational, and propulsion systems.
00:18:30FIDO, the flight dynamics officer,
00:18:35in effect the chief pilot of the spacecraft.
00:18:37And Retro, in charge of re-entry
00:18:39in all mid-course corrections.
00:18:42Three, two, one.
00:18:46Okay, it looks like we had a minus 0.2 bias.
00:18:49See, we're burning.
00:18:50Okay, Aquarius, you're looking good.
00:18:53Got to select start feeding me vectors
00:18:55as soon as the burn's completed.
00:18:55Auto shut down.
00:19:13I'll tell you, that's, uh,
00:19:14that's some kind of shift, right?
00:19:17Oh, yeah, and we're gonna be facing more of the science.
00:19:22I can't get used to it, man.
00:19:23I mean, middle of the night shifts.
00:19:25What I want to do, what I really want to do,
00:19:27is stop off somewhere for a beer.
00:19:29Is it 8 o'clock in the morning?
00:19:31I mean, I gotta go home, get the kid off to school.
00:19:33When are you going to get married, Shimon?
00:19:37Well, when I find the right girl, Lou.
00:19:40Yeah, well, you take it from a loser, buddy boy.
00:19:42You're better off single.
00:19:45What's right, you got a hot date?
00:19:47Uh, I'm expected at home, Lou.
00:19:50I, uh, there's an illness in my family.
00:19:53Oh, I'm sorry.
00:19:54I hope everything's okay.
00:19:57I'll see you tonight.
00:19:58Yeah.
00:20:03Come on, Mama.
00:20:33He's been asking for you.
00:20:36Your brother is with him now.
00:20:38Well, go ahead.
00:20:39Hello, Shimon.
00:20:40Couldn't you stay home these next few days?
00:20:44Well, it's our busiest time, Mama.
00:20:46Mission.
00:20:47And there's been a problem.
00:20:48I'm needed more than ever.
00:20:49Your father would like his two sons beside him when he dies.
00:20:53Is it too much to ask?
00:20:57I'll go on in.
00:21:03Ah, good.
00:21:06You're here.
00:21:08Remember him, you're not tired.
00:21:10Uh, bad night?
00:21:12Bad enough.
00:21:14He, uh, he just dropped off to sleep.
00:21:16Maybe I better not disturb him.
00:21:18Oh, no, he said to be sure you came in just as soon as you got here.
00:21:22Shimon.
00:21:24In his room, at least, Shimon.
00:21:28Yes, Mama.
00:21:30Thank you for reminding me.
00:21:33Hey, Mike.
00:21:41Mikey?
00:21:42Up here, Dad.
00:21:47About ready for school, son?
00:21:50Hello, Lou.
00:22:01How long you been here?
00:22:03I don't know.
00:22:04Twenty minutes, maybe.
00:22:06Just having a nice little visit with my baby.
00:22:09Hey, Mom, I'm no baby.
00:22:11Yeah, well, your mother gets a little confused sometimes against Mikey.
00:22:14I mean, uh, you practically were a baby when she left.
00:22:18Oh, Lou, that stinks.
00:22:21When I get your clothes on, you're gonna be late for school.
00:22:23Don't sit down.
00:22:29You're not gonna stay that long.
00:22:31Come on, Lou.
00:22:32Can't we at least be decent with each other?
00:22:34Decent?
00:22:34You...
00:22:35You take a walk seven years ago.
00:22:38I mean, seven years ago, Donnie, you walked out.
00:22:41Then all of a sudden you turn up here.
00:22:42You just turn up with a belated attack of motherhood.
00:22:45You want to be decent, you knock off this custody, Jazz.
00:22:47You're dumped on the kid and me.
00:22:48You just won't believe I've changed, will you?
00:22:57Hell, no, you haven't changed.
00:23:01All right, Lou.
00:23:03I guess we'll just see each other in court.
00:23:06Donna.
00:23:07Donna.
00:23:08Don't you come sneaking around here anymore,
00:23:11bothering Mike while I'm at work.
00:23:13You hear me?
00:23:14I mean that.
00:23:15I mean that!
00:23:16I mean that!
00:23:18Is she gone?
00:23:33Yeah, she's gone.
00:23:35Ghost is clear.
00:23:37Do we really have to go to court like she said?
00:23:39Hey, hey, hey.
00:23:40Come here, son.
00:23:42Come here, sit down.
00:23:44She's gonna be okay.
00:23:45There ain't nothing to it.
00:23:46I mean, I have to just...
00:23:48You go down, you tell the judge that you want to be with me,
00:23:53just like you always have been.
00:23:56And everything's gonna be all right.
00:23:58Just so you're there with me.
00:24:00Oh, come on, Mike.
00:24:01What are you...
00:24:02Of course I'm gonna be there.
00:24:03I promise you, I'm gonna be right down there with you, son.
00:24:08You're daddy's big boy.
00:24:10Daddy loves you more than anything in this whole world, Mikey.
00:24:13Don't you know that?
00:24:13Okay, Dad.
00:24:16Okay, Dad.
00:24:18See you later.
00:24:19Yeah.
00:24:27Check and check.
00:24:28Nothing wrong with the numbers, Jim.
00:24:30No, it's...
00:24:30It's the course that's wrong.
00:24:33I mean, it's off a full degree since the last burn.
00:24:36Something's making him drift.
00:24:37If this keeps on like this,
00:24:39we're gonna have to tweak up the trajectory all the way home.
00:24:42Pido, have you got the hack on the new trajectory?
00:24:44Roger, Flight.
00:24:45The course off one full degree,
00:24:47PC burn, no error.
00:24:49It's drift.
00:24:49Cause unknown since the last burn.
00:24:51We'll give him a new course correction in about 24 hours, huh?
00:24:54Hey, White Team, listen up, Juan.
00:24:55You guys have been acting so gung-ho lately,
00:25:00I managed to get you a special project.
00:25:03Now, first, I'm gonna take you offline.
00:25:05That means the other teams are gonna be managing the mission for the next 60 hours.
00:25:09But while they're doing that,
00:25:11we're gonna be writing the new re-entry checklist.
00:25:14Oh!
00:25:17Okay, okay, I know.
00:25:19I know it's a hell of a job.
00:25:22That means we're gonna have to condense three months' work
00:25:24into less than three days to make up the entire checklist.
00:25:28But we're gonna do it, and we're gonna do a hell of a job.
00:25:31I know we're going into an area we never had to handle before.
00:25:34You, in particular, E-Com.
00:25:36That means you're gonna have to plan a complete command module power-up.
00:25:39That's something we never even had to simulate on the ground before.
00:25:42Now, what is it?
00:25:422,300 hours.
00:25:44I happen to know a lot of you guys didn't get home after your shift last time.
00:25:47I'm gonna give you a chance to do that and get a little rest.
00:25:49But I want you back here at 0800 hours.
00:25:52I want some lead left in your pencil, and I want them sharp.
00:25:54We got a lot of work to do.
00:25:55Oh, yeah.
00:25:56And one more thing for the duration.
00:25:58The white team has been designated Tiger Team.
00:26:04Yeah, all right, all right.
00:26:05That's right.
00:26:06So, good night, Tigers.
00:26:11Let's go home, old friend.
00:26:12Tomorrow's gonna be a long day.
00:26:13Long three days.
00:26:14The morning masses here at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral are especially well-attended today.
00:26:25Hundreds of New Yorkers have come out of the brilliant spring sunshine into the darkened cathedral
00:26:30to celebrate special masses for the safe return of Lovell, Hayes, and Schweikert.
00:26:34The special services will continue throughout the morning,
00:26:38and the afternoon will begin with the last of the services, scheduled to coincide with Splashdown.
00:26:44This is Jim Giggins, ABC News reporting.
00:26:47Gene Krantz sent you home to sleep.
00:26:56Yeah, I will.
00:26:59When?
00:27:01Tonight?
00:27:03Tomorrow?
00:27:06Next year on Tuesday?
00:27:09Tell me what you think of the problem the Americans are having now up in space.
00:27:20Well, I think that it's, you know, I wouldn't like to be up there because it must be terrifying to be up there, you know,
00:27:27knowing that you ain't got a lot of oxygen and could run out any minute.
00:27:31And I wouldn't like to be up there.
00:27:33You know, it's a shame, really.
00:27:35What do they care?
00:27:36If what you're doing doesn't work,
00:27:45or if you fall to pieces at the last minute,
00:27:50what do their families get?
00:27:55What do their wives get?
00:28:00What do I get?
00:28:06How about a punch in the mouth?
00:28:09How about that?
00:28:12As opposed to what?
00:28:15A dead husband?
00:28:17I guess I'll take a punch in the mouth.
00:28:24Babes, don't do this to me now.
00:28:26When would you suggest?
00:28:32I've kept my mouth shut for a solid year.
00:28:35I'm watching you drive yourself straight into another cardiac arrest.
00:28:39I can't take that again.
00:28:42As a matter of fact, neither can you.
00:28:46All three doctors agree on that.
00:28:48Do you see that?
00:28:56You hear what the men are saying?
00:28:58I know nothing about the workings of the thing,
00:29:01but they're doing a grand job,
00:29:04and I sincerely hope they get back safe and sound.
00:29:06Babe, I'm going to bring these guys home.
00:29:08I am.
00:29:15Because I am the best retrofire officer
00:29:17that ever came down the damn street.
00:29:25I will drop them closer on target
00:29:27than has ever been done before.
00:29:33I will.
00:29:38I can't cut my next physical.
00:29:44So this is the last go-around for me.
00:29:52I'll write it all the way down,
00:29:53and I don't care what it costs.
00:29:54I don't care.
00:30:00That is not
00:30:01as selfish as it sounds.
00:30:06It isn't.
00:30:08Babe, I have to.
00:30:17Those guys are lost without us.
00:30:24Got it?
00:30:28Come on, babe.
00:30:29Come on, babe.
00:30:38Come on, babe.
00:30:39Come on, babe.
00:30:39Come on, babe.
00:30:40Come on, babe.
00:30:41Come on, babe.
00:30:42Come on, babe.
00:30:43Come on, babe.
00:30:44Come on, babe.
00:30:45Come on, babe.
00:30:46Come on, babe.
00:30:47Come on, babe.
00:30:48Come on, babe.
00:30:49Come on, babe.
00:30:50Come on, babe.
00:30:51Come on, babe.
00:30:52Come on, babe.
00:30:53Come on, babe.
00:30:54Come on, babe.
00:30:55Come on, babe.
00:30:56Come on, babe.
00:30:57Come on, babe.
00:30:58Come on, babe.
00:30:59Come on, Papa.
00:31:02Sit down.
00:31:12Shlapka's in, Papa.
00:31:25Thank God I have my two fine sons.
00:31:27Do you know how much you both mean to me now?
00:31:31No, Mama, we know.
00:31:33I need you, both of you, so much.
00:31:37It's okay, we're here.
00:31:39We're here.
00:31:41Sherman.
00:31:46I'll speak to my flight director in the morning.
00:31:51I'll explain.
00:31:54They'll replace me.
00:31:57It's 2 a.m.
00:32:07Yes, Angie, I'm well aware of the time.
00:32:10Aren't you coming to bed?
00:32:12I mean, first you don't come home all day, and then when you do come home...
00:32:15When you do come home, I have to do the tax return, which I seem to recall having asked you to do it, and I just imagined that conversation.
00:32:23I told you, I don't know a thing about those lousy tax...
00:32:27All right, I know...
00:32:28I know it's hard, I do.
00:32:32But you're never going to learn anything about anything until you get off that duff of yours someday and try.
00:32:37Look, I could have had those taxes done for free today by a CPA, only I chickened out.
00:32:42Oh, boy, do I wish I hadn't.
00:32:45This, uh, CPA was...
00:32:52Was his name Mike Jarvis by any chance?
00:32:56Look, I got angry at you today.
00:33:05Well, the way you hung the phone up on me...
00:33:07Well, you practically ordered me to do the taxes.
00:33:09So you called him?
00:33:11Well...
00:33:12It was perfectly harmless.
00:33:15And I bet he just couldn't wait to come over here and do our tax return.
00:33:18Boy, I know I shouldn't have said anything...
00:33:21I forgot how ridiculously jealous you can get!
00:33:31What are you doing?
00:33:35I'm going to a motel, Angie.
00:33:38I've got to have some peace.
00:33:44I've got to straighten out my head before I go back to work in the morning.
00:33:46Tim, please, Tim, I don't know what I'll do!
00:33:49Tim, please, I'm frightened!
00:33:54Tim!
00:34:00How you doing there, Aquarius?
00:34:03Okay, Jack.
00:34:05Okay, uh, sometime when you can get two guys available there.
00:34:09And, uh, you could construct one of these lithium hydroxide rigs.
00:34:12What I'd like you to do is, uh, get all the material together and then, uh, we'll just
00:34:17run through the steps together.
00:34:19During the night of April 14th, a new problem develops aboard the spacecraft.
00:34:24The LEMS air purification system is proving inadequate.
00:34:28Lethal levels of carbon dioxide are building up.
00:34:30The mission control engineers must design a makeshift device, which the astronauts can build
00:34:35from materials on board, and pray that it works.
00:34:38Then, April 15th, Tiger team meets prior to starting on the new re-entry checklist.
00:34:44Okay, you guys all know Pettit, don't you?
00:34:46He's our fan.
00:34:47He'll be in contact with each and every one of you, making sure that the work you do dovetails
00:34:50with the work of the other controllers.
00:34:52He's also in charge of assembling your work into the final checklist.
00:34:55So work fast, but let's be accurate.
00:34:58We all know what's at stake here.
00:34:59I want an A number one Tiger team job.
00:35:01Now let's go, huh?
00:35:07Eleven, good.
00:35:08I meant to talk to you.
00:35:08I wanted to tell you how really pleased we are.
00:35:10You're on the Tiger team.
00:35:11I know you're the most experienced econ man we've got, and nobody knows the command module
00:35:15as good as you do.
00:35:15It's great.
00:35:19Now look, is something wrong?
00:35:19Uh, no, I was just going to suggest the command module contractors send their people over
00:35:28to work with us.
00:35:30Yeah, well, he'll be here today.
00:35:35Hello?
00:35:38What do you think?
00:35:39Just the trench now, or you want the other guys?
00:35:45Tim, wake up.
00:35:46Uh, no.
00:35:47No, let's, uh, let's keep it you and me and Guido for now, okay?
00:35:51Great.
00:35:52What the hell's the matter with you?
00:35:54Uh, just...
00:35:56Trouble with Angie.
00:35:57I've got her on the brain.
00:35:58Get her off.
00:35:58Yeah, we got work.
00:36:00April 15th.
00:36:02Since the spacecraft started its homeward flight, its course has drifted from its intended trajectory.
00:36:07Now this shallowing drift is becoming dangerous.
00:36:10If it continues unchecked, Apollo 13 will glance off Earth's atmosphere and bounce away into space
00:36:17to be trapped by the gravitational pull of the sun.
00:36:259 a.m. Wednesday, April 15th.
00:36:28Approximately 36 hours since the explosion aboard Apollo 13.
00:36:32A mid-course correction has been scheduled to bring the spacecraft back into proper approach corridor.
00:36:38But the cause of its continuing drift is still unknown.
00:36:42Hey, Mel.
00:36:53How are you?
00:36:54We got to make this quick, Mel.
00:36:55I'm up to my neck and problems upstairs.
00:36:57Whew, you never know.
00:36:59Shouldn't be down here at all.
00:37:00Now look, I can guess what you're going through.
00:37:02It's been all over the papers and TV about the astronauts.
00:37:04Yeah.
00:37:05We've got problems of our own now.
00:37:06They, uh, they moved up to custody hearing.
00:37:08It's three tomorrow afternoon.
00:37:09Tomorrow?
00:37:10Tomorrow?
00:37:11Oh, no, no, no way, man.
00:37:13I, uh, just can't make it then, Mel.
00:37:15Uh, you're going to have to get a, what do you call it, postponements?
00:37:18You think I haven't been trying?
00:37:20Well, you're going to have to.
00:37:21I mean, I just, I just don't see how I can make it down to court tomorrow.
00:37:24You know, there's no legal reason for you to have to be there.
00:37:26I can pick your boy up, take him...
00:37:28No, no, no, no.
00:37:29You see, that's just yet, uh, Mike's already scared to death about that hearing.
00:37:33You know that.
00:37:33And he made me promise, absolutely promise, I'd be right down there with him.
00:37:39So, let's...
00:37:42Well, all right, all right.
00:37:45Look, you pick him up at school, and I'll do my damnedest to pull an hour off tomorrow.
00:37:49Somehow.
00:37:49Or something.
00:37:51All right.
00:37:52I'll be down there.
00:37:53I'll be there.
00:37:54Thanks a lot for coming.
00:37:55Okay.
00:37:55Appreciate you.
00:37:56Appreciate you.
00:38:07All right.
00:38:21All right.
00:38:21All right.
00:38:22What do you need?
00:38:32Uh, just aspirin. I thought they could have someone here.
00:38:34Wait a minute. Here.
00:38:38I guess everybody's got headaches today.
00:38:40Yeah. Thanks.
00:38:48All right.
00:38:50You all right?
00:38:51Yeah.
00:38:53Just a little one.
00:38:55Thanks, Gary. I feel better.
00:38:57Yeah.
00:39:11Oh, God.
00:39:14Not now.
00:39:30No, no, no, no, no, no.
00:39:49No, no, no.
00:40:02No, no, no.
00:40:04No, no, no.
00:40:06Oh, my God.
00:40:36This is Apollo Control at 112 hours.
00:40:45Telemetry from the spacecraft tells us that the handmade lithium hydroxide canisters are continuing to function well, and carbon dioxide is holding at acceptable levels.
00:40:55Mission Control is still trying to determine the cause of persistent drift in Apollo 13's trajectory.
00:41:02Since the mid-course correction approximately six hours ago, the spacecraft is again nearly one full degree off course.
00:41:10Venting is suspected, but its source continues to elude us.
00:41:14Mission Control, Houston.
00:41:15Hi.
00:41:20I came as soon as they told me you were here.
00:41:24You didn't shave this morning?
00:41:25I didn't know it was morning.
00:41:31Our mother needs you, Sherman.
00:41:35It's morning of the day they're putting our father in the ground.
00:41:41Funeral's in six hours from now.
00:41:43Mother needs you for her sake.
00:41:45For your sake and the eyes of your God, come home.
00:41:50Don't, Abraham.
00:41:51Please don't.
00:41:51If you don't listen to me as your brother, then listen to me as your rabbi.
00:41:55I tell you that what you're doing is a denial of your faith.
00:41:58Stop it.
00:41:58Listen to me.
00:42:02Try to understand.
00:42:04There are three men out there.
00:42:06Living men.
00:42:08They have mothers, too, and wives, and children.
00:42:12Yesterday they were in danger of choking to death until I helped design a makeshift air purifier.
00:42:18Today something else may happen.
00:42:20And tomorrow, tomorrow they're coming down into the atmosphere.
00:42:26Abraham, there is so much that can go wrong.
00:42:29We don't know if the heat shield was damaged.
00:42:32If it was, they'll burn up, no matter what we do.
00:42:39We don't know.
00:42:42Oh, God, Abraham, there is so much to be done, and so much we don't even know how.
00:42:53I'll try.
00:42:56I'll try and explain it to Mother.
00:42:58Shalom, Shimon.
00:43:02Shalom.
00:43:02I'm sorry, Mr. Cordell is not available.
00:43:13Not available?
00:43:15None of the white team flight controllers are accepting phone calls, except in cases of a genuine emergency.
00:43:21Look, I haven't seen him since yesterday morning.
00:43:23I'm his wife, and I consider this an emergency.
00:43:25I'm sorry, Mrs. Cordell, but our instructions are very firm.
00:43:31Instructions.
00:43:32Yeah.
00:43:32Yeah.
00:43:33Uh, this is Lou Matthews.
00:43:48Do I have an outside call, please?
00:43:49Mm-hmm.
00:43:54Hello?
00:43:55That you, Mel?
00:43:55Yeah.
00:43:56Yeah, we're here at the courthouse.
00:43:57Where are you?
00:43:58Well, I'm just not going to be able to make it.
00:43:59I can't get away, believe me.
00:44:01I tried.
00:44:02I, uh...
00:44:03Shouldn't even be taking his call, as well, in fact.
00:44:05Okay.
00:44:06I know you'd be here if you could.
00:44:07It's Mike who wanted me to call Lou.
00:44:09You'd better talk to him.
00:44:15Hey, Dad.
00:44:16Listen, Mike.
00:44:17I know I promised you I'd be right down there with you, and I meant it, but drawing all kinds of stuff, so much stuff at me up here, son.
00:44:25Yeah, but, Dad, I need you.
00:44:27We have to be in court right away.
00:44:29I'm really scared.
00:44:30Well, I just can't help it, son.
00:44:32I mean, if, you know, if there were any way, I, I can't talk anymore, Mikey.
00:44:37I, I'll try to explain it to you when I see you, okay?
00:44:40Dad, don't hang up on me.
00:44:42Oh, come on.
00:44:43Now, wait, wait, wait.
00:44:44What's the matter?
00:44:45What are you, are you crying now?
00:44:46You crying on me?
00:44:47I can't help it.
00:44:48Yes, you can help it, Mike.
00:44:51I mean, you, what are you, baby?
00:44:53You show some guts.
00:44:55No, I mean it, young man.
00:44:56You stop crying right now.
00:44:58You act like a man.
00:45:00Don't, don't hang.
00:45:02Oh, boy.
00:45:20This is astronaut Tom Stafford.
00:45:23He's running the re-entry problem in the command module simulator at Houston.
00:45:27Oh, no, no, no, look at it.
00:45:36Look at this.
00:45:38Your controller still allows you.
00:45:39I told you it won't work this way.
00:45:40Okay, Retro, okay, take it easy, will you?
00:45:42Just give Lewin a chance to work it out, huh?
00:45:44Okay, go ahead.
00:45:45I'm sorry, Sherman.
00:45:47Forget it.
00:45:48Commander Stafford, we're going to try the maneuver another way.
00:45:59Null your roll needle and your pitch needle.
00:46:01Roger.
00:46:03Null him the roll needle...
00:46:04And the pitch needle.
00:46:13Yeah.
00:46:15Yeah, he's here.
00:46:17Tim!
00:46:17Miss Cordell, punch that call in here, will you please?
00:46:35Hi.
00:46:38My wife.
00:46:40Remember me?
00:46:41For Pete's sake, Angie, they said it was an emergency.
00:46:44Oh, yeah, I talked to the lady in NASA.
00:46:47She said I couldn't get through to you unless it was an emergency.
00:46:53Angie, what's wrong?
00:46:54I can hardly hear you.
00:46:55I created my own emergency.
00:47:01I took a lot.
00:47:03You did what?
00:47:04I took the whole bottle.
00:47:08And is that enough emergency?
00:47:14Well, you really did it, huh?
00:47:16Yeah.
00:47:19Now will you come home?
00:47:22All right, all right, okay.
00:47:23Just stay put.
00:47:25I can be there.
00:47:30No, Angie.
00:47:32Angie, I won't.
00:47:34But you keep telling me that you love me.
00:47:38You don't want me to just...
00:47:41lay here and die.
00:47:45You listen to me.
00:47:47You get into that, John, and you stick your finger down your throat.
00:47:51I'm going to hang up.
00:47:52And then I'm going to vote for an ambulance.
00:47:55But that's it, Angie.
00:47:57That's it.
00:47:58It didn't work.
00:47:59Hello?
00:48:05Lisa, this is Tim.
00:48:22Angie just called.
00:48:23She overdosed on sleeping pills.
00:48:26How could she be so...
00:48:28I'm sorry.
00:48:30I'm by my tongue.
00:48:31Look, I'm sorry to get you involved, but if you could just get over there and take it...
00:48:34Don't worry.
00:48:35I'm on my way.
00:48:37Thanks.
00:48:38Tiger team, all members, Tiger team, report to staff support room, mission control.
00:48:50Tiger team, report to staff support room, mission control.
00:48:55This is Apollo control at 123 hours, 48 minutes.
00:49:17Apollo 13 is 97,232 nautical miles from Earth.
00:49:24Velocity is 5,996 feet per second.
00:49:27We are now 18 hours, 52 minutes from entry.
00:49:32How are you going?
00:49:40How are you going?
00:49:41How's it like?
00:49:42Oh, yeah.
00:49:43Look, look.
00:49:44Sorry to do this, but I thought you'd better talk to him before I take him back to the apartment.
00:49:49What's the matter?
00:49:49What happened?
00:49:50Well, he was just so darned upset after talking to you on the phone, Lou.
00:49:54He told the judge he wants to go back with Donna.
00:49:58What?
00:49:58Now, look, look.
00:49:59We've got a week to appeal before we have to hand him over.
00:50:02I got that with some mighty fancy footwork I don't mind telling you.
00:50:05You mean he's not final?
00:50:07No, no, no, no.
00:50:08As soon as Mike calms down and tells the judge how he really feels, he'll get reversed.
00:50:12But it depends on Mike.
00:50:15That's why I brought him straight here, so you could make your peace with him before it gets any worse.
00:50:19Yeah, okay.
00:50:21You hang tight.
00:50:27Hey, Mike.
00:50:28That's, uh, some kind of curve you threw at your old man there.
00:50:36Hmm?
00:50:41What'd you think?
00:50:42Because I lost my temper, said some dumb things to you, that I didn't want you around anymore?
00:50:50Hmm?
00:50:52Is that it?
00:50:53Well, come on, Mike.
00:51:00Do you know how wrong that is, son?
00:51:07Mike.
00:51:07I don't know.
00:51:14Well, listen.
00:51:17Mel said if we go down to the judge next week and you, uh, you tell him that you, you know, you were mad at me.
00:51:27But you, you didn't mean it when you said you wanted to live with your mother.
00:51:36Would you do it?
00:51:37That way?
00:51:40Right?
00:51:41Please, son.
00:51:48Okay.
00:51:50Okay.
00:51:52That's great.
00:51:55Listen.
00:51:55No problems next week.
00:52:01Mike.
00:52:02I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be down there with you.
00:52:05All the way, son.
00:52:07All the way.
00:52:08Look, just, just let me sit a minute before we go home, huh?
00:52:14So how do you feel besides empty?
00:52:16I don't need a lecture.
00:52:18No, you don't.
00:52:20What you need is to have your pretty little tail kicked a country mile.
00:52:23To subject your husband to this kind of childish stupidity.
00:52:27Angie, I've never said this to anyone before in my life, but you are one selfish, thoughtless child.
00:52:32Oh, swell.
00:52:33I, I mean, I'm sure Tim agrees with you, so, uh, why not make it unanimous?
00:52:38Not good enough, lady.
00:52:40After the fact, it's too late.
00:52:42It just so happens that your husband and mine are going through the worst three days of their life.
00:52:47And if you can't see that, you're blind on top of everything else.
00:52:51When I think of the nightmare...
00:52:55Lisa.
00:52:57Hey, Lisa, wait, don't.
00:53:01I'm sorry.
00:53:02I, I, I didn't realize I upset you this much.
00:53:07Angie, you're amazing.
00:53:09That wasn't anything to do with you.
00:53:11It was Steve.
00:53:13You're not having any trouble, are you?
00:53:16I might be a widow any minute.
00:53:18Is that trouble?
00:53:22Steve had a coronary, a bad one, a year ago.
00:53:24He swore me to secrecy.
00:53:26Didn't tell anyone at NASA.
00:53:27He managed to work up a bunch of phony excuses why he couldn't go back to work until he was able to act reasonably normal.
00:53:35Why?
00:53:36Why didn't he tell anybody?
00:53:37Because he's addicted to that bloody job.
00:53:39I think he'd prefer to die rather than give it up, and he just might get his wish.
00:53:46Do you know what I'm doing?
00:53:48I'm helpful.
00:53:49The understanding wife.
00:53:51Kiss him on the cheek.
00:53:52Tell him, go ahead.
00:53:54Stay in the pressure cooker.
00:53:55Work yourself to death if that's what makes you happy.
00:53:59Lord.
00:54:06Lisa, don't.
00:54:07If you breathe the word of this to anybody, I'll break your neck.
00:54:32Hello.
00:54:33Hey, nice job.
00:54:35Thanks.
00:54:37Okay, I've been going over your work here with Spann.
00:54:41It's exactly what I thought it would be.
00:54:43One hell of a tiger job.
00:54:45Now, we're going to start the read up to 13 in about five hours.
00:54:49I want you all here to follow the read up, and I want you back on those consoles because we're going to fly the re-entry.
00:54:56I suggest those of you who live close by go home and get some sack down.
00:54:59The rest of you can stay over in the dormitory.
00:55:00But all of you, let's get some sleep.
00:55:03I want you back here in five hours.
00:55:04And, uh, look, uh, I want to be out of this vest by noon tomorrow, all right?
00:55:19Come on, I'll drive you home.
00:55:20No, you go ahead.
00:55:21I'm, uh, I'm going to do the, uh, dormitory thing like the man said.
00:55:25Okay.
00:55:26See you later.
00:55:26Yep.
00:55:26Hey, hey, hey, hey, man.
00:55:42Retro?
00:55:43What's the matter?
00:55:45You don't look so hot, man.
00:55:49Well, what do you think you look like?
00:55:51Peter Pan?
00:55:52You, uh, uh, you all right?
00:55:58Yep.
00:55:59Shirley Horse.
00:56:00Oh.
00:56:01Okay.
00:56:02Okay.
00:56:03You take it easy.
00:56:04See you tomorrow.
00:56:05See you tomorrow.
00:56:05See you tomorrow.
00:56:07See you tomorrow.
00:56:19See you tomorrow.
00:56:21I'll go fix you some eggs if you...
00:56:36It's all right.
00:56:37I'm not hungry.
00:56:49You okay?
00:56:49Except for feeling like a perfect idiot.
00:56:55Nobody's perfect, Angie.
00:56:58Tim?
00:57:00Is Steve all right?
00:57:02Yeah.
00:57:03What's when I left?
00:57:08Tired as hell.
00:57:09Everybody.
00:57:11Why?
00:57:12Oh, nothing.
00:57:13I was just wondering.
00:57:15I don't know.
00:57:16Lisa seems worried about him.
00:57:19Watch over him if you can.
00:57:22We take care of each other.
00:57:24We always do.
00:57:24Tim, it's funny.
00:57:31It's not like you.
00:57:33What?
00:57:34To worry about other people.
00:57:43Tim?
00:57:43Have you stopped loving me?
00:57:49I mean, is there anything left?
00:58:01I don't know.
00:58:02I don't know, Angie.
00:58:12I'm just tired.
00:58:15I've got to get up in five hours.
00:58:16I'll wake you.
00:58:26I'll wake you.
00:58:30Okay.
00:58:31I should have been there for the read-up.
00:58:51Why'd you let me sleep through it?
00:58:54Anyone ever tell you you've got a streak of megalomania?
00:58:57Sounds nasty.
00:58:58Can you take penicillin for it?
00:59:00Believe it or not, Steve, they managed without you.
00:59:03Just barely.
00:59:04Krantz agreed you needed all the rest you could get.
00:59:07As soon as we hit the consoles, it's a retromission in space.
00:59:10Yeah.
00:59:10Tim, about that.
00:59:13About what?
00:59:14If I, uh...
00:59:16If you get the feeling in there that I'm gonna drop the ball, don't be coy.
00:59:21Step in.
00:59:22Hey, come on.
00:59:23We're a team, that's all I'm saying.
00:59:26We're a hell of a team, you know that?
00:59:27Yeah.
00:59:29So how come I don't even like you that much?
00:59:35And, uh, Aquarius Houston, uh, Roger that.
00:59:38We're standing by for your body access align and your, uh, zeroing 404, 405, 406, going to 47.
00:59:48Okay, uh, hit N.
00:59:49You had asked me before, Joe, to go up 400 plus three, which had hit.
00:59:53I assume you had changed the script again.
00:59:55Okay, uh, Fred, we didn't tell you to do that a while ago and it, uh, it doesn't matter you're looking for it.
01:00:02Okay.
01:00:02Okay, okay, okay.
01:00:05Shift change complete.
01:00:06White team on the consoles.
01:00:09Fido.
01:00:10Roger, Flight.
01:00:11Fido, we're still showing a trajectory decay, about half a degree since the last mid-course correction.
01:00:16Can't seem to nail down whatever it is that's venting, huh?
01:00:19Okay, Flight, I'm watching.
01:00:20Roger, this is Apollo Control at 134 hours, 53 minutes.
01:00:26In mission control at this time, we've just had a shift handover.
01:00:30Flight Director Gene Kranz has taken over.
01:00:33We will not have a change of shift briefing.
01:00:36The Flight Director plans to remain in the control center through splashdown.
01:00:41Retro, you think we need any corrective measures?
01:00:44Retro, you read me?
01:00:49Retro.
01:00:50Uh, negative Flight, not till mid-course seven.
01:00:53Roger.
01:00:55White team, this is Flight.
01:00:57We're reading exactly eight hours till splashdown.
01:00:59Now, gentlemen, that means we'll be eating lunch today off the consoles.
01:01:03Let's go, let's bring them home, man.
01:01:06Okay, I'm at, uh, Big's, uh, Miniman Falls right now while we're firing.
01:01:11And I'll go back to the ag mode.
01:01:12As soon as we get rid of the service module, uh, Joe, I think I'll be able to maneuver a lot better.
01:01:18Sure, thanks.
01:01:20Okay, Jack, this reports that all flutters fire up both brakes.
01:01:24The morning of the last day.
01:01:26By now, the voices of the astronauts revealed to the world what the controllers at Houston already knew.
01:01:32The strain, the weariness, the uncertainty.
01:01:36Before this day was over, the crew of Apollo 13 would either splash down safely or be burned to a cinder upon re-entry.
01:01:46There's FF.
01:01:55Copy that.
01:01:56We copied that report from Jim Lovell that service module separation was at 138 hours, two minutes, and eight seconds.
01:02:05And as you heard, that was ahead of schedule.
01:02:07We presently show Apollo 13 at 35,611 nautical miles from Earth.
01:02:12Lord, he looks a hundred years old.
01:02:19Can you see us, Jack?
01:02:20Okay, Aquarius.
01:02:22Um, Houston.
01:02:24Recommend you terminate the average G, over.
01:02:28Okay, I've got her, uh, Houston.
01:02:31Beautiful.
01:02:33Beautiful.
01:02:33For your information, Jim, you'll be coming up on an RCS caution light.
01:02:39Prittily and, uh, no sweat.
01:02:42Over.
01:02:42And there's one whole side of that spacecraft missing.
01:02:45Is that right?
01:02:47Right by the, uh, look out, sir, please.
01:02:51Right by the high-gate antenna.
01:02:53The whole panel is blown out, almost from the, uh, base to the, uh, entrance.
01:02:58Copy that.
01:03:00Yeah, it looks like it got to the, uh, SPS bell, too, Houston.
01:03:04Uh, you can see the SPS engine, huh?
01:03:06Wait, look.
01:03:07That's, uh, just dark brown streak.
01:03:10It's really a mess.
01:03:11Okay, take pictures.
01:03:12Uh, we want to conserve RCS, so no unnecessary maneuvers.
01:03:16Over.
01:03:17I think you better tell them to take a look at that damn thing.
01:03:21Give us some idea if it got to the command module.
01:03:25For our windows now, here's it.
01:03:26Okay.
01:03:28Okay, Joe, I'm now looking down the SPS bell, and it looks, uh, looks okay on the inside.
01:03:33Thank you, this is just not free.
01:03:35Okay, copy that, Fred.
01:03:36Uh, was the bell deformed on the outside, or, uh, just nicked, or what?
01:03:41I think the explosion, from what I can see, Joe, had, uh, had faded.
01:03:46I don't know whether it was doing any actual deformation or not.
01:03:49Okay.
01:03:51Man, that's unbelievable.
01:03:54Yeah, Joe, looks like a lot of, uh, a lot of debris is just hanging out from the side, uh, near the S-band antenna.
01:04:01Apollo Control, Houston, 141 hours, 28 minutes into the flight.
01:04:08Apollo 13, now 11,590 nautical miles away from Earth.
01:04:14For a re-entry, the three crewmen will be in a shirt-sleeve environment, not in their space suits.
01:04:19We're standing by now for reports of jettison of the lunar module.
01:04:24At 141 hours, 28 minutes into the flight, this is Apollo Control, Houston.
01:04:30Okay, uh, Houston, do we have a go for pyroarm?
01:04:33Okay, just copy that.
01:04:34You go for pyroarm.
01:04:36Real fine.
01:04:37Okay, follow that.
01:04:47Farewell, Aquarius, and we thank you.
01:04:51This is Apollo Control, Houston.
01:04:52At 141 hours, 31 minutes into the flight, we have had lunar module jettison.
01:05:00And for Apollo 13, the age of Aquarius ended at 141 hours, 30 minutes, ground elapsed time.
01:05:08Retro, this is flight.
01:05:09We'll need your re-entry pad figures very shortly.
01:05:12Roger, flight.
01:05:13Working on it.
01:05:14Fido.
01:05:14Fido here.
01:05:16How's trajectory shallowing any more?
01:05:19Not so much.
01:05:19Seems to have slacked off after limb jettison.
01:05:21That's where the venting must have been from, the limb.
01:05:24Roger.
01:05:26Retro 13 is asking for your re-entry pad figures.
01:05:31Roger, flight.
01:05:33Entry pad follows.
01:05:34Lift vector is up.
01:05:36Numbers mid-Pacific, 000152.
01:05:43Retro, the back room is questioning.
01:05:45Lift vector up.
01:05:47In view of the trajectory shallowing.
01:05:49Question for back room.
01:05:52How come everybody thinks they're a retro officer doing re-entry?
01:05:56Okay, okay.
01:05:57Settle down, all.
01:05:59Retro.
01:06:01Lift vector is up.
01:06:03Repeat up.
01:06:05Roger and copied, retro.
01:06:07Five minutes to go now for a re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.
01:06:16Now reading a velocity of 34,335 feet per second.
01:06:21Range to go, 2,921 nautical miles.
01:06:25Flight director Gene Krantz now going around the room,
01:06:28posting his flight crew as to the status.
01:06:31Retro.
01:06:32Go.
01:06:33Fido.
01:06:34Go.
01:06:35Guido.
01:06:35Go.
01:06:36GNC.
01:06:37Go.
01:06:37Ecom.
01:06:38Go.
01:06:39Surgeon.
01:06:39Go.
01:06:40Inco.
01:06:41Go.
01:06:41Capcom, all systems go for re-entry.
01:06:44Odyssey, Houston.
01:06:45Over.
01:06:46Go ahead.
01:06:46Okay, we just had one last time around the room.
01:06:49Everybody says you're looking great.
01:06:54Okay, loss of signal in about a minute.
01:06:56In, uh, entry attitude, we'd like Omni Charlie.
01:07:00And welcome home, over.
01:07:04Sir.
01:07:04Apollo Control, Houston.
01:07:16We've just had loss of signal with Apollo 13.
01:07:20Our last velocity reading was 35,837 feet per second,
01:07:24with a range to go of 1,791 nautical miles.
01:07:29Flight, this is Retro.
01:07:33Coordinates for Splash, 21 degrees, 39 minutes,
01:07:40south of 165 degrees, 22 minutes west,
01:07:47right on the Iwo Jima's flight deck.
01:07:50Roger, Retro.
01:07:52And well done.
01:07:53Retro.
01:08:05Retro.
01:08:06Retro.
01:08:23Angie, there's a phone in that Little B IP booth.
01:08:31Will you call a doctor and an ambulance?
01:08:34Tell them, cardiac emergency.
01:08:37Apollo 13 should be out of blackout at this time.
01:08:41And we're standing by for any reports of signal acquisition.
01:08:44Because you are getting me up just a little bit of a second.
01:09:10There he is.
01:09:12Can you help him?
01:09:13I can't.
01:09:28If the heat shield was damaged, they're dead.
01:09:32It was all for nothing.
01:09:35They're burning up right now.
01:09:37Shh.
01:09:38Shh.
01:09:40The doctor's on his way.
01:09:41Odyssey Houston, we're standing by here.
01:10:09Over.
01:10:23Okay, go over.
01:10:25Odyssey Houston, over.
01:10:28Okay, we read you, Jack.
01:10:31Can we get you, bro?
01:10:33Roger on that.
01:10:35Okay.
01:10:35I see Houston, we show you on the mains.
01:10:41It really looks good.
01:11:12Hey, you all right?
01:11:26What is it?
01:11:27What is it?
01:11:29The chutes are on the TV monitor.
01:11:31They're coming right down on top of that carrier.
01:11:35Is it for you?
01:11:36Yeah.
01:11:38And you?
01:11:39A retromission all the way.
01:11:42Roger, fire.
01:11:44Copy that.
01:11:45Tim?
01:11:50It's all right.
01:11:51It's all right.
01:11:51The doctor's on his way.
01:11:55Let's go wait for him.
01:11:56Take my hand.
01:12:24Hang on.
01:12:29Tighter.
01:12:31Tighter.
01:12:32Yeah.
01:12:34Hard.
01:12:35Hard.
01:12:35Hard.
01:12:35Hard.
01:12:37Off.
01:12:38Hard.
01:12:38Hard.
01:12:39Yeah.
01:12:44Thanks.
01:12:45Yeah.
01:12:46Yeah.
01:12:47Yeah.
01:12:48Yeah.
01:12:48Yeah.
01:12:49Yeah.
01:12:50Yeah.
01:12:55Yeah.
01:12:55Yeah.