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We choose it to go to the moon.

To go to the moon this decade and the other things to do.

Not because they are easy, but because they are difficult.

Look, beautiful. This is one of them the most beautiful moments of my life.

The moon flight of the Apollo 13 crew was shown in color on TV,

but that received little attention.

The crew arrived just after the broadcast in danger of death from an explosion

and reached not a single image of the earth.

In those last dramatic days we had to put it

with muffled radio voices,

unreliable data of the broken ship

and media coverage which is like the rest of the world

had enough of TV programs from space.

One of the greatest events of the year one became without image,

but with guests

who waited to see if the trio made the journey of the earth to the moon would survive.

You can now see through the right window our destination, the moon.

I'll zoom in for a better picture.

We see them, 13.

She already looks bigger to us now.

I can do the parts pretty well recognize with the naked eye.

She looks rather gray for now, with some white spots.

I understand.

Okay, Houston. For the viewers: the inspection of the Aquarius has just finished

and are now going back to Odyssey.

Okay, Jim. You may finish now.

Let me know when you want to stop the broadcast.

It was a great show.

I understand.

Here the crew of Apollo 13. A nice evening.

We have some housekeeping notices for you.

Go ahead, Houston.

Press Center. No, I can't say anything. Nothing.

We want you to roll right make 060 degrees.

I understand. 060.

Do you already have a dinner date?

Also check your C4 propulsion isolation valve.

Lunch maybe?

One more thing. We would like that you start your cryotanks.

Okay, Houston.

Yes, we have room. A lot of space even.

That's why it's called the space center here. -Who delivers the food?

Houston, I think we're here have a problem.

Here Houston, repeat that.

We have a problem voltage drop on the B bus.

Okay, 13, a B-bus voltage drop.

We heard a rather loud clap, with various alarms.

What blow? -No idea. A shock?

A B-bus voltage drop. - Is the tension gone?

Something about the instruments? -Worse, I think.

They're releasing something into space. -What could that be?

They lose oxygen and power.

Maybe a meteorite. - Or a reindeer.

You have to improvise. -You mean it.

We have Bates in DC. -Another minute and a half.

I want handbooks of all modules.

There is nothing wrong with the LM. -They might have to use it.

This is Warren Moburg, our new deputy director.

I'm a big fan of yours.

They enter the LM. -Give me the mission rules.

Julie, do what you can. Who knows, you might find something.

Let me introduce you to Brett Hutchins.

I'm doing a report on the Astros, the baseball team.

This isn't just any sports reporter. He can do everything.

Excuse me.

This is how you keep your bosses close.

Someone at CBS knows something about orbit and spin.

What then? -I do not know.

One more minute.

I'll have text in a minute. -Too late.

CBS thinks it's a meteorite. -Can not.

How do you know? -The CM has 48,700 operations.

The chance that something will go wrong with it is much larger than a meteorite.

It was routine. They asked them to roll to 060 degrees and…

Zero their meters? And further?

Something about C4 steering missiles, is that possible? - Check the C4 valves?

Who are you calling? -My man at Ops.

Those missiles have failed many times before know, it must have been an explosion.

You're out of time. - Find out what they're telling Cronkite.

The cause is still unclear. Maybe a meteorite...

What can I do? -How do the Astros play?

What do you think? -Hopefully it wasn't a meteorite.

They've been there.

No one can accurately spell...

The probability that the crew is alive return is only 10 percent.

Rosen predicts that they don't survive.

Only yes or no. Are you sure if this came from the outside or from the inside?

15 seconds left. What is he doing now? -I do not know.

Sorry Emmett, but you have another 10 seconds.

I'm getting a duplicate. -I didn't bet.

...and Emmett Seaborn reports.

Apollo 13 is the 23rd human spaceflight.

Today it seems like none previous mission has been so risky.

NASA flight control has four missions successfully guided...

This is Brett Hutchins, do you watch TV?

I would like to go to the match...

but I better do something about the families of the astronauts.

Yes, they are shielded, I know, but it's worth it, right?

The astronauts will use the LM

orbits around the moon to swing to earth.

But is that possible with little Aquarius?

Unfortunately, that question is possible answer no one.

We want as little as possible consume water.

We want in 37 minutes make a return maneuver.

Can you give us a little more time?

We are working on a procedure. Can you do it at that time?

If there is no other way.

Press Center, one moment please.

They tell us nothing. -I don't have fifteen minutes.

Copy.

There is a briefing at 11:30 am. -Houston time?

That is fifteen minutes after the deadline. -I'm trying.

How do I get a desk? -To be lucky.

Sam, the New York Times for you. -I'll call them back.

The astronauts would run out of oxygen.

Then they stopped breathing. -So they breathe?

Are they wearing their spacesuits? -No, shirts.

I got it from Tass. We have to immediately hit the head.

Suicide pills? - Do they have them, Hal?

The same one used by the CIA? -There are no suicide pills.

You will hear the rest at the press conference.

The TV wants to listen in on our internal just. Cronkite wants a hookup.

Swigert's parents are coming here. We need to distract the press.

How did it get here? -Through the sewer system.

Busy? -What are you doing here?

I am a press representative from Vice President Agnew.

Yes, but what are you doing here, Stan? -You know Agnew is coming by tomorrow?

That's true. Forget beam.

People, I want this through with you as soon as possible

because we are busy at flight control.

Deke Slayton, Chris Kraft and you already know Colonel McDivitt.

The CM has never been turned off in the space. Will you get it back on?

That's true, but in simulations it has it always worked beyond expectations.

We trust it will work.

Again, Max.

Is more already known? about the cause of the damage?

That is still a mystery. We only know more...

if we have the Service Module dropped off and can view it.

Can the C02 content not dangerous run up with three men in the LM?

Maybe. We consider the filters of the Odyssey into the LM...

but we don't know yet.

Are the families of… -Is there enough oxygen on board?

Apollo 13 is now following the runway that he had to follow...

to reach Fra Mauro. We need to get him into orbit now...

which they circled around the moon and swings back to Earth.

We're too late for Happy Line. -Give them 20.

It takes four days to get them back home...

and that will be tight with stocks. That's why there's going to be another acceleration...

PC 2, two hours after the ship left the moon is gone. Then it's 8 o'clock.

If all goes well, let's keep things under control...

And we'll have them back in three days.

And get out.

Aquarius, it looks good.

Auto power off.

You are now at 16-85.

You can continue on this course. Trimming is not necessary.

Is trimming not necessary? -Correct. No trimming necessary.

We'll have that interview having to move with Gene Krantz.

Of course.

When this is over, do you that interview. Exclusive.

I appreciate that.

As far as press briefings are concerned... -Do me a favor.

We understand you're busy but we also need to know something.

Do you want reports from the flight control?

The flight control is 100 meters from here away, but we are not allowed in.

If we do not know what you know, we become suspicious.

I suggest a two-man pool. One writes, one presents...

in the stands where they can hear the controller.

We hear what he hears, but we do not transmit any communication.

You know that's for the best.

And the families?

Gives NASA permission to use them to interview or to speak?

These are private individuals.

In the past ten years do those private individuals have...

free clothes, cars and I don't know what.

NASA had a great time showing them off and now no one can see them anymore?

The family is just being interviewed when their loved ones are back.

That's how we see it. -I think it's important...

So that really won't be a problem.

I'm glad about that.

Mr. Hutchins... -Tell me Brett.

What are you doing? -Create a story.

Those relatives are ordinary people who...

Which at the taxpayer's expense become famous.

No one forced them. Must the shareholders don't know what?

You don't build a relationship that way with NASA.

I don't want a relationship with NASA.

You go your own way but...

but stay away from me. I'm trying to get something done.

Me too.

I'm standing in front of Jim Lovell's house...

Shall we take this? -The paperboy?

Then take the dog.

I'm gone. This is nonsensical.

Craftsmanship, bruises.

I'll be right back.

Hi, I'm Brett Hutchins.

Are you a journalist?

Mom won't let me talk to that.

I'm in a bit of a mess.

Can I make a call?

I can't let you in.

Sure, that's fine. I want too not that you disobey.

But I'm so done. I'm as fast as a jackrabbit.

What's your name? -Doris.

That's my mother's name.

With the Lovell family is between hope and fear.

A mother points out her son where his father is and prays desperately.

Did you film this from a tree?

How do you know she doesn't say: Look at the duckling?

Isn't that logical? -Can you lip read?

Larry, this is brilliant journalism. -Is this journalism?

Houston, we have 40 percent thrust.

One hundred percent.

It looks good, Aquarius.

It looked two minutes ago good and still is.

Don't forget to enable Reg-1. 10 seconds left.

Here flight control after 79 hours and 28 minutes. The crew...

All right. Switched off. Are you receiving our 16-40, Houston?

We receive it. The rocket worked well.

What exactly is happening? -History.

And now we want as soon as possible save energy.

Name the circuits we can safely do off, just like yesterday.

We have in two minutes a procedure ready.

Please report when you can receive it.

Mr. Seaborn. -Let's take a pee.

You are not allowed to leave alone. Can you please wait for the next payment?

Do I have to wait an hour to take a piss?

No, go ahead.

You look just as rotten when I feel.

Let's here don't make a habit of it.

No questions.

Everyone forgets how cold it is there is. Then you don't stay clear either.

What about the atom problem? -How do you know that?

I wouldn't have an atomic problem want to call.

The LM has a nuclear reactor.

Formally yes. But there it is less than four kilograms of plutonium.

It's the battery for the lunar experiments.

But instead of falling behind... -Is he coming back.

So the Nuclear Energy Commission goes crazy. Do you mean that?

They are only afraid that nuclear fuel bad for public relations.

The battery can withstand a collision or an explosion without contaminating anything.

As long as nobody gets it on their head.

Are you going to broadcast that?

Come on, Paul. You know me? What's the plan next?

A mission with eleven thousand problems is one more.

It's not about those astronauts, it's political.

'What do they want you to do about it?

We consider him in the deepest trough in the world to dump.

Or we're not enough yet had on our mind.

Emmett says that he has a hard scoop.

Something about nuclear radiation in the LM.

You tell me.

I know, yes.

We should keep that for six hours. I'll talk to you.

Aquarius, is the noise better now?

No.

How are you receiving us now? -Still with a lot of noise.

Try to pass on the procedures before we've all been there.

Let's go through them again.

This will be for now be the last lunar journey.

Deke, do you agree with Lovell that this will be the last moon trip for the time being?

We all stand sometimes under so much pressure...

that we say things we would normally say otherwise.

But there are of course many questions that we need to solve first.

Agnew had postponed his visit, hadn't he? Then what is Stan doing here?

Emmett's Report on the Nuclear Reactor... -Top secret:

The government wants NASA to create a unmanned probe to Neptune.

A probe to Neptune?

I think that will help you.

Three guys are currently threatening themselves to get to Neptune...

but I will remember. -What you want.

Mr. Craig? Brett Hutchins. - Craftsmanship, that piece about the Lovells.

Good to hear. I understand that you know about a Neptune probe.

That's right, and I think that's fine may be of interest to you.

Mrs. Swigert, Dr. Swigert?

I'm Jeff Jordi from NASA. Welcome to Houston.

Unfortunately, the circumstances so regrettable.

Hurry up. -Can not.

There are the Swigerts. Hurry up.

Thank you, Stanley Craig.

Hello Dr. and Mrs. Swigert. I'm Brett Hutchins.

The government continues the space industry supports...

and revealed, an unmanned flight to Neptune.

Why is Hutchins talking suddenly for Stanley Craig?

Jeff Jordi on line 2.

Isn't it? Hang on.

Guess who Swigert's parents has jumped.

I'm Brett Hutchins.

I know Jack knows what he's doing and that it is in the best possible hands.

God's hands. -Bad bastard. Isn't it bad enough already?

Cut. - It's okay.

Cut.

Houston in 23 minutes.

Let's go now.

I'll finish this.

Mounting room 3. Moment.

Emmett Seaborn for you.

He's not here.

The untold story of the nightmare their families go through.

The nightmare that their families going through. The Untold Story.

I had an interview this afternoon with Jack Swigert's parents.

We are in 90 seconds.

The Untold Story.

This afternoon I spoke to the parents by Jack Swigert.

Do me a favor, kid.

We'll be airborne in 60 seconds. - Withdraw that report.

We're in this together, aren't we? -What's happening over there?

You don't want to ruin everything, do you?

An old couple is so harassed below the dignity of our job.

I would like to discuss with you, but i have work to do now.

I see yes.

Take it away.

Tell Larry we're moving in Swigert.

We're making a new intro and...

I'm trying to help you. Nobody wants a grieving mother.

That's news. -No, invasion of privacy.

America is not waiting on PC maneuvers and thermal rolls.

Now just let me do my job.

Ten...

Five, four, three, two...

Near where I now stand, 1000 journalists follow...

every second of this fatal mission.

But not yet told is the story of the nightmare...

I believe in the space program. In its value.

This country needs heroes.

It's not just the astronauts, but everyone at NASA.

They are all heroes, and I know Jack...

Perfect piece of film work.

They say that Apollo is the greatest technical achievement of all time.

The pride of our civilization, triumph of technology.

But Ap.ollo 13 teaches us that the price of that technique not in dollars...

but expressed in maternal love.

From the flight control center, Brett Hutchins.

That kid can't even decent writing.

'The price of technology not in dollars...

but expressed in maternal love.' We can pack soon.

10 seconds left. -I have to hang up.

from Houston, where Emmett Seaborn follows the mission.

The crew gets with new creating uncertainties...

on reentry tomorrow.

That starts as soon as they get the electric restart systems of the Odyssey.

What should I tell him? - Call it a transfer.

He never swallows that. -Don't get fat.

...shrunk energy supply after three days.

When will we know? -In a few hours.

We're off the air.

New York wants you tomorrow stays in the studio.

They want you here guarding the fortress...

And that Brett or someone else sit down with flight control.

And who will present it? -You both.

He'll pass it on to New York. That's where it comes from.

What do I do then? -Exposure backgrounds.

You can call New York yourself.

I shouldn't have to beg.

Aquarius, here Houston.

Go ahead.

Your standing is fine, except during the roll. You must do this:

Trim to zero degree pitch angle, where are you right now...

to 008 degrees nölhpek, what such 16 degrees different from the current...

and up to 0 degrees yaw angle, where you are now.

Then you must align the longitudinal axis...

I'm Brett, can you help me?

How does that sound?

Did I roll wrong?

That's right. Sorry.

Apollo 13 still has 70,000 kilometers to go...

and flies at 11,000 kilometers per hour.

He will probably in five hours countries in the Pacific Ocean.

The helicopter ship Iwo Jima is on site...

and the changeable weather is good now.

Now exciting moments are about to begin.

In about 20 minutes, at 7:23 am...

they cast the damaged one service module off.

At 10:53 they will drop the lunar lander who has been their lifeboat...

since the explosion 82 hours ago.

But what we have in these last hours don't know yet...

is how the capsule passed the ordeal of the atmosphere will endure.

How do we know the heat shield is working?

We fly through the atmosphere with it.

Is the heat shield intact? at the explosion?

Will the parachutes that the capsule have to slow down from 500 km/h...

work up to 30 before landing?

Emmett, Brett reports that the Service Module is jettisoned.

That procedure will…

We'll ask Brett directly.

In a few minutes, the astronauts exit the Service Module...

which mysteriously broke down and the moon landing torpedoed.

With any luck astronauts see the damage for yourself.

Are we bpycotting Brett Hutchins? -Absolutely.

Don't.

We can't make the rules just to violate.

We can't deal with the media go into the clinch.

Here the flight control, after 140 hours and 15 minutes of mission time.

Apollo 13 is still 63,540 kilometers away removed from the earth...

and has a speed of 20,553 kilometers per hour.

It's getting packed here in Houston.

Senator Phil Hart, the president of the senate committee on engineering, is there...

and Representative George Miller of the Space Commission.

The press conference opens by the senator.

It's more like a job for the Congressman.

You have guts.

Of course Director Paine goes open the conference.

Who wants to open the conference if they don't make it?

Houston, we can start the ejection procedure?

Wait for permission drop procedure LM.

The astronauts are leaving now jettison their lifeboat.

Will that be a risky maneuver?

This will be an exciting moment for the astronauts and their loved ones on Earth.

Just answer, sack.

The astronauts have their LM want to keep it for as long as possible.

The ejection procedure has begun.

You can do the drop mechanism prepare for the LM.

In ten seconds.

Five. Throw off LM.

LM jettisoned after 141.30 hours mission time, at 10:43 in the morning.

Goodbye Aquarius, and we thank you.

Here flight control at 142 hours and 30 minutes.

Apollo 13 still has 10,000 kilometers to go and descends at 40,000 km/h.

The reentry begins in 10 minutes.

In 4 minutes the command module into the atmosphere.

As the air thickens, friction increases.

The temperature of the heat shield rises to 2200 degrees.

If the energy of this inferno was converted into electricity...

That would produce 86,000 kilowatt hours.

Enough to Los Angeles light for a minute and a half.

Converted into kinetic energy you can lift every citizen of the world 25 cm with it.

On board, however, there is only one effect:

The ship is shrouded in a dense cloud of ionized gas.

That will be the radio communication interrupt for three minutes.

When the radio works again, the flight control that the shield is intact...

and that the capsule is safe.

If not, then the crew died in the flames.

Odyssey, everyone here confirms it looks fine for you.

We thank you all for your fantastic efforts.

That's very nice.

Loss of signal in one minute. Resume via Omni Charlie.

Apollo 13 is reentering the atmosphere.

We expect in three minutes to resume radio contact.

Odyssey, this is Houston. We are waiting.

Okay, Joe. -We'll receive you, Jack.

We see on the TV that the weather is excellent.

A beautiful end to an ordeal of four days...

We need the parachutes still waiting.

They may be damaged due to the low temperatures.

So we're not there yet.

The Soviets noticed that three years ago...

then the parachute of Soyuz 1 refused...

and cosmonaut Komarov fell to his death.

Can't it really be happier? - He talks all the time.

The opening chutes look good.

There go the main chutes.

Emmett, it looks good. What do you think?

This is the most beautiful that I've ever seen.

Houston, here the Odyssey. We are safe and well afloat.

What have we learned? The limits of technology...

so far as we against our hubris must be protected.

But that will come later.

What matters now is three heroes now aboard the Iwo Jima...

and are on their way home. Houston, this is Emmett Seaborn.

Thank you, Emmett. - We're off the air.

I'm getting too old for this. - Craftsmanship, Emmett.

Emmett, that was great.

I would do the first interview with Gene Krantz.

And if I were in Houston right now, I was already busy...

instead of half an hour. Can you feel it?

Loud and clear.

Where were you? -At a spa.

Where is he? -Gene for me, Mr. Krantz for you.

In the flight control VlP room.

Have you outgrown me?

Congratulations, Gene. Craftsmanship.

Emmett, what are you doing here?

They had told me that you would stay in town.

Who told you that, Hal?

But since you're here, go ahead.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

If you're stuck with it, you can do that do an interview. I don't care.

No, that's fine.

I still have a lot to do.