Apollo 13: The terrifying blackout silence remembered by those who were there - BBC World Service
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- The final few minutes of Apollo 13 didn't go to plan. In 1970, as the crew re-entered the Earth's atmosphere, there was a blackout period where they couldn't communicate with mission control.
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The blackout period was supposed to last three minutes, but it lasted 90 seconds longer, leaving those at mission control uncertain if the crew were going to make it home safely.
Fifty years on, hear the story from those who lived through it at mission control, Commander Jim Lovell and his wife Marilyn.
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I was an 11-year-old space program lover who followed every minute of every Apollo flight. Our teacher Mr. Goldstein had taught us all about Project Apollo. After the triumphs of the first two moon landings we were thinking this was a piece of cake. Apollo 13 woke us up from that complacency. We turned to Mr. Goldstein for a straightforward explanation of all that would have to go right for the astronauts to make it back alive.
When they did, it was as wonderful an ending as any space mission ever had.
NASA classified Apollo 13 as a success, and it truly was.
Just wanted to say thanks for the wonderful podcast!!
We're so pleased that you're enjoying it! Season 1 is also available to download here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads
@@BBCWorldService will there be more? I’ve listened to it twice over , it’s probably one of the best bbc radio documentary’s every produced, it’s that good.
Lovell is the greatest .
Le film " Apollo 13" avec Tom Hanks m'a fait connaitre cette incroyable histoire, ces gars la sont vraiment des Miracules de l'espace, comment peut-on retourner ds les etoiles apres ca??
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*NaNa NaNa:* The movie "Apollo 13" with Tom Hanks made me know this incredible story, these guys are really Space Miracles, how can we go back to the stars after that ??
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Why was the blackout period longer than expected? That seems odd to me considering they hit their target location very accurately.
They were slower than expected
Have a listen to our podcast, 13 Minutes to the Moon. It's all about the Apollo 13 mission and explains the blackout period: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads
They were reentering at a shallower angle and passed though a longer path of atmosphere?
Shallower re-entry than normal and various other little things.
@@randomlyentertaining8287They were approaching re-entry at a nuch shallower angle due them being underweight as they weren't carrying any moon rocks. That's why the blackout period took longer then expected.
I think, Lovell flew the shallowest descent possible to keep a possibly compromised heat shield intact.
Time is distance in a ballistic approach/descent. Somehow, they built in a bunch of time coming in.
Or, they just barely got into the entry corridor but if that was the case, they would have been a couple thousand miles past the waiting rescue forces.
Lovell was not piloting the craft during reentry. Swigert was at the controls and they had no way to make adjustments to the angle of entry at that stage. You are right about the entry corridor, they barely stayed within the window but even just skirting the edges of it would still place them within a few miles of the splashdown point. They ended up with one of the most accurate splashdowns in the history of the program.
May the DESTINY be not as cruel to no one as it was to the CREW OF THE APPOLO -- 13 SPACECRAFT !
May the departed souls rest in eternal peace ! Let us hope and pray !
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I wonder if there is already a spaceship launcher on the Moon to return to Earth 😮
R.I.P. Marilyn Lovell... legendary wife, mother, and American
Because the studio had a power cut you had a black out!
to be honest, that is not funny at all...
@@buwenli I agree. Landing on the moon was actually more funnier ...
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@@kadmii Even though Russia admitted the moon landings and congratulated the U.S. a bunch of silly Americans in the modern age call it fake.
@@Ivan.A.Trulyuski yeah I can't say I understand the motivation. Going to the Moon isn't mathematically difficult, it's just extremely dangerous, and we obviously had the technology in comparable fields like the military and telecommunications