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During their flight to the moon...
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the crew of Apollo 13 made a live
color television broadcast...
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back to Earth
that was largely ignored.
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Moments after the end of the TV show,
an explosion occurred...
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which put the lives
of the crew in danger...
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and made it impossible for any further
pictures to be seen back home.
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The remaining dramatic days
of the flight played themselves out...
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by way of only the faint
radio voices of the crew...
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the sketchy telemetry data
from the crippled spacecraft...
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and the reports from the media
that suddenly found itself...
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as blind to the events
as the rest of the world...
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a world which had become bored
with TV shows from outer space.
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One of the biggest stories of the year
became one with no TV pictures...
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only talking heads...
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all waiting to see whether
three human beings would survive...
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a voyage from the Earth to the moon.
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Out the right window now,
you can see our objective:
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The moon.
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I'll zoom in on it and see
if this brings it in better.
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We see it, 13.
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It's beginning
to look bigger to us now.
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I can see quite distinctly some
of the features with the naked eye.
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So far, though, the moon looks
pretty gray with some white spots.
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Roger.
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Okay, Houston, for the benefit
of our television viewers...
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we've just about completed
our inspection of Aquarius...
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and now we're proceeding
back into Odyssey.
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Okay, Jim. We think you ought
to conclude it from there now.
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Any time you want to terminate TV,
we're all set to go.
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It's been a great show.
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Roger.
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This is the crew of Apollo 13...