Apollo 13
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1:52:01
'- upward thrust.
'- We're loose!

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Reverse thrust!
1:52:06
We have service module jettison.
1:52:08
Okay, Houston,
service module is free.

1:52:11
We're gonna take a look
at what we have here.

1:52:13
Copy that.
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There it is. I see it!
1:52:21
Oh.
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Houston, we're getting our first look
at the service module now.

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One whole side
of the spacecraft is missing.

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Right by the high gain antennae
a whole panel is blown out,

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right up, right up
to our heat shield.

1:52:39
Uh, copy that, Aquarius.
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It looked like it got
the engine bell too. Can you see that?

1:52:48
Oh, man, that's incredible.
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The heat shield.
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The heat will build up to as much
as 3,000 or 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

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On a lunar reentry flight,
the heat approaches 4,000 degrees.

1:53:03
So, uh, Blanch?
1:53:05
Blanch? Did Jim make
Eagle Scout or not?

1:53:09
'- Yes, he did.
'- He did.

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If the heat shield
is even slightly cracked,

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the extreme cold
could have split it wide open.

1:53:16
Worst of all, if the pyrotechnics
that control the parachutes...

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have been damaged,
the chutes may not open at all,

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causing the spacecraft to hit the water
not at a gentle 20 miles per hour,

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but at a suicidal 300.
1:53:28
Perhaps never in human history...
1:53:30
has the entire world been united
by such a global drama.

1:53:33
In New York City, thousands
of people have gathered...

1:53:36
to watch updates of the mission
in Times Square.

1:53:38
Many countries offered help,
and the State Department said...

1:53:41
it would ask for it
if it were needed.

1:53:43
The House and Senate passed resolutions
calling on the American people...

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to pray tonight
for the astronauts.

1:53:49
In Rome, Pope Paul
led 50,000 people...

1:53:52
in prayers for the safe
return of the astronauts.

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In Jerusalem,
prayers at the Wailing Wall.


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