2:07:02
In the following months,
it was determined...
2:07:05
that a damaged coil built
inside the oxygen tank...
2:07:08
sparked during our cryo stir and caused
the explosion that crippled the Odyssey.
2:07:13
It was a minor defect
that occurred two years...
2:07:15
before I was named
the flight's commander.
2:07:18
Fred Haise was going back
to the moon on Apollo 18,
2:07:21
but his mission was canceled
because of budget cuts.
2:07:24
He never flew in space again.
2:07:26
Nor did Jack Swigert,
who left the astronaut corps...
2:07:29
and was elected to Congress
from the state of Colorado.
2:07:32
But he died of cancer before
he was able to take office.
2:07:36
Ken Mattingly orbited the moon
as command module pilot of Apollo 16...
2:07:40
and flew the space shuttle,
having never gotten the measles.
2:07:44
Gene Kranz retired as Director
of Flight Operations just not long ago.
2:07:49
And many other members of Mission
Control have gone on to other things,
2:07:52
but some are still there.
2:07:54
And as for me...
2:07:56
the seven extraordinary days
of Apollo 13 were my last in space.
2:08:01
I watched other men walk on the moon
and return safely,
2:08:06
all from the confines of Mission Control
and our house in Houston.
2:08:10
I sometimes catch myself
looking up at the moon,
2:08:13
remembering the changes
of fortune in our long voyage,
2:08:17
thinking of the thousands of people who
worked to bring the three of us home.
2:08:22
I look up at the moon
and wonder...
2:08:25
when will we be going back...
2:08:27
and who will that be?
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