Apollo 13: 87 Hours to Survive

On April 13, 1970, about 200,000 miles from Earth, oxygen tank 2 exploded inside Apollo 13's Service Module. The Moon landing was gone, and the Command Module had lost its normal power, light, water and oxygen. This is the story of how Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred Haise and Mission Control turned a lunar lander into a lifeboat and got three men home, and of the tank that was never replaced. It had a history no one on the ground fully understood until the Review Board opened the record. Told from the record: the real air-to-ground audio, NASA archive film, the mission chronology and the Apollo 13 Review Board report. CHAPTERS 0:00 Houston, we've had a problem 1:01 The mission 4:19 A tank with a history 5:41 Bored to tears 6:50 The explosion 9:30 The lifeboat 11:32 A square peg, a round hole 12:57 Steering by the Sun 14:38 Cold, dark and wet 16:23 Letting go 17:33 Splashdown 18:54 What went wrong 20:44 What Apollo 13 changed SOURCES Apollo 13 Review Board report (Cortright Board, 1970), summarized by NASA: https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years... Detailed Chronology of Events Surrounding the Apollo 13 Accident (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/history/detailed... Apollo 13: Mission Details (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/missions/apollo/... Apollo 13: The Successful Failure (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/missions/apollo/... NASA's Apollo 13 Mission Challenged Crew, Launch Team (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/history/nasas-ap... 50 Years Ago: Apollo 13 Passes Countdown Test (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years... 50 Years Ago: Apollo 13 and German Measles (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years... 50 Years Ago: Apollo 13 Off to the Moon (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/history/50-years... Arturo Campos: A Key Player in Bringing Apollo 13 Home (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/history/arturo-c... NASA Lewis Aided Apollo 13 Investigation (NASA): https://www.nasa.gov/history/nasa-lew... Damaged Apollo 13 (NASA photo AS13-59-8500): https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/da... Archive film, photographs and mission audio: NASA (public domain). PRODUCTION NOTE The narration uses a synthetic voice. The voices of the astronauts and Mission Control are the real 1970 recordings. The 3D scenes (the spacecraft, the tank cutaway, the explosion) and the illustrations are reconstructions made for this video from the sources above, labeled ILLUSTRATION on screen. #Apollo13 #NASA #SpaceHistory