The ENTIRE History of Apollo 13 in 11 Minutes

On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13, two hundred thousand miles from Earth — and a routine Moon landing became the most desperate rescue in the history of spaceflight. Chapters: 0:00 Cold Open — The Broadcast Nobody Watched 0:51 A Routine Mission 2:34 The Bomb That Was Already Aboard 4:36 "We've Had a Problem" 5:47 The Lifeboat 8:30 The Mailbox 9:56 The Way Home This is the entire history of Apollo 13: the hidden defect that slowly turned an oxygen tank into a bomb, the understated call to Houston — "we've had a problem" — the lunar module Aquarius pressed into service as a lifeboat, the carbon dioxide filter improvised from plastic bags, cardboard and tape, and the four-day fight to bring Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise home. Told entirely with real archive photographs (NASA, public domain), in the order it happened. NASA called Apollo 13 a "successful failure." This is the whole story of why.