Apollo 13: Survival

00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:08,676 Is there any leads we can give 'em? 406 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,763 Are we lookin' at instrumentation, or we got a real problem or what? 407 00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:18,770 Uh, Houston? It looks to me, lookin' out the hatch, 408 00:32:18,853 --> 00:32:20,647 that we are venting something. 409 00:32:21,147 --> 00:32:24,692 We are… We are venting something out into the, uh… into space. 410 00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:33,993 It's a gas of some sort. 411 00:32:36,204 --> 00:32:37,372 Jesus Christ. 412 00:32:45,588 --> 00:32:49,050 Here is a special report on Apollo 13. 413 00:32:49,592 --> 00:32:53,638 The Apollo 13 spacecraft has suffered a major electrical failure. 414 00:32:53,721 --> 00:32:56,683 Jim Lovell and Fred Haise reported hearing a loud bang. 415 00:32:56,766 --> 00:32:58,518 They also reported seeing fuel, 416 00:32:58,601 --> 00:33:01,479 apparently oxygen and nitrogen, leaking from the spacecraft, 417 00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:04,273 and reportedly gauges for those gases were reading zero. 418 00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:08,820 At that point, we said, "Hey, this vehicle is dying." 419 00:33:08,903 --> 00:33:11,322 "Very shortly, we'll be completely out of oxygen." 420 00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:16,369 - Houston, are you still readin'? - Affirmative. We're readin' you. 421 00:33:16,452 --> 00:33:19,372 Tryin' to come up with some good ideas here for you. 422 00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:22,291 I wanna use the cryo as much as possible. 423 00:33:22,375 --> 00:33:24,627 Assuming you'd want fastest possible return. 424 00:33:24,711 --> 00:33:26,754 …we have no choice but to do it. 425 00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:28,881 The pressure continues to drop. 426 00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:37,682 Okay, now, let's everybody keep cool. 427 00:33:38,349 --> 00:33:39,684 Let's solve the problem, 428 00:33:39,767 --> 00:33:42,520 but let's not make it any worse by guessin'. 429 00:33:50,528 --> 00:33:51,904 We're in deep shit. 430 00:33:53,614 --> 00:33:55,533 We're about 200,000 miles from Earth, 431 00:33:55,616 --> 00:33:58,077 about 50,000 miles from the surface of the moon. 432 00:33:58,619 --> 00:34:00,038 We've come to the conclusion 433 00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:03,249 that we had some type of an explosion on board the spacecraft. 434 00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,752 Two of our fuel cells are offline, 435 00:34:05,835 --> 00:34:08,921 and these are our principal power-generation systems. 436 00:34:10,923 --> 00:34:12,633 Our final fuel cell is dying. 437 00:34:14,093 --> 00:34:16,971 Uh, Flight, less than two hours now. 438 00:34:17,055 --> 00:34:18,431 That's the end right there. 439 00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:22,518 Uh… 440 00:34:22,602 --> 00:34:24,687 Two of three fuel cells shut down. 441 00:34:24,771 --> 00:34:26,211 We're not going to the moon anymore. 442 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:34,781 Apollo 13 is now two-thirds of the way to the moon, 443 00:34:34,864 --> 00:34:36,699 200,000 miles from Earth 444 00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:38,951 at a point where, even in an emergency, 445 00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:41,537 it is more efficient to swing around the moon and return 446 00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:43,915 rather than try an immediate abort. 447 00:34:45,249 --> 00:34:50,296 Our job now is to start an orderly evacuation 448 00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:53,091 from the command module into the lunar module. 449 00:34:55,510 --> 00:34:57,303 Okay, all flight controllers, 450 00:34:58,137 --> 00:35:00,973 I want you to get some guys figuring out minimum power 451 00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:02,934 in the LM to sustain life. 452 00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:17,615 It's pretty hairy. 453 00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:21,828 This is Colonel Stafford standing by for the Vice President. 454 00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:24,330 Hello, Mr. Vice President, sir. 455 00:35:24,413 --> 00:35:25,540 How bad is it? 456 00:35:25,623 --> 00:35:29,127 We're activating the lunar module as a lifeboat, basically, 457 00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:31,337 and thank God that we have it on board. 458 00:35:31,420 --> 00:35:32,755 Yeah, you said it. 459 00:35:32,839 --> 00:35:36,676 It will supply water, oxygen, and it will supply electrical power. 460 00:35:36,759 --> 00:35:39,887 We wanna get the command module down shortly. 461 00:35:39,971 --> 00:35:44,016 So it's a pretty critical situation, but we're working like mad on it. 462 00:35:44,684 --> 00:35:46,185 A frantic scene we're seeing, 463 00:35:46,269 --> 00:35:49,147 a scene of deep concentration in Mission Control in Houston. 464 00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:51,107 And astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise 465 00:35:51,190 --> 00:35:54,652 have now made their way to their Aquarius lunar module, 466 00:35:54,735 --> 00:35:58,698 so they can have its electrical power and its oxygen to save their lives. 467 00:35:59,740 --> 00:3...