Apollo 13 at 50 - We Are Venting Something into Space - An Interview With Captain Jim Lovell — Transcript

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1. 0:13big benefit
2. 0:15[Music]
3. 0:16oh and I ran out to the bone and it's
4. 0:22rather odd to see it floating like this
5. 0:25in honesty
6. 0:27[Music]
7. 0:43[Music]
8. 0:46we had just finished TV program showing
9. 0:51everybody the lunar module with like a
10. 0:53TV cameras and it was being sent down
11. 0:55five to Lordsburg way down to Houston to
12. 1:00the control center
13. 1:12he's not in the food locker
14. 1:28beeping imitating
15. 1:37that's all I was all the way down when I
16. 1:39heard the noise and so what I find when
17. 1:42I got down the game had much only notice
18. 1:44that the red lights were on had a couple
19. 1:47of fuel cells fuel cell develops
20. 1:51electrical power that we need to utilize
21. 1:54the oxygen and hydrogen by and look at
22. 1:58the bar on which kind of bad news
23. 2:07because electricity 13 we've got one
24. 2:10more item for you when you get a chance
25. 2:11so we'd like it there stir up your cryo
26. 2:13tanks okay okay standby a 13 we're
27. 2:38looking at it we may have had an
28. 2:40imitation problem plane garage you got
29. 2:43can we review our status here sigh and
30. 2:45see what we've got from a standpoint of
31. 2:47status what do you think we got in a
32. 2:49spacecraft that's good well at first we
33. 2:53didn't know what caused the noise as a
34. 2:57matter of fact in our training in in the
35. 3:01spacecraft prior to us take them off
36. 3:04there was a an oxidative repress valve
37. 3:07in the lunar module that that Fred liked
38. 3:11a fire and bit of noise and he always
39. 3:14liked to do that because they're scared
40. 3:16or what was that - Jack funny I thought
41. 3:39maybe that was living here he was just
42. 3:40trying to be you know I don't want to
43. 3:44try to be enough
44. 3:45I looked up by 11:00 I can tell from his
45. 3:47expression that he had no idea what
46. 3:51caused that noise but then when I looked
47. 3:53out the window the side window I saw xkp
48. 3:56never a rather high rate of speed sort
49. 3:59of a boom like this of gas and it didn't
50. 4:03take much intelligence to my present the
51. 4:05gas that was escaping from the rear of
52. 4:08my spacecraft happened to be oxygen and
53. 4:11I confirmed that when I looked at the
54. 4:13Kalani gauge on the instrument panel and
55. 4:15sure enough that we had two tanks
56. 4:39okay let's everybody think of the kind
57. 4:41of things we'd be vetting G&C you get
58. 4:43anything that looks abnormal in your
59. 4:45system negative like how about you we
60. 4:48come you see anything that with the
61. 4:50instrumentation you got that could be
62. 4:51betting let me look at the system for
63. 4:53the vending is concerned
64. 4:55okay let's start scanning okay now let's
65. 4:58everybody keep cool we got LEM still
66. 5:01attached the lens spacecraft's good so
67. 5:03if we need to get back home we got 11 to
68. 5:06do a good portion of it with okay let's
69. 5:09make sure that we don't do anything
70. 5:11that's going to blow our CSM electrical
71. 5:14power with the batteries or that will
72. 5:16cause us to lose the main or the fuel
73. 5:18cell number two okay we want to keep the
74. 5:22o2 and that kind of stuff working we'd
75. 5:24like to have RCS but we got the command
76. 5:26module system so we're in good shape if
77. 5:29we need to get home let's solve the
78. 5:31problem but let's not make it any worse
79. 5:32by guessing Sao Paolo Control Houston
80. 5:39this rapid exchange of conversation
81. 5:42you've heard may the main beep bus is
82. 5:45off the line fuel cells 1 & 3 also off
83. 5:50the line fuel cell 2 is presently on the
84. 5:53line we now show 13 at an altitude of
85. 5:57one hundred and seventy eight thousand
86. 5:58six hundred and forty three nautical
87. 6:00miles we're at fifty six hours 12
88. 6:04minutes into the flight