Jim Lovell and Gene Kranz on the "successful failure" of the Apollo 13 Mission — Transcript

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1. 0:01okay here we got a problem here
2. 0:06again please
3. 0:11oh you're coming without a problem
4. 0:13there was a bomb
5. 0:15waiting to go off i then looked out the
6. 0:17window
7. 0:19and saw escaping at a high rate of speed
8. 0:21a gaseous oxygen because the explosion
9. 0:24occurred on the first the damaged tank
10. 0:26but that also ruptured the second tank
11. 0:29just blew the entire side of the
12. 0:31spacecraft off
13. 0:33my immediate feeling was just a sick
14. 0:35feeling of pit of my stomach or
15. 0:36disappointment
16. 0:38i knew we had lost the landing
17. 0:40and from then on
18. 0:41it was not a third letting on the moon
19. 0:44but a survival of how to get home it was
20. 0:47a question of getting this entire world
21. 0:50geared and oriented
22. 0:52to one single job get the crew home
23. 0:56teamwork was necessary
24. 0:58good leadership
25. 1:00initiative to think out outside of the
26. 1:02box when things go wrong how do we
27. 1:04repair them those are the three things
28. 1:07that were absolutely necessary
29. 1:09i was most
30. 1:11proud of
31. 1:12being in this team
32. 1:14that
33. 1:15knew what they had to do
34. 1:17and there was no
35. 1:18doubt about it
36. 1:20the team
37. 1:21completely faced up to what had to be
38. 1:23done