Apollo 13 Minute Podcast

Jim Lovell is surrounded by the applauding Iwo Jima crew.

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MUSIC: “Apollo 13 End Credit,  Featuring Annie Lennox”

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Jim Lovell – TOM HANKS

Fred Haise – BILL PAXTON

Jack Swige…

GUEST: NASA ENGINEER STUART MCCLUNG

Jim Lovell, narrating from the present day, talks about how Jack Swigert ran for Congress from the state of Colorado, “but he died of cancer before he was able to …

Jim Lovell looks up from the life raft outside the returned Odyssey spacecraft.

Later, on the deck of the Iwo Jima, Lovell, Haise, and Swigert exit the helicopter, wearing blue flight suits and sport…

A Navy frogman knocks on the hatch of Odyssey.

Jim Lovell gives the frogman a thumbs-up sign, then unstraps Fred Haise from his couch. Haise shakes his hand. Swigert and Lovell then shake hands.

“Hou…

GUEST: NASA CHIEF HISTORIAN BILL BARRY

Gene Kranz wipes his eyes and stands up in Mission Control.

Over the Pacific, three parachutes lowering the Command Module are lit by the rising sun.

Flight cre…

GUESTS: ROBIN PERTZ & JOHN OLDHAM, NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER

Jay Lovell looks at the classroom clock. It’s 11:56 AM.

“Odyssey, Houston,” says Mattingly, “Do you read?”

Suddenly on the monitor, three…

GUEST: ACTOR BRETT CULLEN

Blanche Lovell watches the television coverage of her son, with Neil Armstrong.

Mary Haise sits on a couch and watches the coverage with her son.

“We’re about to learn wheth…

GUEST: DR. JOHN DULEMBA, MD, FACOG

The Lovell family in Houston, and son Jay Lovell in Wisconsin, continue to follow the coverage of reentry on television.

“This is the critical moment,” says Walter …

GUEST: FR. DAVID MOWRY

The radio blackout continues through Odyssey’s reentry.  The crew experiences rising G-forces, as Apollo 13 leaves a blazing trail across the pre-dawn sky.

On patrol, two Navy …

GUEST: NASA’S “IRON FLIGHT” DIRECTOR PAUL DYE

Swigert, Haise, and Lovell ponder many thoughts as Odyssey falls into the re-entry corridor over the South Pacific.

The heat shield begins to ionize, the…

RETRO has informed Gene Kranz that the Command Module’s re-entry path may be shallowing out, but there’s nothing that can be done to change the trajectory.

“Then, they don’t need to know, do they?” a…

PAO Henry Hurt is telling a reporter everything that could go wrong with the landing.

“Heatshield could be cracked,” says Henry, “and their parachutes might be three blocks of ice. Clearly we have go…

Aquarius drifts away from the Command Module.

“She sure was a good ship,” says Haise, looking out the window.

“Farewell, Aquarius. And we thank you,” says Mattingly. Aquarius tilts away from the CM w…

Jack Swigert drifts to the center seat of the CM to look at the battery gauges.

“Okay, pyro batts look good,” says Swigert. “I don’t think we have to tie the other batteries.”

Jim Lovell floats to th…

Fred Haise returns to the Command Module. Swigert helps him into the rightmost seat.

“Roger that,” says Lovell in the LM.

“Here, let me give you a hand there, Freddo,” says Swigert, strapping Haise i…

GUEST: AEROSPACE CAMERMAN ADAM WHITE

“Freddo? You okay?” asks Jim Lovell, as they prepare to exit the Lunar Module for the last time.

“I’m, uh, I’m freezing,” replies Haise.

“Can you hold out just a …

Neil Armstrong asks Blanch Lovell if Jim ever made Eagle Scout.

“Yes, he did,” says Blanch.

“He did?” says Neil.

In the Lovell living room, Marilyn sits with family and friends and her pastor.

“If th…

The detached Service Module rolls away from the Command Module.

Jack Swigert floats through the docking tunnel, carrying a camera.

“Okay, Houston, our Service Module is free,” says Lovell. “We’re gon…

The crew continues to coordinate the power-up sequence with Mission Control.

“Let’s go!” says Flight Director Glynn Lunney.

“Take a look at your amps,” says CAPCOM Ken Mattingly. “How’re we doing?”

“…

GUEST: PATRICK MULLANE

Jay Lovell watches ABC News Science Reporter Jules Bergman as he sits in a classroom at St. John’s Military Academy in Wisconsin.

“…surviving by using the LM’s systems, there c…