Apollo 13 Minute Podcast

GUEST: GRAPHIC NOVELIST BRIAN FIES

Jim Lovell is hanging out the side of a decompressing Command Module. The frame of his seat breaks, and knocks Lovell away from the Apollo CSM and LM assembly in de…

GUEST HOST: GRAPHIC NOVELIST BRIAN FIES

Lovell, Mattingly, and Haise just finished a three hour simulation in the CM SIM.

“Yeah, I know,” replies Ken, “but my rate of turn is still a little too slow …

Lovell, Mattingly, and Haise are in the Command Module SIM, attempting to dock with the LM.

“We’ll go ahead and recycle the valves,” says Mattingly. Lovell closes and reopens the valve switches for c…

GUEST HOST: AMY YOUNG
OF THE SPACE STATION MUSEUM
NOVATO, CALIFORNIA

Jim and Marilyn Lovell are discussing Jim’s assignment to the Apollo 13 mission.

Marilyn shakes her head in disbelief.  “I can’t b…

Jim Lovell arrives at the top of the stairs in his home, in the middle of an argument between his daughter and Marilyn about appropriate Halloween costumes.

“Hey everybody,” says Jim. His daughter …

Jim Lovell is explaining to Congressional VIPs why further Apollo missions are necessary.  Behind them, inside the VAB, the S-IV-B being lowered from the ceiling connects with the S-II stage.

“Are …

Guest Host: Jennifer Levasseur
Curator, National Air & Space Museum

Jim Lovell is narrating a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building. He explains that astronauts are only the most visible members of a…

Marilyn and Jim Lovell are in their backyard, in lounge chairs, after the Apollo XI Moonwalk party is over. Jim holds his thumb up, obscuring the distant Moon.

“Where’s my mountain?” asks Marilyn.

“W…

Marilyn and Jim Lovell are in their backyard, after the Apollo XI Moonwalk party is over.

“When you were on far side on Eight, I didn’t sleep at all,” says Marilyn, leaning into her lawn chair, “I ju…

Jim Lovell and the assembled guests witness Neil Armstrong’s descent to the lunar surface, on the family TV set.

“on this July 20th, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Nine,” intones Walter Cronkite on TV.

“…

The house guests clap for Apollo Eleven’s backup crew.

On the screen, the upside-down image of the LM’s ladder appears.

“Ooh, there he is!” says Marilyn, carrying a tray of empty champagne flutes. “T…

Ken Mattingly looks at photos of the Moon, hung in Jim Lovell’s study.

“I wouldn’t mind being up there tonight,” he says to Ken Haise.

“God, who wouldn’t?” replies Haise.

TITLES: “LOREN DEAN, CLINT H…

Jack Swigert is explaining to Tracy how docking works in space.

“It’s called a probe,” says Swigert, waving the long neck of a beer bottle at a tall glass.

“Is that true?” asks Tracy, smiling.

TITLE:…

Narrator continues: ” on which Man has ever embarked.”

Gus Grissom reaches for the control panel of Apollo 1’s Command Module. A spark leaps out from the panel.

Narrator: “After trailing the Russians…

James Horner’s score begins.

Fade in.

The Universal logo animation, the word UNIVERSAL across a cloudless planet Earth, appears, and resolves into the title card “UNIVERSAL – AN MCA COMPANY.” The tit…