Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSS
As If there were not enough problems, Houston still had not completed the command module power up checklist.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSS
Lovell’s disappointment with Kranz’s decision to not run another star check was quickly becoming academic since the time to conduct it was running out anyway.
Apollo 13 Saturn IVB upper stage impact point
Apollo 13’s view from Aquarius as it rounds the Moon
Leaving the Moon
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSS
Lovell toggled the “master arm” switch to On and glanced around to see if everything else was in order. Guidance control was set to “Primary Guidance”; thrust control was on “Auto”; engine gimbals were enabled; the propellant quantity, temperature, and pressure looked good; the ship was maintaining the correct attitude.
John Aaron – Steely Eyed Missle Man
Glynn Lunney – Flight Director
Gerry Griffin – Flight Director
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: Email | TuneIn | RSS
Kraft wanted to fire the descent engine now, get the ship back on its free-return slingshot course, and when it emerged from behind the moon and reached the PC+2 point, execute any maneuvers that might be required to refine the trajectory or increase its speed.
Apollo 13 explosion by Alan Bean
Jerry Bostick – FIDO
Chuck Deiterich – RETRO
