Special episode with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. An extended interview. The true space pioneer talks to Kevin Fong about everything from the shocking moment of the explosion to the enormous relief of the splashdown. #13MinutestotheMoon Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music
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Hi, I'm Andrew Luckbaker, the series producer of 13 minutes to the Moon.
This is one of two bonus episodes for you released in the week of the 50th anniversary of Apollo 13.
It's an edited version of the conversation that Kevin and I recorded with the legend that is Captain Jim Lovell, commander of that mission.
We had the great privilege of interviewing him over two mornings at the community library near his home north of Chicago.
Now, we knew we were going to get some great storytelling because we'd interviewed Jim about his first flight around the moon on Apollo eight for season one.
But I'd forgotten about his sense of humor and the love or laugh which rings out, not infrequently, between Jim's tales of danger after danger and threaten after threat.
Anyway, I've stitched the recordings from the two mornings into one piece.
It covers a lot of ground, from the traumatic moment of the explosion to the enormous relief at splashdown.
We're going to start this just before the explosion happens.
Two days, 8 hours after liftoff, Jack Swaggert in the command module has thrown the switch to stir the faulty liquid oxygen tank.
Jim and Fred Hayes have wrapped up their tv broadcast from Aquarius.
We had just finished.