“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe would take just the flick of a single switch. Why NASA’s third bid to land on the Moon was flawed from the start. #13MinutestotheMoon For videos and more space stories: www.bbcworldservice.com/13minutes Presented by Kevin Fong Archive: NASA and CBS Starring: Jim Lovell Marilyn Lovell Fred Haise John Aaron Gerry Griffin Gene Kranz, courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Charlie Duke Jay Lovell Sy Liebergot Jack Lousma Written by Kevin Fong and Andrew Luck-Baker Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music BBC Radio Science Unit for the BBC World Service This episode was updated on 16 March 2020.
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Friday, April 17, 1970.
This is the closing act of the mission of Apollo 13, NASA's aborted expedition to the moon.
Four days ago, their spacecraft was crippled by an explosion.
Since then, Mission Control has battled round the clock just to keep the crew alive.
Across the globe, millions of radios and television sets are tuned in to witness the astronauts fate.
The world is watching, waiting.
We're now coming to the moment, the last moments of Apollo 13 as it comes in, as it begins its reentry.
The best thing we can do now is just to listen and hope.
The last few seconds down to reentry.