Why was Nasa's Apollo 13 mission flawed from the start? - 13 Minutes to the Moon, Season 2 Episode 1

“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

[mikecobb]

This is the best podcast I have ever listened to, fantastic content editing, professional commentary and amazingly haunting musical score, we’ll done BBC

[Really]

I was a fan back then, bothers me when younger generation thinks it's fake.
Also congratulations to the film producer's, top notch production!
Obscure clips I've never heard before.

[blueskies]

Yay, this illustrates that the drop of the O2 tank set up the events to follow. Jim Lovell wrote in his book “Lost Moon” that the engineers figured there was something up with the O2 tank after the all up test because the tank would not vent its pressure using the normal procedure. They offered to Lovell to roll the spacecraft back into the VAB and change out the tank. Lovell asks do you think that is really necessary and the engineers said they thought it would be fine as is, the rest is history…

[jerrysneidjer]

13min to the moon a wonderful podcasts serie! Thank you to the BBC'S team which prepared this!

[danielhorner]

Jim Lovell was a really cool, laid back Astronaut. He was christened the nickname “Shaky” by his pal and fellow Astronaut Pete Conrad just as a joke to wind him up- Everyone knew Jim Lovell was highly regarded.

[literallyshaking]

I wish I got the chance to meet Jim Lovell. He seems like such a genuine guy, and a real ball-buster.

[benjaminhanke]

Question to Kevin Fong:
Do you read audiobooks? This is awesome!

[pjimmbojimmbo]

I remember this flight, I was 10 yrs old and really followed the Moon Flights

[kdlofty]

Ultimately yes, but they just didn't know.

[erichansen]

The truth about Apollo 13 is that from the very beginning the mission was to crash the spacecraft into the surface of the moon to record seismic readings to determine if the moon was actually a hollowed out artificial satellite or spacecraft put in orbit about the earth at the time the earth was terraformed to support life. On a previous mission, seismic instruments were left on the moon for Apollo 13 to later crash the spacecraft into the moon close by those instruments. The moon rang like a gong for hours.