The Unbelievable True Story Of The Apollo 13 Rescue

[@reneejones6330]

I remember that my family was very upset about the lack of coverage of the later moon missions. I still don't understand what is wrong with people that they are so uninterested in learning. It hurts our society very much.

[@sexynelson100]

ignorance is bliss

[@likilikiki]

Because novelty wears off. What was shown to the public from the Lunar missions was pretty much identical every mission.

[@notfromhere6125]

@@likilikiki To use the word "novelty wears off" in the same context as Lunar missions just shows how clueless people are about how incredible the universe is and how ANY time humans leave this planet it is INCREDIBLE. It's not something where the footage should amaze you. It is the fact humans are so far away from earth. Most people simply do not grasp how incredible this is.

[@likilikiki]

@@notfromhere6125 Novelty wears off is actually 3 words and "in the same context"? lol.

[@BigRray]

Kids are not engouraged to be curious that caries over in adulthood

[@ThomasFerner]

Im a HVAC contractor and also have been in situations to overcome and adapt to more issues than I care to remember and YES duct tape has got to be one of the GREATEST inventions mankind has come up with .....Hands down !!

[@rogercook6360]

Having lived through this event when it happened the memories flooded back of this amazing achievement... No doubt one of man's finest hours ! Thank you for this brilliant production, and yes I did have tears of joy in my eyes at the end !!!

[@nancycunningham4225]

One enormous yet intangible benefit of the Apollo missions was the phenomenon of sheer inspiration. My family of engineers and future physicists still recalls how they felt. I remember my then teenage cousin running through the house yelling, "I've GOT to be an astronomer!"

[@jeffrenman4146]

Years later watching this the ending you're almost are crying with so much joy… Can you imagine a damage spacecraft and trying to get back to earth what an adventure what a achievement they got home… Thanks for having the video for us

[@leeinwis]

It's fake

[@jeffrenman4146]

@@leeinwis You're absolutely right… Just like those creeps trying to tell us the world is round when we all know it's flat

[@yurus8680]

​@@leeinwis you're fake

[@applianceman6194]

@@leeinwis You still a Flat Earther after all these years

[@NicholasPellow]

@@leeinwis YOU'RE FAKE

[@patrickmccarthy7068]

Brilliant engineering and the bravery of those men is outstanding!

[@Ricky-o5i6t]

You really think we went to the moon in a tin can 😂😂😂

[@applianceman6194]

@@Ricky-o5i6t Not just once even. Did anyone tell you the earth is round yet?

[@NicholasPellow]

@@Ricky-o5i6t keep on showing us all how uneducated you truly are

[@fhuber7507]

I remember watching as much of this on TV as possible while it was happening.

[@robertmcminn2122]

I was 25 in April 1970 and a very big fan of all things space. I was consumed by the drama this event raised. It was a different time…

[@Slyck255]

You forgot that when showing Vietnam footage, you have to play "Fortunate Son"

[@ChrisOsle-kw5pl]

Hahahahahahahaha! Right?

[@Drgonzosfaves]

Congratulations!🎉🎉🎉 You win today's internets!!!

[@petermcgill1315]

For What it’s Worth! It has to be Buffalo Springfield.

[@fhuber7507]

Or Paint it Black

[@KeystoneInvestigations]

When I use to work at NASA, there was a saying.....To go places and do things that have never been done before, that’s what living is all about.

[@General5USA]

You know what the other saying is. “We Lie (NASA & NASE)So Others Can Die!

[@RichardCook-on3gf]

I was confident the crew would get back safely. Sad that Capt. Lovell did not walk on the moon after all of his training and experience. He was chosen to be Neil Armstrong's backup on Apollo 11, so if anything happened to Armstrong before the flight Lovell would have been first to walk on the moon.

[@JMG717]

What’s really sad is that in the rotation, Lovell was slated to command 14. In which case, he actually would’ve walked at Fra Mauro instead of Al Shepard.

[@xyz.ijk.]

I remember this quite well, and I was not at all sure that they were going to get back safely. Very glad I was wrong.

[@robertshapiro3733]

I was so obsessed with my freshman year in college what with the struggle it was for me and an upcoming solo hitchhiking excursion to Europe-but still find it impossibly frustrating that I didn’t even know that this crisis in space was occurring. I hate to admit that the film released during the late-1990s was my first true exposure to the crisis. Since then, of course, I viewed any documentary or book about this veritable miracle I could get my hands on. I don’t regret my attention to other matters which kept me ignorant for so long because I was able to analyze the event with fresh eyes.

[@leoa4c]

I think that one of the lessons learned in Apollo 13, which was not an established lesson in aerospace, by any means, was to guard against the unpredictable, even at high costs in performance or efficiency. I am sure that in countless projects before and since, a smart engineer has asked the team the sensible question of "Can anyone imagine a single reason why we need so much weight and complexity for this high level of redundancy?", to which a smarter engineer answered "To guard against that which we are unable to imagine". Another lesson, perhaps, was to standardize as much as possible. If 2 systems, in 2 different craft perform the exact same function, why design them to be different? They were designed differently because no one imagined that, one day, in one mission, one part from one craft may have to be used on another. Keep you designs open to the unpredictable, be it in civil engineering, software developing, aerospace hardware, an any other field or system where lives may be at risk.

[@leoa4c]

One area where these lessons were not employed, even for later Apollo missions was in the procedure to couple the lunar module to the service module, in space, while in transit to the moon. In order to simplify the launch escape system (LES), and optimize the efficiency of the Saturn V as a whole, the lunar module sat behind the service module prior to launch, meaning that if a similar problem to Apollo13's (where all oxygen tanks were damaged, including the added 3rd tank) happened before the two were connected, the astronauts would be left without engines. Redesigning the LES to carry and discard the LM as well as the CM would've been super expensive. However, it would've provided a lot more flexibility when and if a catastrophic failure of the SM happened at any time on the way to the moon, as the lunar module "lifeboat", and one with engines, would always be there.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

I am assuming you're talking about the CO2 scrubbers in the CM/SM and LEM? The reason the systems were incompatible is because they were designed and built by two different companies. Don't ask me why those companies never communicated with each other.

[@joeomalley1969]

That's a seriously impressive set of gnashers that man has there and my goodness Bob Odenkirk should have played Lovell in Apollo 13 still a really good movie

[@1981lashlarue]

Not enough mention or credit was given to Ken Mattingly in this program for his role in helping bring the astronauts back safely.

[@Spiritual-Keys]

When I used to work at NASA, there was a saying... "To go to places and do things that have never been done before, that's what life is all about.

[@bv6377]

Did you actually or did you just copy that other commenter

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

@@bv6377 Bots

[@darrenrexfrancis2538]

​@@bv6377...😂

[@bogdanzorila6697]

Aha sure you did pal.

[@mcchristenson]

When I used to work for NASA we would go and find alien aircraft. Did you ever hear of that side project they had?

[@MrBoomer-k6v]

Space exploration the future of mankind

[@KeystoneInvestigations]

Would that be outer space or inner space?

[@markmitchell457]

Not unless we develop a faster than light drive or learn how to warp space. There is absolutely no friendly place in our solar system. So nothing we can live on in our neighborhood. I have no doubt that there are earth-type planets in some of the billions of galaxies, but those galaxies are very far. We're not going anyplace soon.

[@austins.2495]

That is, if we survive the next four years… which isn’t looking likely.

[@Shifty319]

"Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars." - Carl Sagan

[@leoa4c]

Not if we don't assure our indefinite future, here first, which, at this rate of population growth, coupled with a declining ability to sustain said population, such future is not looking certain, by any means.

[@rajraj601]

Amazing experience .. have to make the most of any situation and live to tell 🙏

[@ChadwickVonGriffindorIII]

And all of that was mathematics

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

With a slide rule!

[@johnscreekmark]

I had a question about LEM engines they could use. Of course they had the decent engine, and it appears that's what they used. But if need be, could they not separate the decent module from the accent module and use the accent engine?

[@adventureairinc7355]

From a fuel standpoint, yes. But since all consumables were stored in the decent sage, they would lose that. So that was no option. Neither to seperate from SM was an option as it would endanger the heatshield integrity.

[@robbedontuesday]

Now I am sure that Kevin Costner should have played the role of Jim Lovell...

[@SteveWillNotDoIt1984]

I agree. Much better

[@whoever6458]

Rotisserie spacecraft! I love it!

[@petermcgill1315]

Unbelievable. Drop a vital piece of equipment during installation. Know that it doesn’t work to specs, but hey, we’ll let it fly on the 3rd lunar landing mission. What could go wrong? Apollo 1. Apollo 13. Challenger. Columbia… no one can honestly say they were shocked with the tragic outcomes.

[@MrBoomer-k6v]

Great video❤

[@Frankthetank-zr5mc]

Perfection.

[@CM-dw2xr]

Nice and factual, but the Apollo 13 movie actually did a better job of showing all the tension, all the efforts, and all the emotions of this mission. I will never forget the 4 extra minutes of silence during the reentry, expected to be less than 1 minute, when even Walter Cronkite was saying they were very likely burned up on reentry, and then the intense emotion when after more than 4 minutes, suddenly we heard them!! I still break into tears every time I see this story and I'm crying right now as I type this. I'm really sorry this video didn't show that.

[@stargazer5784]

The blackout during re-entry typically lasted no longer than 3 minutes, but yeah, that was an emotionally intense scene. Great movie.

[@CM-dw2xr]

@@stargazer5784 It was an emotionally intense moment to live through, even if I was just watching on TV. You gotta remember, the movie was only 2 hours long, we lived through five DAYS of wondering if they would die a cold and lonely death or a fiery one. The entire world was watching those 5 days, minute by minute. I'm in tears again writing this.

[@crystalakabeavergamingsubs9549]

I remember watching this first hand in 3rd grade at school. 😊

[@tedpeterson1156]

3:02 You should be playing “Age of Aquarius” recorded by the 5th Dimension. Not 1950s music. It’s like I don’t even know you people!

[@CheriHammer-Sullivan]

I agree. This was NASA's finest hour. Now can we apply all that required to mankind and address the healing we need on earth?

[@jameswright2522]

Amazing how they got them back. Amazing that they shelved a program that got man to the moon yet it still hasn’t been done today. Just use the Apollo program and save billions.

[@Shifty319]

that would defeat the purpose of developing new technology that will enable spaceflight for the future. Apollo was only planned until Apollo 20, ultimately scrapped after 17 due to budget constraints. The space race was essentially over as soon as Neil stepped off the LEM. The Soviets struggled through the mid to late 60's due to bureaucracy within government, competition between Korolev and Chelomey, competition between government departments, and massive budget concerns as the Soviets were still rebuilding after the decimation the Nazis caused in Soviet cities. The US, while still suffering from competition between departments and military, was essentially united after JFK was assassinated. Project Apollo was planned pretty much as soon as Mercury was underway, then as Apollo was made clearer, Gemini went ahead. The space program of the 60's and 70's was never designed as long-term habitation of Space. It was literally a proxy to develop efficient and powerful ICBM's for the Military, and to beat the Soviets. Artemis is being designed for long-term use of the Moon and it's resources to develop further Space travel within the Solar System

[@paulzuk1468]

It would probably not save any money at all. Look up how F-1 engines were made, and marvel at how much a PITA of a process it was.

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

@@Shifty319 The main reason the Soviets lagged behind is because Korolev, the only man capable of pulling off getting the N1 to the moon, died unexpectly due to complications during surgery. I can't recall what the ailment was that needed urgent surgery, but I can imagine it was cardio vascular.

[@Shifty319]

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 Korolev dying didn't help, no. But the in-fighting between Chelomey and Korolov, combined with the lack of funding due to the agricultural crisis turned what should have been an easy decision (between the UR700 and the N1) into a long drawn out process. when it was finally decided to go ahead with the N1, further budget cuts followed. Korolevs death obviously stalled their program, but there was 10 years of bureaucracy, paranoia, and in-fighting that handicapped the Soviet program, before Korolevs demise

[@Shifty319]

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 there's an amazing podcast called "A History of the Space Race" by Albert Lai which explores every facet of both programs extensively.

[@smorrow]

I never understood why 1:18:33 is a problem. If they skimmed off, they would still be in the Earth's gravity, so why wouldn't they come back down?

[@sexynelson100]

The trajectory would probably drift them off out into space. Or it would take weeks for earths gravity to bring them back down, by which time they would run out of oxygen and power, which would result in burning up on re-entry

[@tedpeterson1156]

It would take days or weeks. No oxygen, no water, etc.

[@smorrow]

@@tedpeterson1156 oh, thanks

[@SteveT3D]

It really is unbelievable, America had lost interest in 13 until the accident - whether this happened in lunar orbit, low earth orbit or Stanley Kubrick's garden shed it was likely a PR exercise to justify continuing the Apollo program, and a highly successful one at that.

[@Jeffrey-rq2gq]

41:59 Truely the 'greatest generation.' Who thinks today's DEI hires could have achieved this?

[@gregessex1851]

29:10 Back in the days when it was OK for a senior NASA official to be sucking on a cancer stick whilst delivering a press conference.

[@tedpeterson1156]

It was a better country when cigarettes could advertise, and lawyers couldn’t

[@larryulery3729]

Watched this as a kid and wanted to be a astronaut.

[@blueline308]

It's great fun listening to Englishmen discuss NASA stuff.

[@157294]

... but not the mispronunciation of Jack Swigert's last name.

[@donvincentwalters2705]

Stanley. Make me a hoax.

[@JustTheBob]

Hate when people zoom in the video to fool the copyright

[@r.scottmacleod4564]

I very doubt JFK could have imagined this level of effort by all involved?

[@General5USA]

I was there! I don’t believe any of this

[@markmitchell457]

At the time Americans didn't want another very expensive box of rocks. If we had long term missions maybe the same 'ol same 'ol missions would have been better received.

[@Dzokhar]

I'm glad the world can see how much of a goofball Jim Lovell is.

[@terterola]

Have you ever imagined if every human being who dies of hunger on Earth received the attention and investment of the same millions spent to save the lives of these astronauts? Yes, their lives are precious. But why aren't the hungry ones?

[@dronevan]

Have you imagined that the military waste the most precious resources we have daily and no one give a F. About people hungering... sad humanity

[@BillParsons-rb3vd]

That's the responsibility of the unfortunately corrupt totalitarian regimes that control those foreign countries. Not the responsibility of the USA. Think of all the lives saved by the US taking down the USSR via the space program instead of a hot war.

[@Stienecker]

Maybe they shouldn’t be poor and pull themselves up by their bootstraps

[@Thedevontree]

Do the math your talking fractions of pennies. Plus population is definitely a problem so saving people who can’t feed themselves only to create more people who can’t feed themselves is not the answer. And in the long run science may actually have an answer where insignificant charity has none.

[@stargazer5784]

I've seen this complaint posted before, and the problem of starvation in various parts of the world rests at the feet of the leaders of those countries.

[@lorrieshigley3625]

Yes.. and they made a great movie about it!

[@KeystoneInvestigations]

Which is full of endless inaccuracies!

[@Anna_Nimmitty]

@@KeystoneInvestigations Uh, care to elaborate there a bit??

[@magicfairy7805]

Still my favourite movie. Artistic license

[@AKCobra1120]

There were some, but I'm actually impressed with how right the movie got it compared to most "based on a true story" films. ​@@KeystoneInvestigations

[@christinawells2024]

Yup. The book is excellent and tells you everything. The movie is still good tho.

[@billfarrell7051]

Seriously, were all the NASA engineers British?

[@bridgingparadigms]

I wonder if ai could have made the return of Apollo 13 successfully. Does ai have the imagination and ingenuity that humans have?

[@1981lashlarue]

Nope. Don't think so.

[@PAUL-MH]

Would they have made it to the moon if the call not to stir the oxygen tanks came though or nasa didn't bother with stirring the tanks. Would the explosion still have happened?!

[@gameyord7182]

that there is what a missing screw can do to any machine

[@failuretocommunicate]

I walk the streets of destitution every day.

[@gfsfyfy426]

[@EuClid-v5e]

Euclides. 🙂👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯🇺🇲🦅. Hello. You. 🙂👍💯

[@luisheribertoperezfelician7489]

🎉

[@BobGeogeo]

1:40:00 Lovel says "Fred, Jack and I... " Proper grammar, instead of the increasingly common "me and..."

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

Not just I instead of me, but also putting himself last when the says all their names.

[@WissamIbrahim-b4k]

Any room logo Sci In the video

[@garyslatter9854]

Nasa got so luck...

[@paulmichaelfreedman8334]

not justluck, they got home thanks to the thousands of people who worked day and night to make it possible. Their spacecraft was seriously crippled and the astronauts would have died within hours had Houston not worked the problem they way they did.

[@bicivelo]

@@paulmichaelfreedman8334yup. They their “luck”!

[@furrybear7853]

And then America became space losers after such amazing thing..

[@walterplessen1883]

There's no such thing as earthrise due to the same face is alwayys on the moon. Sorry Houston, take your problems to the asylum.

[@DavidJao]

Earthrise does not happen on the surface of the moon but it sure does happen on a spaceship going around the moon.

[@karashevf]

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[@SteveSmith-uo5ug]

Pull up a chair boys and girls, it’s story time.

[@karashevf]

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[@davidclarke3560]

Way too many ads

[@richardmedina5715]

Welcome to KZbin.

[@sexynelson100]

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[@kmatcyk]

The fact they have to write true should tell you something

[@DrewWalton]

Yes, it tells you that you should stop believing in crazy conspiracy theories.

[@smorrow]

Fuck's sake. I mean even if it was a hoax, THE PEOPLE MAKING THE DOCUMENTARY wouldn't be in on it. If you're going to tell a conspiracy theory then at least tell a plausible version of it.

[@smorrow]

Are you implying the conspiracy is such that EVEN THE PEOPLE MAKING THE DOCUMENTARY are in on it?

[@smorrow]

Tom Hanks should have played Fred Haise, and Jerry Seinfeld Jim Lovell

[@andrestrishak8292]

Unbelievable is right! Haha! We never went to the moon, just a Hollywood basement. Billions paid for fake cartoons.

[@internetpolification]

Narrator…… it’s not “capshule”. Nor is it “mojule”

[@myste1973]

Tell me you're an American without telling me. 😂 He isn't an American speaker. Therefore, he is saying it correctly. Your accent isn't everyone's accent. Even within the borders of your country. 🙄

[@TitaniumTurbine]

@@myste1973 I apologize on behalf of my obvious fellow American there. Despite lots of evidence to the contrary, we’re not all like that. 😅

[@myste1973]

@TitaniumTurbine I'm an American too. Too many have their attitude.

[@WendySchelske]

God is great

[@willmpet]

God is not great!

[@enetlocal]

😂

[@itsme-qk2vb]

Religion is an impediment to science

[@musicbruv]

@@willmpet By saying god is not great, you acknowledge he exists. of course there is not such thing as god.

[@bicivelo]

Which one?!

[@user-il1nj7gu1c]

Don’t believe it

[@GusMcC]

You mean they faked all the moon landings, and then decided to fake this? FFS!

[@gregdavidd]

The movie was better. This video is not needed. Just watch the movie.

[@KeystoneInvestigations]

Which is full of endless inaccuracies!

[@gregdavidd]

@@KeystoneInvestigations Not according the people that actually lived it. They said it was very accurate.

[@AlanpittsS2b]

Nobody forcing you to watch it.

[@gregdavidd]

@@AlanpittsS2b Nobody is forcing you to read my comments.

[@BobGeogeo]

Jim Lovell and Ron Howard acknowledge and are OK with short cuts and dramatizations in the Apollo 13 film. Straight documentaries have their place.

[@NoremacOktik]

All staged fools.

[@brunodinis7454]

ok.

[@alextownsend8624]

God damn I hope you guys weed yourselves out soon...

[@bv6377]

​@@alextownsend8624 unfortunately there will always be idiots like this

[@ginskimpivot753]

And 55 years later not one of you can present a crumb of hoax evidence.

[@christinawells2024]

@alextownsend8624 🤣 wouldn’t it be nice? What’s more horrific is that these people have offspring, which just prolongs the ignorance.