CBS News Coverage of Apollo 13 Part 11

[Gregster138]

Thank you for posting. Until or unless CBS releases the historic Apollo coverage on DVD, this is all we have. As great a movie as Apollo 13 was, Ron Howard took some dramatic license with some key events. I watched this live and that was a live shot of mission control as the applause broke out. It's great to see this!

[altfactor]

The KC-135 aircraft monitoring communications referred to in this clip is actually a military version of the Boeing 707.

[SoaringEagle2005]

Huh, in the film, they show Mission Control erupting with applause. They seem to barely blink in this feed.

[Tottize]

@SoaringEagle2005 In the film, they have them coming out from blackout and the shoots deploying at the same time for drama. In real life, once they come out from blackout the parachutes haven't deployed yet and mission control doesn't applause until they are sure they are in the clear, when they see all the parachutes are deployed.

[altfactor]

@SoaringEagle2005 The applause in the official NASA film may have been shot after the astronauts returned to the recovery ship.

[joshatkins94]

@SoaringEagle2005 9:59

[sonnychiba77]

@SoaringEagle2005 dramatic hyperbole, it sure worked though didn't it?

[Shelbymahaffie]

does this skip ahead from part 10?

[zellco321]

@Shelbymahaffie Yes.

[hubby2011]

@zellco321 where is the part between 10 and 11

[lcs1956]

The occasional horizontal lines are from the Iwo Jima's tracking radar interfering with the 70s technology  video cameras.