Apollo 13 Re-Entry/Splashdown (BBC)

The BBC coverage of the re-entry and splashdown of Apollo 13. Commentators in the studio include Cliff Michelmore, James Buke, Geoffery Pardoe and Patrick Moore. This programme was broadcast April 17th 1970.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• Apollo
• 13
• lovell
• haise
• swigert
• nasa
• re-entry
• moon
• lunar
• disaster
• 1970
• burke
• michelmore
• moore
• pardoe

[bondadm007]

honeysuckle?

[lunarmodule5]

He is referring to Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia, which was part of the Deep Space Network of communication antenna/stations Nasa used on the Apollo missions to provide 24 hour contact with the spacecraft.

[greenseaships]

@3:09- Is that James (Connections) Burke?! Awesome!

[lunarmodule5]

@greenseaships Yep it is. James was the BBC "anchor" on the space programme until ASTP in 1975. Never bettered.

[roygbiv330]

that was a jim lovell responding. the most touching scene. i searched stuff about the appolo 13 over internet 5, 6 years ago. i never find this. thanks for uploading this.

[lunarmodule5]

@roygbiv330 I did list most of them in the video description. I don't know who 2 of them but the one guy not mentioned by alljan was Geoffrey Pardoe who is also on the STS-1 videos I have posted and was the BBC "expert" for many early Shuttle flights.

[Doc418]

The successful failure.

[MegaObserver1]

"Joe" was Joe Kerwin, the astronaut who was serving as capcom for this portion of the mission. Astronauts, particularly rookie astronauts, not flying in the mission served as capcoms. NASA wanted crews to only talk to other astronauts during missions.

[hateis632]

WERE ARE THE PARACUTE?????

[3ISAMAGICNUMBR]

@clintonearlwalker So they would just have a looong awful death.

[ORACLE063]

Humans FTW

[LibraLibre59]

Nice to see this after watching the movie. Note in the movie, In the film, Lovell has a cameo as the captain of the USS Iwo Jima, the naval vessel which led the operation to recover the Apollo 13 astronauts after their successful splashdown. Lovell can be seen as the naval officer shaking Hanks' hand, as Hanks speaks in voice-over, in the scene in which the astronauts come aboard the Iwo Jima.

[Rob260259]

Awesome times...

Nice video.

[ApolloWasRealHoax]

Thanks you uploaded this little bit of the moon hoax.

[clintonearlwalker]

I was in third grade when this happened. I'll never forget the headline of the local newspaper "If Engine Fails, Astronauts Will Soar Past Earth".