Thank you. Id like to start off the briefing by saying that im not a superstitious person, and therefore when we were assigned apollo 13 i thought nothing of it. As a matter of fact, some of my friends of italian descent 13 was a lucky number. It all started before the flight as documented as we are approaching the final phase of our training the last couple of days are usually ones which are taken very usually. Try to keep a couple of days free to unwind from the long Training Cycle and get plenty of rest so that when we launch were in good shape and we can go with an easy mind. As you know a turn of events occurred and at that time we had to make a big decision to bring jack along or delay the flight. It was one which was not easy for me to help decide. And when they asked me what i wanted to do because we had worked as a team for a long time, but i also realized that the program had matured to that degree whereby we had quite a few people who were well knowledgeable about the spacec
Explosion on board. The interview is from the Oral History Program at the Johnson Space center. This is the Johnson Space Center Original history project, may 25th, 1999, at the Johnson Space center. When you were a little kid, you saw a rocket go off and you said i want to do that . Is it that simple or that complex . You know, i was interested in rockets and astronomy long before the glenns and the shepherds of the world could spell rocket. I was interested in it way back in high school. I went to try and build some rockets. I wanted to be a rocket engineer, as a matter of fact. I wrote to the American Rocket Society at that time which is now the aaia or Something Like that, and i said i want to be a rocket engineer, and they wrote back and said you need to go to i. T. Or cal tech, and i couldnt afford either so i got an rotc appointment to wisconsin and then from there i went to the Navel Academy and then i got the flight training. I became a naval aviator, and low and behold in 195
Seen this movie and i was a little worried about them making this. There were some things i might have done different out of some hidden language that gave it its pg13 rain but the one thing i thought carried very well and ron howard did a great job was to tell the basic story of people that were in trouble and we certainly were in trouble although, there were problems on every mission we flew during the program and if we can look at the entire Apollo Program report its a book about that dick, its in the archives if you can get it through information. There is an appendix that lists the problems or we call them anomalies and some people call them funnys that happened on the flights and they listed them numerically by fight order and you ignore apollo seven and eight who only had one spacecraft. Apollo 13 at the second least number of problems of all the flights. We almost aborted apollo 14 an apollo 16 in response that theyre it will to work around and had them land. That was the natur
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It. Some said 13 was a lucky number and were happy i got that number. It started just before the documented. As as we were approaching the final phase of training, the last couple of days are usually taken very leisurely, keeping a couple of days free to unwind from the long Training Cycle and get rest so that when we launch, we are in good shape. Eventsknow, a turn of occurred and ken mattingly, our , wasnd module pilot exposed to the fluent we had to make the decision was exposed to the flu and we had to make a decision to bring jack along. They asked what i wanted to do because we worked as a team for a long time, but i realized the Space Program had matured to that degree whereby we had quite a few people who were well knowledgeable about the spacecraft and well to fly. On friday wence, decided to take jack. I would like to say right now i have never regretted that decision. We as a team and john can particular helped us out in our ensuing odyssey tremendously. I would like to brea