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The apollo 13 crew, captain james lovell, captain John Swaggart mr. Fred haise. I would like to start by saying i am not a superstitious person. Therefore, when we were assigned apollo 13, i thought nothing of it. Some said 13 was a lucky number and were happy i got that number. It started just before the flight, as was documented. 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. As you know, a turn of events occurred and ken mattingly, our command module pilot, was exposed to the measles, we had to make the 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. As a consequence, on friday we
Thank you. I would like to start off the briefing by saying i am not a superstitious person. Therefore, when we were assigned apollo 13, i thought nothing of myas a matter of fact, so friends of italian descent said that 13 was a lucky number and they were happy i got that number. All of this started before the flight, as was well documented, as we are approaching the final phase of our training, the last couple of days are usually ones which are taken very leisurely, try to keep a couple of days free to let ourselves unwind for the training cycle, get plenty of rest so when we launch, we are in good shape and we can go with an easy mine. Easy mind. As you know, a turn of events occurred and ken mattingly, our command module pilot was exposed to the measles. At that time, we had to make a big decision of bring jack along or delay the flight. It was one that 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, bu
We decided about two hours, about 79 hours, shortening the time to get home again. This was always going to be an automatic burn using the diesel propulsion engine and this burn was very successful. After that the ground was very concerned with power and we were, too. We decided to go into a power down mode, we turned off just about everything and i would like to have jack and fred to tell about our situation. And since no one made a lunar trip before we were looking the way out ways to determine how we could make these corrections moment. The angle of entry is very small. It has to be controlled closely. So at 105 hours they gave us instructions to relight the engine to or geient the spacecr in this manner. When they read up the procedure to us, i could not believe it. I never thought i would have to use something as way out as this. And here was was on apollo 8 using this same thing. It was completed on time and because it was a manual burn we had a three man operation. Jack would te
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