Apollo 13: Trailer, The Countdown

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Jump on board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story, told by the people who flew it and saved it. Lift off is on 9 March.
#13MinutestotheMoon
Presenter: Kevin Fong
Written by Kevin Fong and Andrew Luck-Baker
Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music

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Speaker 1 I still have

Speaker 1 nightmares about this.

Speaker 4 An explosion in a spacecraft on its way to the moon.

Speaker 5 Okay, you know, here we've had a problem here.

Speaker 1 It rocked everything. Swiker's eyes were as wide as saucers.

Speaker 4 Three astronauts aboard a ship with failing systems 200,000 miles from home.

Speaker 5 Here's the we've had a problem.

Speaker 1 We got more than a problem. We lost O2 tank two pressure.
Nothing made sense in those first few seconds.

Speaker 3 No one knew what exactly had happened.

Speaker 5 We are vending something out into space. It's a gas control sword.

Speaker 1 It's going down. We're losing it.

Speaker 1 Yes, we are.

Speaker 4 From the BBC World Service, 13 Minutes to the Moon, Season 2.

Speaker 4 The incredible story of the flight of Apollo 13. Four days in space in 1970 with the astronauts' lives under constant threat.

Speaker 1 We were not confident we were going to get the crew back. I was thinking that we weren't going to survive.

Speaker 1 But we were going to try our best all the way out until the oxygen left us and that was the end of the deal.

Speaker 1 As far as he was concerned, they really didn't have much of a chance of coming back

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 doctors fell apart.

Speaker 1 We were exhaling carbon dioxide and slowly that gas was building up. We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.

Speaker 1 Gradually temperature went down.

Speaker 1 It got very cold, 35 or 40 degrees, like the inside of your refrigerator.

Speaker 1 I was worried about Fred, so I comforted him a little bit, put my arms around him, and tried to get my body heat in his body. It's amazing.
It's absolutely friggin' amazing.

Speaker 1 You got to hand it to the crew. That crew were brave, I'll tell you.

Speaker 4 Hour after hour, day after day, thousands of engineers around the United States battle to keep the astronauts alive and resurrect a dead spacecraft.

Speaker 1 Quit dwelling on this being impossible. Ask yourself what would make it possible.
We weren't heroes. We're ordinary people

Speaker 1 with a little bit of math, a little bit of science, and that's all we had.

Speaker 4 13 Minutes to the Moon, Season 2, The Mission of Apollo 13, told by the people who flew it and saved it.

Speaker 4 I'm Kevin Fong. Our theme music is by Hun Zimmer and Christian Lundberg.
Episode 1 will be available from March the 9th, and then after that, episodes will be released weekly.

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Speaker 3 Sucks! The new musical has made Tony award-winning history on Broadway. We demand to be home! Winner, best score.
We demand to be seen. Winner, best book.

Speaker 3 It's a theatrical masterpiece that's thrilling, inspiring, dazzlingly entertaining, and unquestionably the most emotionally stirring musical this season. Suffs!

Speaker 3 Playing the Orpheum Theater October 22nd through November 9th. Tickets at BroadwaySF.com