Footage of The Apollo 13 Launch April 11th 1970
From the Afternoon of Saturady April 11th 1970, NASA footage of the Launch of Apollo 13,
the mission to land the 5th and 6th men on the Moon. but the mission would be aborted 2 days later due
to explosion and rupture of oxygen tank no. 2 in the service module. The explosion ruptured a line or damaged a valve in the no. 1 oxygen tank, causing it to lose oxygen rapidly. The service module bay no.4 cover was blown off. All oxygen stores were lost within about 3 hours, along with loss of water, electrical power, and use of the propulsion system.
Note: for those it concerns Am sorry about the jumpy picture in the video, but there is nothing I can do to fix it.
just keep in mind that this is 40 year old video.
The Apollo 13 Crew:
Commander :James A. Lovell, Jr.
Command Module Pilot :John L. Swigert
Lunar Module Pilot :Fred W. Haise, Jr.
Duration : 0:10:58
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The Spacecraft …
The Spacecraft Films Saturn V DVD set has the whole feed of the tower colour camera through tower clear. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Saturn exhaust burns out the camera and turns the view into static bands! There must be other individual TV angles of the launch elsewhere?
@ 7:46 you can hear …
@ 7:46 you can hear Lovell call “INBOARD” meaning the center engine shut down 2 minutes early- shut down by a low chamber pressure reading by a sensor. The engine in reality had been violently oscillating 68g @ 16hz and would have disintegrated the vehicle had it run a few more seconds.
This looks like the …
This looks like the ‘clean’ KSC TV feed of the launch. PAOs are Chuck Hollinshead in Florida and Doug Ward in Houston. Capcom is Joe Kerwin.
Ditto lunarmodule5! …
Ditto lunarmodule5!!!
Thank you,More …
Thank you,More Apollo 13 to come soon!
Keep them coming …
Keep them coming Zellco! Superb as always!