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Minute 009: Give Me a Lever Long Enough
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
07/05/18 • 29 min
Guest Host: Jennifer Levasseur
Curator, National Air & Space Museum
Jim Lovell is narrating a tour of the Vehicle Assembly Building. He explains that astronauts are only the most visible members of a very large team.
” — right down to the guy sweeping the floor, are honored to be a part of it,” explains Lovell. “What did the man say? ‘Give me a lever long enough and I’ll move the world?’ Well, that’s exactly what we’re doing here. This is divine inspiration, folks. It’s the best part of each one of us – – the belief that anything is possible. Things like: a computer that can fit into a single room, and hold millions of pieces of information. Or the Saturn V rocket.”
A group of VIP visitors stands on a balcony high inside the VAB. Overhead, an S-IV-B stage is about to be mated to an S-II stage in the high bay.
“Now, this is the actual launch vehicle that will be taking Alan Shepard and his crew on the first leg of the Apollo Thirteen mission,” explains Lovell.
“When are you going up again, Jim?” asks a Congressman.
“I’m slated to be the commander of Apollo Fourteen, sometime late next year,” replies Lovell.
The Congressman grins. “If there is an Apollo Fourteen,” says the Congressman.
Lovell smiles weakly.
“Now, Jim,” continues the Congressman, “People in my state have been asking, why we’re continuing to fund this program, now that we’ve beat the Russians to the Moon?”
“Imagine if — if Christopher Columbus had come back from the New World, and no one returned in his footsteps, ” replies Lovell.
IN THIS MINUTE:
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
Congressman: Roger Corman
NASA PAO Henry Hurt: Xander Berkeley
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Minute 012: See What He Does with This One
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
07/10/18 • 19 min
GUEST HOST: AMY YOUNG
OF THE SPACE STATION MUSEUM
NOVATO, CALIFORNIA
Jim and Marilyn Lovell are discussing Jim’s assignment to the Apollo 13 mission.
Marilyn shakes her head in disbelief. “I can’t believe it,” she says, “Naturally, it’s thirteen. Why, thirteen?”
“It comes after twelve, Hon,” replies Jim. Marilyn smiles back at him.
In the Command Module trainer, Ken Mattingly examines the instrument panel.
“Apollo 13, you are go for pyro arm and docking,” says the Capcom. “all systems are nominal and on the line.”
TITLE: “MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER HOUSTON, TEXAS, 3 MONTHS PRIOR TO LAUNCH”
“Okay, S-IV-B is stable,” replies LM Pilot Fred Haise. “Slot panels are drifting free. The drogue is clear. Docking target is clear.”
“Seventy five feet, we’re coming up on docking,” says Haise to the crew.
In the Sim room, one of the controllers says, “Let’s shut down some thrusters on him. Let’s see what he does with this one.” Another operator presses a button.
“Who, wait a minute,” says Mattingly, “I lost something here. I can’t translate up.” Mattingly works the joystick.
“Houston, we are drifting down and away,” reports Haise.
“Do you want to just back off and take another run at this?” says Lovell to Mattingly.
“No, I got it. I got it,” replies Mattingly. “Let me just try and get her stable here. The SIM camera wobbles as it aims toward the LM docking port.
“Houston, I’m gonna reset the high-gain here,” says Haise.
“I’ve got the target back in the reticle,” says Mattingly. “Okay, we’re stable.”
IN THIS MINUTE:
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
Marilyn Lovell: Kathleen Quinlan
SIM controller: Arthur Senzy
Ken Mattingly: Gary Sinese
Fred Haise: Bill Paxton
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Minute 002: A Mere Eighteen Months
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
06/26/18 • 38 min
Narrator continues: ” on which Man has ever embarked.”
Gus Grissom reaches for the control panel of Apollo 1’s Command Module. A spark leaps out from the panel.
Narrator: “After trailing the Russians for years with our manned space program, and after that sudden and horrible fire on the launch pad during that routine test that killed American astronauts Gus Grissiom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee, there were serious doubts as to whether we could beat the Russians to the Moon.”
Flames lick the walls of the cabin. Ed White reaches for the hatch, pounding an open hand on the hatch windows as flames engulf the interior of the ship.
The scene changes to a driver’s eye view of the streets of nighttime Houston.
TITLE: JULY 20, 1969 HOUSTON TEXAS
Narrator: “But tonight, a mere eighteen months after the tragedy of Apollo One, the entire world watched in awe as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the Moon.”
A red Corvette winds its way through traffic. Jim Lovell is at the wheel.
TITLE: TOM HANKS
1969 video footage of Walter Cronkite, saying “the big news came just a moment ago, Mission Control gave the spacecraft permission to go for the extra vehicular activity — that is, for the walk on the Moon — far earlier than anticipated: 9 PM, Eastern Daylight Time...”
Back at the Lovell household, Astronaut Jack Swigert is explaining docking procedures to a smiling blonde woman.
“Now the important thing when you’re penetrating the Lunar Module,” says Swigert, pointing the top of a long-necked Budweiser bottle at a tall glass, “is your attitude and your relative speed.” Swigert looks at the woman. “Now, let’s say this is me here in the Command Module,” he continues, wiggling the beer bottle, “and let’s say this is you, in the LM,” he jiggles the glass. “This thing that sticks out in front, that’s called –”
TITLE: KEVIN BACON
IN THIS MINUTE:
Narrator: Walter Cronkite
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
Jack Swigert: Kevin Bacon
Tracy: Karen Martin
Gus Grissom: Steve Bernie
Ed White: Steve Ruge
Roger Chaffee: Reed Rudy
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Minute 005: Somebody to Wave Him Off
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
06/29/18 • 33 min
The house guests clap for Apollo Eleven’s backup crew.
On the screen, the upside-down image of the LM’s ladder appears.
“Ooh, there he is!” says Marilyn, carrying a tray of empty champagne flutes. “There he is, everybody! Quiet down – here he is!”
Lovell pulls a cigar out of his mouth. “Hey, kids!” he calls to his children, who are seated on the stairs. They join the guests near the TV set.
TITLE: “PRODUCTION DESIGNER MICHAEL CORENBLITH”
“Okay. Will you verify the position—the opening I ought to have on the camera?” says Buzz Aldrin, from the Moon.
The video image of Neil Armstrong is superimposed by the words “LIVE FROM THE SURFACE OF THE MOON” on the TV.
“Jim, do you think it’s too late for him to abort?” asks Pete Conrad.
TITLE: “DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY DEAN CUNDEY, A.S.C.
“No, no,” says Lovell,” he’s got time to get out of there. All he needs is for somebody to wave him off! Pull up Neil!” Conrad joins Lovell in giving the Go-Around signal. Marilyn signals for them to be quiet.
TITLE: “EXECUTIVE PRODUCER TODD HALLOWELL”
“Okay, Neil, ” says CapCom Bruce McCandless on TV, “We can see you coming down the ladder now.”
“Okay,” replies Armstrong.
“Boy, look at those pictures!” interjects Walter Cronkite. “Wow!”
“I’m at the foot of the ladder,” continues Armstrong. “The LM footpads are depressed in the surface only about one or two inches. — It’s almost like a powder.”
“ARMSTRONG ON MOON” flashes a title over Armstrong’s video.
“Armstrong is on the Moon, the thir-” continues Cronkite.
“– gonna step off the LM now-” says Armstrong.
“thirty-eight year old American,” continues Cronkite, “standing on the surface of the Moon, on this the-”
IN THIS MINUTE:
Walter Cronkite: Himself
Neil Armstrong: Himself
Buzz Aldrin: Himself
Bruce McCandless: Himself
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
Jack Swigert: Kevin Bacon
Tracy: Karen Martin
Fred Haise: Bill Paxton
Ken Mattingly: Gary Sinese
Marilyn Lovell: Kathleen Quinlan
Jay Lovell: Max Elliott Slade
Pete Conrad: David Andrews
John Young: Ben Marley
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Minute 007: Just Sixty Nautical Miles Down
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
07/03/18 • 20 min
Marilyn and Jim Lovell are in their backyard, after the Apollo XI Moonwalk party is over.
“When you were on far side on Eight, I didn’t sleep at all,” says Marilyn, leaning into her lawn chair, “I just vacuumed, over and over again.”
“Christopher Columbus,” says Jim, looking at the Moon, “Charles Lindbergh... and Neil Armstrong.” He laughs. “Neil Armstrong!”
Marilyn laughs, too. Jim climbs into his lawn chair.
Looking back at the Moon, Jim says, “From now on, we live in a world where Man has walked on the Moon.” He turns and looks at Marilyn. “And it’s not a miracle. We just decided to go.”
He looks back at the Moon. “On Apollo 8, we were so close,” he says. “Just sixty nautical miles down. And what’s it like to just – – step out, and walk on the face of it? I want to go back. ”
IN THIS MINUTE:
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
Marilyn Lovell: Kathleen Quinlan
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Minute 001: A Ron Howard Film
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
06/24/18 • 35 min
James Horner’s score begins.
Fade in.
The Universal logo animation, the word UNIVERSAL across a cloudless planet Earth, appears, and resolves into the title card “UNIVERSAL – AN MCA COMPANY.” The title fades to black.
TITLE: “Imagine Entertainment Presents”
TITLE: “A Brian Grazer Production”
TITLE: “A Ron Howard Film”
Over-exposed video appears, a step-framed image of astronaut boots walking across a gangway.
TITLE: “APOLLO 1 PRE-LAUNCH TEST, CAPE KENNEDY, FLORIDA, JANUARY 27, 1967”
Over an audio circuit, a voice says, “Flight, we have the crew crossing gantry for capsule ingress.”
“Roger that,” replies another voice on the audio circuit.
Narrator Walter Cronkite says, “Inspired by the late President Kennedy, in only seven years, America has risen to the challenge of what he called the most hazardous and dangerous, and greatest adventure -”
IN THIS MINUTE:
Narrator: Walter Cronkite
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Minute 008: Where’s My Mountain?
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
07/04/18 • 24 min
Marilyn and Jim Lovell are in their backyard, in lounge chairs, after the Apollo XI Moonwalk party is over. Jim holds his thumb up, obscuring the distant Moon.
“Where’s my mountain?” asks Marilyn.
“Well, it -” begins Jim, “It’s right up by the — okay, you see where the shadow crosses — the white area there? That’s the Sea of Tranquility. And your mountain’s right there on the edge of that. Your mountain. Your mountain, Marilyn: Mount Marilyn.”
Marilyn looks up at the Moon. “I don’t see it,” she says, shaking her head.
Jim looks over at her. “Well, you’ve got to look harder,” he replies. “You – -look harder.” Jim rolls out of his chair and crawls into Marilyn’s chair. Marilyn starts laughing as he climbs on top of Marilyn. The song “Cruisin'” by Smokey Robinson starts playing as the scene fades.
An aerial view of the Vehicle Assembly Building fills the scene.
TITLE: “VEHICLE ASSEMBLY BUILDING, CAPE KENNEDY, FLORIDA, OCTOBER 30, 1969”
Jim Lovell is narrating a tour.
“The astronaut,” he says, “is only the most visible member of a very large team, and all of us -”
IN THIS MINUTE:
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
Marilyn Lovell: Kathleen Quinlan
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Minute 006: Let’s Sell the House
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
07/02/18 • 28 min
Jim Lovell and the assembled guests witness Neil Armstrong’s descent to the lunar surface, on the family TV set.
“on this July 20th, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Nine,” intones Walter Cronkite on TV.
“It’s one small step for man,” says Armstrong, “One... giant leap for mankind.”
“His quote was, That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” repeats Cronkite.
Later, after the guests have left, Jim and Marilyn Lovell are standing in the moonlight in their backyard. Jim holds his thumb up at arm’s length, obscuring a waning gibbous Moon. He repeats the gesture several times. The song, “Beyond the Sea” sung by Bobby Darrin, plays in the background.
TITLE: “BASED ON THE BOOK ‘LOST MOON’ BY JIM LOVELL & JEFFREY KLUGER”
Marilyn, holding a paper bag, looks at her husband. “You’re drunk, Lovell,” she says.
“Yep,” he agrees. “I’m not used to the champagne.”
“Me neither,” says Marilyn.
TITLE: “SCREENPLAY BY WILLIAM BROYLES, JR. & AL REINERT”
Marilyn puts down a plate and drops the paper bag on the patio. “I can’t deal with cleaning up,” she says, “Let’s sell the house.”
“Alright,” says Jim, “Let’s sell the house.”
TITLE: “PRODUCED BY BRIAN GRAZER”
“They’re back inside now,” says Jim, still looking up at the Moon. “Looking up at us. Isn’t that something?”
TITLE: “DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD”
“I’ll be Janney Armstrong doesn’t get a wink of sleep tonight,” says Marilyn, leaning back on a chaise lounge chair.
IN THIS MINUTE:
Walter Cronkite: Himself
Neil Armstrong: Himself
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
Marilyn Lovell: Kathleen Quinlan
Jay Lovell: Max Elliott Slade
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Minute 011: A Slight Change in Destination
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
07/09/18 • 19 min
Jim Lovell arrives at the top of the stairs in his home, in the middle of an argument between his daughter and Marilyn about appropriate Halloween costumes.
“Hey everybody,” says Jim. His daughter Barbara closes her bedroom door.
“Jim!” says Marilyn, surprised.
“Marilyn, trick or treat!” replies Jim. “You know that Easter vacation trip we had planned for Acapulco?”
“Uh-oh,” says Marilyn.
“Well, I was thinking there might be a slight change in destination,” explains Jim, hanging up his suitcase.
“Really?” says Marilyn.
“Maybe, say – – the Moon?” explains Jim.
Marilyn and Susan Lovell gasp. Marilyn hugs Jim.
“Al Shepard’s ear infection has flared up, and we’ve all been bumped up to the prime crew — of Apollo Thirteen,” says Jim. “Straight to the head of the line in the Fra Mauro Highlands.”
“Six months?” asks Marilyn. “You’re moving up six months?” Barbara steps into the bedroom.
“Dad,” asks Barbara,” Can I please wear this?” she’s still wearing her hippie miniskirt costume.
“Sure!” says Jim, giving her a quick glance.
“Jim!” corrects Marilyn.
“No! No – absolutely not,” says Jim, taking his cue from Marilyn. Barbara marches out of the room, and back into her bedroom.
“They’re not rushing things, are they?” asks Marilyn. “I mean, you – you’re gonna be ready in six months?”
“We’ll be ready,” replies Jim. “Boy, I wouldn’t want to be around Al Shepard tonight. I gotta get over there – – we’re gonna have to get up to speed on this.”
“Go, go,” says Marilyn.
“I’m gonna walk on the Moon, Marilyn,” says Jim, at their bedroom door.
Marilyn shakes her head in disbelief. “I know,” she says.
IN THIS MINUTE:
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
Marilyn Lovell: Kathleen Quinlan
Barbara Lovell: Mary Kate Schelhardt
Susan Lovell: Emily Ann Lloyd
Jeffrey Lovell: Miko Hughes
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Minute 013: Seven Seconds of Sheer Terror
Apollo 13 Minute Podcast
07/11/18 • 34 min
Lovell, Mattingly, and Haise are in the Command Module SIM, attempting to dock with the LM.
“We’ll go ahead and recycle the valves,” says Mattingly. Lovell closes and reopens the valve switches for circuits B and D.
“They’re all gray,” reports Lovell. Mattingly alters the pitch position dial.
Outside, the video camera moves closer to the LM model. Over Mattingly’s head, the video image of the probe target lines up with the reticule.
“Twenty,” says Haise.
“Easy,” whispers Mattingly, working the joystick.
“Ten feet,” reports Haise. The video camera touches the center of the LM model docking port.
“Capture,” says Mattingly.
“That’s it!” says Lovell. “That’s it!” Haise gives a whoop of approval.
“Sweet move, Ken!” says Haise. “Beautiful, beautiful!”
“Gentlemen,” says Lovell, “that is the way we do that.”
“Oh man,” says Haise, “that woke me up!”
Outside the CM sim, an announcer on the speaker says, “Apollo Thirteen backup crew, you’re up in the simulator.”
“Nice job, Jim,” says Jack Swigert, backup CM Pilot, as backup Commander John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke follow behind him.
“That’s three hours of boredom, followed by seven seconds of sheer terror,” says Lovell.
“Good job, guys,” says the SIM controller, Frank, at the foot of the stairs, “You just won the Christmas turkey!”
“Nice try, Frank!” says Haise, as the crew applauds.
“You really outfoxed him, brother,” says Haise to Mattingly.
“Yeah, but it wasn’t perfect,” replies Ken. “Used up too much fuel.” Mattingly pauses on the stairs.
“Aw, you’re above the curve,” says Fred Haise.
“Not by much,” says Ken. “Listen, guys, I want to work it again.” The backup team pauses.
Haise turns around. “Hey,” he says, “we gotta be up with the dawn patrol headed for Bethpage – what, oh-seven hundred.”
“Wheels up at oh-seven hundred,” confirms Lovell.
IN THIS MINUTE:
Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks
SIM controller Frank : Arthur Senzy
Ken Mattingly: Gary Sinese
Fred Haise: Bill Paxton
Jack Swigert: Kevin Bacon
John Young: Ben Marley
Charlie Duke: Unknown
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