Apollo 13 Page #11

We're gonna get it

as soon as we possibly can.

Ken Mattingly's

in the simulator right now.

Ken's working on it?

Look...

I know this sequence works, John.

The sequence looks good.

We're just over budget on the amperage.

- By how much?

- Three or four amps.

Goddamn it, John!

Is it three or four?

- Four.

- Four!

Four more amps.

We know they have some power left

in the LEM batteries, right?

Yeah.

We have an umbilical that provides power

from the command module to the LEM.

- It's backup for the LEM power supply.

- I'm listening.

So... reverse it.

Reverse the flow and see if

we can draw these four amps...

from the LEM batteries

before we cut it lose.

- Why can't we do that?

- We don't have a procedure for that?

You're gonna lose a lot

in the transfer, Ken.

Yeah, yeah, but all we're

talking about here is four amps.

I want whatever you guys got

on these power procedures.

- Gene, they're already...

- I don't want the whole bible,

just a couple of chapters.

- We've got to get something

up to these guys.

- They're working on it.

- I'll call the simulator

and get an estimate.

- Goddamn it!

I don't want another estimate!

I want the procedures... now!

I.M.U. Is up.

- How am I reading?

- Fine, so far.

- Say again.

- You're under the limit. Keep going.

Okay. Floodlights to fixed.

Okay, I'm bringing up the guidance.

Here we go.

C.M.C. Attitude I.M.U.

C.M.C. Source.

C.M.C. Mode, auto,

and we're on the computer.

Ken?

- Go ahead.

- Is your computer on now?

Up and running.

How do we look?

John?

I think we got it, buddy.

Arthur, my notes are clear

on that last sequence, right?

Yeah.

- Excuse me, gentlemen.

- I was getting a little blurry there.

Here's Ken. Here's John.

It's good to see you, Ken.

This is the sequence.

- Was it tried on the hardware yet?

- We didn't have time.

Aquarius, Houston.

Do you read?

Yeah, we read you, Ken.

Are the flowers blooming in Houston?

Uh, that's a negative, Jim.

I don't have the measles.

Jim, is Jack in there with you?

Uh, yeah, stand by one.

We gotta get him on comm.

- Put those on the table.

- Oh, damn it. Thanks, Jackie.

I think it would

really help if you could...

just distract her when

the heavy predictions come in.

- Yeah, yeah. We'll give it a shot.

- Thanks.

Blanch.

Blanch, these nice, young men

are gonna watch the television with you.

This is Neil Armstrong,

and this is Buzz Aldrin.

Nice to meet you.

- Hi.

- Are you boys in the space program too?

Okay, Jack, give me a read-back

on that last procedure.

Uh, stand by, Ken.

Ken, I'm having trouble

reading my own writing.

I guess I was a little

more tired than I thought.

Uh, don't worry, Jack.

I'll talk you through it.

Okay, find the main

bus breakers on panel 11.

Yeah, main bus breakers.

- Got it.

- Close main bus B.

Ken, there's an awful lot

of condensation on these panels.

What's the word on these

things shorting out?

Uh, we'll just take that

one at a time, Jack.

It's like tryin' to drive

a toaster through a car wash.

Main bus B is closed.

Okay, Thirteen, we're coming up

on entry interface.

Flight, we're still shallowing up

a bit in the reentry corridor.

It's almost like

they're underweight.

- Now how could they be underweight?

- We didn't land on the moon.

- Rocks?

- That's affirm.

Uh, one more thing, Jim.

While Jack's working on the power-up,

we'd like you and Freddo...

to transfer some ballast

over to the command module.

Uh, say again, Houston.

Ballast?

Um, that's affirm.

We got to get the weight right.

We were expecting you to be toting

a couple hundred pounds of moon rocks.

Right, Houston.

- Now, Jack.

- Yeah, go ahead, Ken.

Okay, now, uh, panel five.

Circuit breaker caution

and warning main B closed.

Main B closed.

Master alarm off.

Okay, Jack, uh, on panel seven,

B-MAG number two, power to warm-up.

B-MAG number two,

power to warm-up done.

Sequential logic one and two on.

Sequential logic... two on.

C.M.R.C.S. Pressure on.

C.M.R.C.S. Pressurization.

As her husband prepares to jettison

his lunar module lifeboat,

Marilyn Lovell waits with her

children, her neighbors...

and, we are told, Apollo 11 astronauts

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

Only the Lovell's eldest son,

Jay, is absent...

as he holds vigil

with his classmates...

at the St. Johns Military Academy

in Wisconsin.

ABC News science editor

Jules Bergman.

With a crippled command module, and

surviving by using the LEM's systems,

there can be no easy maneuver.

Their LEM lifeboat is doing things

and working longer...

than it was ever intended to.

It's a race against time

until splashdown.

Okay, Jack, we're ready to see

if the computer will accept...

- uplink of the reentry data now.

- Okay, the I.M.U. Is up.

- We got our eight-balls back.

- Copy that.

Okay, Ken, uh, uplink telemetry,

command module to accept, right?

That's affirm.

Go ahead and try it.

Come on.

Uplink completed.

- Yeah. That's more like it.

- We're back in business.

- Yeah.

- Okay, let's go.

Look at your amps. How we doin'?

We got her back up, Ken.

Boy, I wish

you were here to see it.

I'll bet you do.

Way to go, Jack.

- Flight, this is RETRO.

- Go, RETRO.

Flight, we are looking

at a typhoon warning...

- on the edge of the prime recovery zone.

- Say again, RETRO.

We are looking at a typhoon warning

on the edge of the prime recovery area.

This is just a warning.

It could miss them.

Only if their luck changes.

Jim, we're ready

for S.M. Jettison!

All right, Jack, on three!

One... two...

- upward thrust.

- We're loose!

Reverse thrust!

We have service module jettison.

Okay, Houston,

service module is free.

We're gonna take a look

at what we have here.

Copy that.

There it is. I see it!

Oh.

Houston, we're getting our first look

at the service module now.

One whole side

of the spacecraft is missing.

Right by the high gain antennae

a whole panel is blown out,

right up, right up

to our heat shield.

Uh, copy that, Aquarius.

It looked like it got

the engine bell too. Can you see that?

Oh, man, that's incredible.

The heat shield.

The heat will build up to as much

as 3,000 or 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

On a lunar reentry flight,

the heat approaches 4,000 degrees.

So, uh, Blanch?

Blanch? Did Jim make

Eagle Scout or not?

- Yes, he did.

- He did.

If the heat shield

is even slightly cracked,

the extreme cold

could have split it wide open.

Worst of all, if the pyrotechnics

that control the parachutes...

have been damaged,

the chutes may not open at all,

causing the spacecraft to hit the water

not at a gentle 20 miles per hour,

but at a suicidal 300.

Perhaps never in human history...

has the entire world been united

by such a global drama.

In New York City, thousands

of people have gathered...

to watch updates of the mission

in Times Square.

Many countries offered help,

and the State Department said...

it would ask for it

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