First Time Reaction to Three Men Lost in Space - The Apollo 13 Disaster
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Interesting fact about Apollo 13...because they went around the Moon without going into orbit, they traveled just a bit further from Earth than the other Moon missions...thus, the Apollo 13 crew still hold the record for the farthest away from Earth anyone has ever traveled. 🖖💯✌
That's something I did not know. Fantastic! Thanks for that tidbit.
Oh wow! That's a cool little but of trivia.
Does the moon always orbit around earth at the same distance? 🤔
I did not know that.
@@Gutslinger No...it does not...there is some eccentricity to the Moon's orbit. But that was taken into account when they calculated that Apollo 13 held the record.🖖💯✌
You should watch the movie "Apollo 13" with Tom hanks...it's so good. This is one of those stories that makes me so proud to be American.
Commander Lovell makes a cameo appearance at the end of the film.
That is a great movie. Now I want to watch it again.
Apollo 13 is one of my favorite movies of all time! You should watch it!
Such an incredible film, they actually filmed it on a zero g airplane so they could perfectly mimic what it would feel like to be weightless
Agreed ^^^^ great movie. Livestream react to it if u want too. Very well put together movie that stays pretty true to what actually happened.
Please watch the Tom Hanks movie sometime. This story is so incredible. The way the scientists and engineers on the ground worked to get them home is truly amazing. And also, the guy who was cut because he was exposed to the measles, became a part of the team that worked to get them home. Everyone should know this story. It’s so inspiring.
You need to do yourself a favor and watch the movie. in my opinion that movie should be shown in every classroom everywhere to inspire people to be able to overcome incredible obstacles. I think about the scene where they devised the CO2 filter every time I'm working on a complex problem at my job. it's one of the most triumphant things and probably stupid for anyone that's not in it or engineering but it is incredible film.
The movie is so good, definitely watch the movie.
definitely one of the biggest achievements in human history to pull off what they did under extreme pressure and time constraints. Best example of will power and engineering ever.
The movie brings forth the human element. You'll learn the character of each man on that mission, the fears their families faced, and the incredible scramble to solve each problem by our NASA team at home. Truly a gripping and emotional journey. A classic!
@@lynrossi8409 And I feel like it takes the complicated science involved and makes it make sense for those of us who aren’t math and science whizzes
Fun fact, if slightly less impressive, the CO2 filter was not devised on the fly, but something the team actually drilled a couple of times after someone posited the idea that the LM might lose a filter or that they may need to use it as a lifeboat.
The reason the movie shows that (along with all the personal conflict, and yes... ALL of it, while the three were in space) is because they needed the audience to feel the stress everyone else was feeling, but the real life reactions were so calm that after the fact an unwitting observer would just wonder what the big deal was.
Was it dramatic? Yeah. But for those not in the know it seemed so calm.
Somewhere around here is the footage from the flight ops for Columbia. Watch it and observe just how eerily calm they all are.
Like everyone else has said, the movie was incredible, but even more so were the real life people at NASA that literally defied all odds to get these men home. True geniuses and heroes in their own right!
I had the great honor a number of years ago to hear Commander Jim Lovell tell this story at a University Speaker Series. The audience was spellbound and there wasn’t a sound in the auditorium. Even though you knew the story and outcome, hearing the person who lived it tell that story is mesmerizing. He said the hardest moment was looking out the window at the moon as they went around it and knowing that his dream of landing there was over. It was a bittersweet moment. I also had the chance to meet and speak with him after and he was so nice. A true hero!
You should watch the movie "Apollo 13", with Tom Hanks. Great movie!
One of my absolute favorite movies ever
This is how I learned about it as a kid!
Yes!!!
This is the definitive way to learn about Apollo 13. One thing to hear what happened, it's another thing to experience it as a experience.
And unlike many films about real events, the film does not take too many liberties.
Both Jim Lovell, and his wife Marilyn, appear in the movie.
I was in primary school when this happened.
Our school was closed and we were sent home to pray. It was a very different time.
You're proud of being indoctrinated? Weird
I remember going to the Expo 67' in Montreal with my Mother and seeing a Mercury command module. Amazing to me as an 8 year old boy. I also remember my Mother letting me stay up until about one in the morning to watch the first man step on the moon. I'm proud that she did, and I'm proud that I saw.
Christopher, I kept a souvenir from the USSR exhibit from Expo 67, because they were our rival in Space.Its my favorite family Summer vacation! I’m a 1958 baby, like you the original “Space Race” generation. I even remember when Ham the Chimpanzee was sent into orbit. My most loved Christmas present was the Astronaut helmet I got when I was 5. I remember seeing that module. I could go on, but I better stop, because I’m a space nerd.
@@NuNugirl What year was this? I was born in '64 and seem to remember watching this unfold with my parents and older brothers on TV. Is that possible? Am I old enough?
The words actually spoken, initially by Jack Swigert, were "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here". After being prompted to repeat the transmission by CAPCOM Jack R. Lousma, Jim Lovell responded, "Ah, Houston, we've had a problem."
The video did say the right one
@@gimpyrules6714 Noop. The video read, and the narrator said, "Houston, we have a problem", which is the movie's tagline.
My grandfather was an electrical engineer back then, and NASA showed up at his house with the equipment on board Apollo 13, seeing if he could help figure out a solution. Many engineers around the country helped save them :)
Oh wow. What a story to tell your family. Any documents or written accounts by him? Get it and preserve it.
and remember that all of those calculations were done in a time *_BEFORE_* computers. they had to do these calculations by hand and by slide rule (those funny ruler looking things that they show in engineer's pockets). those engineers were heroes just as much as the astronauts.
This event happened a few months before I was born. When the Apollo 13 movie came out, I watched it in theatres. Everyone was reacting as if it was happening right then, not years before. And when we walked out of the theatre, we were directed through a back alley and not the main doors (they didn't want incoming people to see our reactions). Coming onto the street, it was confusing to see people smiling and laughing and not reacting like the world had just shattered. It took us a few moments to remember what we watched was a movie about the events from 1970.
In the 1960s computers were still very large. NASA and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) spent several years and millions of dollars creating a "portable" computer for the moon missions. It weighed 70 lbs (32 kg) and probably had less computing power than a coffeemaker which can turn itself on in the morning!
I can’t believe there are people who haven’t heard of Apollo 13! Everyone should be aware of this amazing mission.
Not everyone is American and cares about space exploration. Some countries are more worried about finding food so their children don't starve to death. We are fortunate to be American and are able to think about things like space.
@@okiendn2400 Way too many Americans don't know about it either, and insist on "not wasting money on space and need spend that money solving poverty"
@@captainnerd6452 i agree.
@@okiendn2400 I never knew the English children were starving. Thanks for the 411.
@@captainnerd6452 With that type of shortsightedness, Columbus wouldn't have discovered America for the Europeans yet.
Yes, I was alive when this happened. I was 10 years old and here in the US everyone was worried sick about them. Churches were having special services for prayer for them and for the people on the ground trying to fix the problems remotely with pencils, paper, and slide rules. There were two sayings that came from this; "Houston we have a problem" and "failure is not an option". The second saying was used quite often to inspire people to not give up in the face of what seemed to be impossible odds.
I was only 7 yrs old. I think I sort of remember this but it fuzzy because of the men walking on the moon the year before.
@@causticchameleon7861 I now no I was old enough to actually remember this, I watched the moon landing.
I personally remember this and still my heart was in my throat watching it after all these years. This is truly a heroic video.
I can't believe you've not seen the movie Apollo 13 with Tom Hanks.....it is on TV almost constantly over here.....and it's hard to turn it off when you come across it
Where is "here"?
The HBO series “Earth to the Moon” is a good one to watch. It’s not about Apollo 13 but, everyone who got the space program up and running. The episode about the LEM is my favorite.
It was made by the same people who made Apollo 13 (even the episode about Apollo 12 used footage from the movie)
@@KayoMichiels I knew Tom Hanks was involved with Earth to the Moon but, didn’t remember that people who did Apollo 13 were as well. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve seen either. Thanks for the info 👍
I love the geology one, too!
One of the episodes is about Apollo 13.
It's *Part 8 - We Interrupt This Program*
Lovell wrote a detailed book about it called lost moon. That book became the source for the movie Apollo 13. Lovells book is superb. It’s detailed and treats people as intelligent adults.
I highly recommend that people read it, it's a brilliant look into the thoughts and processes involved in bringing the astronauts home safe.
@@erinhaury5773 Sounds great!
My dad worked for the company that built the LEM (the lifeboat). When the accident happened, we lived in NY and my mom woke me up to tell me that she had to take my dad to the airport so he could fly to Houston to help with the rescue. I remember that night like it was yesterday.
You've never seen the 1995 movie "Apollo 13"? Starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise etc
It's an EXCELLENT movie and a must-watch.
While this was happening, we had televisions brought into our classrooms at school so we could watch the continuous TV news coverage of the crisis. You should watch the Tom Hanks movie, "Apollo 13." It is the most accurate recreation of space flight ever done by Hollywood. They even filmed some parts in actual weightlessness aboard NASA's "Vomit Comet" aircraft which is used to train astronauts. The movie was based upon Jim Lovell's book, "Lost Moon" so it was very true to his experiences. The only major inaccuracy in the film is that they had to focus on only a few of the key people involved and let them represent the great number of people who worked on the rescue, since audiences would not have been able to keep track of too many characters.
This is giving me the willies 50 years later when I know how it turned out. Flashback.
The lunar capsules always landed in the ocean. When coming from space in a capsule would you rather land on land or water? That why the development of the space shuttle was so ground breaking...not only could it be reused, it could land like a plane.
I think you mean Command Modules.
My daughter as a teen was watching the movie with us when Apollo 13 came out. She kept nagging me, "Did they make it?" I finally had to tell her "No, they didn't make it." Movie over, and she didn't talk to me for 3 days. 🤣😭🤣 Yes, I watched it live. I was 15 that spring. The school I was in were half days normally. So, saw a lot of the stuff on the TV. Then was home when they splashed down. It was tears. I couldn't believe they had done it. With paper and pencils and the computing power, essentially, of a Furby 😀 Amazing, one of those American moments.
I was 22 and working in a parking garage at the time. A customer came in and told me there had been an incident with the moon shot and it didn't look good. I followed it closely until they made it back and I well remember the anxiety and tension everyone was feeling. Churches opened their doors at all hours to allow people to come in and pray and many special services were held. The feeling of relief and joy was incredible when they made it through the reentry and radio contact resumed. The movie did the same thing to me, even though I knew the outcome.
It was so scary. Everyone was on pins and needles. I remember this. EDIT yes, they always land in the ocean .Note: 3 years earlier a crew was killed on the ground. Grissom, commander of AS-204 (Apollo 1), died along with his fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee on January 27, 1967, during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Thank you for mentioning this tragedy. I was 6 when it happened. I cried. All I could think about was the Astronauts trapped inside burning.
They made a movie about this staring Tom Hanks.
Great movie too
@@nickm15 Awesome movie!
Apollo 13 is my favorite movie I love the real story behind it.
The movie Apollo 13 hewed very close to the story of actual events. I read when it came out one of the few errors they made were the color of the astronauts' Corvettes. It is a very gripping movie, and I strongly urge you to watch it. The music score is fantastic.
Fun fact: they actually built sets of the Command & Lunar Module in the "vomit comet," the plane which allows a simulation of zero G for 30-60 seconds. Many scenes were in fact filmed in weightlessness. Others were filmed in a regular studio where they pantomimed being weightless. It's hard to tell which is which.
Edit: here's the trailer.
ruclips.net/video/KtEIMC58sZo/видео.html
As many others have mentioned, the movie "Apollo 13" is a mostly accurate depiction of the events. Another fascinating read on the events is Gene Kranz's autobiography titled "Failure is Not an Option"; it covers his entire career in Mission Control (from the Mercury project through Apollo).
The way the memory of the Apollo guidance computer was made is amazing to me - it was hand knitted copper wire. Engineers referred to it as "Little Old Lady" memory for the production method.
I just watched the movie with my son recently....and then the archival footage of the news conference with the three astronauts, describing what happened. The movie is mostly accurate-so much so that one of the biggest inaccuracies is a minor error in a quote. In the movie, they say "Houston, we have a problem." The actual statement was "Houston, we've had a problem." Jim Lovell (the commander) who is played by Tom Hanks is in the movie as a Navy Captain at the end of the movie. As of April 2021, Jim Lovell is actually still alive; he's 93 years old.
Well now that you've watched one type of space disaster now you need to watch the shuttle challenger and shuttle Columbia disaster
And the doc about the Columbia investigation. It's maddening how many top people refused to believe it was a foam strike until they got a wing section and fired a piece of foam at it with an air cannon. Went right through leaving a gaping hole. There was a stunned silence from the officials gathered to observe it. Idiots.
They didn't panic lol,look at us humans on earth,scare of everything,but this three brave men, finding the solution, working together and having hope to their survival is always better than being nervous thinking that you will die
One of the best reaction videos I’ve seen purely because of 2 reasons.
1. You didn’t know about it so your reaction was genuine.
2. When you saw what actually happened, you had no idea how to react…….
In the same way people thought at the time
P.S. the movie is more dramatic, gives you more “in the capsule” thoughts, worth a look
I was 12 when it happened, and I remember it very well, I was a space nut kid from day 1 of NASA (I was born 2 months before President Eisenhower signed the law forming NASA) and I followed it as much as I could. The details are hazy, but when I was watching the Apollo 13 movie, I remembered the feeling as we waited to hear from them after re-entry. Andy Weir captured a bit of the same spirit of survival in "The Martian", where he said the important thing to survive is to solve the problems as they come up, and keep solving them until you get home.
I met Fred Haise in 2013... I asked him if he frequently thought about how lucky they were to make it back. He said yes, every single day since !
That was 51 years ago and I was 10. I remember how scary this was to watch from earth. Some of this was shown in classrooms and some was watched at home. This was a moment when the world seemed to be United in the desire to bring these three men home safely.
The challenges were incredible. On board computers had very little memory and ground based ones were not much better. This was 1970, it would be 7 years before basic hand calculators would come out like the Texas Instruments SR-71. These were more powerful than most on board computers.
It was a scary but hopeful time under the threat of the Cold War. The US had gotten to the moon first and this trip taught many lessons. Sadly, some of these were lost by the time of the Challenger disaster.
I encourage you to watch the movie Apollo 13 which more clearly sets up the challenges faced during the flight. These were not the first Apollo Astronauts to face death. One team died in a fire on the ground due to technical problems when i was 3. They never had a chance. All in the program knew clearly how big the risks they were taking.
Thanks for your reactions.
Jim Lovell holds the unique record, of being the only person to have been to the moon twice, and not walked on it.
I was in 10th grade when this happened and I didn't even have a calculator for algebra class. It was a miracle!
I was 13 months old.
This was made into a really good movie with Tom Hanks. It is called: "Apollo 13" -- definitely worth watching
If you like the movie, the book is even better.
I'm sure my parents watched this. My dad was an aerospace engineer so I bet he was fascinated and tried to guess what they would do next.
I remember, I was a kid at the time, the tension that was constantly in the air. Total agony.
My family watched these events unfold for the entire 3 days, on the edge of our seats, taking our meals in front of the TV in the living room. National news programs were careful to sort of "soften the blow" each time they had to report yet another glitch, and scientists and experts came on to explain the issues in the simplest terms, but still, it was frightening and we were very anxious and worried. But honestly, we just knew they would make it. We refused to even think about the alternative outcome. (I'm 69 and live in California)
They literally had 0.000001% chance to survive and all 3 of them made it safely back to Earth
Yeah and I think that's given them a little bit of credit... Or should I say I think your figures are still off LOL
yeah figures are cringe it was way higher than that
@@Lretrotech I don’t care
@@lgbtsrgro0mrs36 based
@@Arctic37 yeah not think those odds are even too good LOL they shouldn't have made it back. It should be probably about 1/10 trillion
People unfamiliar with the story make light of the "Houston we have a problem" statement but it is utterly badass and understated as most would be peeing their pants screaming, "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! GET ME OUT OF HERE! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
The capsules are meant to land in the ocean, they never landed on land
Yeah when you think your had a rough day, just remember these three brave men.
I was 9 years old when this happened. I was lucky enough to watch Neil Armstrong take his first step on the moon and awestruck to witness the astronauts of Apollo 13 land back on earth. I was young at the time, but old enough to grasp some idea of the gravity of the situation. Every time the National news stations interrupted regular broadcasting, everybody ran to the television in the living room. It was bad news after bad news after bad news. The odds were so stacked against them. I think most Americans didn't believe the Apollo 13 had a chance of making it back. I feel guilty thinking about it now (America fighting spirit and all). No one admitted it out loud, of course. Honestly, it was a freaking miracle to watch them float back to earth. All of us began to look at each other to make sure what we were seeing was real. My daughters are 21 and 24 years old. I've loved telling them stories about the history I've witnessed during my lifetime. It's one good thing about getting old.
Yes, I remember all the broadcasts and updates, I had been pissed off they television networks did not cover the space shot of Apollo 13. Going around the moon gave them 17,500 mph of speed, the last fuel burn got them up to 20,000 mph therefore it was not only faster, it put them back on a trajectory to re-enter Earth's atmosphere with yet another fuel burn to go...as Joshua C mentions below, you need to watch the movie Apollo 13 w/Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris and others. It's extremely accurate with all details not mentioned here due to time constraints.
Mentioned already below, but the movie rendition "Apollo 13", though clearly dramatized to make a better movie, is well worth watching. It catches the gist, even if not 100% historically accurate. Directed by Ron Howard, (I'm old enough to remember "The Andy Griffith Show", where he played "Opie" as a child actor!) it is a very well made film, that as I mentioned, catches the situation. I remember this from when I was 12 years old. It was, as indicated in this video vignette, a "routine" trip to the moon, that quickly became something that captured everyone's attention. Pre-internet days, you had to turn on the TV and tune in to one of the "Big Three" broadcasters here in the States (NBC/CBS/ABC) to follow the story in real-time.
I was on my honeymoon in Nova Scotia when the movie came out. Ron Howard was hiding out & on the same ferry with us going to Prince Edward Island. Normal guy in a red baseball cap, chasing his kids while his wife got Dunkin’ Donuts.
Nova covered this in an episode called “To the edge and back”. Much more suspenseful than the movie, but the movie did a great job. You can’t find the episode, though I’ve looked.
I remember watching the Andy Griffith Show when it first aired!
I was 10 years old and, yes, I do remember this... as much I remember Apollo 11 landing on the Moon the year before. Back then, we had only 3 tv networks in the U.S. (ABC, CBS & NBC), and no cable or satellite tv, so coverage of Apollo 13 was almost the only thing on tv. Being that I was a little kid at the time, I was enamored by the space program and had books about it, especially Apollo 11 & the moon landing. I even had a scale model of Apollo 11 (command module, service module, lunar module & Saturn V booster rocket) as it looked before launch. I remember watching the liftoff & the splashdown at school. By the way, the U.S. has always landed it's space capsules in the ocean, either the Atlantic or Pacific, and would send an aircraft carrier task force to recover them.
funfact?": the guy of the measles? He never got measles in all his life and went a lot of times to space.
Jim Lovell was also on Apollo 8, which was a mission to reach the moon, orbit the moon, and return to earth. So Lovell went to the moon and back twice and never got to walk on it.
I have met Jim Lovell. Quite the tale he has to tell. Great guy and humble.
"How did they get out of that situation"
Hundreds of brilliant minds back on Earth, coming together, to do some SERIOUS mathematics and engineering together!
I remember this well. I was a kid and I had NOT grown tired of the space program. I followed every update along the way and had an unreasonable amount of confidence that everything would work out. I was not old enough to remember the earlier defeats. It was only when I was much older and was an engineer myself that I came to realize what a phenomenal feat this mission was. I find it humbling to this day.
Remember that the computing power in your telephone blows away the best in the world when this took place. Does the foil skin of the LEM surprise you? Every bit of weight was critical. Do you need to recalculate your trajectory? Break out the slide rule because you are going to be doing it manually; the adding machine doesn't have a power cord long enough to real all the way back to earth. Make sure you check the math; there is no partial credit on this exam. You either die or you don't.
The Tom Hanks movie would be a good way to get a reasonable telling of the story.
I was 9 when Apollo 13 was launched. I do not remember the Mercury space launces, but I do remember Gemini and Apollo. We had favorite astronauts like all kids have favorite sports stars. One of my favorites died in the Apollo 1 fire. I remember being terrified during Apollo 13 and I was actually shocked that I cried without being able to stop when I watched the Apollo 13 movie for the 1st time. I was in my 30's but the tension just hit me hard.
Glenn Lunney passed away 3/19/21 he was the leader that brought them home from Houston. RIP
I agree with everyone, you should watch "Apollo 13" with Tom Hanks if you haven't already, amazing movie. Truly puts it in the perspective of the crew as best as it probably can, being a film.
Just came from one of your older videos! Awesome to see you post something right now. Sorry about your funny bone lol.
I was 16 at the time; it was a tense few days. The moon landings were amazing to watch, with live TV broadcast from the surface. Stayed up all night for the Apollo 11 coverage.
I’m not sure exactly which astronaut was asked this, but there was a very famous interview that a newscaster had with a former astronaut. He posed the question:
“If you were in the space shuttle, and the engines cut out, and you only had an hour left of life support, what would you do?”
The interviewer was obviously hoping for some kind of sentimental answer, like “I’d call my family to tell them I love them”, “I’d pray to god to save me”, etc.
Instead the astronaut thought for a second before responding: “I’d work on the engines.”
That’s really the attitude you have to have in scenarios like this. You do everything you can in the time you have left and up until the bitter end you put all of your effort into solving the problem. No other response is helpful in moments like that.
I was 13 or 14 at the time, and I will never forget the experience. What was happening in space held all of my attentionthen, but what happened on earth is what I now remember most. I remember the way we prayed. We prayed together, and even when I prayed alone, I was aware that the whole country was praying with me. Strange how three men could be so far away, and yet each of us was holding them close in our hearts and minds. I also remember being so proud and awed by the incredible effort and ingenuity displayed by everyone involved in bringing them home. There was never any question that everything that could be done, would be done, and then some. No expense would be spared; no rest would be taken; there would be no giving up on those three men, no matter what. I realize now how great it made me feel to see that side of America, and to see that side of humanity. 😎
First, absolutely watch the film "Apollo 13", Jim Lovell was a consultant on it & had a cameo ❤
Second, while we've never lost an American Astronaut in space, we've lost 3 crews. The crews of Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger, & Space Shuttle Columbia. The Apollo 1 crew died in a fire during a pre-flight test & both Space Shuttle crews were lost when the spacecraft exploded shortly after launch.
If you ever get to Houston (my hometown), visit Space Center Houston which is the NASA visitor center. You can easily spend 6-7 hours there and not see it all. Tours of misison control and the astronaut training center, rockets, space shuttle mockup on top of the actual 747 space shuttle carrier. Search youtube for travel reviews on what a visit is like. Visitors seem to really love it.
I wasn't around for this, but am old enough to remember Challenger & Columbia.
Scratch this off the suggestion list for you - I know a fair number of folks had wanted you to do this. As others have mentioned here, the movie is also worth your time.
Also, check out Kerbal Space Program if you're interested in a game that can accidentally teach you a bit about rocketry, orbital mechanics, and designing a space mission. You know, because you have so much spare time on your hands. 🤣
Everyone is talking about watching the movie, Apollo 13 (1996), and you should -- it's an excellent movie. Just wanted to say there's also a really great documentary called "Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo" that does a really cool look at how the NASA space program and mission control were created, and ground controller's role in the spaceflight missions. I definitely recommend both the movie and the documentary if you find the space exploration stuff interesting.
I love Cold Fusion videos. WHEWWWWWWW..... INTENSE..
I was a senior in high school and we followed the news reports closely. Math teachers used this to illustrate the importance of what they were teaching; as noted in the video, this was before there were computers to assist with very complicated calculations.
My grandpa was the man who designed the fire resistance tiles in all of the rockets sent by NASA. He died a day before Halloween in 2020 :(
I'm very sorry for your loss. I appreciate your grandfather's hard work. God bless him.
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The first 2 minutes had me dying 😂
I was a teenager when this happened. Everyone who had a TV watched and listened every single time there was an update. It was just about all we could think about. What's really strange was not long before this happened there was another movie that had been in the theaters about 6 months before Apollo 13. It was called "Marooned" and starred a lot of good actors including Gregory Peck. Getting to be alive for all of the lunar landings was such an exciting time!
I remember seeing this on TV, I was also a model rocketeer - building and flying rockets for fun. Less than a decade later I was working for NASA, supporting many launches, including the first 15 Shuttle missions.
Apollo 13 is one of my favorite movies and I watch it everytime I see it on. I have so much respect for astronauts and their families, and I love to learn about the history of nasa.
The thing I love about channels like this is its like I get to watch these videos with someone else that wants to watch them :)
imagine being level headed and competent under pressure. incredible. couldn’t be me.
I've listened to the audio tapes of Mission Control. Everybody on the ground and in space spoke so calmly they almost seemed disinterested.
@@JPMadden that’s amazing
Great video, do watch the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13. I remember the incident clearly, I was 10 years old at the time and had followed the space program since the days of the Gemini space flights, I remember at school the TV was kept on, waiting for updates on the news of what was going on. There was one minor error in the video's narration, he stated that Apollo 7 through 10 had flown to the moon before the first landing. Apollo 7 was essentially a manned shakedown cruise of the Apollo spacecraft (CSM) in Earth orbit. NASA took a risky chance with Apollo 8, sending it to orbit the moon on Christmas 1968, this was Jim Lovell's first trip to the moon, Apollo 13 being his second. Apollo 9 was the first crew to fly the LM in space in Earth orbit, a test of rendezvous and docking and was also the first time the lunar EVA suit was put to the test in a crew transfer from the LM to the CSM. Apollo 10 took the Apollo CSM and LM to the moon and two astronauts took the LM down to around 10 miles from the surface before returning to the CSM. If you are really interested in the early US space program look for the 12 episode Tom Hanks HBO series "From the Earth the Moon", it takes a little dramatic license with characters and events but is fairly accurate to the recorded historical facts.
....My grandfather was one of the main designers of the lunar space landing module of the Apollo 11. It's the only part that made it back to Earth. I remember being a kid, my Dad taking me to the Air and Space museum in the Smithsonian, and him point in up at it and saying, "your grandpa helped make that."
It's crazy to think of something like that getting all the way up there and then malfunctioning. It blows my mind that they got home safely.
This was excellent. Thank you!
I sat on my dad's lap and watched President Kennedy's famous "Moon speech." I was a space geek before we ever launched a manned mission. I still recall these days as some of the tensest moments in my life. This is a good video, but it doesn't even begin to capture the drama that unfolded. Neither does the movie, although it's a great retelling of the story and a must-see.
Also, if I read you right, you seemed surprised at the ocean splashdown. That's how all our manned missions, Mercury (1 man crew), Gemini (2 men), and Apollo landed until the Apollo program was cancelled.
Must REALLY suck to go through all of that training, travel hundreds of thousands of miles expecting to walk on the moon, and be forced to watch it up close as you're forced to pass by it and return back to earth due to unfortunate circumstances.
Came so close to being one of only a handful of people in earth history to ever walk on the moon/extraterrestrial object.
As always, love your reaction.
I wish you'd done a reaction to the movie _"Apollo 13"_ ... a truly gripping presentation of the story of Apollo 13. And surprisingly accurate for a Hollywood production - mostly because Ron Howard (who directed it) insisted on honoring the _true_ heroics of everyone who was involved, both in space and on the ground!
As everyone else has said, you need to watch the Apollo 13 movie with Tom Hanks. My favorite part is where they are designing the filter. This is team work and engineering at its very best. I also like how they show how all of this affected the families. Another good movie about the space program is The Right Stuff.
Yes, it was on every channel. Everyone on Earth watched it unfold in real time. It felt like the world stopped turning and I will never forget the sound of everyone cheering and lighting fireworks when the module landed in the water and that door finally opened.
I was on my honeymoon in Nova Scotia when Apollo 13 came out.
Ron Howard (the director) was hiding from the press & was on the same ferry with us going to Prince Edward Island. Normal guy in a baseball cap chasing his kids around while his wife was buying Dunkin’ Donuts.
The Nova episode “To the edge and back” was even more compelling, but you can’t find it anywhere. I’ve tried. The movie did a great job in telling the true story.
I, like most here will tell you to watch the movie.
But, I will tell you that there is one line in the movie that, to me, is one of the most descriptive between then and now. The scene is when Jim Lovell's wife has to tell his mother (who's in a nursing home) what happened.
And, yes, I was around to see this. I remember that it seemed that the whole world stopped to watch one show (splashdown).
omg i was not even born when this happen . this is the first of hearing it as well no lie lol
The actual words spoken by Jim Lovell were, "Houston, we've had a problem", not "we have a problem"
I was around 10 years old when this happened. Everyone on Earth was so scared and stayed glued to their televisions. People all over the Earth prayed for days. It was truly a Miracle that all 3 astronauts made it back safe. Students use to be taught about our space program for years but, now they just wanna teach crap like cancel culture, which is a shame. All students should know our history and learn from it so we can move forward and make things better by correcting past mistakes.
I was 20 years old at the time of the event. I followed every minute of event. I was transfixed. I was relieved when the astronauts made it home! Proudest moment in American history! For comparison, a digital watch (not a smart watch) had more computing power than the computers on Apollo 13! Watch the movie "Apollo 13" starring Tom Hanks. It's an accurate account of the mission. It's riveting!! Would love to see your reaction!
Yes, "Houston, we have a problem" is from this mission. Same with "failure is not an option".
I remember this happening....EVERYONE was glued to their TV sets...
GO WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!!
Yea, the Tom Hanks movie about this is great. Does a wonderful job of showing what happened.
The real JIm Lovell actually has an appearance in the movie, playing the captain of USS Iwo Jima, the recovery ship. Also his comment from the interview about bouncing off the walls ended up being a line in the film, though in reference to something else.
Another mission you might want to check out is Skylab. There were...issues during the launch that the first crew had to deal with. Apollo-Soyuz is another good one.
Yes, this is the 'Houston, we have a problem' situation. Luckily, no one died during Apollo 13. But there have been three deadly US space missions. In 1967, Apollo 1 caught fire on the launch pad during a simulated launch sequence and killed all three astronauts aboard. In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded in midair about 15 seconds after liftoff, and killed all seven astronauts. I remember watching this launch at school as a young child. Schools across the country were watching it as they were supposed to be putting the first civilian into space (an elementary school teacher). You can still watch the televised content of this disaster on youtube and other platforms. The last disaster was in 2003 when the space shuttle Columbia exploded on reentry while returning to earth. The explosion killed all seven astronauts and rained debris all over Texas. People literally had pieces of the shuttle fall in front of their cars. And tons of people saw the the flaming smoke trails as various bits of the shuttle fell to earth. You can also watch from live news this shuttle breaking up into smaller pieces here on youtube (but it doesn't show much). So if you add it up, there have been a total of 17 US astronauts who perished in three different disasters.
The Tom Hanks movie about this is really good. I recommend watching it.