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are about to jettison
the service module.
:31:02
- Yes, Howard. That procedure...
- Let's go directly to Brett.
:31:06
- We'll get it from the source.
- Thank you, Howard.
:31:08
In just a few minutes, the astronauts
aboard the crippled Apollo 13...
:31:12
will jettison their service module...
:31:14
which was mysteriously damaged
only two days into the mission...
:31:17
forcing them to abandon all hopes
of a lunar landing.
:31:20
With any luck, the crew will get a view
of the damaged service module...
:31:23
to determine what may have caused
the cataclysmic malfunction.
:31:37
- Are we icing Brett Hutchins?
- You bet.
:31:40
Don't.
:31:42
We have rules. We can't reward someone
for breaking them.
:31:45
We can't afford
to alienate a network.
:31:52
This is Apollo Control Houston...
:31:53
at 140 hours, 15 minutes
into the mission.
:31:57
Apollo 13 presently 34,350
nautical miles out from the Earth...
:32:03
traveling at a speed
of 12,846 miles per hour.
:32:08
Meanwhile, in the Mission Control
viewing room, the crowd is increasing.
:32:12
Already here are
Senator Phil Hart of Michigan...
:32:15
Chairman of the Senate Select Committee
on Science and Technology...
:32:18
California Representative George Miller,
Chairman of the House Space Committee...
:32:21
For the post-mission
press conference...
:32:23
the senator will make
the opening statement.
:32:25
The congressman's been more closely
identified with the program.
:32:28
- You have absolutely no shame, Fred.
- Gentlemen.
:32:31
Sorry, boys. Administrator Paine
should make the opening...
:32:37
If they don't make it through re-entry,
who wants to go first?
:32:40
Okay, Houston.
Do we have a go for pyro arm?
:32:45
Stand by for a go on pyro arm
and LEM jettison.
:32:48
The astronauts are about to jettison the
lifeboat that has served them so well.
:32:53
Are there any dangers
in this maneuver?
:32:55
This is a moment of high suspense
for the astronauts...
:32:58
their families and everyone
on the ground at Mission Control.