apollo 13, man's fifth lunar mission. the third scheduled landing on the moon. >> we've got one more item for -- this is the crew, ready to close out aquarius and get back to a pleasant evening in odyssey. good night. 13, we've got one more item for you. we would like you to stir up your cryo tanks. >> ok. standby. >> houston, we have a problem here. >> this is houston, say again. >> we've had a main b bus undervoltage. >> we had a pretty large bang associated with this. as i recall,b was the one that had a spike on at once before. announcer: april 11, 1970. launch day. , jimrew of apollo 13 level, the commander of three previous missions. he had orbited the moon on apollo eight. fred hayes, his first time up. lunar module pilot. schweigert. -- jack he replaced ken mattingly. mattingly had been dropped from the mission because he had been exposed to german measles. he would watch the launch from mission control. >> auto sequence initiated. >> roger. >> its complete. >> roger. we are on internal power. >> how does that loo

, apollo 13.isplays presently show the apollo 13 spacecraft at 79,919 nautical miles away from earth and traveling at velocity of 6300, 50 feet per second. >> the mood was light. >> did you finish your income tax? neil: he had not. [inaudible] >> things going to happen real fast down there. i do need an extension. >> he got exposed to the resource and backup jack swigert took his place. >> we will see if we can take the agent out in the pacific when you come back. ♪ neil: the only problem on houston's radar choice of confidence. >> just made myself a hot dog sandwich we can -- with ketchup. >> you are supposed to put mustard on the hot dog and not ketchup but we will overlook that. neil: monday april 13th. >> apollo control, 147,103 nautical miles from earth, traveling velocity of 3,960 feet per second. neil: day 3 for apollo 13 was to be tapped by a live tv tour directed by lovell and his crew. [inaudible] >> through the tunnel and back up. neil: odyssey was command imagine all, -- module and aqu

, apollo 13.isplays presently show the apollo 13 spacecraft at 79,919 nautical miles away from earth and traveling at velocity of 6300, 50 feet per second. >> the mood was light. >> did you finish your income tax? neil: he had not. [inaudible] >> things going to happen real fast down there. i do need an extension. >> he got exposed to the resource and backup jack swigert took his place. >> we will see if we can take the agent out in the pacific when you come back. ♪ neil: the only problem on houston's radar choice of confidence. >> just made myself a hot dog sandwich we can -- with ketchup. >> you are supposed to put mustard on the hot dog and not ketchup but we will overlook that. neil: monday april 13th. >> apollo control, 147,103 nautical miles from earth, traveling velocity of 3,960 feet per second. neil: day 3 for apollo 13 was to be tapped by a live tv tour directed by lovell and his crew. [inaudible] >> through the tunnel and back up. neil: odyssey was command imagine all, -- module and aqu

1968 on apollo 8. fred hayes, his first time up, lunar module pilot. jack swaggert, command module pilot. mattingly had been dropped from the mission because he'd been exposed to german measles. he would watch the mission from houston's mission control. >> roger. >> we're on internal power. >> how's it look? >> ignition. >> roger. >> how's it look? >> looks good here. >> booster, how do you look? >> look good. >> we're go flight. looks good here. >> looks good, mike. >> you don't see a problem do you? >> not yet. all engines are a go. >> the next step of lunar flight was to burn out of earth orbit toward the moon and pull free of the third stage and dock with the lunar module. at the command of module. they pull away from the saturn third stage, the s4b. >> i can see the s4b hatch now at the window. >> odyssey and aquarius moved away from earth toward the moon. >> okay, houston, we have a problem here. >> go, guys. >> we've had a hardware restart. i don't know what it was. >> houston, we've had a probl

we were discussing apollo 8 and the politics behind apollo 8.russians are going to try to land on the moon and trump everything america has done. >> the russians, believe it or not, were interested in lunar landings about the same time we were and had tried all sorts of things to get there, and were building a huge rocket. built ten of them. flew four. none was really successful. some of them they flew even after we landed. but they were very persistent people and thought using a different type of a booster called a proton and a vehicle called zan, they could fly people, just circumnavigate the moon, not land or even orbit. they were very close to actually doing that. they sent a couple of spacecraft up, went around the moon, one was partially successful. the next one, the two cosmonauts i know them, wanted to go. hierarchy, should we send another unmanned or should we not? when they did that this side of the atlantic, bold leadership at this time. module's not ready. command service module apollo 7 will be okay. huntsville thinks the booster co

it really looks great. >> apollo 13, apollo 13. this is recovery, over. >> >> recovery, and your shoot looks good. >> we have heard (inaudible) apollo 13, over. >> (inaudible) (inaudible) (applause) (applause) >> i recall, captain, that when i spoke to you on the phone you regretted that you are unable to complete your mission. i hereby declare that this was a successful mission. from the start, the exploration of space has been hazardous of an adventure. the voyage of apollo 13 dramatized its risk. the men of apollo 13, by their poise and skill, under the most intense kind of pressure epitomized the character that accepts danger and surrounds it. there is the spirit that filled america. your mission served your country, it serves to remind us all of our proud heritage as a nation, to remind us that in this age of technicians or scientific marvels, the individuals still count, that in a crisis the character of a man would make a difference. >> okay, i'll flight controllers, let's play it cool.

mike was on apollo 8, then i was backup on apollo 8, then going to 11. it was just a rotationary period with new people feeding in. deke really held the whole ball of wax as far as selection goes, i think. but there was competition. people were disappointed that they couldn't get on. so many people thought that they should and other people, you know, had too many maybe. >> so the commander is bumped from 13 and you take over? mr. lovell: yes. >> and another member of the crew at the last minute is bumped, and somebody else comes in? mr. lovell: well, yes. just four days before we were to take off on apollo 13, the doctors discovered, what charlie duke came down with the measles, he was the back-up lunar apollo. he came down with the measles. and so, he had been working with us and all of a sudden the doctors said, oh, gosh, these guys have been exposed to the measles and they will come down with the measles about the time they are orbiting the moon. it will be a disaster. they went in and looked at our bloodwork before we knew anything about this. they f

we were discussing apollo 8 and the politics behind apollo 8. the russians are going to try to land on the moon. and trump everything america has done. >> actually, the russians, believe it or not, were interested in lunar landings about the same time we were. and had tried all sorts of things to get there, and were building a huge rocket called the n-1. built ten of them, flew four. none was really successful. but they were very persistent people. and they thought that using a different type of a booster called a proton and a vehicle called zon, they could fly people, just circumnavigate the moon, go around it. not land or not even to orbit it, and they were very, you know, close to actually doing that. they had sent a couple spacecraft up, went around the moon. one was not successful. one was partially successful. the next one, the two cosmonauts, they wanted to go, and they hesitated back and forth. the hierarchy argued, should we send another man or not. on this sooside of the atlantic, bold leadership, they said the lunar module is not read

13 was a good example of why the apollo prayer league was formed. able to contribute their prayer to assist people in getting back. >> the microfiche bibles also make it home. three hundred are repackaged for astronaut edgar mitchell on apollo 14... ...which touches down on the moon february 5, 1971. what was your dad's reaction when he saw the astronauts walk out on the moon with his bibles? >> well, he was ecstatic because the fact that he got to have one of his dreams come true -- it just thrilled him to no end. >> mitchell returns all the lunar bibles to stout, who in turn gives some to apollo prayer league members and vips like then congressman george h.w. bush, vice president spiro agnew and bob hope. >> i do know that the family of the apollo 1 astronauts, the ones that perished on the pad, my dad made sure that their families each received a bible. >> at the close of the apollo missions in 1972, reverend stout moves on from nasa and later retires, his holy mission largely a forgotten tale. >> and even today, i don't think the public at large

. >> then comes the apollo program and apollo fire. do you recall where you were when you heard about the fire. >> yes, i was in washington, d.c. at the white house. i was up there for the signing of the space treaty which essentially meant that space is available to everybody, there are no boundaries. and that astronauts, if they have to land someplace else, will be welcomed rather than be treated as prisoners or something like that. we had just finished that thing at the white house and the four of us were going back to the hotel. when we talked in, there were messages for us to call nasa back and they told us what had occurred. we spent the night there. they said, don't go outside, don't -- just lose yourself. so we did. and the next day we went home. >> you were assigned to a panel to study what went wrong. what was your study job? >> yes, there were some 20 panels, plus the major panel, and then there were 20 something panels. i was with jack swigert and ron evans. we looked at how we could cope with in flight emergencies, fires,

we almost aborted apollo 14 an apollo 16 in response that they're it will to work around and had them land. that was the nature of the business. as i said, the very thing about this movie that carried very well was the story of somebody with problems with challenge, challenge is really to face and showed a group of people, a mission control in ourselves and a few more people in a lot more people would show in the movie we criticize rod howard when i met him after the showing that depicts some of the key people i would have been in the movie as characters and he told me the movie only has so much time to develop and you can only develop so many characters and so little time. at any rate, it was a fairly large theme and we had the peak of the program in 1968 and before we landed on the moon there were over 400,000 people working on the apollo program. if you go down to the contractors, prime contractors, subcontractors, down to the vendors and the parts even we had contracts on every state in the united states except one of the dakotas. by the time we flew apollo 13 it already started t

that number, "apollo 13".n this date, april 13th. but no, jim lovell and fred haise are not superstitious, they even use 13 in their email addresses. >> take the power away, make it work for you. >> 50 years later and i still have chills, or the air conditioning is too high. conditio won't be a new thing. and it won't be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve for a hundred more. space this morning. that's what's making news in america and space this morning. >> breaking news in america this morning, state of emergency. catastrophic damage across the south as an easter sunday tornado outbreak tears across four states. >> look at these people, look at these houses. >> hundreds of homes damaged, hundreds of thousands of power outages. this morning the rising death toll. the sheriff's deputy now among those who lost their lives. >>> breaking overnight, fauci

we almost aborted apollo 14 and apollo 16. they had pretty serious problems they were able to work around and allowed them to land. so that was the nature of the business. and as i said, the very theme of this movie that carried very well was the story of somebody in problem, with problems, with a challenge, challenges really to face. and showed a group of people, a team in this case of mission control and ourselves. and actually a lot -- a few more people, a lot more people than they could show in the movie. i criticized ron howard when i met hame after a special showing that he didn't depict some of the key people i thought might have been in the movie as characters and he told me in the movie you ome have so much time and you can only develop so many characters. you only have that much time. so, but any rate, it was a fairly large team at that day and age. the peak of the program. in about 1968, before we landed on the moon, there were over 400,000 people working on the apollo program. if you go down to the contractors, the

therefore, when we were assigned apollo 13, i thought nothing of it. some said 13 was a lucky number and were happy i got that number. it started just before the flight, as was documented. as we were approaching the final phase of training, the last couple of days are usually taken very leisurely, keeping a couple of days free to unwind from the long training cycle and get rest so that when we launch, we are in good shape. as you know, a turn of events occurred and ken mattingly, our command module pilot, was exposed to the measles, and we had to make the decision to bring jack along. they asked what i wanted to do because we worked as a team for a long time, but i realized the space program had matured to that degree whereby we had quite a few people who were well knowledgeable about the spacecraft and well to fly. as a consequence, on friday we decided to take jack. i would like to say right now i have never regretted that decision. we as a team and john can particular helped us out in our ensuing odyssey tremendously. i would like to break off a sec

implications, if any, could this accident of apollo 13 have on future apollo missions, and deep space missions, say mars or venus? >> fred? [laughter] mr. haise: i am not sure there is any direct correlation i can with the -- think of, hometion of maybe bringing some of the problems and concerns about power down operations, making sure the ground level control system can work equally well to keep occupants-- to keep hospital, at both normal operating levels and at levels when there is a shut down. you said that you people on tv saw a better recovery then you saw in the spacecraft. can each of you comment what your feelings were during your time until splashdown? mr. lovell: when we hit the water, we were very happy to be back home. we commented on that. of 13 was almost a textbook recovery. it was a calm day. the splashdown itself was very mild. in the navy did a grand job. course. prejudiced, of but we were disappointed that we did not complete the mission. about the other two of you telling us about how you feel about flying again, what this experience has meant in terms of your car

and do you think apollo 13 should be re-flown? mr. lovell: you are basically asking the wrong person. i'm not selecting people who fly spacecraft and i am not in the scientific area to find out what areas should be revisited. we have lost one lunar landing. we did not make it. if it is worth it and has a lot to offer, we should go back there. bootstrap photography is important. we should do that. but this is up for larger decisions. >> i wonder if the two newcomers to the moon could tell us if they have any impressions as they went whizzing by? >> we had already been told by jim what color it is. [laughter] but no, my impression as we passed it, the closest was 137 miles, and i think i have the about -- i have about the same same impressions as the men who visited previously, that it is very stark. it is desolate. it is almost awesome in its desolation. and we didn't get the chance, because we were going to be doing a burn, to do any real detailed looking at it. i guess that would be the summation of my feelings, that it was almost aw

apollo 13 is the one everyone remembers. i do think will get back. explore, that's in the american dna and that's what we do is we explore. we are a frontier nation's of the moon our logical first step, mars is kind of the long-term goal so it's a stepping-stone and right now we need to focus on the health issues for the coronavirus and economic recovery. that needs to be front and center them. >> neil: you're right about that but we can get through it and that is a reminder how much we were able to do that if two years ago. do not forget to watch this special on fox nation. the commander of apollo 13, my special guest tomorrow on my saturday show reminiscing as well, that should have, the would've come of the of, and the historic challenge on the face of the world to see and for a nation to remember especially now. stay with us. cut. we'll dub it. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ (baby sounds and cooing (notification chime) (keyboard cl

he was commander of apollo 13 in 1970, a mission to land on the moon that

we had done well on apollo 10. and we proceeded into the training process and it seemed that, boy, every time the training folks threw us a problem, threw us a curve, we'd pick it up, we'll run with it, come up with the right conclusion, et cetera. and then simil soup, who wassal training boss, must have looked at us and said, that team's too cocky. that team needs to get a few lessons and he called his team up, let's put the screws to these guys. we ended up now in our second month of training, and we're really only training roughly about one day a week. second month of training, we had a particularly bad day where we couldn't seem to do anything right. we would crash. and learning to land on the moon, you have a time delay of about three seconds, so, anything you see and by the time you can respond and voice up instructions to the crew, you're three seconds behind what's happening onboard the space craft, and as you get down close to the surface of the moon, there's what you would call a dead man's box. every air

17, and this apollo hand controller for adjusting altitude.ly clocks in this old camera, a hasselblad 500c. >> when i found it, i said to him, "oh, i used to take pictures with a camera like this in high school." and he laughed at me. said, "oh, no. you definitely didn't take a picture with something like this." >> that and a lot more is next. >> announcer: but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. in a radio transmission from apollo 8, the astronauts reported seeing an object flying near them. what did they say it was? the answer in a moment. i am totally blind. and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. ♪ >> announcer: so, what did the apollo 8 astronauts say was flying near them? take a listen to command module pilot jim lovell. >> the stars align all too briefly for soul mates rick cigel and shelly lokietz. at the age of 57, rick learns he has stage 4 cancer and may only have months to get his affairs in order. in his life before shelly

and here was was on apollo 8 using this same thing. it was completed on time and because it was a manual burn we had a three man operation. jack would tell us when to light the engine and when to stop it. i handled the pitch and the stop maneuv maneuver. again after this maneuver we were again powered down and it became one of just merely hanging on our maneuvers from then on were drifting and they were done to keep the thermal control as even as possible. and we went that way down to about five hours down to entry where by throughout the night and throughout the days we were working with degrees in the simulators and crews to set up procedures that we would be able to follow to make a successful entry. i kind of think one of the most important point that's could be made of this flight is the cooperation and the coordination and the initiative that people have when suddenly faced with an unusual situation that can respond to come up with the answers. they read us up procedures and practiced the procedures and completed them. they respo

>> 50 years ago, on april 11, 19 70, apollo 13 launched on what .o be the third nasa mission an onboard explosion on route caused trickle system failures that force the mission to abort and return to earth. next, jean krantz shares his memories of apollo 13, detailing how nasa's ground team worked to ensure its safe return. this is an interview conducted as part of nasa's oral history program. business of mission control, the business of spaceflight, what you have to do is make your decisions based on the technical data and that is this team's job to do and it is up to the people who sit in consult behind the flight director to take the political heat from whatever decision had to be made, and this is the kind of inspired leadership we had in the program that was capable of stepping up to the plate and buffering the outside world from the technical decisions these guys had to make. part, peoplein like kraft had the same experiences you had, wouldn't you say as a formal -- as a former flight director he knew? washristopher columbus entirely appropriate for this guy. pioneer in mission co

that's the 30th anniversary of the apollo 13 mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. it is the most unwanted of records the united states now has more coronavirus deaths than any other country its tally for the 1st time on saturday it means 20000 americans have not died from coverage 19 the epicenter still new york but all 50 states are in a state of emergency for the 1st time allowing them the use of federal funds elsewhere we're looking at india where the prime minister is expected to announce an extension to the lock down 1300000000 people with staying home until the end of april and in europe well this is interesting news the hardest hit countries there are now easing some restrictions for monday. spain will allow nonessential employees to return to work it's reported a falling death rate there and italy is allowing some stores to reopen will start with the united states the new york in fact where the state governor andrew cuomo says there has been a drop at least in the intensive care admissions for the 1st time you can see that the numbers somewhat. stabil

country are forced to go back because of the pound and in other news it's the 30th anniversary of the apollo 13 mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. so the numbers now tell us that the united states has more coronavirus cases than any other country its tally has surpassed italy for the 1st time on saturday it means 20000 americans have died with the epicenter still in new york but all 50 states we must say are in a state of emergency for the 1st time which allows them to use federal funds during the pandemic elsewhere india 1300000000 citizens continue to stay home until the end of april the prime minister is expected to announce an extension to the lock down there and then europe well this is interesting the hardest hit nations are actually starting to ease some of their restrictions for monday spain will allow nonessential employees to go back to work it is reporting a falling death rate there and is allowing some stores to reopen. we're going to start with the united states though in new york where the state's governor says for the 1st time there has been a drop a

up in space astronauts on the international space station continue their work remembering the apollo 13 mission in a video conference and paying tribute to the scientists on earth striving to keep them safe in the face of a pandemic has changed the way that mission control operations worked they're actually doing handover between shifts between 2 different rooms to minimize the contact but yet here they are persevering and through their ingenuity in their professionalism we're going to return to stir earth safely just like their predecessors did 50 years ago i think apollo 13 was a very good example. of always expecting. the unexpected. when i saw the persian streaming out is that loss of. blood this time that the less we solved in the pacific ocean we would be successful . a 50 year old message that resonates in a world sheltering from pandemic mike hanna al-jazeera washington. and we've got some headlines top dates you on here and i'll just say there are now more than 20000 americans have died from corona virus that means the u.s. now has the highest death toll in the world most fo

that's the 50th anniversary of the apollo 13 mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. have either been some notable showers in new south wales or of the few in victoria recently but as you can see most of this killing cloud is disappearing across the sea towards new zealand leaving behind the sunshine and not a lot of water in sydney's ok $21.00 degrees belden stays down at 16 i think enjoy the brighter skies and even in hobart often passing showers it should be bright person come down to more reasonable 26 degrees and it might be this part of western australia where the cloud increases and brings a shower or 2 during monday otherwise it's a fairly dry picture and even new zealand things though windy almost as wet as they were whereas the office is happening in japan this cloud here coming out of china is developing in the east china sea in running up towards the major islands of japan the circulations actually involved in this your niche is a behind it's normally breeze so we've cleared out the rain from china hong kong's dark even more hong kong will be sunny t

that's the 50th anniversary of the apollo 13 mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. it is very much an unknown want to record but the united states now has more corona . cases than any other country the tally supposing italy for the 1st time on saturday 20000 americans have died from it but the epicenter still in new york but really all 50 states are affected in fact they're now in a state of emergency for the 1st time which will allow them to use federal funds during the pandemic elsewhere we're looking at india where it's 1300000000 citizens will continue to stay home till the end of april prime minister is expected to announce an extension to the lock down there and in europe the hardest hit countries are now easing some of their restrictions from monday's spain will allow non-essential employees to return to work it is reported a falling death rate there and even if these decided to let some stores open now but we're going to start with the united states in fact in new york where the governor says for the 1st time there has actually been a drop at least in

against the virus and it's only to say they'll never be the same plus it's the 50th anniversary of the apollo 13 mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. the u.s. now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world 20000 people its tally past italy on saturday across the country at least half a 1000000 people are infected more than half of the deaths are in 3 states new york new jersey and michigan the epicenter remains new york the surge of death there has overwhelmed funeral homes and the city is using a mass burial site but the state governor says for the 1st time there's been a drop in intensive care said missions new york city has shut down public schools for the rest of the academic year. you can see that the numbers somewhat. stabilizing but it is stabilizing at an horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and paid new york is not only the hardest hit state it's also bearing the financial brunt of the nation wide locked on christmas and only has this report it's been called the crossroads of the world but

there's a great commander coming up, apollo 13, jim lovell, do you remember?s ago launched into space and a couple of days later it became an international sensation. would they ever get home from an explosion that had all of their lives on the line? the world was gripped, kind of like the world right now. some lessons from jim lovell, commander, after this. i'm your mother in law. and i like to question your every move. like this left turn. it's the next one. you always drive this slow? how did you make someone i love? that must be why you're always so late. i do not speed. and that's saving me cash with drivewise. [mayhem] you always drive like an old lady? [tina] you're an old lady. >> 55 hours, 47 minutes. apollo 13 presently at 177,861 nautical miles away. >> after the broadcast, just a quick pass before bed. >> 13, we've got one more item for you when we get a chance. we'd like you to stir up your cryo tank. neil: jack swigert was on it. >> okay, stand by. neil: out of nowhere, an explosion. >> okay, hussein-- houston we've had a problem here. >> say aga

"apollo 13" would be america's third trip to the moon in less than a year.y. >> the crew of "apollo 13," jim >> the crew of "apollo 13, jack swigert settling in, safely on their way, or so they thought. >> the crew of "apollo 13." >> pleasant words from a confident captain, jim lovell. but minutes later when a routine instruction from houston arrived, everything would change. >> we've got one more item for you when you've got a chance. we'd like you to stir up your cryo tanks. >> seconds after jack swigert flipped the appropriate switch, all aboard suspected trouble. >> i was in the lunar module when i heard this bang. this thing went back and forth. so i looked up at fred to see if he knew what caused this noise. i could tell from the expression on his face that he had no idea. >> is that when you get on the radio? >> houston we have a problem here. >> houston, we have a problem. >> understatement if we ever said it. >> an oxygen tank exploded in the service module. the part of the spacecraft that was supposed to power them to the moon and back. >> at what

it was a professional relationship that we had never involved apollo. it really never affected any of our investments or any of our vinvestors or any of the new money that's been raised which was raised at the greatest clip we've raised >> wanted to ask you about energy what do you think the sector of the u.s. economy is going to look like when we come out of this it's hard to tell. unfortunately, apollo has not been great in terms of our investment portfolios but nothing terribly dramatic. those markets are very hard the gauge right now. you've seen the agreement between saudi and russia i think it's a good thing. i think probably shale will be kicking in also. it's going to take some time to create parody. we've never been through dramatic jolts such as this pandemic worldwide basis as has generated. >> have you seen the worst >> i'm not smart enough to know that >> leon black, we appreciate the interview. and all you're doing for the health care workers in new york. and john thank you for your participation in that effort >> thank you >> have a good

apollo triggered that first wave in microelectronics. it was nasa's need delivered to private industry and private industry innovated a response to it. that synergy was really huge. i believe we go to mars, if we meant and stuck with it, the range of problems we would have to solve in the cascade of benefits that would throw -- flow back into our lives would be hugely rich. >> i was wondering how your body felt when you initially came back to earth and what that recovery was like? >> my flights were 5, 8 and 10 days. you are aware, you feel like your body is made of wet sand. if you don't think of the weight of your arms until you haven't felt it for ten days, you fall down asleep on your bed and look at your arms thinking why is that so hard to move? there are a lot of adaptations you make when living in 0 gravity. your vocabulary changes. you don't say please pass the camera. you quickly start to say please send me the camera. you have to remember to not do that anymore. >> i'm going to ask the question prince philip was trying to ask

actually pursue it but bigger and if i look at apollo i see a cascade of benefits. range of problems that had to be solved from human health and physiology to life-support systems, how do you monitor human health from 250,000 miles away area computers, a lot of people don't appreciate apollo, the apollo program marks the changeover from the era when people bragged about how big their computers were too when they began to brag about how small they were so it was the cost of digital circuitry and apollo was the first really demanding driver of reliability and computational power in a small lightweight package. you could have evolved computers in a room is big and it would be different so apollo triggered that first wave in microelectronicsm . it was nasa's need delivered out to private industry and private industries innovative response to it but that synergy was really huge so i believe if we said no to mars and if we meant itand stuck with it , the range of problems we would have to solve and the task cascade of benefits that would throw back to life on earth, all o

13 launched, do you remember apollo 13, after this.t's a challenging market. edward jones is well aware of that. which is why we're ready to listen. and ready to help you find opportunity. so. let's talk. edward jones. it's time for investing to feel individual. we find a way through it.y, it's about taking care of each other. it's the small parts that make a big difference. at chevy, we promise to do ours. we're offering current chevy owners onstar crisis assist services and complimentary wifi data. to help keep you on the road, the chevy certified service experts are here and ready to help if you require parts, maintenance or repairs. you can even schedule your service appointments online. it's just our way of doing our part. won't be a new thing. and it won't be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve for a hundred more. these expect and way more. internthat's xfinity xfi.u get

my rationale is a parallel argument for what apollo did be said a very big goal to deliberately know what you can do at the moment and then if i worked at apollo i see a cascade of benefits a range of problems that have to be solved to life-support monitor human health, the computers the apollo program marked the changeover when people brag about how big their computers were and now how small they were it was the digital circuitry and apollo was the first demanding driver on that computational power in that small package you can put them in a room this big it would be very different and then with private industry and that synergy was huge so if we meant and stuck with it the range of problems we would have to solve in a cascade of benefits that would be hugely rich. >> how did your body feel when you initially came back to earth and what that recovery was like? >> my flights were five and eight and ten days. not that long. it feels like your body is wet sand you don't know your way into you have insulted ten days. he fall asleep on the bed looking at your arm why is that so hard to m

. >>> it was 50 years ago this past weekend that nasa launched the apollo 13 mission. it was supposed to be the third mission to land humans on the moon but two days after the launch, explosion in the spacecraft's oxygen system put the three-man crew in mortal danger, thanks to their quick thinking and the ingenuity of nasa scientist, the astronauts made it safely back to earth. an investigation was launched and one member of the panel looking into what went wrong was neil armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon. armstrong spent most of his life after the moon walk out of the spotlight, but he did take time of thousands ofters he rece over thesome of those are new book, "dear neil armstrong," jeff glor took a look inside. >> one thing that's really great about these letters is that you never really know what you're going to find. >> reporter: jim hanson is neil arm strong's official biographer. he wrote the book "first man." >> we need to fail down here so we don't fail up there. >> reporter: and consulted on the movie that followed. >> if he stayed a test pil

of us 3 of the apollo 13 mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven that barriers are built to impose division and it's not effective instead of being an obstacle or tornado or wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a 4 part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. hello again a court in yemen run by hold the rebels is sentenced for journalists to death on spying charges they were part of a group of 10 journalists who were accused of spying for the so the u.a.e. coalition amnesty international says the men are being held on false charges and has called for their immediate release. pakistan's military says 6 civilians have been injured during an attack by the indian army near the line of control in the disputed region of kashmir it says india launched artillery and mortar attacks causing it to respond fighting at the line of

. >> this is our apollo 13 moment. we're mission control. we're houston. and now our moonshot might not be landing them on the moon, it's getting them home safe. >> reporter: anyone who has a student in their house knows how important teachers have been in this crisis. >> we have never been more relevant. we have never been more foundationally essential to the community, to the economy, to a family. >> reporter: their job has evolved. >> i'm still doing the explosions but i'm doing the explosions at home. >> reporter: people like washington, d.c. public high school chemistry teacher haley i can aiken are doing their best. across the country, policymakers are dropping the focus on academic performance. >> students may not be able to take federally mandated standardized tests this spring. >> reporter: education secretary betsy devos dropped testing requirements this year. she says it's wrong to expect students to perform at their best right now. schools in new york and new jersey and canceled statewide testing. >> our chancellor has said their grades can't b

i was told it was an apollo never to. be to me if i'm going to get into something cause i think i'm to come at the double . at. the passengers with the vaccines finally leave the capitol. the ice meant to preserve the vaccines has now been melting for 8 hours if the driver doesn't make it to do go in 16 hours the vaccines will be useless and might as well be thrown away. the 680 kilometer road to kiss a dugu is strewn with potholes few drivers respect the rules of the road accidents are frequent. even before leaving the capital the drivers patience is tested. the 2 drivers constantly swap over. the boot is not exactly comfortable. 2 more hours a wasted in traffic. the deadline for the vaccine lou is. the drivers decide to drive through the night. since the start of the journey there's been a strong smell of petrol in the car still no one seems concerned. the good news you can see. but whose job it is a simple fact that uncle jimmy something. the petrol fumes might keep the evil spirits away but highway robbers a real thre

apollo 13, man's fifth lunar mission, the third scheduled to land on the

and as naomi reports, this comes exactly 50 years after the apollo 13 astronauts returned. >> reporter: they return to a planet dramatically different than the one they left behind last year. >> it's difficult to believe all of the chains that have taken place since both of us have been up here. >> reporter: before undocking from the space station, the crew contempt played reentry to a world in social isolation. >> it certainly will be very difficult for me to not be able to give some hugs to my family and friends. >> reporter: their landing comes on the 50th anniversary of apollo 13's harrowing return to earth. that mission was aborted because of a ruptured oxygen tank. the crew was brought home safely, and morgan said even during a pandemic, he was confident they would do it again. >> through their ingenuity, they're going to return us to earth safely just like their predecessors did 50 years ago. >> chris cassidy takes over command of the station. >> it's unlike any other time in our lives a as generation, really, right? to me, this goes into where were you when jfk was shot, when y

. >> when you take a look back at the damage to apollo 13, you got to wonder how did those guys make it back in one piece? apollo 13 commander jim lovell. >> under statement if we ever said it. >> ingenuity, grit and determination from the folks on the ground and in space fixed problems and found solutions. the nation held its breath praying the crew would make it. >> odyssey houston standing by, over. >> and when they safely splashed down in retrospect, belief in the possible is what got them home. a belief we're sure still works. harry smith, nbc news, new york. >> home safe 50 years ago today american ingenuity making it happen that's "nightly news" for this friday and this week i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other >> steve: you're up and out early. this talk you wanna have must be pretty important. >> steve: yeah. i wanted to condolences. [monitor beeping] can't believe my baby sister's gone. and i'm sorry i wasn't here to pay my respects and--and grieve with everyone who loved her. >> justin: thanks, steve. and i know how much you loved adrienne, and i kn

special on the 50th anniversary of apollo 13 today at 1:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. joining us is claire babineau fontenot. she is the ceo of the organization feeding america. thank you for being with us this morning. tell us what the last month has been like for your organization. guest:

. >> when you take a look back at the damage to apollo 13, you got to wonder how did those guys make it back in one piece? apollo 13 commander jim lovell. >> under statement if we ever said it. >> ingenuity, grit and determination from the folks on the ground and in space fixed problems and found solutions. the nation held its breath praying the crew would make it. >> odyssey houston >> and when they safely splashed down in retrospect, belief in the possible is what got them home. a belief we're sure still works. harry smith, nbc news, new york. >> home safe 50 years ago today american ingenuity making it happen that's "nightly news" for this friday and this week i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other we're all doing our part by staying at home. that could mean an increase in energy bills. you can save by setting your heat to 68 or lower... unplugging and turning off devices when not in use... or just letting the sun light your home. stay well and keep it golden. step by step, we're going to figure this out. we're gonna find a way through this. we're working rea