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Apollo 13 - Part II: The Lifeboat

Apollo 13 - Part II: The Lifeboat

FromBrady Heywood Podcast


Apollo 13 - Part II: The Lifeboat

FromBrady Heywood Podcast

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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Nov 21, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Following the explosion, the three astronauts and Mission Control fight to save the dying spacecraft. And Gene Kranz assembles a team to tackle an impossible rescue. 

A new episode will be released every Thursday.

The series is accompanied by bonus material, in the form of photographs and graphics, which will be posted on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

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For more details on Apollo 13, please read Jeffrey Kluger and Jim Lovell’s wonderful book titled 'Apollo 13'. Many of the conversations presented in this podcast are from this book.

Details of the spacecraft configuration at the time of the explosion can be found here: http://img2.tfd.com/pp/wikiimg.ashx?p=commons%2fthumb%2f0%2f01%2f2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg%2f799px-2010-06-11_CSM%2526LM.jpg

All the NASA audio used in the series can be found at: https://archive.org/details/Apollo13Audio (The Audio is edited.)

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Released:
Nov 21, 2018
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Podcast episode

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A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.