Well I realise that I cant please everyone, but having recently received an email from James Lovell himself, who loves what I have done and has asked me to keep him informed of the series as it develops, I will take his reaction to it rather than your own....no offence meant or taken. Thanks for the comment.

@ChristopherUSSmith

6 жыл бұрын

lunarmodule5 High praise indeed, from the mission commander himself!

@1398go

6 жыл бұрын

That is amazing to have read this---James Lovell himself wrote you personally. Great job in everything you've done! For not just youtube, but for everyone involved in this mission, the astronauts, Houston command center themselves ----their families, wives, children, and grandchildren.

@kevinbrookes5760

6 жыл бұрын

lunarmodule5 that is amazing although you posted this a while ago to have Jim Lovell add his own comments is brilliant. He is one man I would love to meet. I have followed space travel most of my life these postings are brilliant thank you again 😀

@kevinbrookes5760

6 жыл бұрын

Who was the Cap Com at this time?

@HybridDivide

6 жыл бұрын

Very, very cool!

Jim Lovell is 96 now, I can’t imagine he’ll be around for much longer. Hearing him speak through such a nightmare situation with such a coolheaded demeanor is really impressive by itself. I wish I could meet him

@tonyb8660

16 күн бұрын

Yeah totally. I just wrote the same thing...😅

These guys were ice cold and calm in space.. I'm sitting here on the edge of my seat decades later listening to recordings. What a crew. Thanks for creating this. Awesome.

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Art!

@ChristopherUSSmith

6 жыл бұрын

Jim Lovell was America’s most experienced astronaut (this his fourth and final space flight). And for the other crewmen, you couldn’t have picked two finer rookies. Fred Haise knew the LM systems inside and out. And as for the last minute bachelor replacement as CM pilot, Jack Swigert was just as competent for the CM’s systems, and actually wrote most of the emergency procedures used in simulations.

@rwboa22

6 жыл бұрын

Christopher U.S. Smith, also Jack Sweigart told NASA that wanted to be a CM Pilot only. Fred Haise was originally the backup LM Pilot for Apollo 8, and would have flown on Apollo 11, but was bumped for Mike Collins (as Apollo 11 CMP; Buzz Aldrin was moved from CMP to LMP) who was originally selected to fly as Apollo 8 CMP, but was grounded due to neck surgery. Haise, for being the Marine that he was, was placed by Deke Slayton on the Apollo 11 backup crew with Lovell and Ken Mattingly.

@rcpilot9963

5 жыл бұрын

Agree, totally difrent than in "Apollo 13" Holywood movie with Tom Hanks. However it was made in the movie for purpuse, to add some action and feel of danger.

@kirk7690

9 ай бұрын

The problem wasn't in the crew itself. The problem is unfortunately on Jim Lovell who was offered the option of replacing the tank and launching at a later date but Lovell felt the pressure from NASA and relied on the engineers

The real Jim Lovell was so composed and understated when he said 'Uh, Houston, we've had a problem.' His tone of voice was what you'd expect from a person when they turn their ignition and their car didn't start.

16:56 'we are venting something out in to the space' . I can't imagine how Lovell kept his nerve while transmitting that. Truly heroic pilots. Thank you for uploading this. with love , respect and admiration from India.

@lunarmodule5

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Muvafaq for your comment and greetings... regards LM5

@F_Tim1961

Жыл бұрын

Especially since it could be the liquid form of the oxygen he was breathing.... and maybe the venting could not be stopped. (I'll never forget when Tom Hanks made the venting comment in the movie..)

i mean, i knew the movies were dramatized but holy fuck, that's a lot of composure. balls of steel. i'd shit my astronaut suit.

@adambowman8543

3 жыл бұрын

@Jon Jones it was called "The Right Stuff" for a reason

@johnpooky84

Жыл бұрын

@@adambowman8543 That was a different movie (also with Ed Harris)

7 years later the author still responds, amazing work LM5 I really enjoyed it

@lunarmodule5

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the comments regards LM5

@thaddeuscosse9527

2 жыл бұрын

LM5 is just the best when it comes to community interaction for sure

To be fair to Ron Howard, he had to condense 3 or 4 days into 2-1/2 hours. The DVD has a great commentary by Jim and Marilyn Lovell and he gets into what parts had a bit of artistic license to it....HIGHLY recommended.

The greatest invention of the 20th Century, was not the auto mobile, or the aeroplane or even the internet. It was the Saturn V rocket, that took men to the moon. Thanks for the upload

@lunarmodule5

8 жыл бұрын

+English Josh welcome!

@Mbd3Bal7dod

8 жыл бұрын

+English Josh sure it is as you can see every one on the hole plant uses it every day unlike the internet it has to be the greatest invention

@DubElementMusic

7 жыл бұрын

no, it was the hawaii chair

@Zoomer30

7 жыл бұрын

English Josh I think it's a tie. The Saturn V was one of the greatest engineering achievements. But it "benefited" 14 people (the ones who got to go to the Moon) The Internet is the greatest technological achievement in human history. Back when Apollo was flying, a person on Earth wouldn't know bad weather was coming until it was practically on top of them. Now, with the Internet and a radar app, you could know HOURS before the storm gets there.

@davecarsley8773

7 жыл бұрын

English Josh There Saturn V is - so far - the greatest engineering marvel that humanity has ever built- in any century

Still get nervous when I hear the request to stir the tanks...

Amazing how cool and professional they are when the accident happened. Thanks for the great videos!

50 Years yesterday the stir that triggered the Successful Failure! Thank God they made it back home!

6:31 HOUSTON WE´VE HAD A PROBLEM!

@AmericanWorker1127

4 жыл бұрын

instant chills hearing that

@jimhuffman9434

3 жыл бұрын

Lovell made it sound like this was *not* a problem. I mean he sounded so relaxed when he made that statement

The Astronauts were my heroes as a kid. I followed every mission. Fred Haise who is from Biloxi MS, did a slide presentation of the mission at Fernwood Jr in front of the student body. I'll never forget it.

so awesome how in this age i can play this interesting record!!

Truly amazing work, thank you so much for this!

I really enjoy what you have done here and with your other video. Thank you so much for your effort!

Amazing to hear this in real time! Thanks for your efforts, LM5!

LM, this is extraordinary! I guess I know what I'll be doing now with my entire weekend!! Thank you for the time and effort this obviously required!

@lunarmodule5

9 жыл бұрын

EdwardVan Leppard Thanks for the comment Edward - am glad you found the channel - I guess you got a heck of a weekend trying to catch up on the full mission series - good luck and let us all know how you get on! regards - LM5

Thanks for posting this. I was to young to fully understand when it actually happened. A lot of this happened late at night and overnight which I didn’t see, couldn’t see. I had to get up for school in the morning and back then there were no VCR's or DVR to record it, so thanks.

Thanks for putting all this work and making the fantastic result available to all.

@lunarmodule5

4 жыл бұрын

You are more than welcome JustMe - regards LM5

One thing I have discovered since *really* spending a lot of time on KZread is that I am an absolute junkie for listening to FC Loops from spaceflights. This particular one has proved a bit elusive to me to find in it's entirety, as mostly you can just find the 2min30sec or so that the penultimate statement of emergency ("Houston, we've had a problem...") and the immediately following status report (The Undervolts, amperage, etc) are spoken by Swigert and Lovell. That said, I agree with the rest of the comments thanking you for posting this. People like me really appreciate it.

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Cassidy - I recently put together the "As It Happened" Apollo 13 accident which includes both the air-to-ground and Flight Dir loop combined. The whole sequence of the loop is available on You Tube by another user. Hope you enjoy those too

@cassidydorman2747

10 жыл бұрын

I will definitely look it up!

Great series of videos. Hearing all sorts of things I've never heard before. Really interesting stuff and at times pretty entertaining (XVII launch :). This mission in particular is really fascinating. Great job!

I cannot believe how calm they sounded with everything crashing all around them.

I've watched parts of all of them and all of some of them. This is excellent work you're doing.

These are excellent. Thanks for your hard work on these.

Thank you man, really. This is like the biggest present for all the space exploration admirers

@lunarmodule5

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks for providing this. Obviously for the film they had to make things more dramatic. But it is awesome that these guys were calm although I'm sure they probably scared big time.

Have always held a fascination for the space program. The work you have done here for us all is stellar (pardon the pun). Thank you for all the time you put into this.

@lunarmodule5

9 жыл бұрын

William R Thanks William - Apollo 8 Full Mission starts this Sunday - hope you can come along for the ride!

Thanks for your fantastic effort, just had a little preview and tomorrow I will have to lock the room and watch this vid undisturbed ;-) This is truly the best channel I've ever come across!

+lunarmodule5 Before I forget to say it, great work putting all of these together. A definite labor of love. :)

Many thanks,Lunar Module 5,for this video.This shows just how cool and calm the astronauts were in such a dangerous situation.Had I heard the news reports about this,I would have stayed up all night watching the coverage.I found out just how serious their situation was the next morning.Without any sleep,I would have had to call in sick that day.This brings back a lot of memories.

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Garland - thanks for the comment

Without a doubt....you have done a fantastic job with this....not just blowing smoke either....really top notch effort here!

I think the content you are posting are such a great historical presentation. Which will keep these events alive for many years to come. And inspire a lot of people. Young people who may one day forge ahead, and keep the memory alive.

@lunarmodule5

Жыл бұрын

Thak you - that comment means a lot to me

Another outstanding video. It's very interesting to watch this after watching your other video which has the Mission Control commentary too. To just hear Apollo 13 and CapCom gives you a better idea of what the crew went through. There were some big time gaps in the comms, for obvious reasons! An extraordinary crew and NASA were superb. It really was, along with Apollo 11, their finest hour. Thank you for the great work you did on this.

@lunarmodule5

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome Mark

after re-watching the film I wondered if it possible anyone posted the actual transmission ? but of course you did ! thanks for your hard work.

Thank you for this. Keeping the history alive!!

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

You are most welcome crin

Thanks for creating and posting this.

@lunarmodule5

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome Bob

This is ... extraordinary. Being fascinated by Apollo program in general and Apollo 13 mission in particular I love this audio. Huge thanks for posting this. And yes, in my book astronauts and mission control engineers were and are heroes.

@lunarmodule5

9 жыл бұрын

andyblue99 thanks for your comments andy - regards lm5

The silence at the end of previous was very stunning, knowing what is coming. This is all amazing. Thank you LM.

@lunarmodule5

3 жыл бұрын

welcome!

Whoever made this did an amazing job....Thank you for it!

@lunarmodule5

3 жыл бұрын

thanks Fedup - glad you enjoyed it

I totally agree - thank you so much for your efforts on this, all of us space freaks and moon buffs appreciate this.

Thank you for posting this with the visual! It is a fantastic combination. I love hearing how calm they are - it is so surprising to hear it given their lives were in danger in the space! I still enjoy the Ron Howard drama, but prefer the real thing! Thank you!

@lunarmodule5

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome Myra!

Awesome idea! Thanks for putting this together.

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

You are welcome tarros

This is fantastic. I listen to at least one Apollo 13 episode each night.

@lunarmodule5

4 жыл бұрын

Well, thats good news to me - you have 33 episodes to go! Enjoy!

How cool these guys were with all this - just working through the problems. This has to be one of the greatest Space flights of all with the crew, Mission control and the engineers all working to get the capsule safely back to earth. Great post! many thanks for this.

@lunarmodule5

10 жыл бұрын

sir - all the audio is available for download on the nasa audio collection. Just google it and you will be able to navigate to the bits you want. make sure you clear it with NASA if you are adding it to a commercial use - like to music etc.

@michaels0510243

10 ай бұрын

As Gene Kranz once said 'let's work the problem, let's not make it any worse by guessing' Fairly sound advice in any crisis.

Amazing. Thank you so much for doing this

@lunarmodule5

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

great vid LM5 ! much appreciated.

this is awesome its really cool to hear the events for myself rather than in a movie

amazing videos!! thx for the upload

Riveting, hair raising, and epic. I was a kid and stuck to the black and white tv pretty much the whole trip. Thanks lunar for posting. Thumbs up for sure bro...

This is great. I hope you make more of these videos.

Thanks, to the men of Apollo. Great work! 👍

I actually saw all the apollo missions as they happened and would like to say that you have done a fantastic job in re-creating this historic and factual mission and hope it puts an end to all the people that say we never left the earth. Thank you for the memories.

I got to sit in the flight director seat where this happened.....so cool.

Fascinating to listen to! I've heard it a couple of times before, and it's still riveting even now. You can hear how calm they sound, how professional they remain....but I can definitely detect extreme worry underneath it all. Those guys were terrified, as anyone would have been.

@ChristopherUSSmith

6 жыл бұрын

andy42878 That’s the main reason why the astronauts from the first two classes were all experienced test pilots. Group three (Chaffee’s) opened the field to other pilots of military aircraft, not just the top guns from Edwards, Nellis and Pax River.

@F_Tim1961

Жыл бұрын

This was particularly true when Earth could not get up the flight plan for return post the earth insertion burn quickly. Jim Lovell go pretty testy then because he knew time was short, I also think he suspected there were huge tech difficulties and the crew was not being told. The main difficulty being the power budget. ....

You owe me no apologies!!! The fact that you put your effort into doing this is at all COOL enough! It's fantastic already, my friend.

Alan Bean once said he thought his crew of Apollo 12 could probably have flown any other mission as well as anyone else. Except for 13. What a crew and what a team on the ground, to bring them out of the jaws of certain death and back home again. The right stuff on all levels.

Thanks for the great words orion and I am glad you enjoyed the video. AMSO is used during the full mission series but for this paticular video I used NASSP because someone managed to simulate the explosion with NASSP and offered me the DLL file so I could "film" it. Hope that answers your question. One of the downsides of doing the A13 series is I have been unable to show the damaged SM all the way through, because AMSO cannot show the damage etc Using the NASSP sequence you have to (continued)

Great videos from you LM5, greetings from Finland :)

Very well put together sir well done

@lunarmodule5

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@johnwalters4792

Ай бұрын

Like your Europa Conference League final 😁

Thanks Kaiser - appreciated

The best KZread channel

I've recently learned that Fred Haise will be speaking at a local space museum this summer. I had to come back and listen to some of these tapes again. I'm so excited to even be able to hear him but if I got to meet him, well, my life would be complete. These guys, all of these astronauts, are heroes to me. Thank you, again, for making this series available to us.

@lunarmodule5

5 жыл бұрын

Welcome laser ..say hello to Fred if you meet him.. regards LM5

"..... and if I remember Main B had an amp spike before" Clearly there was a short on a previous stir that did not cause any problems with the tank. As accidents go, it could not have happened at a better time. Had this happened with Haise and Lovell on the Moon (and Swigert in orbit) it would have been a fatal outcome. No way they could get back to orbit and dock quick enough.

@cedarshoals529

4 жыл бұрын

I have often wondered about that, thinking "this couldn't have been the first stir". Given the massive damage that was done...what would the outcome have been if the explosion happened sooner in the mission? They may have not had enough life support for the type of abort they did. So except if it happened in LEO, it couldn't have happened at a better time.

@Tmccreight25Gaming

4 жыл бұрын

Even if they ascended and docked quickly enough they still wouldn't have been able to get home, the lunar module ascent stage could only fire once and they would have used up its oxygen during their stay on the moon

@Zoomer30

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, and Sy Libergot said during an interview that had the accident happened after they were on the Moon, even if they couldn't get back, consumables would have been a serious issue because they would not have all the stuff in the descent stage. Then, obviously, if it happens on the trip home, it's fatal. No LEM = No lifeboat.

I think that the decision to turn fuel cell 3 off is a key moment. It's the "we aren't going to the moon" moment

I've been thinking: APOLLO 13 improvised solutions, like the modified CO-2 filter, was pretty low tech. I think that it worked, partly, because APOLLO technology while sophisticated, was low enough tech to accept a low tech solution. An analogy is this: Before computer technology was built into cars, it was a lot easier to improvise when making repairs to cars.

Sy Liebergot had a real good explanation of the cause. At the factory, a tank was dropped and the tubing was misaligned. Out at the cape, the tank wasn't draining properly so they tried boiling off the oxygen. Except they exceeded recommended temperatures and damaged the wiring in the process. Wiring was exposed and as soon as Swigert started the cryo stir, one spark was all it took. A fire inside O2 tank 2 built the pressure up and evidently blew the top of the tank off and led to a catastrophic failure. A quadruple failure from what Sy Liebergot said. All of a sudden it went from a lunar landing mission to a fight for survival.

its lovely to listen this voyages to the sky space up

Wow! Amazing video.

AWESOME!! THANK YOU!!

This is awesome stuff

amazing, thanks so much.

That was nerve-wracking! Way to stay calm, fellas. *raises glass*

Hi Keith - yes you saw my deliberate mistake!! As I was learning to use the simulator I didnt realise that I could change the camera settings from a fixed to a global setting. If I had then you would have seen exactly what you described. Apologies for the mistake. FYI I am planning on revisiting this part of the flight after I complete the full mission series with the air-to-ground and the Flight Directors loop synched so will ensure I get the perspectives right!

It probably wasn't lost on Lovell that the tank that was "missing" (Tank #2)was the very tank that he had had a briefing on pre-flight when they could not get the O2 out after a test a few days before launch and decided to use the heaters and fans to force it out. After this flight they did away with the cryo heaters all together and I think they may have also done away with the cryo fans. Nothing like running electrical wires through pure O2 to ruin you whole day.

@ChristopherUSSmith

6 жыл бұрын

Zoomer30 Not true. They kept all the cryo tank heaters and fans. (required for keeping LH2 and LOX from being too sluggish) What they did do was double check every tank thermostat to make sure they were all 65 volt-rated, and ensure no shelf drops occurred when assembling the remaining SMs. (They also isolated each fuel cell with its own tanks so the post-accident venting of 13 crippling the other fuel cells would not occur again.

Wow. It all looks so peaceful even after the side panel blows off, then you realise that the ship is spiralling out of control...

Well said!

I was watching a curious marc video on the inverters for the apollo missions and he played audio from the mission. So i decided to follow the rabbit hole and look for the audio. In so glad i found it. Great work. So glad we have another archive for this tremendous moment in history.

Thanks The - Appreciiate the kind words

I have often wondered if they had attempted a space walk, could they have found maybe a loose line that the oxygen from tank one was leaking and them tried to crimp that line shut and save the remaining oxygen. A good pair of vice grip pliers for the fix!

At 4:09 the call from Mission Control to "...stir up your cryo tanks." For those who want to witness the exact moment in history...and hear the actual sound of the explosion: 6:05. And the dreaded moment of 16:59 - "...we are venting something out into space." You're welcome.

I'm surprised at how calm and collective they are in this situation.

Amazing how calm the crew was when the tanks blew. Not many people would be that calm. That's real professionalisim there.

I like the video. I guess after watching the movie about this I had to check this out.

Starting around 14:25, Houston asks for Nitrogen on Fuel Cell 1 and Oxygen on Fuel Cell 2; 13 reads back the request correctly, but then MC corrects - as if the readback was wrong - with a different request: Nitrogen on Fuel Cell 1 and Oxygen on Fuel Cell 3.

UR most welcome Grant - glad you liked it

Well done

I have watched them all.....several times

Thanks!

Man, those kerbals are screwed. Why don't they just revert back to launch?

@lunarmodule5

9 жыл бұрын

mrbibs350 I bet, at the time, the crew wished that they were in a Sim!

@mrbibs350

9 жыл бұрын

***** Yeah, but you have to respect guys who play in Career mode.

@ajjackson1526

9 жыл бұрын

mrbibs350 lol I know right?

@CountArtha

8 жыл бұрын

Real life only works in Hardcore Mode.

@drtidrow

6 жыл бұрын

lunarmodule5 In fact, a few hours later Lousma called up to the crew, "How do you like this sim?"

Amazing to listen to!

Very nice thank you. Greetings from Finland also..:)

RECIPE FOR DISASTER: 1) Fail to replace 24 volt thermostat in LOX tank 2 with 65 volt version. 2) Drop cryo tank shelf assembly while loading it into SM, damaging critical piping. 3) Use unapproved shortcut turning tank heater on to burn off excess LOX after test fueling, fusing 24 volt thermostat, heating the tank to many hundreds of degrees and burning wiring insulation to the tank fan. 4) Switch on the tank fan when enough gaseous oxygen is exposed to the bare wire. 5) BOOM! “And there’s one whole side of that spacecraft missin’!”

@allangibson8494

5 жыл бұрын

The primary cause was powering up the command module systems on 65 Volts dc when it was designed from the ground up for 24 Volts dc. Why - they had a spare 65 Volt supply left over from the Gemini Program which was 65 Volts dc. The failure really flows from this. To give some perspective on arcing - most domestic swiches and relay contacts are rated for 240Vac and 24Vdc. It would be amazing if their wasn't an arc at 65V. This power supply had been installed in the tower since prior to Apollo 1, and was not discovered until after Apollo 13.

@RonRamsey The probe was the pointy metal bit that was attached to the CSM. It would fit into the Drogue on the top of the LM. When the astronauts would remove the tunnel hatch they would have to manually remove the Probe/Drogue from the tunnel. When the O2 tank blew they had no idea exactly what happened. Initially they thought a meteor hit the LM. The hatch was placed over the tunnel without the Probe/Drogue. Hope that helps.

Spooky how close the explosion was to the radio dish looking thing on the back of the service module. If the explosion had knocked out comms capability those men would have died slowly and alone, and we on earth would have no possible way of ever knowing what had gone wrong.

@lunarmodule5

4 жыл бұрын

That's the S-Band Antenna dish - they also had 4x omni antennas on the side of the Service Module and some small ones used after SM jettison on the Command Module (used for the timer before atmospheric entry and splashdown. However, the explosion did mean that they couldnt use any of the SM omni antennas (they never used the S-Band at all after the accident) after the fuel cells gave out and they were using the re-entry batteries. After that they transferred power to the LM and LM antenna were used to communicate until they jettisoned the LM after powering up the CM, which was after SM jetison - if any of that makes sense!

@rentacowisgoogle

4 жыл бұрын

@@lunarmodule5 perfect sense actually. Thank you for that information!

Balls of steel these guys had... and everyone did a great job getting them home... pilots and command.

This is very interesting! I would live to see a side-by-side view of the instrumentation and the vehicle in one screen.

One thing I picked up on, at 14:25 the crew are asked for readings on nitrogen on fuel cell 1 and oxygen on fuel cell 2, but when the crew asked for confirmation for O2 on cell 2 ground said "negative, oxygen on 3". Seems like something that could have made some kind of difference.

I like how it the animation shows the command console as well as what was happening outside of the module

@lunarmodule5

7 жыл бұрын

How I did it in the old days!! lol