• -35:17:28 Countdown
    • -23:04:05 Press conference announcing crew change (audio)
    • -04:19:58 Crew eating breakfast
    • -03:49:27 Crew suiting up
    • -03:34:58 Suitup continues
    • -03:08:47 Crew leaves the suit room
    • -03:08:02 Crew enters the transfer van
    • -02:43:56 Crew arrives at white room
  • -01:29:57 PAO transcript begins - Maroon Team (Windler) on shift
    • -00:53:20 Ken Mattingly in Mission Control
    • -00:12:30 Comm checks
    • -00:00:15 Pre-Launch
  • 000:00:01 Lift-off
    • 000:00:43 Mode 1B
    • 000:01:21 Max-Q
    • 000:02:00 Mode 1C
  • 000:02:48 S-II staging
    • 000:03:24 Mode II
  • 000:05:32 Inboard premature shutdown
    • 000:09:50 Mode IV
  • 000:10:00 S-IVB staging
  • 000:12:31 S-IVB shutdown
    • 000:15:06 'Great to be up here again'
    • 000:25:24 Firing room speeches
    • 000:30:44 The Borman Specials
    • 000:31:48 Lovell's life belt on Apollo 8
    • 000:52:23 All balls
    • 001:07:27 Firing room press conference (audio)
  • 001:28:39 Acquisition via Guaymas
    • 001:32:16 TLI instructions PAD
    • 001:37:58 TV Transmission
  • 002:35:51 Translunar Injection (TLI)
  • 002:41:40 Engine off
  • 003:01:33 Transposition and Docking starts
    • 003:09:28 TV transmission
    • 003:38:25 Burnt smell in the LM tunnel
    • 004:00:54 Extracting the LM from S-IVB
    • 004:50:43 Pulling contrails
    • 005:16:33 Spiro Agnew speech
    • 005:30:13 Another navigational realignment
  • 006:36:00 Gold Team (Griffin) relieves Maroon Team (Windler)
    • 007:09:38 Vance Brand takes over as CapCom
    • 007:17:05 Earth weather photography begins
    • 008:07:33 Discussing PTC problems
    • 009:48:50 Halls of Montezuma
    • 010:31:14 Pictures of water and clouds
    • 010:39:30 Third P52
    • 011:16:59 Brand teases Fred with "Haise's Theory"
    • 011:20:33 Hal 9000 is onboard?
    • 011:21:26 Hair - Aquarius
    • 011:41:57 Halls of Montezuma
    • 012:08:15 Starting to prepare for bed
  • 013:08:00 Sleep period starts
  • 013:57:00 White Team (Kranz) relieves Gold Team (Griffin)
    • 021:55:00 Joe Kerwin takes over as CapCom
  • 021:55:20 Black Team (Lunney) relieves White Team (Kranz)
  • 023:11:14 Sleep period ends
    • 023:16:51 Sleep report
    • 023:23:50 Questions about the Saturn V booster
  • 023:47:00 Guidance platform realign
    • 024:16:15 News update about the Beatles and golf
    • 024:18:10 Teasing Swigert about his taxes
    • 025:11:35 Launch vehicle briefing
    • 025:24:23 Lovell compares Apollo 13 launch to Apollo 8
    • 025:27:00 Kerwin talks about the engine shutdown
    • 027:59:41 Space lunch
    • 028:49:11 Midcourse Correction 2 PAD
    • 029:00:00 The fourth navigational alignment results
    • 029:23:00 Vance Brand takes over as CapCom
    • 029:45:46 Midcourse Correction 2 preparations continue
    • 030:14:04 Teasing Brand about Charlie Duke mistaking the Earth for the Moon on TV
    • 030:24:39 A pen on a string
    • 030:07:06 TV Transmission
    • 030:34:27 TV Transmission
    • 030:34:51 Going through the SPS checklist
  • 030:40:46 Engine burn for Midcourse Correction 2
    • 030:44:35 TV work at Fra Mauro
    • 030:46:36 Beards and grooming
    • 030:47:34 Jack Swigert - hello to 'all the girls'
    • 030:48:12 More golf scores
    • 030:57:26 Lovell talks about liquid wastes
    • 031:02:13 End of Day 2 television broadcast
  • 031:04:00 Maroon Team (Windler) relieves Black Team (Lunney)
    • 031:05:44 Discussing photography of Comet Bennett
    • 031:34:00 PAO update, Swigert's P23s
    • 031:59:22 Brand talks about fuel cell temperatures
  • 032:10:56 Go to start observing Comet Bennett
    • 032:13:35 Crew gives up trying to spot Comet Bennett
    • 032:17:45 Haise questions Brand about Mattingly's possible illness
    • 032:37:00 Biomed telemetry heard on COMM CTRL (video)
    • 032:47:28 Swigert writes down changes to the CMP Solo Book
  • 033:11:30 Haise announces problem with cryogenics
    • 033:19:16 Ken Mattingly - CMP Solo Book with Swigert
    • 033:20:37 Swigert and Mattingly joke
    • 033:24:15 Brand teases Swigert
    • 033:51:36 Brand teases Swigert about Big Brother watching
    • 033:53:57 PAD for lunar flyby in case of no lunar orbit insertion is read
    • 034:58:54 Swigert and Brand discuss whether course correction is needed
    • 035:27:07 Discussing the Supercritical helium pressure in the Lunar Module
    • 036:42:10 Crew starts to get ready to sleep
  • 036:50:07 Gold Team (Griffin) relieves Maroon Team (Windler)
    • 037:07:15 Jack Lousma takes over as CapCom
    • 037:12:09 Lousma and Lovell tease each other over CapCom duties
  • 037:12:27 Sleep period starts
    • 043:42:00 PAO announces Joe Kerwin taking over as CapCom
  • 046:43:18 Crew wakeup
    • 046.43:38 We're bored to tears down here
    • 046:44:36 Master Alarm scares the crew
    • 046:46:56 Music "With Their Eyes on the Stars"
    • 046:47:24 Kerwin teases the crew
    • 047:39:29 Consumables report and discussing O2 tank 2 quantity sensor failure
    • 047:41:19 Discussing a pressure problem in the hydrogen tank
    • 047:45:01 Kerwin and crew discusses changes to the flight plan
    • 047:57:32 Kerwin and Swigert discuss a minor problem with Command Module optics
    • 048:00:04 Kerwin instructs on how to observe Comet Bennett
    • 048:06:25 O2 tank 2 sensor discussed again
  • 049:06:00 White Team (Kranz) relieves Gold Team (Griffin)
    • 049:08:17 Swigert talks about P52 realignment
    • 049:48:27 Kerwin and Swigert talk about the cryo tank problems
    • 050:26:55 Kerwin and Haise talk about the LM helium tank
    • 051:03:00 PAO notes Ken Mattingly is in Mission Control
    • 051:07:08 Kerwin orders the crew to stir the cryo tanks more frequently
    • 052:07:42 Vance Brand has taken over as CapCom
    • 052:07:50 Brand and Lovell tease each other
    • 052:16:55 Brand teases Haise
    • 054:06:04 John Young teases the crew
  • 054:25:29 Haise has entered the LM
    • 054:26:58 Jack Lousma has taken over as CapCom
    • 054:49:34 Haise has a problem with LM displays
    • 055:05:12 Problems with the High Gain Antenna
  • 055:14:13 TV Transmission
    • 055:16:40 Haise talks about the PLSS
    • 055:20:05 Haise and the fish scale
    • 055:22:14 Lovell teases Fred on TV
    • 055:23:22 Haise talks about LEVA and CDR stripes
    • 055:27:52 Haise demonstrates drinking bag
    • 055:35:04 Lovell teases Haise
    • 055:36:57 Haise talks about sleeping arrangements
    • 055:42:58 Lousma teases crew
    • 055:43:57 Music - "Willow Weep for Me"
    • 055:45:18 Haise scares Lovell with the repress valve
    • 055:46:30 TV show ends
    • 055:49:14 High-gain discussion
  • 055:52:00 Tank pressure graphs (video)
  • 055:52:58 Lousma requests cryo tank stir
  • 055:54:56 An Explosion on board disables the spacecraft
    • 055:58:25 Main Bus A Undervolt
    • 056:00:35 Attempt to reconnect fuel cells
    • 056:06:24 Instrumentation readings
    • 056:08:57 O2 tanks 2 reads empty
  • 056:09:07 Lovell says he can see gas leaking into space
    • 056:12:47 Gimbal lock warning
  • 056:16:08 Emergency powerdown ordered
    • 056:22:31 Swigert having trouble controlling the ship
    • 056:28:06 Lousma reassures the crew
    • 056:39:33 Trying to raise pressure in O2 tank 1
    • 056:48:06 Starting a survey of onboard displays
    • 056:57:07 Close reactant valves on fuel cell 3
    • 057:06:12 Kranz accidentally on the comm loop.
  • 057:06:15 Black Team (Lunney) relieves White Team (Kranz)
    • 057:15:04 Close reactant valves on fuel cell 1
    • 057:24:12 Considering "LM Lifeboat"
    • 057:34:47 Lousma reads procedure to turn on LM power
  • 057:41:31 Lousma orders the crew to move into the LM
  • 057:57:55 LM radio signal received
    • 058:00:39 Didn't think I'd be back in this soon.
    • 058:02:26 Haise and Lovell program LM computer
    • 058:04:03 Lovell asks for arithmetic verification
    • 058:06:49 Guidance verifies arithmetic
  • 058:19:45 Swigert reports CM computer and IMU off
    • 058:27:59 Lousma overwhelmed by radio traffic
  • 058:40:12 Lovell reports Odyssey fully powered down
    • 058:44:25 LM navigational align
    • 058:52:12 LM Ascent Oxygen tank pressure issue discussed
    • 059:00:33 Post-explosion Kraft press conference (video)
    • 059:01:42 Lousma reads up first PAD for PC+2 burn
    • 059:12:28 Crew's tense language prompts Lousma to suggest radio is on hot mike
    • 059:17:53 Haise asks for home return time
    • 059:43:40 Lovell reports they can't see stars due to debris
    • 060:22:58 Lousma talks of plan for first course adjustment
    • 060:28:45 Haise and Lousma start going over burn checklist
    • 060:39:03 Lousma teases Haise
    • 060:52:58 Lousma reads up PAD for the course correction
    • 061:05:28 Lousma teases Haise about the situation being a training simulation
  • 061:28:53 GO for the course correction burn
    • 062:33:57 Flight Plan updated
    • 063:05:35 PC+2 PAD update
    • 064:03:01 First mention of CO2 issues
    • 064:37:43 Joe Kerwin takes over as CapCom
    • 064:47:14 Trying to reconfigure the radio to low power
  • 066:13:00 Gold Team (Griffin) relieves Black Team (Lunney)
    • 067:23:37 Mission control considers 'super fast' return
    • 067:38:00 President Nixon's reaction mentioned
    • 067:39:36 Change of shift press conference
    • 068:03:33 Lovell speculates on "last lunar mission for a long time."
    • 072:28:47 Charlie Duke comes on line to talk about operations
    • 072:29:32 Haise and Duke joke about Duke's measles
    • 073:09:11 Haise inquires after Neil and Buzz
    • 073:09:37 Vance Brand takes over as CapCom
    • 073:41:25 Lovell concerned about the Sun check
    • 074:07:48 Gimbal lock threatens
  • 074:53:00 White Team (Kranz) relieves Gold Team (Griffin)
    • 074:53:19 Charlie Duke talks about procedures
    • 075:02:35 Polar View and Spacecraft View of Apollo 13 trajectory (animation)
    • 075:23:34 Lovell can finally recognize stars
    • 075:28:15 Brand gives a PC+2 PAD update
    • 075:43:15 Change of shift press conference (audio only)
    • 076:30:31 Review of mission rules for PC+2 burn
    • 076:58:24 Lovell talks about importance of a speedy return
    • 077:00:35 Polar view of Apollo 13 trajectory (animation)
  • 077:08:32 Apollo 13 goes behind the Moon and loses radio contact
    • 077:16:00 Lunar sunrise behind the Moon (animation)
  • 077:33:30 Earthrise, acquisition of signal (animation)
    • 077:44:48 Lovell rallies the crew
    • 077:52:46 Final updates for the PC+2 burn read by Brand
    • 078:02:25 Brand reports S-IVB impact with the Moon
    • 079:08:48 Lovell can see Mount Marilyn
    • 079:17:19 Go/No-Go for the PC+2 burn
  • 079:26:43 One minute to PC+2 burn
  • 079:32:07 PC+2 burn complete
    • 079:42:26 Brand reads a powerdown procedure
    • 080:18:49 Lovell and Haise banter
  • 080:20:25 Brand tells of plans to build a CO2 adapter
    • 080:30:53 Haise reports CO2 alarm
    • 081:20:56 Lovell talks about food and water
    • 081:46:13 Brand updates on consumables
  • 081:53:23 Swigert talks about the accident
    • 081:58:49 Swigert jokes about commanding the LM
  • 082:01:04 Lousma takes over as CapCom
  • 082:16:28 Lovell and Swigert power down LM computer
    • 082:28:05 Lousma teases Swigert
  • 082:30:00 Maroon Team (Windler) relieves White Team (Kranz)
    • 082:38:12 Swigert teases Lousma
    • 082:43:37 Lousma teases Haise
    • 083:20:57 Change of shift press conference (video)
  • 083:28:29 Lousma gives the crew an update on mission plans
    • 083:32:21 Haise jokes with Lousma
    • 083:51:48 Lousma talks about the CO2 adapter
    • 084:01:24 Lousma and Haise joke with one another
    • 084:42:13 Lousma jokes about the last TV show
    • 085:08:29 Haise asks about the S-IVB impact results
    • 086:10:36 Plenty of water to drink
    • 087:04:24 Lousma briefs Lovell on attitude control using the Earth as reference
    • 087:17:06 Lousma reads up manual midcourse instructions PAD
    • 087:51:37 Lovell and Lousma joke about the LRL quarantine
  • 089:00:00 Black Team (Lunney) relieves Maroon Team (Windler)
    • 089:58:23 Joe Kerwin takes over as CapCom
  • 090:08:43 Kerwin starts to talk the crew through CO2 adapter build
    • 090:22:33 Kerwin jokes about Swigert's taxes
  • 090:24:40 Crossing into Earth's gravitational influence
    • 091:21:06 Tom Stafford speaks to the crew
    • 091:53:15 Swigert and Kerwin start to configure the Command Module
    • 092:45:00 Deke Slayton jokes with the crew
    • 092:55:07 Change of shift press conference (audio only)
  • 093:27:07 Crew plugs in the CO2 adapter
    • 094:08:55 Kerwin and Swigert talk about CM power system
    • 094:50:17 Music - Aquarius
    • 094:50:47 Kerwin and Haise joke
    • 095:00:49 Fred talks about training for Apollo 8 backup crew
  • 095:12:48 Kerwin reads up a procedure for transferring LM power to CM
    • 095:24:02 Kerwin and Haise joke about doing an EVA
    • 096:19:48 Deke Slayton Q&A with the press (video)
    • 096:21:16 Kerwin reports A13 now at Earth's sphere of influence
  • 096:53:00 Brand takes over as CapCom
    • 097:14:26 Haise reports noise and 'snowflakes'
    • 097:36:07 Haise jokes with Brand about food
    • 098:29:46 Lovell jokes with Brand
  • 098:49:00 Gold Team (Griffin) relieves Black Team (Lunney)
    • 099:17:39 Change of shift press conference (audio only)
  • 099:49:52 LM battery alarm
    • 100:00:38 Duke comes on line to talk about procedures
    • 101:06:03 Brand starts to read up CM power-up procedure
    • 101:55:31 Data received from Odyssey
    • 102:10:37 Deke Slayton questions about crew comfort
    • 104:33:24 Lousma takes over as CapCom. Manual burn PAD read
    • 105:10:39 Lovell comments on the manual burn procedure
  • 105:17:29 One minute to burn
  • 106:02:00 Maroon Team (Windler) relieves Gold Team (Griffin)
    • 106:15:00 Long PAO update on the situation
    • 106:57:00 Change of shift press conference (media unavailable)
    • 108:25:59 Lovell and Lousma tease each other
  • 108:54:31 Supercritical helium bursts
    • 109:13:30 Spurious battery alarm
    • 110:00:53 Lovell banters to Lousma about sleeping arrangements in the LM
    • 110:14:58 Lovell and Lousma talk about home
    • 110:54:32 Lousma and Swigert talk about recharging CM batteries
    • 111:33:27 Swigert and Lousma tease each other
    • 112:07:36 Haise and Lousma banter about LM's record endurance
  • 112:50:00 Black Team (Lunney) relieves Maroon Team (Windler)
    • 113:13:46 Kerwin takes over as CapCom
    • 113:45:52 Change of shift press conference (audio only)
    • 114:30:59 Swigert and Kerwin talk about the CO2 adapter
    • 115:00:17 Swigert makes bathroom jokes to Kerwin
    • 117:05:45 Advance warning on LM water tank running low
    • 117:51:24 Lovell jokes about wearing lunar boots for warmth
    • 118:27:56 Kerwin questions about crew feeling cold
    • 118:44:45 Lovell wants to know about the reentry procedure
    • 118:56:50 Lovell finds frozen hotdogs
  • 119:44:33 Crossing mid-point between Earth and the Moon
    • 120:22:27 Kerwin reads up preliminary timeline
    • 120:42:36 Kerwin jokes about Deke Slayton
  • 120:46:00 Gold Team (Griffin) relieves Black Team (Lunney)
  • 120:55:13 Brand takes over as CapCom
    • 121:00:27 Change of shift press conference (audio only)
    • 121:04:02 Onboard film of interior of the spacecraft
    • 121:50:03 Armstrong Q&A with press
    • 121:50:55 Brand reads up a stowage list
    • 122:18:04 Crew confesses to having removed their bio sensors
    • 122:58:10 Swigert talks about not having moon rock boxes
    • 123:12:31 Haise and Brand joke about the CM being so cold it's snowing
    • 123:45:45 Swigert asks whether John Aaron is on duty
    • 124:38:38 Lovell asks Brand about Ken's measles
  • 125:19:07 Lovell reports they've run out of drinking water
    • 125:27:54 Brand stalls the crew about the reentry checklist
    • 125:40:28 Deke Slayton distracts the crew
  • 126:06:40 Lovell demands time for the crew to learn the new checklist
    • 126:14:43 Ken Mattingly takes over the comm for checklist reading
  • 127:31:00 Maroon Team (Windler) relieves Gold Team (Griffin)
    • 127:51:44 Change of shift press conference (audio only)
    • 128:01:09 Lovell jokes with Mattingly and Slayton
    • 128:16:32 Slayton tells Haise and Lovell to sleep
    • 128:26:31 Brand reads LM Jettison checklist
    • 128:58:58 Lovell woken up by radio chatter
    • 129:08:26 Lovell demands a stop to checklist changes
    • 129:43:00 Long PAO update
    • 130:36:00 Long PAO update
    • 132:28:45 Lousma takes over as CapCom
    • 132:37:01 Swigert tells it’s too cold to sleep
    • 132:52:50 Slayton suggests the crew take stimulants for landing
    • 133:22:08 Lousma tells the crew to start activating LM
    • 133:53:50 Lovell and Lousma joke about Earth getting bigger
  • 135:55:00 White Team (Kranz) relieves Maroon Team (Windler)
    • 134:56:00 Long PAO update
    • 135:02:35 LM navigation restored
    • 135:47:21 Lovell still looking for Fra Mauro
    • 136:04:59 Kerwin takes over as CapCom, course correction PAD
  • 136:10:45 Swigert starts to power up Odyssey
    • 136:46:43 Kerwin teases Lovell
    • 137:39:50 Haise reports on the last course correction
    • 137:47:38 Slayton reminds crew of stimulants
  • 138:02:06 Service Module Jettison
    • 138:15:00 PAO lists guest present in Mission Control
    • 138:24:06 Kerwin teases Lovell
    • 138:40:29 Kerwin reads entry PAD
    • 139:50:45 Odyssey navigation discussed
    • 140:09:52 Odyssey back on internal power
    • 140:52:39 Swigert aligns CM platform
    • 141:02:22 Lovell is last to leave Aquarius
  • 141:28:33 LM Jettison
    • 141:48:12 Kerwin reads final entry PAD
    • 142:22:28 Swigert thanks Mission Control
    • 142:33:25 Swigert teases Kerwin
    • 142:38:30 Welcome home
  • 142:39:36 Reentering Earth's Atmosphere
  • 142:54:40 Recovering crew from spacecraft
  • 143:38:00 Crew onboard USS Iwo Jima
    • 143:38:57 Paine repeats president's congratulations
    • 143:41:32 Apollo 13 crew arrives on Iwo Jima
    • 143:50:20 Mission plaque hung in mission control
    • 143:57:08 Crew phone call with the president
    • 144:01:11 Italian media reporter
    • 144:10:08 French media reporter
    • 144:14:25 Spanish media reporter
  • 144:18:59 Post-flight press conferences (Paine)
    • 144:21:29 White team press conference
    • 144:26:10 Paine interview
    • 144:36:30 Non-realtime: Medal of freedom presentation to Mission Control in Houston (April 18, 1970)
    • 145:03:06 Non-realtime: Medal of freedom presentation in Hawaii (April 19, 1970)
    • 145:32:26 Non-realtime: Post-flight crew press conference
    • 146:36:45 Non-realtime: Investigation press conference (April 21, 1970)
    • 146:53:36 Non-realtime: News clips of public during mission (silent)
    • 148:22:09 Non-realtime: Crew arrival at Elington AFB (silent)
    • 149:03:12 Non-realtime: 25th anniversary commemoration (1995)
    • 150:05:51 Non-realtime: Assembly of Apollo 13's Saturn V
    • 150:11:11 Non-realtime: Altitute chamber test
    • 150:16:48 Non-realtime: Lovell, Mattingly, Haise Lunar EVA training
    • 150:39:41 Non-realtime: Lovell and Haise outdoor Lunar EVA training
    • 151:00:10 Non-realtime: Lovell running on beach
    • 151:07:41 Non-realtime: Apollo 13 press room activities
    • 151:13:49 Non-realtime: Apollo 13 geology training in Hawaii
    • 151:31:36 Non-realtime: "Houston, we've got a problem" vintage NASA documentary