Apollo 13 Thread

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Apollo 13 Mission Control with Fred Haise and Gene Kranz

"Houston, we have a problem"

From the space collection at work, a photo of the JSC mission control room, showing Gene Kranz watching astronaut Fred Haise on a large overhead screen.

Fifty years ago, today, Apollo 13 launched for the moon, and unbeknownst to the astronauts they were about to embark upon an adventure and rescue mission that gripped the nation and the world.
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All I can say is that I lived through those years and at no time did I think that they would make it back alive. Since then, I learned the lesson of not believing anything the media says, it is better to have your own opinions and try to keep up to date on scientific and geostrategic issues.
 
Justo Miranda said:
All I can say is that I lived through those years and at no time did I think that they would make it back alive. Since then, I learned the lesson of not believing anything the media says, it is better to have your own opinions and try to keep up to date on scientific and geostrategic issues.
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Funny - I still remember witnessing Apollo 13 as an eight year old in Germany, and at no point did I ever expect the crew to perish. Call it naivete or secular (as well as religious) agnosticism, but looking back I still feel that consistently the German media at the time provided objective, factual reporting without sensationalism or hype, i.e. sine ira et studio. I can well understand though that the Spanish media at the time under Franco's fascist regime may have been anything but an unbiased source of information. Perhaps there's a reason why there were way more Spanish guest workers in Germany than the other way round ;)...
 

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