Splashdown of Apollo 13
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the successful safe return to Earth of the Apollo 13 astronauts, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. Below is CBS’s coverage of that splashdown, in three videos.
If you are still under Wuhan flu house arrest, spend the time to watch them all. Each will automatically start after the previous ends.
Once again it is astonishing to see the differences from today. Note the shot of the quiet crowds watching the telecast in Grand Central Station, and their calm but joyous applause at their first view of the capsule, its parachutes deployed, gently descending safely to the ocean.
As with the moment when the failure occurred on April 13th, the news coverage continues to be detailed and focused on covering the event, not showing off news anchors and pundits. There are no shots of Walter Cronkite in his studio. He is not the story, and he knows it.
The coverage is also patient. For long periods while the divers are securing the capsule in the water, not much happens. There is no effort to return to the studio, or to break for commercials. The focus is on the story, and the story only.
Will someone please tell this to Anderson Cooper, Jim Acosta, and others of their modern ilk?
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the successful safe return to Earth of the Apollo 13 astronauts, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. Below is CBS’s coverage of that splashdown, in three videos.
If you are still under Wuhan flu house arrest, spend the time to watch them all. Each will automatically start after the previous ends.
Once again it is astonishing to see the differences from today. Note the shot of the quiet crowds watching the telecast in Grand Central Station, and their calm but joyous applause at their first view of the capsule, its parachutes deployed, gently descending safely to the ocean.
As with the moment when the failure occurred on April 13th, the news coverage continues to be detailed and focused on covering the event, not showing off news anchors and pundits. There are no shots of Walter Cronkite in his studio. He is not the story, and he knows it.
The coverage is also patient. For long periods while the divers are securing the capsule in the water, not much happens. There is no effort to return to the studio, or to break for commercials. The focus is on the story, and the story only.
Will someone please tell this to Anderson Cooper, Jim Acosta, and others of their modern ilk?
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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BBC coverage reentry &splashdown
part 3 of 5
https://youtu.be/I2dY-sjONx0?t=239
8:56
“Helter Stelter”
Louder With Crowder
August 2019
https://youtu.be/t31rUX3QDiQ
4:01
I just found this, probably you people have all seen it.
A conversation with Capt. James Lovell 50 years after Apollo 13 | USA TODAY
[21:52]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCgfawFAGW4
From the “I don’t care what you say about me, just spell my name right” file:
The third member of the Apollo 13 crew was Jack Swigert who died in 1982. His crewmates Jim Lovell and Fred Haise are both still alive. You’ve obviously confused Jack Swigert with Rusty Schweickart, who was the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 9 mission and who, like Lovell and Haise, is also still very much alive – as are both his Apollo 9 crewmates Jim McDivitt and Dave Scott.
Dick Eagleson: Thank you. My error. I know the difference, but the fingers are increasingly doing things unexpected. Post is fixed.