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Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Astronat Capcom - A Spacecraft Accident

When you saw how badly the surfice module was damaged, and were able to separate back off from it. I mean, how did that feel at that moment when you saw just how bad it was? It's a shock, really, to see that much o damage. Want literally one quarter a large panel, one quarter of the spacecraft, the service magile, had come off. And we could see within what the area left charred, the torn thermal blankets, some cables loose. That was obvious. Ye, you say in the book that something over 25 years after accident, you listened again to the recording of your communications with mission control, and that you could hear a change in the

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