Apollo 13: 6. Earth in view
13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
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Mission Control's Delaying Tactical Efforts
"I kept looking at the earth that it was getting a little bigger all the time, and I thought to myself, we don't have the procedures to get the command module guide system working again," he says. "So I called down. I said, guys, we've got to hurry up. We need to know how to power up the command module." Mission Control's delaying tactics didn't end there: At one point, Joe Kerwin fairly grumply asks, where's the checklist? And you reply, 'It exists'
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