Apollo 13: 7. Resurrection
13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
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Apollo 13 Reentry - The Last Moment
Odyssey's flight path has continued to shallow, the risk that they might skip off the atmosphere looms large in their imagination. At this point there's very little anybody can do, including the astronauts, except wait as they come in through the uppermost fringes of the Earth's atmosphere. The last team are rating 35,646 feet per second, arranged to go a 1,900 to 61 nautical miles. They've lost them on the main radio contact antenna in Australia at any second.
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