Science Friday Podcast — Jim Lovell Interview

NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, photographed in 1969. Image credit: NASA, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The late Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission talks with Ira Flatow of SF in an interview from 1995.
Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission and would have been the third operation to land humans on the Moon. However an explosion in an oxygen tank caused loss of electrical power and cut short the mission. The crew had to slingshot the spacecraft around the Moon to gain enough momentum to get back to Earth. In the interview, Jim explained the details of the event, we hear recordings of radio comms between flight control and the the spacecraft and Commander Lovell answers questions from callers.