Day 10 - Apollo 13
Worst Case Scenario with Abi Clarke and Julia Stenton - A podcast by Audio Always
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On April 11th 1970, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert took off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida headed for space... it was intended to be the third Apollo mission to land on the moon...until an explosion caused oxygen levels in part of the spacecraft to plummet to zero. They were over 200,000 miles from earth.Moved into a part of the rocket that would serve as their 'life boat' they shared oxygen and space meant for two people between three, and the whole world held it's breath as they began their mission around the moon and attempted to get back to earth safely. This episode of Worst Case Scenario is their story.Send in tales of survival from your own worst case scenario to [email protected] and don't forget follow the podcast on Instagram @wcspod to see pictures mentioned by Abi and Julia on this episode and all episodes so far.Theme tune by the brilliant Crizards who can be found on Instagram @crizards Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
