Apollo 13: 7. Resurrection

Can the Apollo 13 crew survive re-entering Earth’s atmosphere aboard the revived Odyssey spacecraft? After four days in a spacecraft with dwindling power and oxygen supplies, the astronauts face a series of critical tests on their journey home. One mistake could see Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise incinerated or lost forever in deep space. In the final moments of radio silence, Nasa mission control begins to fear the worst.

Hosted by Kevin Fong.

Archive: Nasa

Starring

Jim Lovell

John Aaron

Dave Reed

Hal Loden

Jerry Bostick

Jim Kelly

Fred Haise

Charlie Duke

Joe Kerwin

Gene Kranz, courtesy of the Johnson Space Center Oral History Project

Chuck Dietrich

Marilyn Lovell

Gerry Griffin

Written by Kevin Fong and Andrew Luck-Baker

Theme music by Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg for Bleeding Fingers Music

A BBC Radio Science Unit production for the BBC World Service.