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Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Heis tells of the mischievous mission: "We have never reached the edge of the rock"
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On April 11, 1970, NASA astronaut Fred Hyste was preparing to follow the footsteps of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and walk on the surface of the moon. On a rocket this Saturday night, the mission commented on a third landing attempt at NASA. Haise, the mission lunar pilot, was supposed to become only the sixth person who walked on the moon's surface immediately after Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell, who will become the fifth
But 56 hours later, when Apollo 13 It was about 200,000 miles from Earth, an oxygen tank exploded in the spacecraft's service module. The mission's purpose quickly shifted from survey to survival. "After the explosion, when I retreated back to the ship in the command module, I was in the Moon Module, making the Moon an Apollo 1
1, TV show. In fact, I had just finished and looked at the panel and found out we had lost the oxygen tank 2, "he explained. "Honestly, I immediately got sick of my stomach, I realized we lost our landing mission. T
Launch of Apollo 13. (NASA)
"[I] did not think it was life-threatening … we had a second reservoir, it seemed intact," added Heise, who spoke at Christie's "One Giant Leap: Celebrating Space Exploration" Apollo 11.
However, the oxygen tank 1 is damaged
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20 minutes or more, that there is a leak, a slow leak, but still a leak in that reservoir, "said Heisse." Only then did we think it was life-threatening. we were dealing with the people in Mission Control, we tried to isolate the leak and tried to isolate the leak, and it lasted for nearly an hour – at that time we realized that the ideas were exhausted, too. "
Apollo 13 Fred Hays.
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At this point, Heis and Lovell left their colleague astronaut Jack Swigger in the command module and went to trigger the lunar module. "We knew we would at least need to provide communication, environmental and drive systems, probably to try and get us back home," he said. "He bought time for people to work on the situation we had and to develop an alternative plan."
Working with mission control, astronauts have overcome many challenges. With carbon dioxide in the lunar module reaching a dangerous level, the crew had to adapt lithium hydroxide boxes designed for the command module to work in the lunar module. A swarm of debris from the explosion also made navigation difficult. The dramatic events are portrayed in the Hollywood hit movie "Apollo 13", where Herze is depicted by late actor Bill Paxton. HISTORY
Suffering from lack of sleep, food, and water in the cold spacecraft, Heis, Lovell and Swagger experienced extreme physical discomfort while directing Apollo 13 to the Earth. Bill Paxton, who portrays Fred Highs, speaking on a ship in the scene of Apollo 13, 1995. "/>
Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton, who portray Fred Haze, are talking on a ship in the movie scene "Apollo 13" , 1995.
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However, Haze told Fox News that he is always convinced that the mission will come home. "There has never been a moment when we have not reached the place we need – to think of something else, and it was not done," he explained. "We have never reached the edge of the rock."
As the world watched with a breath, Apollo 13 entered the Earth's atmosphere on April 17 and spilled into the southern Pacific. "When you realize you've finally done it, it's when you look out the window and see the big chutes," he said. "Obviously, we were very happy to go back to that point. For the past three and a half days she was very unhappy, she was very cold and damp in the spacecraft. "The Apollo 13 spacecraft parachutes on Earth just before it descends into the southern Pacific after its disconnected mission to land the Moon , April 17, 1970 (Photo: Space Frontiers / Getty Images) "/>
The Apollo 13 spacecraft parachuted to Earth before being sprayed in the southern Pacific Ocean after a discontinued mission to land the moon, April 17, 1970 (Photo : Space Frontiers / Getty Images)
Heis was ill during the mission, so he had to miss the solemn recovery ship U.S.S. Icon Jima
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The astronaut who was a reserve lunar pilot for Apollo 11 remained in the Apollo program, funding problems sadly frustrated his ambition to return to the moon.
celebrating the burst of Apollo 13.
He left NASA in 1979 to join the Grumman Aerospace Corporation. Jim Lovell, Commander Module Driver Jack Swift and Flight Haze (NASA) Moon Pilot "/>
Apollo 13 crew portrait – Mission Commander Jim Lovell, Commander Module Jack Swift and Flod Moon Pilot Heisse (NASA)
Although he could never get to the surface of the Moon, Heisse really saw the Earth's natural companion when Apollo 13 passed the far side of the moon.
"It was pretty sad for me when I was passing by, I could look at Fra Mauro [region on the Moon] where we hoped to land on Apollo 13," he told Fox News. "But, otherwise, the view is spectacular."
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