(227 KB) apollo1.wav
[HH = Henry Hurt, ML = Marilyn Lovell]
ML - "do they know they're not on the air ?"
HH - "we'll tell them when they get back" (227 KB) apollo1.wav
HH - "hey Marilyn"
ML - "where's their broadcast ?"
HH - "all the networks dumped us ... one of them said
we made going to the moon about as exciting as taking a trip to
Pittsburgh" (302KB)
apollo2.wav
(sound of Bill Paxton/ Fred Haise talking in background)
HH - "morning"
ML - "Henry, don't you ever sleep ?"
HH - "I ... er ... I have a request from the news people"
ML - "uh huh"
HH - "they're out front here and they want to put a transmitter up on the lawn"
ML - "a transmitter ?"
HH - "it's a kind of a tower for live broadcasts"
(386 KB) apollo3a.wav
ML - "I thought they didn't care about this mission, they didn't even run Jim's show"
HH - "well it's more dramatic now, suddenly people are ..."
ML - "well if landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them, why should not landing on it be ?"
HH - "look ... I, um .... I realise how hard this is Marilyn, but the whole world is caught up in it ... it's the biggest story since ..."
ML - "no Henry, those people don't put one piece of equipment
on my lawn ... if they have a problem with that they can take
it up with my husband, he'll be home on Friday" (684KB) apollo3b.wav
Reporter - "what about their level of carbon dioxide ?"
HH - "it's ... er ... climbing" (284KB)apollo4.wav
"let me put it this way, their trajectory may be off,
their thrusters may be frozen, their guidance system might be
malfunctioning, their heat shield could be cracked, and their
parachutes might be three blocks of ice ... clearly we have some
obstacles to overcome" (279KB)
apollo5a.wav
"well that gap lasts for three minutes, if they're not
back in four we'll know" (96.9KB) apollo5b.wav
HH - "is the typhoon still present in the splash down area ?"
?? - "yeah"
HH - "we got the ... the parachute situation, the heat shield, the angle of trajectory and the typhoon, there's just too many variables ... I'm a litle at a loss"
?? - "I know what the problems are Henry" (266KB) apollo6.wav
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