ABC News - Apollo 13 - 1970-04-14 - 1

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[0:07] this was going to be Jim's last flight

[0:13] Dave let me ask this

[0:17] [Applause]

[0:19] question let's get run

[0:22] through wondering is there anything

[0:25] about this flight that was left undone

[0:29] that caused this kind of a a thing or or

[0:31] is it something that could have happened

[0:32] on any of the previous

[0:34] flights between here and here I'm sorry

[0:37] David I couldn't hear you there would

[0:39] you my question was is the difficulty

[0:42] that we're currently involved in on

[0:44] Apollo 13 something that was left undone

[0:47] on this flight or is it something that

[0:49] could have occurred on any of the

[0:51] previous flights no David I can think of

[0:53] nothing that was left undone uh there

[0:56] never is anything left undone I've been

[0:59] bugged and a little uptight Myself by

[1:01] the low morale I saw demonstrated at

[1:03] Cape Kennedy and to a lesser extent at

[1:05] Houston by workers at pad 39 who already

[1:09] had pink slips in their back pocket by

[1:11] people who could see Apollo coming to an

[1:14] end with a lack of support in Washington

[1:16] and of course many many far more

[1:19] important problems than space for the

[1:20] people of this country to conquer and

[1:22] worry about but I can think of no

[1:24] specific thing and undone indeed as good

[1:27] friends of mine have put it who are in

[1:28] the program Apollo has been a case of

[1:31] Overkill if you will the program is so

[1:33] tremendously redundant there are so many

[1:35] backup systems so many computerized

[1:38] checkout systems and so many people

[1:40] checking on other people that it's

[1:42] almost impossible to leave anything

[1:44] undone this was a either a meteoroid hit

[1:46] as some astronomers tonight have

[1:48] indicat

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