CBS News - Apollo 13 - 1970-04-17 - 3
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[0:08] Aquarius
[0:09] ended 141 hours 30 minutes ground elapse
[0:15] time the word to John
[0:20] mcle El istic is Arch God M leash no
[0:24] relation as far as I know the
[0:28] uh and so Aquarius does drift slowly
[0:32] back and away from the Command Module so
[0:36] that there will be plenty of Separation
[0:37] at the time they uh they both re-enter
[0:41] the Earth's atmosphere all three of
[0:43] these parts now are separated the
[0:46] service module which was useless where
[0:48] the explosion took place the lunar
[0:50] module which was indeed a lifesaver and
[0:54] brought
[0:56] Bravo Command Module safely home and now
[0:59] the Comm man module by itself the lunar
[1:02] module will burn up on re-entry into the
[1:05] atmosphere as will the service module uh
[1:08] neither one of them having the
[1:09] protective heat shield that the Command
[1:10] Module has nor any facility for
[1:13] directing their course uh if they did
[1:15] have a heat shield uh so they will
[1:18] tumble and burn there was one part
[1:20] however of the lunar module which is
[1:23] almost certain to re-enter intact and
[1:26] that is uh a uh a 24 4 in long and 8 in
[1:31] in diamet
[1:33] diameter canister a graphite Cask in
[1:37] which is plutonium 238 radioactive
[1:40] isotope of plutonium that was to have
[1:43] been used to create the power for the
[1:45] atomic generator on the moon to give
[1:49] power to the scientific station to be
[1:51] established there we have a uh in more
[1:54] information on what's going to happen to
[1:57] that lunar module fuel cast which this 8
[2:00] lb of plutonium Nelson Benton first at
[2:03] drumming oh Walter um if we were
[2:05] following the flight plan of course
[2:07] neither Scott McLoud nor I would be
[2:09] inside the limb but uh ne