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Apollo 13 in Real Time offers new insight into mission, 50 years later [i]"I'm naturally concerned. How do things look this morning?" It is 7:06 a.m. CDT on April 14, 1970. Ten hours earlier, almost to the minute, an explosion on board the Apollo 13 spacecraft ("Houston, we've had a problem") put the mission into peril, threatening the lives of astronauts Jack Swigert, Fred Haise and Jim Lovell. "My kids aren't up yet and they don't even know what is going on. They went to sleep before all this came up last night. And I was wondering what I could tell them as far as... um, um, in other words, are we really pretty safe right now?"[/i]
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