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tenpies | 10 months ago

Also for anyone interested, some of Flight Director Gene Kranz's recordings are available online. Here's the first part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWfnY9cRXO4

The comments have time stamps for some particularly interesting moments, but the incident occurs 8 minutes in, and the infamous "Houston, we've had a problem" remark happens at 9:20.

The blog post talked about how everything had to be communicated verbally because you could not share images, but since we're so used to Hollywood adaptions or documentaries, I find the recordings really drive the point home.

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