APOLLO 13: JACK SWIGERT SIGNED 5-PAGE STATEMENT DESCRIBING THE ACCIDENT.Typed document Signed ("Jack Swigert"), 5pp, Kennedy Space Center, August 2, 1971, first page with two 8-cent U.S. stamps cancelled at KSC, and with Republic of Maldives stamp commemorating Apollo 13.
SWIGERT'S AMAZING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF THE APOLLO 13 ACCIDENT. An extensive report apparently completed shortly after the Apollo 13 mission. Swigert begins the account with the explosion of the oxygen tank that quickly changed the mission objective from a Moon landing to survival. Swigert provides great detail throughout, but also includes insights into how he was feeling throughout: "We got farther and farther from earth. I had some very honest thoughts about never coming back. Once in a while, I caught a glimpse of home. Earth looked very small hanging out there. But beautiful and desirable." He mentions he and Fred Haise being distracted by taking photographs of the Moon until James Lovell reminded them that they had a burn (probably trans-earth injection) in under two hours. He concludes his account with the jettisoning of the Service Module and then closes with his thoughts on the space program: "Some space program critics are saying that Apollo 13 proves we shouldn't be sending men into space. They're wrong. Nobody ever built a car or an airplane or a spacecraft that will always work perfectly. Nobody ever will. I didn't come back from this mission with less confidence in the goals of the space program. I came back with more."Footnotes"We had no warnings, just a tremendous bang," Jack Swigert, p.1.
APOLLO 13: JACK SWIGERT SIGNED 5-PAGE STATEMENT DESCRIBING THE ACCIDENT.Typed document Signed ("Jack Swigert"), 5pp, Kennedy Space Center, August 2, 1971, first page with two 8-cent U.S. stamps cancelled at KSC, and with Republic of Maldives stamp commemorating Apollo 13.
SWIGERT'S AMAZING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF THE APOLLO 13 ACCIDENT. An extensive report apparently completed shortly after the Apollo 13 mission. Swigert begins the account with the explosion of the oxygen tank that quickly changed the mission objective from a Moon landing to survival. Swigert provides great detail throughout, but also includes insights into how he was feeling throughout: "We got farther and farther from earth. I had some very honest thoughts about never coming back. Once in a while, I caught a glimpse of home. Earth looked very small hanging out there. But beautiful and desirable." He mentions he and Fred Haise being distracted by taking photographs of the Moon until James Lovell reminded them that they had a burn (probably trans-earth injection) in under two hours. He concludes his account with the jettisoning of the Service Module and then closes with his thoughts on the space program: "Some space program critics are saying that Apollo 13 proves we shouldn't be sending men into space. They're wrong. Nobody ever built a car or an airplane or a spacecraft that will always work perfectly. Nobody ever will. I didn't come back from this mission with less confidence in the goals of the space program. I came back with more."Footnotes"We had no warnings, just a tremendous bang," Jack Swigert, p.1.
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