... was considered routine and boring to the public. But just after the live telecast that the networks dropped and no one saw, an explosion occurred on the Odyssey. Then came Lovell's heart-stopping words: "Houston, we have a problem." Mattingly was transformed into the man on the ground with the most knowledge ... tends not to degrade itself. Three days after the launch of Apollo 13, the major networks were going to broadcast live footage from the confines of the Odyssey and Aquarius. The astronaut's families watched the footage at NASA's Mission Control. When Marilyn Lovell (Kathleen Quin...

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