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Originally Posted by m0cemdave
I watched the Apollo 13 splashdown on TV, with the radio tuned to VOA for the audio.
The suspense, as everyone waited to find out if they had survived re-entry, followed by a shaky picture of the little capsule descending on its three parachutes at about the same time as communications were resumed, is something I have never forgotten.
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Neither have I - for once in a Hollywood production, the climactic point of the Ron Howard film is not overblown.