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Jack Swigert

Fred Haise in the cockpit of the lifeboat LM aquarius

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS13-59-8482” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

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Jack Swigert

James Lovell inside the lifeboat LM Aquarius before the final transfer to the Command Module

Apollo 13, April 11-17, 1970

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA KSC caption numbered “108- KSC-70P-194” on the verso [NASA AS13-59-8484]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Chaikin, Voices, p.138

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This dramatic photograph shows Fred Haise monitoring systems at his LMP (right) seat of the LM Aquarius during the perilous homeward journey. James Lovell (at his Commander seat) is cut off at the left with only his right arm visible. The command panel of the LM is in the background.

“I did not see anything present at any point in time that said they couldn’t maybe work it. In other words, if we had tried to activate the LM and it would not have activated, then we’d have been [out of luck]. Or I’d turned on the LM and there would have been nothin’, no [cooling] water [for the electronics], all the water tanks had burst, right then, I’d have known_we ain’t gonna make it. But we had nothing like that ever occur. You understand what I’m saying? There was nothing there that said irrefutably we don’t have a chance,” remembered Fred Haise (Chaikin, Voices, p.139).

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James Lovell monitors systems at his Commander (CDR) seat of Aquarius. The control panel and the window of the LM are in the background.

“I think that as long as we had an option, it [thoughts of confronting death] never really came up. [...] If there was a chance to get home, you work on the plus side; you don’t work on the minus side,” said James Lovell (Chaikin, Voices, p. 139).