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Apollo 13 — A Life-Saving Fourteen-Second Burn Timed With The Omega Speedmaster Professional

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Fifty-three years ago, on April 11th, 1970, the Apollo 13 crew set course to the moon. What NASA astronauts James Lovell (Commander), Jack Swigert (Command Module pilot), and Fred Haise (Lunar Module Pilot) couldn’t know is that a major problem would occur just two days later. The Omega Speedmaster Professional played a vital role in […]

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Apollo 13 crew wore NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.012 chronographs:
James Lovell wore NASA #70 ... Fred Haise wore NASA #68 ... Jack Swigert wore NASA #69 and his personal Rolex GMT-master 1675 Pepsi pilot watch.
Jack Swigert timed the 14 seconds LM DPS burn ( Lunar Module – Descent Propulsion System) using James Lovell’s Speedmaster as it was the most recent serviced chronograph!
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In fact, Swigert and Lovell (repeated) “Houston, we've had a problem”
 
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