13 Minutes to the Moon

Epic space stories. Season 1: the first Moon landing, Apollo 11. Season 2: Apollo 13. Coming soon: Season 3, the space shuttle. Theme music: Hans Zimmer and Christian Lundberg

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Apollo 13
S2 Ep.07 Resurrection
"I still have nightmares about this." Can the crew survive the dangers of re-entry?
10 Jun 2020,60 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Bonus 02: John Aaron
Special episode with Nasa legend, flight controller John Aaron. An extended interview
16 Apr 2020,39 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.06 Earth in view
The crew are off course, 200,000 miles from home. And without a guidance computer
15 Apr 2020,31 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Bonus 01: Jim Lovell
Special episode with Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell. An extended interview
14 Apr 2020,41 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.05 Life support
“We were being poisoned by our own exhalation.” Carbon dioxide threatens to kill the crew
08 Apr 2020,34 mins
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S2 Ep.04 Power brokers
Power must be brutally rationed after the crew flies around the Moon
01 Apr 2020,45 mins
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S2 Ep.03 Lifeboat
The astronauts are fighting for their lives – and have to escape to their lunar lander
25 Mar 2020,44 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.02 Death of the Odyssey
“We were in deep, deep trouble.” Mission Control like you’ve never heard it before
18 Mar 2020,45 mins
Apollo 13
S2 Ep.01 Time bomb: Apollo 13
“Houston, we’ve had a problem.” To ignite catastrophe takes the flick of a single switch.
11 Mar 2020,43 mins
Countdown to Season 2
Jump on-board a doomed mission to the Moon. Apollo 13: the extraordinary story
19 Feb 2020,3 mins
Bonus: The making of the music
Hans Zimmer in a special episode about creating the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music
23 Dec 2019,21 mins
Ep.12 Live from Houston
“We choose to go.” The season finale comes from where JFK made his famous Moon speech
20 Jul 2019,59 mins
Ep.11 The 13 minutes
History as it happened, uninterrupted: every word, every crackle, the tension and triumph
14 Jul 2019,18 mins
Ep.10 ‘For all mankind’
History as it happened, explained. Kevin Fong guides us through audio of the descent
14 Jul 2019,46 mins
Ep.09 Tranquility Base
Tension is “through the roof”. Neil Armstrong takes control and fuel starts to run out
10 Jul 2019,38 mins
Ep.08 ‘We’re go for powered descent’
The 13 minutes begin. Eagle is going too fast. There are communications problems
01 Jul 2019,41 mins
Ep.07 Michael Collins: Third man
Without the astronaut who didn’t step on the moon, Apollo 11 wouldn’t have succeeded
26 Jun 2019,41 mins
Ep.06 Saving 1968
War, riots, assassinations: “the year that shattered America”. But it ended with Apollo 8
19 Jun 2019,46 mins
Ep.05 The fourth astronaut
The computer that got us to the moon. There had never been anything like it
12 Jun 2019,47 mins
Ep.04 Fire to the Phoenix
"You heard ‘fire’. Then you heard a scream." The Apollo 1 tragedy and what happened next
05 Jun 2019,45 mins
Ep.03 Long Island Eagle
Ugly, angry, with four legs and wrapped in gold: a spacecraft like nothing on Earth
29 May 2019,42 mins
Ep.02 Kids in control
Unsung heroes who saved the day. The "26-year-old kid who could stop the lunar mission"
22 May 2019,47 mins
Ep.01 ‘We choose to go’
With no idea how to get there, the race to the moon begins – "we intend to win"
15 May 2019,44 mins
T-minus 1
The final part of our audio countdown. Lift off is on 13 May 2019
29 Apr 2019,4 mins
T-minus 2
Hans Zimmer has composed the 13 Minutes to the Moon theme music. It’s his first podcast
26 Apr 2019,1 min
T-minus 3
Introducing 13 Minutes to the Moon, with an Apollo astronaut and former NASA engineer
22 Apr 2019,2 mins
T-minus 4: Apollo 11
The countdown begins
12 Apr 2019,1 min