Minute 023: Medical Guys

GUEST: PODCASTER BRETT STILLO The woman steps into the bedroom, wearing a towel and drying her hair. Jack Swigert lets out a whoop in his bedroom. Back in the SIM room, Ken Mattingly is reacting to the news that he’s been bumped from the Apollo 13 crew. “Well,” he says, “I-uh,  — damn. Medical guys! I had a feeling when they started doing all the blood tests, that, uh.  I mean, I know it’s their ass if I get sick up there, but, mean —  JESUS!” Lovell and Haise say nothing. “Oh boy,” says Mattingly. IN THIS MINUTE: Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks Jack Swigert: Kevin Bacon Woman in Towel: Unknown Ken Mattingly: Gary Sinese Fred Haise: Bill Paxton