Article 523VV Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day

Rewriting the checklists: 50 years since Apollo 13 reported it 'had a problem' – and boffins saved the day

by
from The Register on (#523VV)
Story ImageIt's instrumentation. It must be instrumentation. It wasn't instrumentation. Final part of The Register's look at Apollo 13

Part two 55 hours, 52 minutes and 58 seconds into Apollo 13's mission, capsule communicator Charlie Duke asked the crew to stir the spacecraft's cryo tanks. Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert did so, and the "boring" mission became suddenly all too interesting."

External Content
Source RSS or Atom Feed
Feed Location http://www.theregister.co.uk/headlines.atom
Feed Title The Register
Feed Link https://www.theregister.com/
Feed Copyright Copyright © 2024, Situation Publishing
Reply 0 comments