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Posted on October 31, 2018

According to the profiles Bill Peters and his electrical specialists calculated, it was possible to power the LEM with just 12 amps. Under normal conditions it needed about 55 amps of current to run.

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P2-Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., prime crew commander of Apollo 14, monitors communications between the Apollo 13 spacecraft and the Mission Control Center

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