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When Scott tried to release the lunar module, he did not hold the button long enough so the lander got hung on the capture latches.
LM in lunar landing configuration. Photographed from CM
McDivitt & Schweickart show Spider’s landing gear to Scott before they pull away
LM ascent stage photographed from the CM
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Cronkite did not look good. He called Schirra over and thrust a sheet of wire-service copy at him. Schirra scanned the text hurriedly, and with each sentence his heart sank. This was bad. This was worse than bad. This was . . . unheard of. He had a thousand questions, but there wasn’t time to ask……
Jules Bergman, ABC Science Editor
Walter Cronkite & Wally Schirra, CBS
Jim Lovell family except son James
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EECOM, Sy Liebergot looked away from his monitor; the end, he knew, was at last here. Liebergot, through no fault of his own, was about to become the first flight controller in the history of the manned space program to lose the ship that had been placed in his charge.
Flight Director Glynn Lunney
Fuel Cells 1-3
Apollo Fuel Cell
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As near as Lovell could tell, it would be a while before the ship’s endgame would play out. He had no way of calculating the leak rate in the tank, but if the moving needle was any indication, he had a couple hours at least before the 318 pounds of oxygen were gone.
Location of major electrical power subsystem equip.
Electrical power subsystem components in CM lower equip. bay
Hydrogen Cryogenic tank
