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Oct 24

Space Rocket History #275 – Apollo 13 – Minimizing Power – Part 2

Posted on October 24, 2018

“The first burn, Griffin explained, would be a long one. Pushing the descent throttle all the way to the full position, Lovell would leave it there for more than six minutes before shutting the engine down. This maneuver, which for simplicity’s sake...

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Tagged:Gerry Griffin, Hal Holden, Merlin Merritt, Milt Windler, Tom Weichel

Oct 17

Space Rocket History #274 – Apollo 13 – Minimizing Power – Part 1

Posted on October 17, 2018

Electricity was in short supply. A fully functioning, up-and running LEM required about 55 amps of current to operate.

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Tagged:Haise, Joe Kerwin, Lovell, Swigert, Tom Kelly

Oct 10

Space Rocket History #273 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 3

Posted on October 10, 2018

Lovell toggled the “master arm” switch to On and glanced around to see if everything else was in order. Guidance control was set to “Primary Guidance”; thrust control was on “Auto”; engine gimbals were enabled; the propellant quantity, temperature, a...

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Tagged:Free Return, Kranz, Lousma, Lovell, Lunney

Oct 3

Space Rocket History #272 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 2

Posted on October 3, 2018

Aquarius, can you see any stars yet?

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Tagged:Haise, Jack Swigert, Lousma, Lovell, Lunney

Sep 26

Space Rocket History #271 – Apollo 13 – Free Return – Part 1

Posted on September 26, 2018

Kraft wanted to fire the descent engine now, get the ship back on its free-return slingshot course, and when it emerged from behind the moon and reached the PC+2 point, execute any maneuvers that might be required to refine the trajectory or increase...

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Tagged:Chuck Deiterich, Glynn Lunney, Jerry Bostick, Jim Lovell, Kraft, Kranz

Sep 20

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #183 – Apollo 9 – Lunar Module Maneuvers Part 4

Posted on September 20, 2018

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.

Tagged:Apollo 13, Chris Kraft, Command Module, Jim Mcdivitt, Lm, Lunar Module, Walter Cronkite

Sep 13

Space Rocket History #270 – Apollo 13 – The News Breaks

Posted on September 13, 2018

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 t...

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Tagged:Berman, Cronkite, Marilyn Lovell, Wally Schirra

Sep 5

Space Rocket History #269 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 4

Posted on September 5, 2018

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 pl...

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Tagged:Clinton Burton, Kraft, Kranz, Liebergot, Lousma, Lunney

Aug 29

Space Rocket History #268 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 3

Posted on August 29, 2018

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 o...

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Tagged:Bliss, Brown, Sheaks, Sy Liebregot

Aug 23

Space Rocket History #267 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 2

Posted on August 23, 2018

By the time Flight Director Kranz heard Lovell’s report, of “Houston, we’ve had a problem. ” three controllers had reported related problems. Kranz was wondering which problem Lovell was reporting, as he started relaying the long list of warning indi...

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Tagged:Apollo 13, Jack Lousma, Kranz, Sy Liebergot

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