On the night of April 13, 1970, when the oxygen tank in Apollo 13's command module exploded, a 27 year old engineer named Jerry Woodfill served as its console in the hall of the assessment mission at the Johnson Space Center, followed by the caution and warning he helped create for the Apollo spacecraft. "It was 9:08 pm and [...
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what are some problems that were solved with creative solutions in the movie Apollo 13?
Hmmm, this isn't really a photography question, but I did see the movie. Let's see what I can remember.
The most creative they got was when a filter for the side they were ejecting needed to be fit into a filter holder on the side they were staying in. They were putting a square filter into a round hole (or was it a round filter into a square hole?) and the ground engineers had very little time to come up with a way to fix it given the limited supplies they had to work with. It was really oddly rigged, but it worked and gave them fresh air!
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The crew of Apollo 13 -- Fred Haise, Jack Swigert and Jim Lovell -- after they splashed down safely. Credit: NASA On the night of April 13th, 1970,
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But in the play "Apollo 13: Mission Control", the 100 audience members manning the consoles and trying to bring the spaceship home from 200000 miles (320000 and more »
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From April 17th 1970, CBS News Covers the Spashdown in the Pacific Ocean of Apollo 13. Reporting: Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra The Apollo 13 Crew:
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View of Earth from Apollo 13
View of Earth from Apollo 13
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The original theatrical trailer for the 1995 film "Apollo 13," courtesy of the website www.movie-list.com
Apollo 13 Clip j.mp click to subscribe - Aaron (Loren Dean) insists the module conserve its power; Kranz (Ed Harris) is determined not to lose an ...
