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Science & Technology
Apollo 13, We Have a Solution
2021-05-01
[SpectrumIEEE] Thirty-five 51 years ago today, these words marked the start of a crisis that nearly killed three astronauts in outer space. In the four days that followed, the world was transfixed as the crew of Apollo 13—Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert—fought cold, fatigue, and uncertainty to bring their crippled spacecraft home.

But the crew had an angel on their shoulders—in fact thousands of them—in the form of the flight controllers of NASA’s mission control and supporting engineers scattered across the United States.

To the outsider, it looked like a stream of engineering miracles was being pulled out of some magician’s hat as mission control identified, diagnosed, and worked around life-threatening problem after life-threatening problem on the long road back to Earth.

From the navigation of a badly damaged spacecraft to impending carbon dioxide poisoning, NASA’s ground team worked around the clock to give the Apollo 13 astronauts a fighting chance. But what was going on behind the doors of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston—now the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center—wasn’t a trick, or even a case of engineers on an incredible lucky streak. It was the manifestation of years of training, teamwork, discipline, and foresight that to this day serves as a perfect example of how to do high-risk endeavors right.
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#2  From Hyperions to satyrs
Posted by: Lonzo Tojo6150   2021-05-01 09:32  

#1  And yet now we're cutting back on teaching Algebra and Geometry because "Mafs be hard!"
Posted by: Warthog   2021-05-01 09:22  

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