35th Anniversary of Apollo 13 Splashdown

orac2 writes "35 years ago today, the crew of the Apollo 13 mission splashed down in the Pacific, after a harrowing four days following an oxygen tank explosion aboard their spacecraft. If you've only seen the Ron Howard movie, IEEE Spectrum has an article about what really went on in mission control to save the crew, with interviews with Gene Kranz, etc,and including a previously unreported hack the lunar module controllers had to come up with in real-time just to turn on the LM."

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Are you saying Tom Hanks lied to me?

[Anonymous Coward]

There's no lieing in movies!

404 Page

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot, we have a problem.

Re:404 Page

[nmb3000]

404? No...

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HTTP 600: Nothing For You To See Here
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Anniversaries...

[stalefries]

So, will we have to see this article every 5 years now?

Re:Anniversaries...

[Anonymous Coward]

So, will we have to see this article every 5 years now?

Duplicate articles only "every 5 years" would be a great improvement.

Re:Anniversaries...

[Husgaard]

I doubt that we will see another "35th Anniversary of Apollo 13 Splashdown" article in five years.

But this is Slashdot, and nothing seems to be impossible here ;-)

You sick capitalists and your NASA idolatry

[DmitryProletariat]

You think just because you landed a few capitalist pig astronauts on the moon you're so high faluten and mighty! We Soviets kept men in space for 439 days! We had the first woman in space! We had the first childrens space morning cereal! You bourgeois Amerikan NASA idolists live in delusion over your puny accomplishments. So you Saaaaaved the crew of Apollo 13. Ohhhhhh! I'm SOOOOOOO impressed! You capitalist pigs only exploited this tragedy by turning it into a profit driven Hollysick movie! So that is what you think of your great fearless icons! Fit only for money making propaganda!

You bourgeois capitalist Amerikan's make me sick; stealing surpluss labor from the masses for your precious French perfume. BAH! Against the brick wall for you!

*bang!*

Re:True geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

Clearly they should've made Richard Nixon a black woman in a wheelchair named Regina Nixon and had her wheel down to NASA, build a rescue ship, fly into space and save them. Also, this would allow for the pivotal scene where her paralysis can't stop her from spacewalking.

Because we didn't!

[Professor S. Brown]

We didn't go to the moon! The shadows aren't parallel! The Van-Allen belt would have fried them all instantly! Why is there no huge flame coming out of the bottom of the lander? Last time I set fire to some petrol it burnt with a fire, what, is the petrol they used not flammable or something? Why no photographs of the stars? Why not point a telescope at the moon and look at the flag? We can see stars literally hundreds of miles away, why not a flag on the moon?

Re:Because we didn't!

[nmb3000]

We can see stars literally hundreds of miles away...
--
Shitram Brown, PhD
Professor of Mathematics

All I can say is it's a good thing you went for math and not astronomy.

why not a flag on the moon?

Gooooooooooooooooooooooogle

Re:True geeks

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, I didn't know Roland Emmerich was posting on Slashdot! You've got another winner plot there!

Re:Why do people still deny the moon landing?

[Anonymous Coward]

well obviously ships and hotels are hoaxes

Re:Why do people still deny the moon landing?

[flewp]

Actually, it's the number 13 that's a hoax. That's why sometimes hotels and cruise ships omit them, they're just being accurate.