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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Re:Since I'm too young...

[skyman8081]

ummmm.......

The Contrail?

In actuality:

• the arms on the launch gantry swing away simultaneously, not one at a time, as depicted.
  
• The engine 5 failure indicator, the indicator lamp simply shut off, not flashing and buzzing as depicted.
  
• The course-correction burn was 18 seconds, not 39.
  
• The second and third stages of the Satun V burned an invisible flame, only the first stage had an orange flame as shown in the movie.
  
• Every list needs five items