Did an Unnamed MIT Student Save Apollo 13?

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 6, 2012 @02:20AM from the cut-your-hair-and-get-a-job dept.

lukehopewell1 writes "When the Apollo 13 reported an explosion on board, NASA started a marathon effort to get the three astronauts home. Several options were considered, but history tells how flight director Gene Kranz ordered a slingshot around the moon. The story stayed that way for over 40 years, until this weekend when an ex-NASA press secretary came forward and said that an unnamed MIT grad student came up with the idea to slingshot the spacecraft around the moon. NASA reportedly buried his involvement at the last minute when it was discovered that he was a long-haired, bearded hippie-type.' Now the internet has gone on the hunt to find out who this unnamed hero really is."

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Re:Chronological issues by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-06 02:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Its hard to describe something that obvious as being "invented".

USPTO wants a word with you, terrorist!
Re:OMG by Sulphur · 2012-08-06 02:53 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Gates was a undergrad (drop-out) at Harvard, not MIT.
He could have been a double agent for MIT.