The Apollo 13 malfunction was caused by an explosion and rupture of oxygen tank no. The explosion ruptured a line or damaged a valve in the no. All oxygen stores were lost within about 3 hours, along with loss of water, electrical power, and use of the propulsion system. In March , the remains of the astronauts were found in the debris of the crew cabin.
Though all of the important pieces of the shuttle were retrieved by the time NASA closed its Challenger investigation in , most of the spacecraft remained in the Atlantic Ocean. The simulation, according to newspaper reports at the time, had started in the morning on Jan. Yes, he did. Yes he did remve his sensors, however youneed to remember the movie emphasised many of the events for dramatic purposes.
For example the report about venting gas took place a considerable time after the explosion while in the movie it is reported within just a few minutes.
Is the Apollo 13 movie accurate? In reality, apart from one or two small details, the movie is extremely accurate. That is one of the reasons it was so successful, both with the public and critics, as well as NASA astronauts who attended the premiere.
During the Apollo 13 mission, the LM environmental control system provided a habitable environment for about 83 hours to GET. Cabin temperature remained low due to low electrical power levels. After they powered down the LEM, it was only drawing 10 — 12 amps, so there was only that and body heat to keep things warm—with sunlight mostly bouncing off the reflective coatings. So it started getting cold.
With the world anxiously watching, Apollo 13, a U. On April 11, the third manned lunar landing mission was launched from Florida, carrying astronauts James A.
In the film Apollo 13, however, we watched a story told on film that not only took place, in actuality, in the relatively recent past, but one for which there was a wealth of audio and visual evidence, not to mention the book, Lost Moon, written by astronaut Jim Lovell, who ought to know as he was there.
Proposed by Tom Wolfe in his seminal book The Right Stuff, every test pilot and astronaut and most flyers in general, including those who shuttle us to Heathrow and back have, since , tried to emulate the casual drawl of the legendary Chuck Yeager , the man who officially first broke the sound barrier.
Bangs and shakes are not uncommon in space flight, but usually are harbingers of only minor issues. Not this time. This switched on fans within the oxygen tanks, which would spin and stir up the oxygen and even out the pressure in the tank. Instead the spark caused a catastrophic detonation, destroying the tank and damaging adjacent tanks. Deep in space, some ,km from Earth, Apollo 13 was losing both breathing air and electrical power. Again, at this point, the film takes a turn away from history.
It shows the staff at mission control rushing to come up with solutions to the potentially lethal issues now affecting the spacecraft. It shows anxiety and confusion, which doubtless is true, but it does sidestep the fact that Nasa had trained for this very crisis. From the start of the moon missions, it had been planned to use the attached lunar module as a lifeboat for the crew should anything happen the command and service module, so while there was certainly concern for the crew, and disappointment that now no moon landing would take place, the procedures were in place and ready to roll.
In fact, that was true of all of efforts that followed to bring the crew back alive, save for one. The issue of carbon dioxide. In an interview in , Lovell said that the build-up of carbon dioxide, the exhaled breath of the crew, was probably the most dangerous aspect of the rescue effort.
If carbon dioxide levels had risen too high, the crew could have suffocated, but not before becoming almost insensible from oxygen deprivation. It could have killed us. With an average age of 29, and many barely beyond their university graduations, the mission controllers faced an almost hopeless problem; how to rescue a crew that was too far away to rescue. The jury-rigged apparatus the controllers designed to overcome the carbon dioxide issue was more or less accurately described in the film it had to create a connection for square carbon dioxide filters from the command module to fit into round filters from the lunar module and demonstrated above all the one thing Lovell says saved the mission and the men: teamwork.
He may have thought it, though, and later took the phrase as the title for his own autobiography. More importantly, though, they were able to survive because of the efforts of mission control, the eggheads in short-sleeved shirts, narrow ties and horn-rimmed glasses perpetually wreathed in cigarette smoke. Not only were the controllers experts in their individual fields, but they were back-stopped by teams of fellow experts, from Nasa engineers to those from aerospace companies such as Grumman and North American Aviation who had designed and built the two conjoined spacecraft.
Experts have become derided and disparaged, and shunted off to the sidelines when their views, as is so often the case, depart from the political orthodoxy. Spinning in space, hundreds of thousands of kilometres from home, with oxygen tanks leaking and their spacecraft losing its ability to keep them alive, Lovell, Swigert, and Haise listened, paid heed and got home safely. Whatever the Hollywood inaccuracies, that was something the film got right, and something to which we should all pay attention.
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