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'Houston, we've had a problem': Remembering Apollo 13 at 50
- samizdis 7y agoThe story of Apollo 13 never gets old for me. I enjoyed Lovell's book, Lost Moon [1] (and despite its occasional dramatic liberty/deviation, I rate the film Apollo 13 highly), and I can't resist plugging again on HN the Apollo in Real Time site [2], which features Apollo missions 11, 13 and 17. I keep returning to 13. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Moon [2] https://apolloinrealtime.org/ https://apolloinrealtime.org/
- jimmySixDOF 7y agoI just finished reading "Apollo" and have so much respect for NASA of that time. It's a case study of what an Engineering project can do with a military size budget. Apollo 13 never comes home without the constant red team smoke testing of every last operational detail and how they managed problem solving for a real time crisis is a lesson for anyone who ever had to fix anything. Quick plug also for Gene Kranz's memoir at the center of Mission Control (Failure is Not an Option) And the BBC is running a podcast series on this. It's 6 Episodes and the last one drops on the 13th (50 years from the O2 tank blowout). [1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282086.Apollo https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282086.Apollo [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141499.Failure_is_Not_an_Option https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141499.Failure_is_Not_an... [3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xttx2/episodes/downloads