Word: commandment
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Goeltz, finally playing up to his potential in the doubles, who did Harvard in. Considered a top-notch doubles performer only when teamed with Howell, Goeltz took command impressively at number...
...script, in sharp contrast to the crisis of mid-voyage, which had been full of unprecedented danger and breathtaking improvisation. The devastated service module, original source of the deadly hazard, peeled off properly. Aquarius, the lunar module that had served as savior instead of explorer, unzipped easily. The command unit Odyssey touched down within four miles of the U.S.S. Iwo Jima. Helicopter recovery ticked along as if automated. Soon Lovell, Haise and Swigert were on the carrier's flight deck, hearing Rear Admiral Donald Davis say, "We're glad you made it, boys." The ship's chaplain said a prayer...
...problem here." It was the understatement of the space age. Apollo 13 had been rocked by "a pretty large bang" from Odyssey's service module, which houses the spacecraft's main engine as well as most of its life-giving power and environmental systems. Almost immediately, the command module's instruments recorded a surge of electrical current followed by an alarming drop. On Odyssey's instrument panels, red and yellow warning lights flashed on. In Houston, controllers snapped to attention as telemetered data from Apollo 13 began to confirm the magnitude of the problem...
There was more trouble to come. "One of the main electrical circuits is lifeless," Swigert radioed. "It's off. It's dead." The mysterious blast had also affected two of the service module's three fuel cells, which produce the bulk of the command module's vital electrical power. It quickly became obvious that a moon landing was now out of the question; mission rules forbid a lunar landing if even one fuel cell becomes inoperative. The loss of two requires the earliest possible return to earth. Even worse, the second oxygen tank was now also rapidly spilling its precious...
Aboard Apollo, the astronauts remained remarkably cool. Once Mission Control gave the order to begin the "lifeboat mode"?a procedure that had been rehearsed numerous times in ground simulators?Lovell and Haise drifted, like mariners abandoning ship, through the darkened tunnel connecting the command ship with the lunar lander...