Word: thrusters
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...hour stint with his "white team" of flight controllers when the first hint of trouble came from 205,000 miles away in space. Quickly responding, he made the first of the long night's many important decisions, ordering the astronauts to turn off a fuel cell, check their thruster rockets, and power down the guidance and navigation systems. Though he may well have anticipated the worst, Kranz never faltered or showed signs of panic. "We've got a bad situation in the oxygen tanks," he told the Manned Spacecraft Center's deputy director, Christopher Kraft, "one that...