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...oxygen tanks and batteries and sealed the hatch shut. Then the crew exploded the small bolts connecting the command module with the LM. Propelled by the release of air in the connecting tunnel, the Aquarius drifted rapidly away, its lifeboat function reliably and amply fulfilled. "LM jettison," reported Apollo 13. "O.K.," replied Mission Control. "Farewell, Aquarius, and we thank...
...enveloped by ionized gases formed by the heat of reentry. For three minutes and 38 seconds, the world anxiously waited to learn whether the astronauts had survived the final portion of their perilous voyage. Finally, the answer came. Responding to a call from one of the rescue planes, Apollo 13 replied: "O.K., Joe." A few seconds later, the descending spaceship hove into view of the TV cameras on the Iwo Jima's decks about four miles away. Under billowing white-and-orange main chutes, the spacecraft drifted slowly downward, headed for a splashdown just off target. At exactly...
...three men who weathered Apollo 13's crisis-ridden journey formed one of the more oddly matched crews of the space age. Apollo's skipper had a military background and was a veteran of three space flights, including a trip to the moon. His two crewmen were civilians and space novices, one a serious-minded parent, the other a swinging bachelor who joined the crew at the last moment to replace an astronaut threatened by German measles. Yet when disaster seemed imminent, the crew became a well-coordinated team, acting in concert to save their spacecraft-and their...
JAMES A. LOVELL JR., 42, captain, U.S.N., Apollo's commander, had his eye on the stars ever since, as a teen-ager in Milwaukee, he frightened his neighbors by firing a homemade rocket 80 feet into the air. Entering Annapolis in 1948, he was allowed only one elective course, a language. He chose German and then used his newly acquired linguistic skill to read the writings of a little-known scientist, Wernher von Braun. Convinced of the coming importance of rocketry, he accurately predicted many current space-flight advances-much to the amusement of his Naval Academy roommate...
...advice, she recently went to see the film Marooned, which deals with a trio of astronauts stranded in space, and came home shaken. She had good reason to be: in the film, the flight commander dies. Nonetheless, she managed to maintain firm control over her emotions throughout Apollo 13's flight. "I'm used to it now," she said of the danger of space flight. "If I had fears, I couldn't live a normal life. Everyone must have a goal, and this is his." Even before Apollo 13's problems, Lovell had promised his wife...