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...Renaissance preferred Odysseus, the archetypically educated, reasonable man. Here was amplitude of mind rather than the highest pitch of heroic intensity. The Renaissance was obsessed with the Odyssey's apparent lesson that magnitude of mind ensured mortal serenity. They preferred the radiance of learning to the blaze of heroic will. As we shall see, Enobarbus's opposition of will and reason is in many ways the Renaissance equivalent of Achilles and Odysseus. The resourceful Odysseus and brilliant Achilles are tragic archetypes for order and perturbation, longevity and death...
Even so, Mission Control knew more about Odyssey's serious plight than Apollo 13's crew did. "We were only a few feet away," Lovell told a televised news conference, "but the people on the ground had a lot more information via telemetry than we had concerning pressures and temperatures and possible causes of the accident." Kranz's and Lovell's comments underscore the terrible complexities and dangers of space flight. The hard fact is, there are almost unlimited possibilities for equipment failures aboard spacecraft far from earth...
...near Denver, his brakes failed and his plane slammed into the base's arresting cables, but he escaped unhurt. Although he was a last-minute replacement on Apollo 13's star-crossed trip, Swigert showed great skill in improvising new emergency procedures after the explosion crippled the Odyssey. But then he should have. He helped develop the original emergency procedures for the command module's instruction manual...
...raising his voice, he swiftly executed a series of critical moves. As life gradually ebbed out of the service module's vital oxygen tanks and fuel cells, he ordered valves closed, switches turned off, and countless other emergency procedures. When it became all too clear that Odyssey would have to be evacuated, he made sure to check the lunar module's own critical functions-guidance, oxygen, power-before directing the astronauts to begin their "lifeboat mode" inside Aquarius...
...Smith arrived in Washington in 1941 to cover the White House for the United Press, and there he stayed to take the measure of six Presidents. His daily reporting was characterized by speed and accuracy, and his books (A President is Many Men, 1948, A President's Odyssey, 1961, The Good New Days, 1962) were filled with anecdote and insight. Smith's highest honor, a 1964 Pulitzer Prize, was won for his swift, lucid reporting in the pandemonium-filled minutes following the assassination of John F. Kennedy...