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Questions regarding Apollo 13 which is launched as a part of American Apollo space program by Saturn v from Kennedy Space Center in April 11, 1970 carrying three crew members but lunar landing was aborted because of rapture of oxygen tank and few technical problems after injection to orbit
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Was the Apollo 13 CO2 problem a matter of capacity, or of rate?
From this NASA page about Apollo 13:
There were four cartridges from the LM and four from the backpacks,
counting backups. However, the LM was designed to support two men for
two days and was being a …
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Was a one way trip to the moon considered by the crew of Apollo 13?
The stack of the SM (service module), CM (command module) and LM (lunar module) was on a free return trajectory to Earth. To get into an orbit around the Moon, the main engine of the SM was needed. Bu …
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What happened to Apollo 13 LM descent stage?
Lets have a look into Apollo By The Numbers:
There was a lot of unused fuel (Aerozin 50) and oxidizer (nitrogen tetroxide) remaining in the descent stage of the Apollo 13 LM, 55 %. No need to use t …
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Why did Apollo 13 not use the electronics waste heat to raise the Lunar Module cabin tempera...
A modified diagram of the LM coolant loops:
The secondary coolant loop contains only cold plates for the electronics but no cabin heat exchanger. In the second loop heat is transfered from the cold …
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Why did Apollo 13 need to ration water?
Water was needed for cooling the electronics of the Lunar Module. To remove excess heat, water was evaporated by sublimator plates into space. Without cooling water, the electronics mounted on cold pl …
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What does "stirring tanks" mean?
From this NASA pdf:
At 46:40:02 Mission Elapsed Time during the Apollo 13 mission, both
oxygen tank fans were powered on, hopefully to get a more accurate
reading of the tank pressure.
In fa …
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Did any part of the Apollo 13 LiOH adapter return to Earth?
According to this NASA page a replica was build in 2012.
In 2012, Journal Contributor Hermann Dür decided to make a replica of
the adapter built by the Apollo 13 crew, using a Command Module
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