Apollo 13 50th anniversary

[AlbertL]

On this 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 accident, you can follow the mission in "real time" here: https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/ .  The oxygen tank explosion occurred at Ground Elapsed Time 55:54:53.

Listening to the “flight director loop“ - intercom conversations among the flight director and controllers – gives an interesting (and inspiring) perspective on the extraordinary effort involved in bringing the crew home.

Another source for the flight director loop is here, in multiple parts beginning with: .

[Gyro]

Some high quality still images from inside Apollo 13, made by overlaying frames of the small amounts of cine film the took to improve the S/N. From the BBC News website...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52264743