Re: Name That Quote
- From: "Ami Silberman" <silber@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:40:32 -0500
"Stuf4" <tdadamemd-nospam-@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> For those playing along at home, the answer is:
>
> Gene Kranz
> Apollo 11
>
> Here is the quote in its entirety:
> ___________
>
> You hear Armstrong talk, "Eagle has landed," right on down the line.
> "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." And these are
> all seeping in, and in the meantime we're just busier than hell doing
> our stay/no stay kind of stuff. We're in between T-two and T-three, and
> we use a cryogenic bottle, super critical helium, to pressurize our
> descent engine. Again, one of the things you can never test, the heat
> soak-back from the engine and the surface now is raising the pressure
> in that bottle very dramatically, and now we're wondering if this
> damned thing's going to explode and what the hell are we going to do
> about it. The fortunate thing was that they had designed some relief
> valves. They had a pressure disc in there. If the pressure got so high,
> it actually blows the disc and the valve, rather than blowing the
> bottle up.
> ___________
>
Which is, of course, refering to an entirely different cryogenic system than
whatevered on Apollo 13.
.
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