Re: How far from abort?



Kevin Willoughby wrote:
In article <46f85792$0$18981$4c368faf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, LooseChanj@xxxxxxx says...
On or about Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:22:10 -0500, Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> made the sensational claim that:
Proponent wrote:
The problem with Apollo 13 was ultimately traced to a thermostatic
switch stuck in the "on" position, with the result that the heater in
one of the O2 tanks was on continuously.
Why would you put a heater in a O2 tank?
To empty the tank after a test? I do remember that bit, the tank wouldn't empty
in the normal fashion, so they decided to just boil it off with a heater.

Apollo 13 suffered a long string of "events" on that little O2 tank. It was dropped at one point. It had been installed for the (iirc) Apollo 8 spacecraft, removed and installed in the Apollo 13 SM.

Apollo 10: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ap13acc.html

Pat
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