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13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 6: The Mysterious Longer-Than-Expected Communications Blackout
Join Universe Today in celebrating the 45th anniversary of Apollo 13 with insights from NASA engineer Jerry Woodfill as we…
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 5: The CO2 Partial Pressure Sensor
The Apollo 13 accident crippled the spacecraft, taking out the two main oxygen tanks in the Service Module. While the…
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 4: Early Entry into the Lander
To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, Universe Today is featuring “13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo…
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 3: Detuning the Saturn V’s 3rd Stage Radio
To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, Universe Today is featuring “13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo…
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 2: Simultaneous Presence of Kranz and Lunney at the Onset of the Rescue
To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, Universe Today is featuring “13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo…
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13, part 1: The Failed Oxygen Quantity Sensor
In our original series 5 years ago on the “13 Things That Saved Apollo 13,” the first item we discussed…
13 MORE Things That Saved Apollo 13
“Things had gone real well up to at that point of 55 hours, 54 minutes and 53 seconds (mission elapsed…
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The Number of Asteroids We Could Visit and Explore Has Just Doubled
There’s a famous line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet that says “There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are…
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Remembrance Week Pays Tribute to NASA’s Three Fallen Astronaut Crews
Today, Feb. 1, concludes the most somber week in NASA history as we remember the fallen astronauts who gave their…
Elon Musk and the SpaceX Odyssey: the Path from Falcon 9 to Mars Colonization Transporter
In Kubrick’s and Clark’s 2001 Space Odyssey, there was no question of “Boots or Bots”[ref]. The monolith had been left…