Topic: 13 Things that Saved Apollo 13

[sam]

On the night of April 13th, 1970, when the oxygen tank in Apollo 13's command module exploded, a 27-year-old engineer named Jerry Woodfill sat as his console in the Mission Evaluation Room at Johnson Space Center, monitoring the caution and warning system he helped create for the Apollo spacecraft.

http://www.universetoday.com/2010/04/08/13-things-that-saved-apollo-13/

[Clive]

Splendid article Sam.   

[Simon]

I was only 6, but I still remember seeing bits of that on the TV.

[Rik]

The bits that fell off? 

[Simon]

Can't remember which bits.  Might not even have been that Apollo! 

[Rik]