'Houston, we have a problem.'
The expression, "Houston, we have a problem," would later become shorthand for expressing the emergence of an unexpected event in everyday life, but at the time, it meant that the lives of Apollo 13’s crew members could be at risk.
The lives of the Apollo 13’s crew members now relied on just the module’s batteries and an oxygen surge tank that was already being used by the remaining fuel cell.The Apollo 13 spacecraft consisted of two modules: The Apollo 13 team had to improvise connections and devices to move from the main module to the lunar module. Source: NASA Johnson/Flickr
Flight director Gene Franz decided that the best bet for Apollo 13 was to swing around the Moon and use its gravity to get into a free return trajectory toward Earth using the Lunar Module’s descent propulsion system , a less powerful engine designed to control the module’s landing on the Moon. Years later, flight Director Gerald Griffin said, "Some years later, I went back to the log and looked up that mission. My writing was almost illegible I was so damned nervous. And I remember the exhilaration running through me: My God, that's the last hurdle - if we can do that, I know we can make it."Perhaps the biggest achievement was still to come - developing all new procedures for powering up the CM.
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