Apollo 13 Command Module

11 responses to “Apollo 13 Command Module”

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Sep 12, 2008 at 3:40 am

   I would cuddle in there as long as it is on the ground.
   For me here, "cuddle" meaning sit comfortably under a warm blanket.

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   Happy Tinfoil Cat

   Sep 12, 2008 at 4:05 am

   Bleeding edge tech – now decades old. Our current rockets still meet untimely ends after all the new technologies and safety programs. Is it really that hopeless?

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   Jaako

   Sep 12, 2008 at 7:52 am

   it’s funny to think that the processors in our cellphones are orders of magnitude more powerful than those in the apollo guidance computer.

   amazing (and ballsy) machinery.

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   heet_myser

   Sep 12, 2008 at 12:47 pm

   It’s pretty astounding. I can hardly even conceive the kind of courage it took to hop in that thing and get shot into space. Is there any definition of the word "hero" that doesn’t apply to these guys?

   We’d all be taking day trips to a U.S. (or, better yet, multinational) base on the Moon by space elevator by now if we’d used the money spent on Iraq for our space program. I miss Bill Hicks.

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5. 

   ___MP

   Sep 12, 2008 at 1:41 pm

   Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Outer Space & Beyond, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

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   tonyjurvetson

   Sep 12, 2008 at 4:26 pm

   I think there might be a corollary to Moore’s law: Risk taking diminishes
   at the same rate that technology advances. NASA’s apogee was reached during the Apollo Moon Missions of 1963 to 1972. Sad!

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   jurvetson

   Sep 12, 2008 at 6:57 pm

   interesting…. perhaps within sub-domains, and the risk-takers look out to some new frontier of the unknown… Oh, bother…. space is the final frontier!

   heet_myser: Heroic and "brave" beyond imagination. As a rocket hobbyist, I can’t imagine strapping in…. I had a chance to ask Neil Armstrong about it (Buzz did not want to reflect on it):and with my Dad

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   gorgeous bee

   Sep 13, 2008 at 8:28 am

   That stuff is amazing. I work across the street from the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and go there all the time to just stare at that kind of stuff.

   Space/flight suits creep me out, though. Like clowns.

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9. 

   Arashi Kage

   Sep 25, 2008 at 6:45 am

   I think they needed one more knob.

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    ideastoday

    Dec 27, 2008 at 7:12 am

    Too bad we can’t take a peek at the slightly-worse-for-wear Service Module.

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    Spaceflightengineer

    Feb 28, 2010 at 8:33 am

    The Apollo 13 Command Module was NOT in the film "Apollo 13". Only certain D&C [display and control] panels were used in the film’s set pieces.

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