Friday 26 March 2010

Apollo 13 revisited



What's all this Ron Howard stuff? I was there, young man.

I'm not surprised that the actual fate of Apollo 13 would have been different than what was projected back in 1970. Since the crew was rescued, the old orbit suddenly became less interesting. Mind you, since the crew would have ended up just as dead, it isn't much of an alteration.

Orbital mechanics are always a bugger.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fascinating! Thanks for posting this.

jayessell said...

I'm disappointed that had they died their spacecraft would not have become a permanent memorial.

At least they would have been cremated.