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The Odyssey Is a Doomed Ship
Jim Lovell's wife Marilyn is back at home after having watched her husband do his TV tour of the lunar module less than 45 minutes earlier. The remaining fuel cell needs oxygen to produce electrical power. But the tank is leaking, and its pressure is falling. When it gets too low, the flow will cease, and the power will be lost forever. In a last ditch effort, Lieber got to team, ask the crew to switch on the fans in the tank, hoping that this might boost the pressure and get the oxygen flowing.