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Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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Apollo Astronauts - What We Didn't Plan For

"This was obviously nothing we had ever planned for in any of the simulations that we had done," he says. "We were still there breathing, and had the unusual situation of losing the mother ship,. Because when an ran out of tank one, obviously we had to shut it down." Jack swaggert actually did that. We left him to power up the limb and to preserve the three small entry batteries that were to get you through entry.

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