Apollo 13: 4. Power brokers
13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle
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MUSIC - We're Not a Command Module, but We Can Recharge Our Batteries
"I said, Jim, you know those water module backroom guys better than I do. Go over there and ask those guys to save us a little power so we can recharge these batteries." "Without the batteries in the command module, without any capability to replenish the power that was taken out, there was no electricity to bring those crew home," he says. 'It took them almost 80 or 100 amp hours of their battery to give us 30 amp hours of energy'
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