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S2 Bonus 02: John Aaron

13 Minutes to the Moon

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How Long Did It Take to Power Down the Command Module?

The command module is bleeding to death. It's using the battery power it needs to reenter the Earth's atmosphere and you're saying, you've got to shut it down. By that time, you could tell we were close to you losing the equivalent of one battery,. But we couldn't just go quick and shut it off because to make the one maneuver to a non-free return viable, we had to capture that alignment That whole sequence of how to power down and shut down the alignment support last took about an hour.

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