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Oxygen Tank Explosion Crisis
- Apollo 13 was 200,000 miles from Earth when an oxygen tank exploded.
- Astronaut Jim Lovell and crew faced a life-threatening crisis en route to the moon.
Initial Misreading to Reality
- Flight controller Si Libergot initially thought the instrument errors were false.
- He realized the explosion had physically damaged the spacecraft instead.
Decentralized Decision Authority
- NASA decision-making pushes expert choices to the lowest level.
- Flight director supports on-the-spot experts like Si Libergot to make critical calls.