Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!world!ksr!clj@ksr.com From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Lost Apollo 12? Message-ID: <800@ksr.com> Date: 12 Sep 90 04:10:23 GMT References: <90250.144330DRH4@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: news@ksr.com Reply-To: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones) Distribution: sci.space.shuttle Organization: Kendall Square Research Corp Lines: 20 In-reply-to: DRH4@psuvm.psu.edu (Daryl R. Hoffman) In article <90250.144330DRH4@psuvm.psu.edu>, DRH4@psuvm (Daryl R. Hoffman) writes: > > If memory serves me right, Apollo 12 was the mission where they lost >power to the capsule and had to have the computer figure out the path >to get them back down as soon as they could get the power back on. The >astronauts nearly died from lack of oxygen and lack of cooling from the >intense heat. > Memory serves you ill. You might be talking about Apollo 12, or Apollo 13, or some cinematic fiction I don't recall, but no real Apollo flight matches your description. I don't think anyone flying in space has ever died (or even nearly) from lack of cooling. The Soyuz 11 cosmonauts died from decompression, and the Apollo 13 astronauts had a real big problem when an oxygen tank in their service module exploded, but the consumables that were dicey in that case were electrical power and water. As has been related in gory detail, Apollo 12 had a lightning strike or two, and after the launch phase the astronauts never appeared to be in dire straits. -- Chris Jones clj@ksr.com {world,uunet,harvard}!ksr!clj