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From: andy@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Clews)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: apollo 13
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Date: 21 Dec 90 10:06:58 GMT
References: <1990Dec19.110638.11073@pbs.org>
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From article <1990Dec19.110638.11073@pbs.org>, by pstinson@pbs.org:

> I believe Jack Swigert died from a rare form of bone marrow cancer.  Could
> this illness have been a result of his ordeal aboard Apollo 13? Because
> things were not working right, did the crew have a greater risk of exposure
> to cosmic radiation?

I often wonder whether Jack became ill as an indirect result of the stress
of being in such a life-threatening situation.  I'm not sure about the
cosmic radiation thing.  Jim Lovell and Fred Haise certainly don't seem to
have been affected, by either stress-related illness or radiation.  They
spent a lot longer in the LEM than planned (obviously), and I don't think
the LEM had such effective shielding against cosmic radiation.  Any experts
care to comment?


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Andy Clews, Computing Service, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QN, England
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