Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!mintaka!think.com!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!kitkat!blloyd From: blloyd@axion.bt.co.uk (Brian Lloyd) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Weekly World News publishes Challenger tape transcript Message-ID: <1991Jan30.083758.18873@axion.bt.co.uk> Date: 30 Jan 91 08:37:58 GMT References: Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk Reply-To: blloyd@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk Organization: British Telecom Research Labs Lines: 29 From article , by yetsko@interlan.interlan.com (Mike Yetsko): > In article yamauchi@cs.rochester.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes: > I don't know... I remember a quote from an interview Cronkite had > with Armstrong before the Apollo 11 launch. Cronkite told the crew to > suppose the LEM ascent engine failed to fire, and they were trapped on > the moon with only a hour's oxygen. He then asked them how they would > spend their last hour. > > Armstrong's answer: "I suppose we'd spend that hour trying to fix > that engine..." > -- > > I read in one of the astronauts books that something like this DID > happen. Maybe it was Armstong. Anyway, on getting ready to leave the > lunar surface they discovered the circuit breaker that powers the > engine circuits was smashed. Evidently they banged it with one of the > lunar packs in all their moving around. They ended up jamming the > breaker on by hammering in a ball point pen. Wonder if it was a > BIC, and how the BIC people feel about it? > > Mike Yetsko > InterLan It was made by Fisher. If you buy one of their Space Pens (as used on Apollo missions, writes upside down and under water!?) you should find that it is accompanied by a leaflet saying how good the pen is, and how one of them helped to bring Apollo 11 back. Brian Lloyd blloyd@axion.bt.co.uk