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In his book, Lovell indicated he chose the name Odyssey because he liked the word and its definition: a long voyage with many changes of fortune.
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Don't puke in space. It floats off everywhere in horrible little chunks. Then we are treated to Lovell's urination ritual. It's all fun, games, billions of taxpayer dollars and swirling bodily fluids until Swigert performs a routine stir of the oxygen tanks.
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There's a loud bang, and Lovell gets to utter the famous words: "Houston, we have a problem. Does anybody get their lines right in space? Swigert has noticed it's worse: "If this doesn't work, we're not going to have enough power left to get home. His main point was that the film makes it look like "we invented a lot of stuff". In reality it was less chaotic, for NASA had already simulated many of the faults which would occur on Apollo In the film, his character is rewarded for nobly not going into space by nobly saving his stricken crewmembers from the control centre. In real life, the tasks Mattingly performs were down to a whole team, and they were operating more closely along the lines of existing procedures.
Of course, to show all this accurately would have been much less dramatic.
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Seat cushions were handwoven. Ceiling tiles were hand stamped. Carpeting was custom ordered with special tufting and extra yarn, then cut into inch squares. The restoration team wanted a lived-in look for the carpet and chose a shade reflecting years of nicotine discoloring. And yes, Kranz got his missing rotary-dial wall phone.
The green consoles were trucked to the Cosmosphere museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, for months of rehab. Cigarette butts were dug out of the consoles, along with gum wrappers and papers.
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Modern LED lights and flat screens were installed to bring the consoles alive with images and flashing buttons; big screens up front will show key footage from the Apollo 11 mission. LEDs also replaced the original overhead fluorescent lights that had faded the mission medallions on the walls. But the painstaking work paid off. The Apollo 13 crew aboard the U.
Iwo Jima, following splashdown in the South Pacific. April 17, Photo: Wikipedia. NASA had to adjust on the fly pun intended during Apollo 13, but many of its improvisations were worked out in advance because NASA had done a good job of identifying many of its risks.
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I had the privilege of meeting Jim Lovell soon after the movie Apollo 13 came out in He was doing a speaking tour, usually to business audiences, about the kinds of things I mentioned above. Lovell is a rare creature: a true American hero. I bet Tom Hanks would be the first person to agree with me on that. I write about leadership in history, pop culture and business.
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Apollo 13 is launched on April 11, Geoff Loftus.