Yes, This was Apollo 13... The problem was that a thermostat switch got damaged during testing and then stuck on while in flight. It turns out the t-stat wasn't rated for the voltage/current it had to switch. Seems to me to be a pretty brainless error, but they were trying to get the rockets off the ground pretty quickly back then. You know, to beat those nasty communist Russians ;-) Bob Ammerman RAm Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter L. Peres" To: Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 6:45 AM Subject: Re: [OT]: Hydrogen Powered Cars > On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Alan B. Pearce wrote: > > >>Not really. Not when you account for ancillary costs power/weight etc. > >>Apollo missions used fuel cells afaik, and only one ever went bad afaik. > > > >And as I understood it that failed only because of damage that had occurred > >when it was dropped at some stage during the assembly of the spacecraft. > > I have no info on that, I was under the impression it was related to the > accident on the moon mission where they nearly got killed. > > Peter > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body