On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Alan B. Pearce wrote:

>>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.
>
>Well I assume you are referring to Apollo 13, because it is my understanding
>that it was a fuel cell that blew the side out of the bit that gave them
>trouble. This is what I was referring to.

I am not sure but I think that what happened on Apollo13 was, that an
oxygen tank's internal mixer (?) malfunctioned and that something or other
iced up and blew (maybe the tank proper or the plumbing). I do not think
that it was the fuel cell. Afaik their problem was that part of the oxygen
supply was gone so they couldn't run the fuel cells (did they have more
than one ?) and had to shutdown everything for as long as possible.

I don't really buy the story about things being dropped and malfunctioning
when the items in cause are built to withstand 30+g's for 15 minutes or
so.

Peter

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