Well maybe someday

@@mrFalconlem Fantastic! I look forward to it.

Yes! Just reread "Apollo 13", written by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. Amazing how much I understand of what is discussed.

Of course he would, if the crew had died. But as Gene Krants says in the movie "It's gonna be our finest hour". And it was : to me there are only two relevant Apollo missions, 11 and 13, period. So Sy must feel proud that it happened during his shift, because annother EECOM might have gotten it wrong !

Don Moore it's called human error. It is not predictable and avoidable. Yet NASA had enough desig smarts to allow the powerless CM get back. Also, their meticulous record keeping allowed them to examine the history of the tank and produce an account of the failure. U suspect many critical failures go unanalyzed. Mistakes always happen. So my POV is that, to quote Lovell, thus was a highly "successful failure"

ISTR that a mission to Mars crashed into the moon because someone forgot to convert imperial and metric values. If the paperwork describing the system does not equal the weight of the craft, it is not complete. So the adage goes. Procedures should have caught this but didn't. Lots of missed steps prior to its launch, but they did it right once they accepted the fact that it was not an instrument failure. It is interesting that they were fixated on instrument failures for as long as they were. Anyway, Sy and the team saved the crew. And for that they deserve a well done!

Because they were using analogue tape in the early 80's for landsat and the newer tapes were shedding. Remember 1981 is only 10 years. Tape was used by tv stations U-matic up until the early 2000's ... just because its an old design or technology doesn't mean it doesn't work. The final report didn't rule out there still being tapes out there to find. Frankly they just don't know but suspect that these particular tapes were discarded and re-used. They were only telemetry tapes, and the video signal "piggybacked" on top of it. So really when they had a priority, the restored ones released are quite a bit sharper and clearer though. Its just they aren't as clear as they could have been if they were to find the originals if they've not been wiped. That's all. Maybe 20 percent more picture and 30 percent more clarity. Its kinda amazing they had video recordings at all. Remember the moon landing was not live on VIDEO, it was only live on AUDIO. The 1st EVA or moonwalk was broadcast live, but the degradation in signal was much worse after leaving Honeysuckle and Australia. Unfortunately the NASA historian and archivist in the mid-seventies didn't realize the importance, frankly they were dumping stuff up through the late 90's to civilians. It cost's money to maintain stuff and it was a major oversight.

Correct!

the quality of those teams is beyond what most people will ever experience.

To be fair, Clint Burton and the rest of the next shift did a huge amount of heavy lifting as well.

Keep missing it, it shall not return.

No but I’m sure it’s out there.

Better version coming soon.