200,000 miles from home - 13 Minutes to the Moon podcast, Season 2, Episode 6

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

I believe Joe Kerwin did a really good Dead Pan delivery of "It will be ready Saturday or Sunday, at the Latest"

[@jorymil]

2 1/2 hours is a heckuva tech support call. I've been on longer, but never close to anything like this.

[@kalidass1429]

I love so much this story i love so much bbc world sirvice

[@AndrewBlacker-wr2ve]

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[@BBCWorldService]

Watch Season 2 of 13 minutes to the Moon here: kzbin.info/aero/PLz_B0PFGIn4daEaUX-8ZJHv40rGAINzFy

[@Reelin_In_The_Years]

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[@michaeldinkins9145]

It's hard to believe there were no DC motors

[@AndrewBlacker-wr2ve]

The off trajectory "drift" confuses me. For anything to change to trajectory, it has to be a force... a pressure causing the opposite reaction. But if there's something venting causing the deviation, it shouldn't have been a problem because the stack was put into a slow constant roll to aid passive heating from the sun. So any consistent venting would constantly be cancelled out by the repetitive rolling.

[@animula6908]

I read they discovered a water jet or something when they got back to earth. I bet it bothered them too!

[@AndrewBlacker-t1d]

​@@animula6908"discovered?" There was nothing to do an investigation on. It was all burned up... The Service Module and the LM. Water? They didn't have water. When the fuel cells were wrecked, the water production was lost. Again, the SM/LM stack was in a slow roll to maintain some solar heating so any and all venting would have been cancelled out.

[@michaeldinkins9145]

There would have been many parts that could have been scavenged and made a devi that would have charged up the batteries

[@michaeldinkins9145]

All you have to have is a magnet spinning close to coils of copper wire . There would have been many of those throughout the service module and people in Houston that could have told them where they were

[@michaeldinkins9145]

There's a dude in England named Robert Murray Smith that can do remarkable things with parts that were intended for other purposes.. There's a term for that but I don't remember what it is

[@michaeldinkins9145]

The term is " bricoleur"

[@AndrewBlacker-t1d]

​@@michaeldinkins9145magnets and coils of copper? "NONE AVAILABLE." Just because you think something doesn't make it true.

[@ardeladimwit]

@@AndrewBlacker-t1d don't think you can recharge lithium ion batters with a magnet and copper coils or even for that matter alkaline or old-fashioned car battery. If it were that easy, world would have converted to electric vehicles ages ago hooking up cars to magnets by wire.

[@Ronilac]

Pity because of this extra cheap drama imposed by narration