Fixing The Oxygen Before It Runs Out | Apollo 13

A miscalculation leads to the Apollo 13 crew hatching a plan to fix the Co2 canisters before they run out of oxygen.
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Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise), flight director Gene Kranz (Ed Harris) and a heroic ground crew race against time - and the odds - to bring them home.

[@CtrlDPredator]

They were not going to run out of oxygen, it was the levels of CO2 that were rising to dangerous levels. They even state this in the clip.

[@jefffortney4261]

The oxygen WASN'T going to run out. The problem was an increasingly dangerous level of carbon dioxide (CO2). You should fix your title.

[@SOB98]

The breathable oxygen was running out. You're not as smart as you think you sound 🙄

[@Bokkie100k]

Came here to post this

[@johnbernstein3916]

I could explain it to you, but let me just say this. They were running out of oxygen as a percentage of the available air to BREATHE, not the oxygen itself, but the ability to use it. Understand?

[@Bokkie100k]

@@johnbernstein3916 No that's wrong too. The increase in CO2 would kill them long before a decrease in O2 would. Just admit you don't know what you're talking about

[@johnbernstein3916]

@@Bokkie100k You don't understand. It's NOT the level of oxygen, it the ability to BREATHE it. As the level of CO2 goes up, the PERCENTAGE of oxygen they're able to absorb goes down.

[@jaceski5806]

Hold on, the tape stuck to itself. Got to tear another piece…

[@Tank50us]

The funny thing is, this plan wasn't something they came up with adhoc as shown in the film. They had a plan for this, checked it on the ground, and ran with it.

[@AndyCutright]

What an amazing story. Legos in space., gotta love engineers.

[@jasonkoch3182]

This scene has nothing to do with oxygen. At this point in the mission, they had plenty of oxygen. This scene shows the astronauts trying to remove dangerous levels of carbon dioxide from the spacecraft’s atmosphere.

[@Narxes081206]

Dude change your title it wasn't oxygen running out, it was CO2 building up. Thumbs down!

[@PotentiallyAndy]

Fixing the oxygen? Lol

[@crimsonknight7011]

What’s wrong with CO2?

[@Zeuseus6609]

Carbon Dioxide is what you breath out after tour body uses the oxygen you breathe in. If the air you're breathing has too much CO2 your body cant get enough oxygen and everything starts shutting down. One of the first things to go is brain function (ie. you pass out and then die)

[@georgearthur205]

It's poisonous.

[@MDE_never_dies]

It’s what plants crave!

[@creedrichards137]

@@MDE_never_dies It's much better than Brawndo at least! 🤣

[@MDE_never_dies]

@@creedrichards137 Ummm…nothing’s better than Brawndo dude. Bruh. 🤨

[@toAdmiller]

The title came from someone who doesn't understand the partial pressures of relevant gasses in spaceflight...it's clickbait...

[@stevengoldstein114]

Somebody here got the story so wrong

[@danw2112]

2:07 NASA - Never A Straight Answer

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

Oh stop trolling. This is a movie, not a NASA briefing

[@davidguthary8147]

@@DanBeech-ht7sw It is a movie depicting a NASA briefing regarding an event which did actually happen.

[@DanBeech-ht7sw]

@@davidguthary8147 and do you have a recording of the briefing, or shall we just accept that this is a dramatisation of a briefing that happened, not a verbatim replay? The guy I was responding to is obviously a conspiracy addict and he was trolling

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