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20 THE HARTFORD COURANT: Friday, April 17, 1970 Troubled Apollo 13 Rekindles Nation's Interest in Space Program It took a while to figure out while 230,000 miles in space. Jim Lovell has been the most thorough and careful of the trio. He is in space for his fourth and last trip with two rookies. on the moon and even be rescued. But at what price this time and what price next time? Unlucky 13? A passing jinx? Or is this an omen, telling us to slow down and maybe fly more machines and fewer human beings? ft All three have been led stars the flyers need to navigate by now that their computerized guidance system is out of order.

The PTC, Passive Thermal Control or Barbecue Roll needed to keep the spacecraft revolving slowly so that ho side will heat up too much in the sun has been jury-rigged. Even dumping urine overboard has been stopped because the heater in the discharge pipe that prevents the tube from freezing has been shut off. through every step since Tuesday right after excellent TV By DAVID II. RHINELANDER Staff Reporter HOUSTON Unlucky 13? It could have been worse. At least the three Apollo 13 astronauts have a good chance of getting back alive this afternoon.

"Marooned In Space" had a horrible chance late Tuesday night of becoming more than a movie title. Was this flight jinxed? Rubella knocked the preflight plan askew and bachelor rookie Jack Swigert had two days to sub for measles-prone Ken Mat- transmission, since the moment described by a flight controller happened. On Apollo 12, it was recalled, a spherical hydrogen tank that supplies the fuel cells had to be taken out of the spacecraft two days before liftoff. The tank, similar to the ox-'ygen tank that apparently ruptured Tuesday aboard Apollo 13, was changed on the pad back in November. Beech Aircraft I which makes the and oxygen tanks, had a i spare tank.

The leak was attributed to an intake manifold. Is the tank jinxed, with the i trouble in 12 just setting every-, thing up for a big blow-up i aboard 13? as follows: "Things sure turned to worms there in a hurry after that show." The hours and hours and hours of conversation don't make much sense unless you know the jargon. Here are some The BEATLES, ROLLING STONES, JOHNNY CASH, ELVIS PRESLEY and Mere on THE HISTORY OF ROCK ROLL beginning tomorrow at 10 a.m. on WPOP14 random samples: tingly. Swigert with a Master's Degree in business from the University of Hartford, didn't even have time to file his 1969 New Interest Through the prodigious efforts of all, the lives of three astronauts finally seem safe.

A near tragedy has rekindled interest in the space program and re-focused attention on NASA at a time when many were beginning to have a hazy view. Man can fly in space and land "On panel 275 circuit breaker main a bat plus a close and cir cuit breaker main bat plus With the tank explosion down in the service module's bay that also holds the three Pratt Whitney fuel cells, the whole picture changed. NASA Responds Engineers, Astronauts, Technicians and top NASA brass closed We want the main bus tie AC switch to the bat AC position and verify proper voltage on main bus and read the AMPS on bat A to make sure we don't have a short Alpha PT to PC, launch vehicle poured into Miss Control. News fAuiifii siial RCS indicator to DPI, GDC gimbal drives to auto, max tim er reset up Okay, the next 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 are the same, and Looking for Ship PORCH ENCLOSURES ALUMINUM AWNINGS nilAAA AAHinillHVI All income tax return. Good Start The countdown for the Saturday launch at 13:13 hours Houston time went better than usual.

There always are a few little hitches along the way. But there was nothing serious this time. Then there was a good liftoff into a hazy sky over Cape Kennedy. But one of the 11 rocket engines used to push the spacecraft away from earth shut down early and some fast recalculations were needed to get the necessary oomph from the remaining four motors on the five engine second stage. Again nothing serious.

In fact, up until Tuesday eveningspacemen, ground controllers and a press corps far smaller than that for Apollo 11 and 12 were all relaxed and a little bored waiting for Wednes ElUdUU UUiVlBIHHIIUii screen is circled in right photo. White streak angling toward the blip representing the Apollo 13 is a pointer. Men at the telescope are Ralph Buice of Georgia Tech, left and Dr. Paul Knappenberger of Fernbank (AP). Scientists at Fernbank Science Center in Decatur, a suburb of Atlanta, line up telescope and attach an electronic image inten-sifier for a look at the crippled Apollo 13 spaceship 190,000 miles away Wednesday night.

The spaceship on the intensifier's men by the hundreds arrived. A life and death struggle began with astronauts Lovell, Haise and Swigert so far from earth that the quickest way home was to continue on around the moon. NASA was in its finest hours. The American space program has consisted of a decade of little steps a short hop, one orbit, two orbits, one man, two men, a day, two days, a week, two weeks, three men, earth orbit, moon orbit then moon landing. At each new step, new equipment and new limits are established.

Results are poured over to the WINDOWS and DOORS Phone 233-4471 BARTLETT BRAINARD PRODUCTS CO. 75 TALCOTT ROAD WEST HARTFORD as tight as possible. It'll proba- And so it went as the astro-bly take both of you to get it nauts built a Rube Goldberg nice and snug, over a i 1 cannister holder then we get caution warning normal to ACO. And so it went for hour after hour after hour. At least one man has been awake and on duty since Tuesday night, doing these jobs.

Tough Tests More and more was learned about how stretchable the equip-1 ment and the men and the techniques are. Engineers, and as-ronauts on the ground tried out thousands of little things and big things in simulators and on work benches squeeze the last little bit of performance and safety from everything. It's been difficult to do most of these special things and most Astronauts Fight Chill In Crippled Spacecraft i last data bit. KNOWN FOR QUALITY IN HOME IMPROVEMENTS FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS because of the need to conserve day's lunar landing, Thursday's two moon walks and Friday's tense moment of lunar liftoff. The Problem No trouble with 13 until the "Hey, We've got a problem here." From 10 p.m.

Tuesday nothing has been normal. electrical power. NASA did an entire retake after the fatal pad fire that killed three astroanuts due to fly Apollo 1. The January 1967 triple fatality stopped everything while every piec of equipment and every plan was revised and re-evaluated. Industry and NASA came in fcr drubbing of the ordinary every-day space things.

Floating debris and obscured "With the heat in the LM being cut down to save electricity and the tunnel to the command module left open the tem- ure out what a LM (lunar module) can do Aquarius has really been quite a winner." They have learned how far this equipment can be pushed. They've learned how long the carbon dioxide removing can-nisters of lithium hydroxide can last twice the rated time. They've learned what a native American talent to tinker with stuff means in the space age the life-saving rig of cardboard, plastic bags and lunar landing suit hoses needed to get square canisters to fit into a system built for round ones. This system was worked out on the ground and passed up to the men Wednesday morning. The instructions went like this: you to take the tape and cut out 2 pieces about 3 feet long, or a good arms length, and what we want you to do with them is to make two belts around the sides of the cannister, one belt near the top and one belt near the bottom, with the sticky side out.

Wrap it around, sticky side outi Iperature is about 30 to 40 de i One of the several problems' the astronauts face in the crippled Apollo 13 is the near-freezing temperature inside the command module. Spokesmen for the B. Welson 104 Ledyard manufacturers of much of the clothing worn by the astronauts, said Thursday the astronuats have only two layers of cotton undergarments and Teflon coveralls to protect them from the low temperatures. Donald Robbins, vice president of Welson said the failure of one of the fuel cells cut off the heat for the command module. He added that heat sup because work had been sloppy and men had become overconfi-' dent.

I Now we're in similar crisis that will be even worse if Apol You Are Invited to Attend grees," Robbins explained. He speculated that one of the future developmenst in space clothing may be liners for the coveralls in case of power failures. In addition to the Teflon coveralls, Welson manufactured the liquid-cooled underwear. Lovell and Haise would have worn during their moon walk, and the biological isolation gear all ARE YQU 25? "Help" by the Beatles was when you were 16. Hear one full hour of Beatles music on THE HISTORY OF ROCK ROLL beginning tommorow at 10 a.m.

on WPOP14 lo 13 does not come home safely. There will be a massive review once the mission is over. Some things have been learned already. LM Fred Haise said from space Wednesday. "When this flight is over, we'll really be able to fig- I plied from the lunar molule's (LM) heating system is reduced three men would have used when they returned to earth.

Welson also supplies the survival kits the astronauts may have to use if they come down far from the planned landing zone. There are two survial kits, made of fireproof material, in the command module. They contain such items as flares, machetes, first aid equipment and dye to makr their location in the water. Foreign Matter Suspected in Apollo's Oxygen SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) A number of engineers trying to reconstruct events' Ml iwti (mm mm 1 leading to the Apollo 13 space emergency believe "some sort of foreign matter" in an oxygen Sponsored by The Courant and The Institute of Living tank may have caused something to burst, informed sources said Thursday. They think a reaction between this unidentified foreign matter and the oxygen heated the gas so fast the tank's relief valve could not handle the resulting increase in pressure.

"This caused the rupture of a yet-to-be-identified component-tubing, a fitting, a valve, or the oxygen tank itself which carried away adjacent redundant systems, resulting in the loss of all three fuel cell systems," a highly placed Space Agency source said. The meteoroid and short circuit theories appeared least likely at this stage of the investigation, sources said. ft Tuesday, April 28 Dr. William W. Zeller Director of Psychiatric Education at The Institute of Living, BUI IP 1.1 WM DACTHAL PLUS THREE i SYSTEMIC WEED FEED EES will discuss AIMED AT ARIANS! 50 lb.

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