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Message Boards => Apollo 13 Moments of Interest => Topic started by: MadDogBV on October 21, 2024, 10:52:37 am

Title: 125:28:47 AFD needs Xerox copies of the entry checklist ASAP
Post by: MadDogBV on October 21, 2024, 10:52:37 am

It is often overlooked just how rushed and slapdash the last few hours were prior to reading up the re-entry procedures for Apollo 13. The reason it took so long to read the procedures up to the crew was because someone (possibly Gerry Griffin or Neil Hutchinson) insisted on ensuring that all of the flight controllers could get copies of Mattingly's checklist to review simultaneously with the reading of procedures -- and the Xerox machine nearest to the MOCR was broken.

Link: https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=125:28:47&ch=6 (https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=125:28:47&ch=6)

Title: Re: 125:28:47 AFD needs Xerox copies of the entry checklist ASAP
Post by: bfeist on October 23, 2024, 05:50:19 pm

That's great. They sure left that detail out of the Ron Howard movie :)