Transcription: I'd say this is a serious situation as we have ever had in a manned space flight. We've always called the LM a good lifeboat under those circumstances. If at any time in the mission, however, the LM had separated and we had gotten ourselves into a rendezvous situation or the command module being around the moon, then what you state is absolutely true. It would be a fatal situation. The position we are now on the Earth-Moon planet I mean, we have to go around the moon to get back if we're going to use the DIFS engine. You would have had enough capability with the SDS engine, but of course we do ...
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