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- From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (david michelson)
- Subject: Re: opening of the first self-sufficient solar house, Press Release
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.234440.8327@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Nov16.171017.28081@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Nov17.211228.1295@adobe.com> <2518@ispi.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:44:40 GMT
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- In article <2518@ispi.COM> jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
- >
- >The Appollo 13 failure was due to an oxygen tank being dropped during
- >assembly into the service module. The drop was about three inches, and
- >the tank was throughly test after it was dropped. However, a small tube
-
- I don't think that's right. As I recall, it was determined that technicians
- had applied too high a voltage to the tank heater when boiling O2 out of
- the dewar during a ground test long before the actual flight. The teflon
- insulation became cracked, etc, setting the stage for the explosion
- when the heater was turned on shortly after A-13's final TV transmission.
-
- In many ways, it was shear luck that the dewar in question hadn't been
- installed aboard the Apollo 8 SM....
-
- --
- Dave Michelson
- davem@ee.ubc.ca
-