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Was the Apollo 13 CO2 problem a matter of capacity, or of rate?
During Apollo 13, an explosion in the service module caused the command module to lose electrical power. This required using the environmental control system of the lunar module to remove carbon ...
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Why did Apollo 13 need to scrub the air in the LM?
One of the dramatic moments of Apollo 13 (in real life, not just the movie) was when they had to build scrubbers for the LM ("fit the square peg in a round hole"). Why did they have to do that? The ...
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Could the Apollo 13 crew have survived the CO2 issue using their spacesuits
In the book on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission there is a chapter that contains an overview of the consumables on board the spacecraft, and whether or not they might pose a problem to the survival of ...
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Were the Apollo CO₂ scrubber canister designs unified after Apollo 13?
After the problem realized when trying to put up three astronauts for an extended stay in the Apollo 13 LEM, namely that the square CM CO₂ scrubbers didn't fit in the LEM's slots, were they redesigned?...
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