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Apollo 13 Essay

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Efforts to change. After the explosion, Apollo 13 lost its primary means of both generating power and supporting life. The Oxygen tank was not only supplying oxygen to the crew but was also mixed with hydrogen to generate water and power. The mission control team had to make a series of life saving decisions without violating the NSPE code of Ethics. The first decision was to transfer the crew from the Control Module to the Lunar Module, this was to keep the Command Module’s oxygen intact, because those reserves were needed for re-entry. Power was also a concern, as there were 2181 amperes hours in Lunar Module batteries. All non-critical equipment’s were turned off and the power was reduced to one fifth of the normal. This was also an important step because had the power failed, there would be not …show more content…

The explosion forced the crew to shut down the Command Module, CM, and use Lunar Module, LM, as a lifeboat. The crew members needed to jury-rig a carbon dioxide filtering system for the Lunar Module. The Mission control devised to way to attach the square shaped canisters of Command Module to circle shaped openings of Lunar Module with the help of plastic bags, cardboard and duct tape. The fuel cells were generating most of the electricity during the flight. The fuel cells worked by reaction of combining liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. We can use an alternative fuel and power option and can reduce the use of liquid oxygen in such a large quantity, the two liquid oxygen tanks held 148 kg of liquid oxygen in each tank. PDCA, a Lean tool, is a four-step iterative management method used for control and continuous improvement, by applying PDCA, i.e. Plan-Do-Check-Analyze, we can test the spacecrafts with a renewable source of energy instead of using fuel cells. The results can be

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