Getting back alive would require calm, skill, and, yes, luck. The astronauts were 200,000 miles from Earth. Lovell explained, "and so we forgot about landing on the moon. This was one of survival. "Not landing on the moon or dying in space are two different things," Mr. Lovell peered out the window and saw oxygen escaping into the black void, he knew his moon landing was also slipping away. The blast also knocked out two electrical power-generating fuel cells and damaged the third.Īs Mr. Within seconds, Houston's Mission Control saw pressure readings for the damaged oxygen tank plunge to zero. Lovell reported a sudden voltage drop in one of the two main electrical circuits. "OK, Houston, we've had a problem here," radioed Mr.
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The tense words that followed are the stuff of space – and movie – fame. One of two oxygen tanks had burst in the spacecraft's service module. Haise, and Jack Swigert, a last-minute fill-in who died in 1982, were almost to the moon when they heard a bang and felt a shudder. Haise, who still lives in Houston, from marking what he calls "boom day" next Monday, as he does every April 13.
Festivities are on hold, including at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the mission began on April 11, 1970, a Saturday just like this year. Now the coronavirus pandemic has robbed them of their anniversary celebrations. The oxygen tank explosion robbed them of the moon landing, which would have been NASA's third, nine months after Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humanity's first footsteps on the moon. Haise would have become the sixth man to walk on the moon, following Mr. It showed "what can be done if people use their minds and a little ingenuity."Īs the lunar module pilot, Mr. Haise, like so many others, regards it as NASA's most successful failure. In birthplace of the beach holiday, where are the tourists? While America has coined the phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” it is an aspiration for everyone in the world. It is a call for empathy – an identification of this generation’s needs for housing, health care, and basic rights. Putting down tools gives us time to reflect, to reassess what really matters to a society. The “bottom line” speaks to profits and margins, but the bottom line is that a business isn’t successful without a value system that prioritizes people.“Workers of the world, unite!” isn’t just the bookend to a communist’s manifesto.
But it can also be a crucial part of a restoration of community. While elements of America’s strongly capitalistic society have bristled at them, a Gallup poll from last August states that support of labor unions (71%) is at its highest point since 1965.Unionizing can be seen as an inconvenience – disruptive to commerce and to many Americans’ daily lives. Labor unions are as American as apple pie. The National Labor Relations Board has reported an uptick in unfair labor practice charge filings and union representation petitions, the latter at a pace unseen since the 1970s. Then there are the actors and writers, making a compelling argument out of whether art imitates life, or vice versa.Right now, they’re all thinking about a strike.Even as the number of unions has dropped over decades, recent labor activity with high-profile entities such as Amazon and Starbucks has shined a light on workers’ discontent. There are various airport personnel, making sure everyone gets from here to there. There’s the delivery person, in a shade of brown, leaving packages on the front porch. All the world’s a stage, Shakespeare wrote, and all the men and women merely players.
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