![]() ![]() Was an abstraction, albeit one we had become used to dealing with in matter-of-fact fashion. ![]() Now, three equally brave men were far beyond us in distance, far out in the vast absolute zero world of space, the most deadly and unforgiving environment ever experienced by man. In those few seconds, the men inside the capsule knew what was happening - and they must have realized, at the last moment, that there was no escape. It took only seconds for an electrical glitch to ignite the oxygen-rich atmosphere of the cabin, creatingĪ fire that was virtually a contained explosion. Moments after the first intimation that something had gone terribly wrong, technicians were up in the gantry, desperately trying to open the hatch. ![]() In terms of the distances involved in spaceflight, we could almost reach out and touch them. Other astronauts sat in an Apollo spacecraft firmly anchored to the ground. Each of us had indelible memories of that awful day three years before when three ![]() Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and BeyondĪt some time in the hours that followed that terse announcement from Apollo 13, many of us in NASA's Mission Control Center wondered if we were going to lose the crew. ![]()
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