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title: Apollo 13 rescue
date: "2005-04-18T12:00:00Z"
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wp_id: 656
description: This detailed account reveals how flight controllers solved the critical problem of powering up the Apollo 13 Lunar Module as a lifeboat, a technical challenge that was never part of the original mission design.
keywords: [apollo 13, lunar module, nasa, flight control, engineering, space exploration]
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An incredibly detailed look into the [rescue of the Apollo 13 mission](http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/apr05/0405napola.html).

> What follows is a little known story, even to many involved in the Apollo 13 mission. While they have been complimented on rapidly getting the lunar module into lifeboat mode, stretching its resources to keep the crew alive for the journey back to Earth, few realize the lunar module controllers first had to overcome a basic problem: how to get the lunar module to turn on at all.