National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Report of Apollo 13 Review Board
Report · written 1 June 1970 · released 1 June 1970
Why this matters
The board's reconstruction of how an oxygen tank exploded on the way to the Moon in April 1970. It traces the cause to a thermostat switch rated for 28 volts, left unchanged when ground power moved to 65 volts, and to a tank damaged long before launch. A model of root-cause analysis that engineers still teach.
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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19700076776
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Space Program Post-Mortems
1970: a thermostat, a voltage change and a tank damaged long before launch.
Cite
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "Report of Apollo 13 Review Board." 1 June 1970. Released 1 June 1970. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19700076776 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0040).
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