JUST GIVE HIM SOME SPACE
“Houston, we’ve had a problem here . . . ” Those were the immortal words of astronaut Jack Swigert after the explosion that crippled Apollo 13.
An oxygen tank had blown up, damaging the Service Module and sending the spacecraft spinning off course. If it had re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere at that trajectory it would have bounced into orbit, never to return.
The challenge facing Flight Commander
