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    Q&A WITH AN APOLLO ENGINEER

    Mar 26, 2020 2 minutes

    How were you involved with Apollo 13?

    I was the spacecraft alarm system engineer for the Apollo Program, the person responsible for the design and operation of the Apollo spacecraft alarm system and setting the criteria that would ring an alarm the astronauts could respond to. During the missions, I was in the mission evaluation room. The room contained 70 engineers – not just NASA engineers but contractors too

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