Originally Posted by
wiggy
I'm sure you're right....but it's kind of a shame IMHO..then again, it's the movies...
The Murray/Cox "Apollo" book has a wonderful description of Lunney in action that evening, comparing his task of keeping all the Flight Controllers in his team on task and focused with that of keeping a load of plates on sticks spinning, and just managing to get around the loop in time to stop any of them hitting the floor...if you listen to tapes from the control room, and especially the EECOM channel you can really get the feeling of how terribly close they were to running out of electricity and oxygen before they got things anything going in the LM and it demonstrates what a heck of a job Glyn Lunney did..
For those that don't know the audio channels and more are available here:
https://apolloinrealtime.org/
Wiggy
The spinning plates quote was used today by myself with my team scattered world wide, and all perhaps a little lonely. Unfortunately many had not heard about Apollo 13 either
Cheers
Mr Mac