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The thermostat switch welded shut and boiled the oxygen-would they make it?
205,000 miles from Earth, the Odyssey suffers an explosion that begins boiling its oxygen-will they make it in time to save the crew?
The thermostat switch welded shut and boiled the oxygen-would they make it?
In this episode, we follow the hours after a bang echoed through the hull of the spacecraft Odyssey as it raced toward the Moon, threatening every drop of breathable oxygen aboard. The story traces the technical choices, damaged systems, and decisions that set the crew on a knife-edge: could they avert catastrophe before the air ran out?
Person: James Lovell
Event: Oxygen tank explosion…
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