AGI - Apollo 13 Revisited - 40th anniversary

A NEW CHAPTER IN HISTORY
AGI REVISITS APOLLO 13 ON ITS 40th ANNIVERSARY

April 2010 marks the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13's historic space flight. In honor of the occasion, AGI and noted space author Andrew Chaikin teamed up to tell a part of the story that they unearthed and validated with the help of original mission personnel.

This animation is narrated by Chaikin, author of "A Man on the Moon." In the video, he explains how he and AGI engineers used STK software to analyze data from Apollo 13. In doing so, they came up with information that challenged conventional wisdom. Most history books had long speculated that if the Apollo 13 crew had not been able to bring their stranded craft safely back home, they would have orbited Earth indefinitely. Using AGI's STK software to reenact the event, AGI and Chaikin learned that the crew's fate would have been far different.

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[Skobbles]

@sonofhermes5

You are a moron.

[ldsgems]

Interesting. It brings up another question - what were the trajectories of the service module and lunar module after the Astronauts left them in the return capsule? Could they still be orbiting the earth or floating in space, or did then re-enter the Earth's atmosphere? If so, when? That would also be interesting to know.

[Larrythebassman]

Wow that software is OUT OF THIS WORLD

[TheJediCharles]

Very interesting, and the comprehensive power of the diagrams are perfect.

[oomblikkies]

A nice footnote to the Apollo 13 mission.

[SuperTennis3]

@tomczas7521 the earth the moon and everything that has ever gone into orbit has been under the influence of the sun's gravity

[SuperTennis3]

@ldsgems they would have both re-entered because they would have been blown off on a differend course in relation to the CM, but only by a few small miles or so. My point is those pieces would have still been on the free return trajerctory and therefore would have re-entered.

[tomczas7521]

But what about the Sun gravity?

[xxxrayxxx1]

many many thanks.

[cyberlight22]

that is cool thanks for posting

[godistheway123]

@ldsgems NASA has confirmed that the SM and the LM reentered the Earths atmosphere about a few days after the mission was over. The LM reentered around Japan and the SM reentered somewhere in the Pacific.

[tankai2008gmail]

GOOD