Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank 2
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Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank 2
@Apollo13OxTank2
LOX tank 2 aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module. https://t.co/BPl7DSeq2X
Lunar orbit 参加日 Mayıs 2026
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@LRjackjack8730 I'm imagining you spontaneously exploding
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@graceluvrocky have you tried venting all of your oxidizer into space
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@TheMindIced this is what I wanted to happen when I blew up
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@MrPitbull07 surely the craziest thing to happen on Apollo 13
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During the Apollo 13 mission in April 1970, astronaut Jack Swigert suddenly remembered something absurdly mundane for a man drifting 200,000 miles from Earth: he had forgotten to file his taxes. In the middle of a mission already defined by crisis, Swigert radioed Houston to ask whether he’d be penalized for missing the deadline. The moment broke the tension in Mission Control, a rare flash of humor during a flight that had nearly ended in disaster after an oxygen tank explosion.
NASA took the question seriously and contacted the IRS on his behalf. The agency confirmed that Swigert qualified as “out of the country,” a category that automatically granted an extension, even if the “country” he was out of happened to be Earth itself. The exchange became one of the most human moments of the mission, a reminder that even astronauts juggling life‑or‑death calculations still worried about the same bureaucratic headaches as everyone else.

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@LincolnSeqVF looks like a great place to blow up
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@AndySaunders_1 @sciencemuseum i WONDER who might've broken that record
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#OTD 1969, Apollo 10 returned to Earth setting the record for the highest speed humans have ever traveled (a record #Artemis II didn't break).
The Command Module can be seen here in lunar orbit, and you can now see it on display in the new Space gallery at London's @sciencemuseum

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@graceluvrocky X's anti-spam system absolutely despises me
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