Saturday, August 24, 2024

NASA’s Apollo 13 Mission Report



How does one weigh pounds of water in Zero G?


The main thing that caught my attention was the many references to various weights of onboard liquids such as water, fuel and non liquids such as oxygen while in space. The measurement is in pounds.  While the other mission reports document various weights it is usually regarding how many moon rocks were collected or how much weight the astronauts lost during the  mission.  With Apollo 13, this is the recording of liquids—in a weightless environment!

Full post at my Substack:

https://open.substack.com/pub/georgebailey/p/nasas-apollo-13-mission-report