Fifty years ago this week, an explosion on the Apollo 13 moon mission stranded three astronauts hundreds of thousands of miles from home. You probably know that Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly, and Jack Swigert made it home safely (pictured). You may not know the chemist behind the rocket engine that saved them, which began its life as an apparatus for measuring chemical reaction rates. This bonus episode of Stereo Chemistry tells the story of the engine’s design with help from two of the people who created it. Listen now to a tale that starts with an explosion and ends with SpaceX’s reusable rockets, with one small step for a man along the way at cenm.ag/apollo13.
Stereo Chemistry reveals the surprising origin story of the engine that brought the Apollo 13 astronauts home and the man who designed it
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Podcast: The chemist who saved Apollo 13
Chemical & Engineering News ; 98 , 14 ; 8
2020-04-13
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