An Accident in Space (1972)

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24 points·samclemens··11 comments

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That’s actually crazy. Any internet archive is bound to also contain less savory parts of it which could be removed on request. Such a blanket ban doesn’t do anything to solve the issue while simultaneously making people’s lives worse

If you like this style of story telling, I'd highly recommend the BBC Apollo 13 podcast https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p083wp70

A vast majority of the last names in this article are German. Seems like Project Paperclip all over again.

That was an exceptionally good read. Would also love a link to Part 2.

Anybody got a paywall-jumping link to Part 2? It's a bit of a cliffhanger even though we all know how the story ends.

I hear they made a movie about it.

A really good movie.

A Netflix documentary about it is coming out in the fall

The articles are serialized in his book, "Thirteen, the Apollo flight that failed". The book is available for checkout on archive

https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL581584A/Henry_S._F._Cooper

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