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PSA: Apollo 13 is currently marked as “Leaving Soon” on Netflix.

The scenes where they identify the square peg/round hole problem and where John Aaron and Ken Mattingly get the power draw down are some of my favorite in any movie. Must watch for any engineer

I love how their solution was not to fit the square peg into the round hole, but to use the suit air hose system to pull air through the filter instead.

They achieved the important function ("flow cabin air through the filter") in a totally different way.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap13fj/15day4-mailbox.html

https://spacecenter.org/apollo-13-infographic-how-did-they-m...

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