If you could ask Sy Liebergot (EECOM for the Apollo missions) anything what would it be?

Great question. I think I’d want to know about what he did to maintain the right level of stress/energy/focus during Apollo 13.

Okay, I’ll ask him.

We’re there any really unexplained UFO experienced by any missions?

Emergency, Environmental, and Consumables Management (EECOM):
1) How close was Apollo 13 to zero level of critical consumables compared to other Apollo missions?
2) Any notable contingencies on other missions? Some unit crapping out, and the crew having to improvise?

RG that’s a great question.

What kind of new and different (from before) emergency training for astronauts was implemented as a result of Apollo 13?

@canidmajor Great question. Thanks.

@Rarebear: Are you old enough to remember it? It was a white-knuckler for all of us, and local analysts were positing the likelihood of a retrieval mission. It stands out in my memory as one of the most intense times of my life.

I’d be more interested to hear about Skylab.

He didn’t work on Skylab.

@canidmajor Yes. I’m 52.

Actually sorry it turns out he did work on Skylab.

Okay here are answer to questions.

1). Stress focus
Basically training. And denial. He was stressed but he had to work the problem. It took him about 20 minutes to figure out that it wasn’t an instrumentation failure. And once he made the decision to send them to the LM then relief.

2) comsumables. About 10 hours

3) contingencies. Many. A couple was that they installed a battery on the command module also they put an extra oxygen tank on the other side of the module.

4) emergency training. He said there was extensive training that was different but he didn’t get into it with me.

5) other mission crapping out. Nothing like 13. There was one where a fuel cell failed but it wasn’t a big deal.

Very cool! thanks for the update

No questions about Skylab falling? or did you not realise in time?

yes. Sorry I forgot to write. I went to a Skylab panel. They said that there was a big solar storm that caused a drag on the station that they didn’t predict. They fought to keep it up but couldn’t. They certainly didn’t want to have it crash into Australia but it was out of their control.