AERONAUTICAL AND SPACE SCIENCES

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

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CONTENTS

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1970

Opening statement, Senator Clinton P. Anderson, chairman..

Opening statement, Senator Margaret Chase Smith...

Statement of Dr. Thomas O. Paine, Administrator, National Aeronautics

and Space Administration; accompanied by Astronaut James A. Lovell,

Commander of Apollo 13; Astronaut John L. Swigert, Jr., Command

Module Pilot of Apollo 13; Dr. Rocco A. Petrone, Apollo Program

Director; and Glynn S. Lunney, Apollo 13 Mission Director -

Summary of actions following accident..

Review Board investigation of accident-

Impact of future manned flights.

Apollo 13 effect on future programs.

Statement of Dr. Rocco A. Petrone, Apollo Program Director..

Problems noted 54 hours into mission...

Intensive investigation --

Expect early resolution of problem

Statement of Glynn S. Lunney, Apollo 13 Mission Director..

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Lunar module as lifeboat

Summary of events.

Sequence for entry--

Consumables status..

Statement of Astronauts James A. Lovell, Commander of Apollo 13; and

John L. Swigert, Jr., Command Module Pilot of Apollo 13--

Report of low morale completely false..

Summarizes action after explosion.

Describes feelings over situation. _

Transfer spacecraft control to lunar module__

Comments on environmental system..

Employs Apollo 8 technique...

Shows film of spacecraft interior__

Questions by Committee members.

Keeping cool under adverse conditions.

Space program stimulus to education..

Questions design changes of Apollo 13..

No safety shortcuts caused by budget cuts..

Meteoroid damage chances - -

Man will travel solar system...

Foreign cooperation during Apollo 13 mission_

Abort procedures...

Emergency procedures outlined..

Answers "last moon mission" remarks.

Increase in pressure..

No unnecessary risk.

Technology transfer benefits__

Reaction to adversity prompts confidence.

Educational background of witnesses-

Apollo 13 Review Board.

Status of Apollo 14 mission

Early cutoff of engine....

NASA Control Center..

Value of space investment_.

Possible cause of blaze__.

Difficulty with oxygen tank.

Significance of lunar experiment.

Space program applications to pollution...

Appendix: Establishment of Apollo 13 Review Board..