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Official unbound NASA manual (MSC-01807) for the Apollo 13 mission entitled “Final Flight Mission Rules / Apollo 13 (AS-508/109/LM-7),” dated February 12, 1970, prepared by the Flight Control Division for “NASA/DOD Internal Use Only, Including Appropriate Contractors.”
The dense manual contains a total of 31 sections—General Rules and SOP’s; Flight Operation Rules; Mission Rule Summary; Ground Instrumentation Requirements; Trajectory and Guidance; SLV - TB1 through TB4/TB4A (Launch); SLV - TB5 and Tb7 (Coast); SLV - TB6 (Restart); SLV - TB8 (Safing and Slingshot); CSM Environmental Control System; CSM Cryogenics; CSM Electrical Power System; Docking and Umbilical; CSM Sequential; Guidance and Control; CSM Service Propulsion System; CSM SM-RCS; CSM CM-RCS; EMU/EVA; Communications and Instrumentation; LM Sequential & Pyrotechnic; LM Electrical Power; LM Environmental Control; LM Guidance and Control (2); LM DPS; LM RCS; Space Environment; Recovery; Aeromedical; and ALSEP.
Of note are pages 10-7 in the CSM Environmental Control System section, which resolves problems related to ‘Loss of Surge Tank and Repress Pack’ and ‘Fire or Smoke in Command Module,’ as well as page 12-4 in the CSM Electrical Power System, which notes that, in the case of “Loss of Two Fuel Cells…LM Systems May Be Used to Supplement CSM Power.” Includes Revision Packets A and B, which are dated March 3, 1970, and April 9, 1970. In very good to fine condition, with toning and wear. Significantly, the manual’s contingency procedures address scenarios that would become central to Apollo 13’s harrowing in-flight crisis, when an oxygen tank explosion crippled the spacecraft and forced the crew and Mission Control to rely on emergency protocols—including the use of the Lunar Module as a lifeboat—to bring the astronauts safely home.
