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The Bug That Saved Apollo 13: How a Software Glitch Became a Lifeline


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When Apollo 13's oxygen tank exploded, the astronauts had to make an emergency landing using the lunar module's computer—a machine never designed to get them home. What they discovered was that a seemingly annoying software 'bug' that engineers had been debating for months actually became the key to their survival. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com
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