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Whew! It was reassuring to see Jim Lovell and his crewmates splash down safely in the Pacific Ocean yesterday. The entire mission went smoothly and we got amazing pictures of the lunar surface. Yesterday I read that one of the oxygen tanks had to be replaced early in the building stage because the maintenance team found it was damaged and it posed an explosion hazard.
This got me thinking. What if the maintenance workers hadn't discovered the problem? What if the Oxygen Tank had exploded two or three days into the flight? Is such an incident survivable?