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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Gauguin who wrote (28365)6/9/1999 8:22:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
When Apollo 13 rounded the moon, the sealant in the culprit Oh-Two tanks was this awesomely intense lapis blue. (Blue up, they did.) It vaporized and then coalesced in teeeny droplets. In a plume slowly fanning out from the stricken Service Module. When our boys shakily fired the LEM main motor in a bass-ackwards "let's not hit the moon" shimmy, the cloud of course did not change course. It impinged on the surface (I imagine it made a sound like a line squall crossing the Astrodome), making it look like gray Corian with the little cornflower-colored speckles in it.

So it's all our fault.

It's a little-known fact that this blue sealant burned up on re-entry of the other moon shots and made a persistent smoke. This colors our sky even today. Photographs from the previous century confirm that the sky was originally gray-white.
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