Apollo 15 Was a Mess

Here's a Twitter thread about the travails of the Apollo 15 mission. I was especially interested in this because in 1982 I interviewed one of the astronauts, Jim Irwin, who died of a heart attack in 1991.

Apollo 15 was a mess. It went so poorly that NASA never flew any of its crew again. A thread recounting a few of the many fuckups that almost brought the whole shit down (plus one really, really dumbass move).

 En route to the Moon, the range meter in the lander broke, sending shards of glass floating around the delicate cabin.

Then, a leak sent water floating through the command module. The crew had difficulty finding it as their drinking supply gradually beaded out from behind panels covering thousands of miles of wiring.