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Apollo 13: system to purge carbon dioxide

by

Nasa/Novapix

Reference

e-apo13-30010

Date

2010-03-06

Interior view of the Apollo 13 Lunar Module (LM) showing the "mail box", a jerry-rigged arrangement which the Apollo 13 astronauts built to use the Command Module lithium hydroxide canisters to purge carbon dioxide from the Lunar Module.