Nikxice
Active Member
The partial Saturn failure that bxr140 could have been referring to did occur on Apollo 13. The second stage center engine shut down prematurely due to a phenomenon known as pogo oscillation. First discovered on the unmanned Apollo 6 flight, the problem was reduced during later launches. In the case of 13, the four remaining second stage engines burned longer than originally planned, believe the single third stage also compensated with an extended burn time. Paraphrasing from the movie, Hanks said something along the lines of.......There was our glitch for the mission.