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The amount of fuel needed to push the Saturn V off the pad was staggering: 3,400 gallons every second. That required fuel pumps with their own jet engines, just to spin them fast enough. The rocketship had five of these jets pumping the kerosene and oxygen into the rocket chambers, where it would mix, explode and storm out the 12-foot-tall
tall exhaust nozzles in a 5,800-degree, 160-million-horsepower inferno.
A stifled sneeze, 19 months earlier in Phoenix, Arizona, had caused the failure of the primary voice circuitry for Pursuit, Apollo 18’s Command Module. The crew was just talking to themselves.
