Now Lunney had exhausted the alternatives, and he turned his full attention to getting Aquarius ready to serve as a lifeboat. By this time the notion of using the LEM to power the C.S.M. had been discarded. The plan was to have the crew live in Aquarius until just before entry, when they would move back into the C.S.M. and power up with the C.S.M.’s three internal batteries that were its source of power for the last phase of the flight.
