Seymour (Sy) Liebergot, a Californian, almost elderly by MOCR standards at the age of thirty-four, was the White Team’s EECOM for Thirteen. As the television show ended, he got onto the loop to Flight to ask for a cryo stir. “Cryo” referred to the cryogenics: two tanks each of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen that produced the spacecraft’s electricity, oxygen supplies, and water. Chilled to their liquid state because that was the only way to store a sufficient amount for the lunar journey, the O2 and the H2 (as the controllers referred to them) were fed into three fuel cells, which converted
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