Then came Conrad’s next message: “I got three fuel cell lights, an A.C. bus light, a fuel cell disconnect, A.C. bus overload, 1 and 2, main bus A and B out.” Conrad’s voice was calm but strained. He was reporting that, for all practical purposes, the spacecraft was inoperative: all electrical power was down except for the emergency batteries that ordinarily were used only for entry. Conrad had barely finished his sentence before Griffin was on the loop to his EECOM, John Aaron. “When things start going to worms,” Aaron would point out later, the EECOM was the most likely person to know what
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