Kranz understood the implications too, and knew that everyone else in the room had heard Lovell’s calm report. He decided it was time to give a little speech to the controllers. “Okay, now, let’s everybody keep cool,” he began. “We got the LEM still attached, the LEM spacecraft’s good, so if we need to get back home we got a LEM to do a good portion of it with.” He went through the priorities: Don’t blow the command module’s internal batteries, don’t do anything to blow the remaining Main Bus. “Let’s solve the problem,” he concluded, “but let’s not make it any worse by guessing.” Kranz spat
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