The most famous carbon dioxide absorber

Unless you are an anaesthetist, you probably wouldn’t know what a carbon dioxide absorber is (red arrow below). However, for a brief period in the year 1970, carbon dioxide absorbers were what everyone was talking about. This is the story of Apollo 13 which blasted off in 1970 towards the Moon. However, things did not go according to plan and an explosion in the spacecraft left three astronauts stranded 200,000 miles from home. Suddenly this story became headline news. The whole world got to know how the astronaut’s survival depended on whether they could make a carbon dioxide absorber using the limited materials available in their spacecraft. On July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of his spacecraft and became the first human to walk on the Moon. The first words spoken by him on the Moon that day are still remembered. The first lunar landing was part of a series of space missions of the Apollo Space program. On April 11, 1970, it was the turn of Apollo 13 to lift of ... Read full article.