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by drm237 4105 days ago
Why did it get so cold inside of Apollo 13 then?
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My understanding is that the spacecraft was designed to radiate large amounts of heat, with the expectation that systems inside the spacecraft would be producing a lot of it. Apollo 13 shut down much of the equipment inside the spacecraft, which meant that it was no longer producing as much heat as was expected.