Musings Spring 2010

Rod Tennyson: Malvern’s Own Rocket Scientist helps in Apollo 13
Crisis

A desperate phone call forty years ago propelled a Malvern alumnus, Rod
Tennyson (class of 1956), and his colleagues at the University of Toronto’s
Institute for Aerospace Studies into heroic status. On 16 April 1970, a cry
for help came from Grumman Aerospace, an Apollo 13 contractor. On
its way to the moon, an oxygen tank on the Apollo 13 had exploded.