{"id":2996,"date":"2010-04-15T10:10:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T14:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2021-07-14T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:13:40","slug":"musings-spring-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/mandm\/musings\/musings-spring-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings Spring 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rod Tennyson: Malvern\u2019s Own Rocket Scientist helps in Apollo 13
Crisis<\/p>
A desperate phone call forty years ago propelled a Malvern alumnus, Rod
Tennyson (class of 1956), and his colleagues at the University of Toronto\u2019s
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.<\/p>
Rod Tennyson: Malvern\u2019s Own Rocket Scientist helps in Apollo 13Crisis A desperate phone call forty years ago propelled a Malvern alumnus, RodTennyson (class of 1956), and his colleagues at the University of Toronto\u2019sInstitute for Aerospace Studies into heroic status. On 16 April 1970, a cryfor help came from Grumman Aerospace, an Apollo 13 contractor. Onits way to the moon, an oxygen tank on the Apollo 13 had exploded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Rod-Tennyson-PhD-graduation.png?fit=1223%2C1223&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9gZMX-Mk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollegiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}