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On 2001-11-03 03:46, SAMU wrote:
My question regards the Apollo 13 story. According to the story the spacecraft got cold when it had to power down all non essential equipment after it lost power after the accident. It got so cold that the astronauts cought colds, their breath fogged when they exhaled and condensation formed on the inside if the ship.
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You don't say whether this "Apollo 13 story" is the movie, or a NASA report. The movie, from all I hear was a good one but it is a movie. Movies tell stories and a story needs conflict of some sort.
As to temperature. An object that absorbs and radiates all wavelengths equally, i.e. a black body, at the orbit of the earth will assume a temperature of 288 deg K. or 13 deg C (55 deg F). If the object doesn't absorb all of the energy of the sun but reflects half of it, the temperature could be as low as -31 deg C (-24 deg F). So the temperature of Apollo 13 would probably be somewhere between these extremes.
The three astronauts provide about 40 calories/sec which would help keep things warmer.