The "Story" is the official NASA complex of reports including the reports of the astronauts, TV and filmed images from the inside of the ship, the mission control personel, the news media as well as hundreds of other sources. The movie was based on those reports but the cold was not made up to create conflict in a movie. It is part of all accounts of the Apollo 13 events. As to "black body" issues. A non rotating body reaches tempretures of some 200 degrees F on the sun side and some 200 below zero F on the shady side. Some energy would be reflected from the sun side, some would be radiated from the sun side, some would be conducted by the material of the ship to the shaded side and radiated from that side, none would be convected away because there is no convecting medium in space. At any rate the ship should have been hot on one side and cold on the other. Were it the case that the ship was throwing off heat in these manners then the condensation on the interior of the ship would have been on the shaded side and none on the hot side. I never heard any mention in any report that the ship was rotating, hot on one side and cold on the other or had any other asymetrical deviation from evenly cold even when the astronauts were in the direct, raw sunlight comming through the windows of the ship. Put your hand in direct sunlight on a sunny day and see how much heat it gets.


SAMU

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