I liked the Apollo 13 reference too. Those guys were close to still being out there.
I'm reminded of the "back story" about the oxygen tank, which came from its manufacturer near here, in Boulder, CO.
The tank was first installed in Apollo 12's Service Module during the prep for that flight, and a technician accidentally left its heater turned ON for over an hour with the tank dry, which the manufacturer had stated should not be done for more than 2 minutes without cryogenic material in the tank. During an audit of the test logs this error was discovered, and the tank was pulled out and returned to Boulder for "inspection". In Boulder the technicians who had made the tank had moved on to other jobs and the new crop of kids didn't have a clue how to "test" or "check" it, so they just measured the heater element's resistance, found it was within 10% of the original value (which was a ridiculously STUPID test), declared it "Tested", and sent it back to the Cape. There was never any provision made in the tank's design for any kind of a check like this: it was a fully-welded shut container with a fill valve and plumbing fittings, and electrical terminals. What had actually happened inside was: the nichrome heater wire, encapsulated inside a baked-on ceramic coating to insulate it from any contact with the fluid in the tank, had expanded enough to crack the insulation baked onto it. So, when the cryogenic oxygen in the tank got semi-frozen and 'slushy' in the deep cold of space, it froze onto the ceramic heater - and into the cracks, touching the nichrome wire - so that switching ON the 40-something volts from the batteries caused instantaneous combustion and high pressure just seconds after the switch was thrown. That was what exploded the oxygen tank, which took out half the other service module components packed next to it - like the fuel cells (for power). That was the oxygen tank(s) for the capsule's occupants for the whole trip! It was purely NASA's major fear of a very public failure in the moonshots that had added almost 70% more oxygen to the LEM (compared to Apollo 11) that saved them after that, as they expended all but 1.5 minutes of that LEM's oxygen before they jettisoned it just prior to the super-hot re-entry that they survived, breathing just the last of the capsule's oxygen tanks to reach the ocean. It was as close as a 4-blade razor's shave!
