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Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed

Henry S. F. Cooper

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Nelson Elhage recommends it
This book covers the mission and the details of the recovery efforts and the incredible work by Mission Control and by the astronauts to get the crew home safely after a catastrophic failure no one had even begun to plan for.

on blog.nelhage.com · 8 Apr 2019

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.