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MOL
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From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Oct 2004

posted 04-27-2021 04:17 PM

I am not sure who did the research for this article but Jack Black was born in August 1969 so I am not sure of the Apollo 13 connection since it flew months later. Anyone have an idea?

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"Judith Love Cohen, who helped create the Abort-Guidance System which rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts, went to work on the day she was in labor," a Reddit "TIL" post read. "She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black."

MOL
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Posts: 139
From: Los Angeles, CA
Registered: Oct 2004

posted 04-27-2021 04:35 PM

Here is her full bio — turns out she worked at TRW on the LM Abort guidance system.

I suppose on the day Jack was born in August 69 she may have been finalizing the procedures which would eventually fly on Apollo 13.

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