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Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Apollo 13 was intended to land on the Moon, but an oxygen tank explosion resulted in the mission being aborted after trans-lunar injection. It flew by the Moon but did not orbit or land. Chabot Observatory calendar records an application of optical tracking during the final phases of Apollo 13, on April 17, 1970:
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Apollo 13: Survival uses ... just nine months after Neil Armstrong first walked on the Moon. The team were halfway towards replicating Armstrong’s success, when a stir of an oxygen tank damaged ...
Launch failure Failed to orbit: 78: Apollo 13: Apollo 13: 11 April 1970: Saturn V: NASA: Orbiter: Spacecraft failure Lunar Module Aquarius: 11 April 1970: Saturn V: NASA: Rescue mission: Success Lunar landing aborted following Service Module oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon; flew past the Moon (free-return trajectory) and returned the ...
The Eagle lunar lander — carrying the first humans to reach the moon — descends during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. This is a composite image comprised of two separate shots ...
As another active seismic experiment, the S-IVBs on Apollo 13 and subsequent missions were deliberately crashed on the Moon instead of being sent to solar orbit. [76] Starting with Apollo 13, descent orbit insertion was to be performed using the service module engine instead of the LM engine, in order to allow a greater fuel reserve for landing.