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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 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.. Launched in 1970, what was meant to be the third moon landing became a desperate fight for ...
Apollo 13: Survival uses ... The original mission marked the greatest crisis in NASA’s history, just nine months after Neil Armstrong first walked on the Moon. The team were halfway towards ...
In the NASA report "Scientific Rationale Summaries for Apollo Candidate Lunar Exploration Landing Sites" from March 11, 1970, Apollo 18 is targeted for Copernicus, and Apollo 19 is assigned Hadley rille (the eventual landing site of Apollo 15). The Apollo 20 mission had been canceled two months before, but the report still suggested its target ...
For the Apollo 13 mission, the blackout was much longer than normal because the flight path of the spacecraft was unexpectedly at a much shallower angle than normal. [4] According to the mission log maintained by Gene Kranz , the Apollo 13 re-entry blackout lasted around 6 minutes, beginning at 142:39 and ending at 142:45, and was 1 minute 27 ...
In 1970, Mattingly was supposed to have joined the crew of Apollo 13, piloting the command module. But he was removed from the mission a few days before launch after being exposed to German measles.
John W. Aaron (born 1943) is a former NASA engineer and was a flight controller during the Apollo program.He is widely credited with saving the Apollo 12 mission when it was struck by lightning soon after launch, and also played an important role during the Apollo 13 crisis.
NASA: Apollo 13 CSM Odyssey: NASA: Intended: Lunar orbit Actual: Lunar free return: Crewed lunar orbit. 15 April 1970: Failure: Apollo 13 LM Aquarius: NASA Intended: Lunar landing Actual: Lunar free return: Crewed lunar landing: 15 April 1970: Failure: Explosion in Service Module crippled spacecraft, resulting in mission abort. Mission aborted ...