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Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise pose for a photo. Apollo 13 stands as one of NASA's most monumental and near-fatal space missions decades after the event.
Apollo 13: Survival uses archive material and rare access to the complete audio recordings of the mission of astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise.
[13] Haise was slated to become the 6th human to walk on the Moon during Apollo 13 behind Lovell, who was to be 5th. [14] Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell eventually became the fifth and sixth, respectively, on Apollo 14, which completed Apollo 13's mission to the Fra Mauro formation. [15] Haise later served as backup commander for Apollo 16.
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.
The nostalgic chat saw the actor talk about his time filming Ron Howard’s space drama Apollo 13. Released in 1995, Apollo 13 tells the real-life story of Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert ...
Pages in category "Fred Haise" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Apollo 13; Apollo 13 (film) Approach and Landing Tests; The Astronaut ...
Who are the eight surviving members of humanity's greatest feat of exploration?
Apollo 13 was commanded by Jim Lovell with Jack Swigert as command module (CM) pilot and Fred Haise as lunar module (LM) pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for Ken Mattingly, who was grounded after exposure to rubella. After the explosion, the CM's systems had to be shut down to conserve resources, forcing the crew to transfer to the LM as a ...