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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.
It takes the viewer from the Launch of Sputnik through the Moon missions. It was produced in 2003. [6] From the History Channel website: [7] Failure Is Not An Option tells the story of the men and women behind the space program – the men and women of mission control. see full quote
The set was initially proposed by Maia Weinstock as a tribute to the women's contributions to NASA history, and Hamilton's section of the set features a recreation of her famous 1969 photo posing with a stack of her software listings. [71] [72] In 2019, to celebrate 50 years after the Apollo landing, Google decided to make a tribute to Hamilton.
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 ...
SEE MORE: Today in history: First ever American spacewalk took place June 3rd, 1965Since those days things have changed a lot for women in science and computer engineering, but not enough. There ...
The Apollo 13 real-time site includes over 7,300 hours of audio and video. [13] Apollo 13 in real-time includes four audio tapes from the time of the explosion that had been missing and were only recovered from the National Archives in the fall of 2019. It is the first time this audio has been heard since the 1970 accident investigation. [12]
Apollo 8 was the second crewed Apollo spacecraft and became the first crewed mission to ever leave Earth orbit. It successfully reached the Moon, orbited it and then returned to Earth safely on December 27, 1968. [2] [10] [4] [11] Northcutt continued working with TRW and NASA for several more years, working NASA missions such as Apollo 13.
Apollo astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II, known for helping the crew of Apollo 13 safely return to Earth after an explosion doomed their lunar mission, has died at the age of 87, NASA announced.