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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.
He was one of 24 Apollo astronauts who were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1997. [26] His name also appears on The Astronaut Monument in Húsavík , Iceland, commemorating 32 Apollo astronauts who were sent to Iceland for geological training in the 1960s.
In 1995, Swigert was portrayed by Kevin Bacon in Ron Howard's film Apollo 13. [45] In 1997, Swigert, along with 23 other Apollo astronauts, was posthumously inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame which is located at the Kennedy Space Center. [46] [47] He was elected in September 2003 to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Hall of ...
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 ...
Ken Mattingly, an astronaut who is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth, has died, NASA announced. “We lost one ...
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.
Apollo 12: Astronaut Alan Bean was struck above the right eyebrow by a 16mm movie camera when the spacecraft splashed down in the ocean. The camera broke free from its storage place. Bean suffered a concussion, [45] and a 1.25 cm cut above the eyebrow that required stitches. [46] Premature engine shutdown 11 April 1970: Apollo 13
[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.