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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 selected as the Senior Pilot of Apollo 1, the inaugural flight of the Apollo spacecraft. White was killed in the fire on the launch pad test in January 1967, a month before the scheduled liftoff. [39] [52] John W. Young: San Francisco, California, September 24, 1930 January 5, 2018
There was a dramatic drop in women majoring in computer science after 1984. NPR suggests that women lost interest around the advent of the personal computer and subsequent marketing of them solely ...
She is the first woman to serve as a NASA launch director. [11] [12] [13] [8] [7] On launch day, Blackwell-Thompson oversaw a launch team of 91 controllers, making the final determination for "GO." The team included veteran controllers from space shuttle processing and launches along with many newer engineers. [10] [14] She also leads a Support ...
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 ...
While their husbands were working at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the women were living in Houston, many as next-door-neighbors. [3] The wives formed a tight-knit support group called the "Astronaut Wives Club". [4] They took turns hosting "launch parties"— potlucks to provide an atmosphere of support for each other whenever there was a launch. [3]
See TIME's photos of Americans who watched Apollo 11 lift off for the moon on July 16, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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]