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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 ...
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.
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It comes at the same time as two pilots currently find themselves deserted on a spaceflight outside Earth in an eerie echo of ... Apollo 13: Survival is out on Netflix on 5 September. Show comments.
The Lunar Receiving Laboratory shortly after it was built. First samples from the Moon being delivered to LRL in 1969. The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) was a facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (Building 37) that was constructed to quarantine astronauts and material brought back from the Moon during the Apollo program to reduce the risk of back-contamination.
You may think you've seen photos of the moon landing before, but you haven't like this. NASA just released 9,200 Apollo mission photos that will change how you see space Skip to main content
A book, Apollo Remastered, was released in September 2022 by Penguin Random House in the UK, and Hachette Book Group in the US. The book contains 400 images of the Apollo missions as well as chapters covering the development of specialist photographic equipment, the history of space photography and the techniques used to remaster the images.
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.