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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
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 ...
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]
So she programmed it to automatically reboot and clean the slate -- effectively making the Apollo 11 mission a success. Not to mention, Hamilton also coined the term 'software engineer.'
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan.The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger.
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.
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]