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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.
Apollo 9: 13 March 1969 Apollo 9: Tested Lunar Module in low Earth orbit. 34 Thomas P. Stafford (3) John Young (3) Eugene Cernan (2) 18 May 1969 Apollo 10: 26 May 1969 Apollo 10: Tested Lunar Module in low lunar orbit. 35 Neil Armstrong (2) Michael Collins (2) Buzz Aldrin (2) 16 July 1969 Apollo 11: Moon: 24 July 1969 Apollo 11: First lunar ...
Two Apollo missions were failures: a 1967 cabin fire killed the entire Apollo 1 crew during a ground test in preparation for what was to be the first crewed flight; [6] and the third landing attempt on Apollo 13 was aborted by an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, which disabled the CSM Odyssey's electrical power and life 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 ...
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Apollo 15 had been planned to be the last of the H series missions, but since there would be only two subsequent missions left, it was changed to the first of three J missions. [116] Apollo 13's Fra Mauro mission was reassigned to Apollo 14, commanded in February 1971 by Mercury veteran Alan Shepard, with Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell. [117]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Apollo 13" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Apollo 13; A. Apollo 13 (film ...
Apollo 13 was launched; after suffering an explosion in deep space it had to circumnavigate the moon and use the LM as a life boat. Apollo 13 was a successful disaster in which the crew survived. The Soviet space program continued its Luna program with Luna 17 , which delivered the robotic Lunokhod 1 rover to the lunar surface, and Luna 16 ...