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6 days ago · Apollo 13 was intended to be the third mission to carry humans to the surface of the Moon, but an explosion of one of the oxygen tanks and resulting damage to other systems resulted in the mission being aborted before the planned lunar landing could take place.
6 days ago · Apollo 13 was regarded by NASA as a "successful failure," as the mission yielded important lessons and the crew' lives were successfully spared. Notwithstanding the difficulties brought on by intermittent power, lost cabin heat, and a lack of drinkable water, the crew made a safe return to Earth.
3 days ago · Buzz Aldrin ( / ˈɔːldrɪn /; born Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.; January 20, 1930) is an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, and was the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
6 days ago · Apollo 13: Survival will delve into the lunar mission, from the events that led to the explosion that would risk crew members James Lovell, Fred Haise and John "Jack" Swigert's lives, to their ...
5 days ago · Apollo 13 was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro area of the Moon. It lifted off on April 11, 1970. From the very beginning, the mission’s launch was stifled with problems.
2 days ago · Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was planned to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, [1] the American undertaking to land the first man on the Moon. It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module.
4 days ago · Apollo 13 was NASA's third moon-landing mission, but the astronauts never made it to the lunar surface. During the mission's dramatic series of events, an oxygen tank explosion almost 56 hours into the flight forced the crew to abandon all thoughts of reaching the moon.
