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3 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.
5 days ago · Apollo 13 launched Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise in April 1970, headed for the Fra Mauro formation. But two days out, a liquid oxygen tank exploded, disabling the service module and forcing the crew to use the LM as a "lifeboat" to return to Earth.
3 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 ...
1 day ago · Apollo 1. 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. The mission never flew; a cabin fire ...
4 days ago · The successful Apollo 12 mission followed in November 1969. The Apollo 13 mission, launched in April 1970, experienced an explosion of the oxygen tank in its Service Module on the outbound trip to the Moon.
2 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 · Bringing them home. Humans are launching into orbit and beyond at an unprecedented rate, but plans for in-space rescue seem to have stalled. BELLA RICHARDS looks at the past and present state of rescue missions and asks what would happen if an Apollo 13 event happened today. Though the crew are not stranded, the delay in Boeing's Starliner ...
