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3 days ago · By Ellie O'Mahoney, The Week UK. published 11 September 2024. The story of the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13, a Nasa spacecraft bound for the moon, who managed to make it back to Earth in ...
1 day ago · Like the hijack, the Apollo 13 rescue mission lasted a week and brought people from all walks of life together in prayer for the safe return of complete strangers; in this case, three astronauts — Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert. Their ordeal has been recounted in the newly-released documentary film Apollo 13: Survival, out on Netflix.
2 days ago · The final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, occurred in December 1972. In the 6 spaceflights between Apollo 11 and Apollo 17, twelve people walked on the moon. If all had gone to plan, that number would be higher. Unfortunately, Apollo 13, the third mission planned to land on the moon, was aborted two days into the mission, after an oxygen tank ruptured.
2 days ago · Stunning footage from outer space in Netflix's Apollo 13 documentary. JL. By Jess Layt. September 12 2024 - 11:00am. Ken Mattingly, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise ahead of the launch of Apollo 13 and ...
4 days ago · Apollo 13: Survival chronicles the most iconic crisis in spaceflight history. In 1970, nine months after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a catastrophic explosion left three astronauts stranded halfway to the Moon. Over the next four days, NASA’s rescue mission, a life-or-death drama, was broadcast in real-time to the anxiously watching world.
2 days ago · The mission in crisis. The story begins with Apollo 13’s journey to the Moon.After a successful launch on April 11, 1970, an oxygen tank explodes two days into the mission, 210,000 miles from Earth.
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6 days ago · Apollo 13: Survival draws on Nasa’s extensive archive resources, dramatic reconstructions, interviews and, most effectively, never-before-seen home video footage and Life magazine photographs of the family of mission commander Jim Lovell that are elegantly threaded through the story. Gripping stuff.
