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- The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) ruptured two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
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Apr 8, 2020 · The story has been told many times, notably by Ron Howard in his 1995 film Apollo 13, which (mostly) faithfully recounted the story’s main elements: the explosion on the way to the moon, the...
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Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) ruptured two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and ...
Apr 10, 2020 · Problems began on Apollo 13 when the astronauts were nearing the Moon and heard a bang and felt a shudder through their spacecraft. During what should have been a routine stir, one of the oxygen ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Table of Contents (click to expand) The Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA’s third moon landing mission. However, a series of malfunctions occurred, causing the crew to abandon the mission. The crew was able to use the moon’s gravity to slingshot back to Earth, making them the farthest humans have ever been in space.
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- ‘Odyssey’ Mission
- “Failure Was Not An Option”
- Re-Entering The Atmosphere
Among those who heard that distress call was Jerry Woodfill, the Johnson Space Center engineer in charge of the Apollo 13 warning systems. Woodfill saw the flash of the main alarm before hearing the words of Swigert and Lovell. What followed, as the alarms began to sound one after the other before Woodfill’s eyes, led to an anguished conclusion: th...
The mission had to be aborted, and as Woodfill points out to OpenMind, paraphrasing a promotional motto from Ron Howard’s film, “failure was not an option.” Three years earlier, the Apollo 1capsule had burned on the launch pad because of an electrical fault, killing its three crewmembers. “The tragedy of Apollo 1, I believe, led to that deeply felt...
When the astronauts returned to the Odyssey —to re-enter the atmosphere and prepare for landing— the cold temperature in its interior had condensed so much water vapor in the devices that the reactivation of the energy supply could have caused a new and fatal electrical failure. “Powering up those circuits might very well have resulted in the same ...
Apr 17, 2020 · As the Apollo 13 crew re-entered the Earth's atmosphere there was a blackout period where they couldn't communicate with mission control. The blackout period was supposed to last three minutes...
Apr 8, 2020 · When the astronauts were about 200,000 miles from Earth, Mission Control asked Swigert to “stir” the cryogenic tanks—a routine task that generated a totally unexpected event: An exposed wire in the...
