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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.
Chabot Observatory calendar records an application of optical tracking during the final phases of Apollo 13, on April 17, 1970: Rachel, Chabot Observatory's 20-inch refracting telescope, helps bring Apollo 13 and its crew home. One last burn of the lunar lander engines was needed before the crippled spacecraft's re-entry into the Earth's ...
Apollo 13: April 11, 1970 Re-entered Earth's atmosphere LM-8 Antares: Apollo 14: January 31, 1971 Descent stage on lunar surface at Fra Mauro, ascent stage deliberately crashed into Moon LM-9 Not flown, intended as Apollo 15, last H-class mission On display at the Kennedy Space Center (Apollo/Saturn V Center) [54] LM-10 Falcon: Apollo 15, first ELM
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 ...
Apollo 8 was a lunar-orbit-only mission, Apollo 10 included undocking and Descent Orbit Insertion (DOI), followed by LM staging to CSM redocking, while Apollo 13, originally scheduled as a landing, ended up as a lunar fly-by, by means of free return trajectory; thus, none of these missions made landings. Apollo 7 and Apollo 9 were Earth-orbit ...
Soyuz TMA-13 launch, by NASA/Bill Ingalls (restored by Lošmi) Apollo 15 Lunar Module , by NASA / David Scott (restored by Bammesk and Basile Morin ) Apollo 11 launch , by NASA (edited by PawełMM )
In 1970, Mattingly was supposed to have joined the crew of Apollo 13, piloting the command module. But he was removed from the mission a few days before launch after being exposed to German measles.
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 ...