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4 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.
2 days ago · Starting with Apollo 13, descent orbit insertion was to be performed using the service module engine instead of the LM engine, in order to allow a greater fuel reserve for landing. This was actually done for the first time on Apollo 14, since the Apollo 13 mission was aborted before landing. [77] Uncrewed flight tests
2 days ago · Apollo 14. Apollo 14 (January 31 – February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the "H missions", landings at specific sites of scientific interest on the Moon for two-day stays with two lunar extravehicular ...
3 days ago · Thus I was thrilled to find a new documentary on the Apollo 13 mission on Netflix—Apollo 13: Survival – last week. Wikipedia describes the mission this way: During Apollo 13, a NASA mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon, an explosion occurred on board the spacecraft en route to the Moon on April 14, 1970.
5 days ago · In a standout sequence from the documentary Apollo 13: Survival, Jim Lovell imagines what it might have been like to set foot on the moon. The Lunar Module (LM) is bathed in brilliant sunshine while he daydreams, producing a dramatic and uplifting sight. This picture, however, does not accurately depict the actual lunar landings.
2 days ago · Apollo 8 launched on December 21, 1968, and was the second crewed spaceflight mission flown in the United States Apollo space program (the first, Apollo 7, stayed in Earth orbit). Apollo 8 was the third flight and the first crewed launch of the Saturn V rocket.
4 days ago · SpaceX launches rescue mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck in space until next year. 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.
