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Jul 8, 2009 · The mission’s spent upper stage successfully impacted the moon. During the first two days, the crew ran into a couple of minor surprises, but generally Apollo 13 was looking like the smoothest flight of the program. At 46 hours, 43 minutes Joe Kerwin, the capsule communicator, or Capcom, on duty, said, “The spacecraft is in real good shape ...
Apr 6, 2020 · The Apollo 13 mission was to be the third lunar landing in the program before an on board explosion forced the mission to circle the Moon without landing. This is the insignia of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission. Represented in the Apollo 13 emblem is Apollo, the sun god of Greek mythology.
Apollo 13: Directed by Ron Howard. With Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise. NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
Apr 14, 2015 · Astronauts Fred Haise (left), Jack Swigert and James Lovell pose with the Apollo 13 patch and spacecraft replicas the day before launch. When their spaceship was severely damaged 200,000 miles from Earth – 45 years ago this week, it was like a bad dream from which the Apollo 13 crew could not wake. Moments after they finished a TV broadcast ...
Apollo–14. A Wikimédia Commons tartalmaz Apollo–13 témájú médiaállományokat. Az Apollo–13 az Egyesült Államok holdprogramja, az Apollo-program hetedik küldetése, egyben a harmadik leszállási kísérlet, amely azonban végül kudarcba fulladt, így a program egyetlen sikertelen küldetésévé is vált. A cél a Hold ismételt ...
Apr 17, 2020 · The crew of Apollo 13, Commander James A. Lovell, Command Module Pilot (CMP) John L. “Jack” Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Fred W. Haise, still 175,000 miles from Earth, looked back at the Moon and realized that according to the normal flight plan, Lovell and Haise would have just landed their Lunar Module (LM) Aquarius in the Fra Mauro highlands as Swigert orbited the Moon in the ...
Apr 6, 2020 · The crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft splashed down at 12:07:44 p.m. (CST), April 17, 1970. Credits: NASA. Editor’s note: This release was updated on April 9 to accurately reflect the exchange between Lovell and mission control. As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission – which has become known as “a successful failure ...
