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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 · Virgin Galactic. Virgin Orbit. v. t. e. The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in preparing and landing the first men [ 2 ] on the Moon from 1968 to 1972.
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.
2 days ago · While the Soviet Union shifted to robotic sample return missions, the American Apollo program proceeded successfully, with Apollo 8 becoming the first crewed mission to enter lunar orbit in December 1968. On 20 July 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, and Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.
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.
