Had Apollo 13's accident occurred on the return voyage, with the LM already jettisoned, the astronauts would have died, [119] as they would have following an explosion in lunar orbit, including one while Lovell and Haise walked on the Moon. …

2020年4月2日 · Less than 10 minutes later, after a routine maintenance task went awry and caused the spacecraft’s oxygen tanks to explode, what was supposed to be the U.S. space program’s third landing on the...

The Apollo 13 malfunction was caused by an explosion and rupture of oxygen tank no. 2 in the service module. The explosion ruptured a line or damaged a valve in the no. 1 oxygen tank, causing it to lose oxygen rapidly.

2023年10月19日 · 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.

2000年4月13日 · Once the astronauts were safely back on Earth, engineers began working to understand the causes of the accident, to prevent it from happening again. Within weeks, review teams had constructed a...

2020年4月6日 · On April 17, the crew said goodbye to Aquarius and returned to Earth—splashing down in the Pacific Ocean near Samoa. Only when the crew was safely aboard the recovery ship U.S.S. Iwo Jima could everyone at NASA and around the world finally begin to exhale.

2025年2月3日 · Apollo 13, U.S. spaceflight, launched on April 11, 1970, that suffered an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, threatening the lives of three astronauts—commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert—who ultimately saved themselves.

2011年6月17日 · The damage to the Service Module caused the Apollo 13 crewmen to use the Lunar Module as a lifeboat. The Lunar Module was jettisoned by the Command Module just prior to Earth re-entry. Read the Transcript in the Apollo 13 Flight Journal

Detailed Chronology of Events Surrounding the Apollo 13 accident Events from 2.5 minutes before the accident to about 5 minutes after Times given are in Ground Elapsed Time (G.E.T.), that is, the time elapsed since liftoff of Apollo 13 on 11 April 1970 at 19:13 UT (2:13 PM EST).

Problems Before and During Launch Apollo 13 had its first setback when a measles scare led to the replacement of the original Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly with Swigert. Then, during launch, the Saturn V rocket experienced an early shutdown of one …