Apr 10, 2020 · The countdown for Apollo 13, the planned third Moon landing mission aiming for a pinpoint touchdown in the Fra Mauro highlands, continued smoothly toward the April 11, 1970, liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Launch Pad 39A.

Jul 1, 2008 · Apollo 13 Lift-off

Feb 6, 2024 · Watch Apollo 13 here: • Apollo 13 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...

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 ...

However, when an oxygen tank explodes, the scheduled moon landing is called off. Subsequent tensions within the crew and numerous technical problems threaten both the astronauts' survival and...

The third and final stage of the Saturn V rocket, the S-IVB, ignited 3 seconds after S-II separation and burned for 143 seconds to insert Apollo 13 into a circular Earth parking orbit. 11 minutes and 55 seconds into the mission, the astronauts were travelling at a speed of 24,243 feet per second around the Earth.

Mar 12, 2024 · Apollo 13 lifts off at 14:13 local time - 13:13 Houston time. With the liftoff, the all-important crew abort system assumes Mode IA. Should there be a catastrophic failure of the booster during the first 42 seconds of powered flight, this mode will activate either automatically or at a crew command.

Apr 16, 2016 · When this picture was made, the Apollo 13 moon landing had already been cancelled, and the Apollo 13 crewmen were in transearth trajectory attempting to bring their crippled spacecraft back home." Mitchell and Shepard, along with Stu Roosa, are the Apollo 14 Prime Crew and Cernan, Evans, and Engle the Apollo 14 Back-up Crew.

Apr 11, 2020 · A bomb that had been set off when Swigert had started the stir, and blown a 13-foot (3.9-meter) panel off the SM. With power and oxygen failing fast, Apollo 13’s mission was no longer to...

Jul 5, 2023 · In this captivating clip from Apollo 13, join Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) for an exhilarating launch to ...