Apollo 13
Mission: Apollo 13
On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, carrying veteran astronaut Lovell and the civilian astronauts
Fred W. Haise, Jr., and John L. Swigert, Jr., was launched. The craft encountered
difficulties during the flight when an oxygen tank ruptured. The astronauts were obliged to
cancel their planned landing on the lunar surface. Instead, using the power and survival
systems of the LM, they swung behind the moon and were then brought back to earth by
the navigating technology of the mission control center in Houston, Texas, for a
splashdown south of Pago Pago in the South Pacific Ocean on April 17.
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