Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third American mission to land on the lunar surface. During the journey to the Moon, an explosion in the service module allowed some of the spacecraft's oxygen to ...
Apollo 13 never made it to the moon as it was intended ... The main purpose of this mission was to test out the first crewed ...
Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion in an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed ...
The lunar module was a whimsically ugly machine ... The original version of another photo caption misstated a label on an Apollo 13 instrument panel. It said “lunar contact,” not “contact ...
13 Minutes to the Moon details the final ... In Texas, we found Charlie Duke, lunar module pilot on Apollo 16, and Walt Cunningham, who served as command module pilot during Apollo 7, the ...
SPACE landing is incredible, imagining boarding a rocket and leaving planet Earth to land on another planet is a euphoric out ...
When NASA made history 50 years ago by landing the first two humans on the moon, a peculiar-looking spacecraft called the lunar module made the journey possible - and survivable. The module's ...
The personal GMT-Master chronometer worn by NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell as lunar module pilot ... and while aboard the Apollo 14 command module. Similarly, Apollo 13 crew member Jack Swigert ...
Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion in an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed ...