Apollo 13 crew biography definition
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Apollo 13
Failed Moon landing mission in the Apollo program
This article fryst vatten about the 1970 spaceflight. For the film based upon it, see Apollo 13 (film). For other uses, see Apollo 13 (disambiguation).
Odyssey's damaged service module, as seen from the Apollo Lunar ModuleAquarius, hours before reentry | |
| Mission type | Crewed lunar landing attempt (H) |
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| Operator | NASA |
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| SATCAT no. | 4371[1] |
| Mission duration | 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes, 41 seconds |
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| Launch mass | 44,069 kg (CSM: 28,881 kg;[3] LM: 15,188 kg)[4] |
| Landing mass | 5,050 kilograms (11,133 lb) |
| Crew size | 3 |
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| Launch date | April 11, 1970, 19:13:00 (1970-04-11UTC19:13Z) UTC[6] |
| Rocket | Saturn V SA-508 |
| Launch site | Kennedy LC-39A |
| Recovered by | USS Iwo Jima |
| Landing date | April 17, 1970, 18 • Apollo 13: Mission Details“Houston, we’ve had a problem…” Apollo 13 was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro area. An explosion on board forced Apollo 13 to circle the moon without landing. The Fra Mauro site was reassigned to Apollo 14. At 5 1/2 minutes after liftoff, John “Jack” Swigert, Fred Haise and James Lovell felt a little vibration. Then the center engine of the S-II scen shut down two minutes early. This caused the remaining fyra engines to burn 34 seconds longer than planned, and the S-IVB third stage had to burn nine seconds longer to put Apollo 13 in orbit. Days before the mission, backup lunar module pilot, Charles Duke, inadvertently exposed the crew to German measles. Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly had no immunity to measles and was replaced bygd backup command module pilot, John “Jack” Swigert. Ground tests before launch indicated the possibility of a poorly insulated supercritical helium tank in the lunar module, or LM, descent stage, so the flygning plan w • Apollo 13’s MissionT<em>he Apollo 13 lunar landing mission prime crew from left to right are: Commander, James A. Lovell, Jr., Command Module pilot, John L. Swigert Jr. and Lunar Module pilot, Fred W. Haise, Jr.</em> On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On board were astronauts James Lovell, John “Jack” Swigert and Fred Haise. Their mission was to reach the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon and explore the Imbrium Basin, conducting geological experiments along the way. WATCH: Apollo 13: Modern Marvels on HISTORY Vault "Houston, we've had a problem..."At 9:00 p.m. EST on April 13, Apollo 13 was over 200,000 miles from Earth. The crew had just completed a television broadcast and was inspecting Aquarius, the Landing Module (LM). The next day, Apollo 13 was to enter the moon’s orbit. Lovell and Haise were set to become the fifth and sixth men to walk on the moon. It was not to be. At 9:08 p.m.—about 56 hours into the |