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“Houston, we’ve had a problem…”
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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 stage shut down two minutes early. This caused the remaining four engines to bränna 34 seconds longer than planned, and the S-IVB third scen had to burn nine seconds längre 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.
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NASA’s Apollo 13 Mission Challenged Crew, Launch Team
By Linda Herridge
NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center
(with NASA Historical Mission Information)
Fifty years ago this month, NASA’s Apollo 13 mission would have been the agency’s third Moon landing and lunar exploration mission. A movie and several books relate the story of this challenging mission which has been described as a “successful failure.”
Apollo 13 started long before launch, with final processing, testing and verification of the command and service module (CSM) and the lunar module (LM) in the high bay of what was then called the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (now the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This process had been performed for all of the previous Apollo missions.
“The Apollo command and service module, called Odyssey, and lunar module, called Aquarius, each arrived as two pieces, and we stacked them together,” said Bob
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Apollo 13
Failed Moon landing mission in the Apollo program
This article is 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 |
| COSPAR ID |
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| SATCAT no. | 4371[1] |
| Mission duration | 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes, 41 seconds |
| Spacecraft | |
| Manufacturer | |
| 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 |
| Members | |
| Callsign | |
| 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 |