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Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon-landing mission, ... 1970, shows Apollo 13’s damaged Service Module Odyssey, as photographed from the Command Module after being jettisoned.
The Apollo 13 service module was severely damaged after separation. ... Navy divers prepare the Apollo 13 Command Module for hoisting and recovery onto the Iwo Jima following splashdown.
Aboard Apollo 13, James Lovell was ... As the damaged service module floated away they snapped a few photos and saw for the first time the gaping holes blown out of the side.
Tuesday, April 14: 12:43 A.M. Apollo 13 needs to return to its previous free-return trajectory. However, NASA engineers fear the explosion may have damaged the engine on the service module.
The Apollo 13 moon landing was canceled due to an explosion in the service module, and at the time of this image, the Apollo 13 crewmen were trying to make it back to Earth in the damaged spacecraft.
On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 explosion, ... 1970, but two days later and about 205,000 miles from Earth the service module oxygen tank ruptured, crippling the spacecraft.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, a panoramic high-definition image of astronaut Fred Haise napping in the “lifeboat” Lunar Module has been produced.
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
Apollo 13, the third scheduled manned lunar landing, was launched on April 11, 1970, from Kennedy Space Center. ... the astronauts returned to the Command Module and jettisoned the crippled Service ...