Pictured is the official Apollo 13 mission emblem from 1970. The mission had to be abandoned after an explosion in the Service Module just over halfway to the Moon. The astronauts returned safely ...

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Those old enough could remember how, in April 1970, the world had been captivated when an explosion ripped through Apollo ...

Two days after liftoff, on April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank in Apollo 13’s service module exploded. The explosion crippled the spacecraft, leaving it without most of its oxygen supply, electricity ...

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. They ...

I knew I was alone,” he observed later, “in a way that no earthling has ever been before.” That quote is immortalized on a ...

Apollo 13 was the third Moon landing attempt but had to abort after the rupture of a service module oxygen tank.

The Apollo spacecraft was designed to carry astronauts to the Moon and back, with two key components: the Command/Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM). In this video, we’ll explore how each ...

The Apollo 13 rescue showed that when we work in teams and view shared leadership as natural, our results can soar even under the most testing conditions.

On April 17, 1970, this view of the severely damaged Apollo 13 service module was photographed from the lunar module/command module following the jettisoning of the service module.