In recent years, he has spent more and more time going into the Apollo archive to dig out new details from images and film. (A larger version of the damaged Apollo 13 service module can be seen here.) ...

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 ...

Here's the design schematics of the Apollo craft, ... 13 Apollo Command Module Interior. ... The Service Module was typically detached and burned up on re-entry. 14 ...

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 Cosmosphere's "Apollo 13: A Mission of Survival" traveling exhibit, featuring the world's highest-resolution photo op with the Apollo 13 command module Odyssey, is the first offering of the ...

Apollo 13 launched on Saturday April 11, 1970 at 1:13 in the afternoon with commander Jim Lovell, lunar module pilot Fred Haise, and command module pilot Jack Swigert. And it wasn’t flawless.

Some time before Apollo 10’s launch, the tank was removed from the Apollo 10 service module for maintenance or modification, and it was dropped. It fell from a height of about two inches.

When an explosion rocked Apollo 13's service module on April 13, 1970, the vehicle's vital role, and that of the attached command module spacecraft, suddenly became crystal clear. The astronauts ...

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.