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- It's about the true story of the three-man crew that was supposed to be the third group of men who walked on the moon in 1970. Instead, an oxygen tank exploded while orbiting the moon, and NASA's Mission Control and the astronauts themselves scrambled to find a way to get them back to Earth safely.
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Apr 17, 2013 · Real life wasn’t quite the same as the movie portrayed, the real Mattingly said in a 2001 interview with NASA. For one thing, Mattingly had no assigned role in the rescue as he was a backup...
Jun 29, 2020 · As Lovell’s wife (Kathleen Quinlan) worries on the ground, the mission begins, but an explosion makes it clear that Apollo 13 is never making it to the moon. Instead, the astronauts themselves, and the astronauts on the ground, must do the calculations required to get themselves back to Earth safely, using the available oxygen supply.
Oct 26, 2023 · While the world certainly started paying attention when the ship was trying to return, NASA wanted to put the mistakes of Apollo 13 behind them. The oxygen tank on the ship exploded...
Feb 15, 2023 · The solution came in the form of a Boeing KC-135 nicknamed the ‘Vomit Comet’, an aircraft used by NASA itself to train its astronauts. It was flown in large arcs, also called parabolas. At the top of each parabola, those inside the plane experienced microgravity and started to float.
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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 Marvelson HISTORY Vault
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.—abo...
One hour after the explosion, mission control instructed the crew to move to the LM, which had sufficient oxygen, and use it as a lifeboat. The LM was only designed to transport astronauts from the orbiting CM to the moon’s surface and back again; its power supply was meant to support two people for 45 hours. If the crew of Apollo 13were to make it...
On April 15, 1970, Apollo 13 was 254 km (158 miles) from the lunar surface on the far side of the moon—and 400,171 km (248,655 miles) above the Earth’s surface, meaning the crew of Apollo 13 set a Guinness World Record for the farthest distance from Earth reached by humans.
Lovell, Haise and Swigert huddled in the chilly lunar module for three long days. In these dismal conditions, Haise caught the flu. On April 17, a last-minute navigational correction was made using Earth as an alignment guide. Then the re-pressurized CM was successfully powered up. One hour before re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, the LM was diseng...
Though Apollo 13 did not land on the moon, the heroism of the crew and the quick-thinking of mission control were celebrated widely as a success story. It was even made into the 1995 movie Apollo 13starring Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon.
Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's assistance in astronaut and flight-controller training for his cast and obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced-gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the weightlessness experienced by the astronauts in space.
Jul 11, 2024 · 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.”
