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“I BELIEVE WE’VE HAD A PROBLEM HERE”

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Apollo13 – view of the crippled Service Module after
separation.
     
     
     
     
 

On April 13, 1970, disaster struck 200,000 miles from Earth
when oxygen tank No. 2 blew up on
Apollo 13, the third
manned lunar landing mission. Astronauts James A. Lovell,
John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise had left Earth
two days
before
for the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon but were
forced to turn their attention to simply making it home alive.

A routine stir of an oxygen tank ignited damaged wire
insulation inside it, causing an explosion that vented the
contents of both of the SM’s oxygen tanks to space.

Without oxygen, needed for breathing and for generating
electric power, the SM’s propulsion and life support systems
could not operate. The CM’s systems had to be shut down
to conserve its remaining resources for reentry, forcing the
crew to transfer to the LM as a lifeboat. With the lunar landing
canceled, mission controllers worked to bring the crew home
alive.

     

      
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Apollo 13

At NASA Mission Control in Houston’s Manned Spacecraft Center, Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, left, director of flight
crew operations, holds lithium hydroxide canisters attached
to a hose, a makeshift repair to reduce the dangerous levels
of carbon dioxide aboard the crippled spacecraft Apollo 13.

3 1970 headline newspapers APOLLO 13 return safely to earth after space accident

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IT WAS A SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH ON THIS DAY

Apollo 13 Launch

On April 11, 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying
astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise.

The spacecraft’s destination was the Fra Mauro highlands of the
moon, where the astronauts were to explore the Imbrium Basin
and conduct geological experiments.

After an oxygen tank exploded just over 200,000 miles from Earth
on the evening of April 13, however, the new mission objective
became to get the Apollo 13 crew home alive. The landing mission
was aborted.

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The crew: Jim Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred Haise.

Apollo 14 Ed Mitchell (left), Stu Roosa, and Al Shepard walking out to the transfer van. Deke ...

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The Apollo 13 service module showing explosion damage. (NASA)

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FORMER ASTRONAUT HAS DIED AT AGE 93

An Oklahoma legend celebrates his 90th birthday | Weatherford Daily News

Astronaut Thomas Stafford, Apollo 10 commander, dies at 93 | WYTV

WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who
commanded a dress rehearsal flight for the 1969 moon
landing and the first U.S.-Soviet space linkup, died Monday
in a hospital near his Space Coast Florida home.

Stafford, a retired Air Force three-star general, took part in
four space missions. Before Apollo 10, he flew on two Gemini
flights, including the first rendezvous of two U.S. capsules in
orbit.

Stafford was one of 24 NASA astronauts who flew to the moon,

but he did not land on it. Only seven of them are still alive.

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ASTRONAUT THOMAS P. STAFFORD DURING GEMINI 9 MISSION.





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CLASSIC LIFE COVER FROM THIS DAY IN 1962

March 2, 1962 LIFE Magazine with John Glenn Space Travel on the Cover has 94 pages of ads and articles, Birthday Gift Idea No.2 image 1

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1967

**3 Astronauts Die in (Apollo 1) Launchpad Fire-Jan. 27, 1967: Sad Day in History, page 1

A launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral,
Florida, killed astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II,
and Roger B. Chaffee.

An investigation indicated that a faulty electrical wire inside the
Apollo 1 command module was the probable cause of the fire.

The astronauts, the first Americans to die in a spacecraft, had
been participating in a simulation of the Apollo 1 launch that 
was scheduled for the following month.

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Apollo 1: Death of 3 astronauts in fire on launch pad forces NASA to reassess
The Apollo 1 prime crewmembers intended for the first
manned Apollo space flight: (L to R) Edward H. White II,
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, and Roger B. Chaffee.

                                 Life has always been Drifting Sideways: Fakta Angkasa: Apollo 1

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