Apollo 13. Problems Before Liftoff Apollo 13 was scheduled for lift off in March, 1970, but more planning time was added and the liftoff was rescheduled for April 11, 1970.
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Montage by Judy Schmidt. “Things had gone real well up to at that point of 55 hours, 54 minutes and 53 seconds (mission elapsed time),” said Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise as he recounted the evening of April 13, 1970, the night the Apollo 13’s command module’s oxygen tank exploded, crippling the spacecraft and endangering the three astronauts on board.
“Mission Control had asked for a cryo-stir in the oxygen tank …and Jack threw the switches,” Haise continued. “There was a very loud bang that echoed through the metal hull, and I could hear and see metal popping in the tunnel [between the command module and the lunar lander]… There was a lot of confusion initially because the array of warning lights that were on didn’t resemble anything we have ever thought would represent a credible failure. It wasn’t like anything we were exposed to in the simulations.” 13 Things that Saved Apollo 13. The crew of Apollo 13 -- Fred Haise, Jack Swigert and Jim Lovell -- after they splashed down safely.
Credit: NASA On the night of April 13th, 1970, when the oxygen tank in Apollo 13’s command module exploded, a 27-year-old engineer named Jerry Woodfill sat at his console in the Mission Evaluation Room at Johnson Space Center, monitoring the caution and warning system he helped create for the Apollo spacecraft. “It was 9:08 pm, and I looked at the console because it flickered a few times and then I saw a master alarm come on,” Woodfill said, talking from his office at JSC where he has worked for almost 45 years. “Initially I thought something was wrong with the alarm system or the instrumentation, but then I heard Jack Swigert in my headset: “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” and then a few moments later, Jim Lovell said the same thing.”
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Credit: NASA. Apollo 13: Facts About NASA's Near-Disaster. Fred Haise (left), Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell pose on the day before launch.
Swigert had just replaced Ken Mattingly as command module pilot after Mattingly was exposed to German measles.Credit: NASA In an instant, the Apollo 13 spacecraft pivoted from a moon-bound landing unit to a crippled vessel. Apollo 13 transcripts on Spacelog. List of artificial objects on the Moon. List of artificial objects on the Moon is a partial listing of artificial materials on the Lunar surface.
The table below does not separately list small items such as retroreflectors, Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Packages, or the commemorative and personal objects left there by Apollo astronauts, such as the golf balls from Alan Shepard's lunar driving practice during Apollo 14, flags, Alan Bean's silver astronaut pin, or the Fallen Astronaut statuette left by the crew of Apollo 15. The remains of five S-IVB third stages of Saturn V rockets from the Apollo program are the heaviest single pieces sent to the Lunar surface.
Humans have left over 187,400 kilograms (413,100 lb) of material on the Moon, and 380 kilograms (838 lb) of Moon rock was brought back to Earth by Apollo and Luna missions. Table of objects[edit] Gallery[edit] See also[edit] Notes[edit] External links[edit] Apollo 13. The flight was commanded by James A.
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