Apollo 13
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system. The crew, supported by backup systems on the lunar module (LM), instead looped around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and returned safely to Earth on April 17. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell, with Jack Swigert as command module (CM) pilot and Fred Haise as lunar module (LM) pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for Ken Mattingly, who was grounded after exposure to rubella.
| Mission type | Crewed lunar landing attempt (H)
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| SATCAT no. | 4371
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| Mission duration | 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes, 41 seconds
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SPACECRAFT PROPERTIES
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| Launch mass | 45,931 kilograms (101,261 lb)
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| Landing mass | 5,050 kilograms (11,133 lb)
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EXPEDITION
CREW
| Crew size | 3
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START OF MISSION
| Launch date | April 11, 1970, 19:13:00 UTC
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| Rocket | Saturn V SA-508
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END OF MISSION
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| Landing date | April 17, 1970, 18:07:41 UTC
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| Landing site | South Pacific Ocean
21°38′24″S 165°21′42″W / 21.64000°S 165.36167°W |
ORBITAL PARAMETERS
PAYLOAD
MAIN TELESCOPE
TRANSPONDERS
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