Apollo 13
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Apollo 13 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
Odyssey's damaged service module, as seen from the Apollo Lunar Module Aquarius, hours before reentry
Left to right: Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred HaiseApollo program← Apollo 12Apollo 14 →
Swigert, Lovell and Haise the day before launch.
Mission Operations Control Room during the TV broadcast just before the Apollo 13 accident. Astronaut Fred Haise is shown on the screen.
Jim Lovell
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James Arthur Lovell Jr. was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and mechanical engineer. In 1968, as command module pilot of Apollo 8, he, along with Frank Borman and William Anders, bec
Apollo 13
…Apollo Lunar Module, 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…
Lovell in 1969
Jim Lovell Signature
Group photo of NASA Astronaut Group 2; Lovell is in the center of the back row
Lovell before the Gemini 7 launch in the special G5C spacesuit, which had a zippered hood with a visor instead of a solid helmet