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Apollo 13 Launch
Name of Image Apollo 13 Launch
Date of Image 1970-04-11
Full Description The third marned lunar landing mission, Apollo 13 (SA-508), with three astronauts: Mission commander James A. Lovell Jr., Lunar Module pilot Fred W. Haise Jr., and Command Module pilot John L. Swigert Jr., lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center launch complex 39A on April 11, 1970. The mission was aborted after 56 hours of flight, 205,000 miles from Earth, when an oxygen tank in the service module exploded. The Command Module, Odyssey, carrying the three astronauts, safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 1:08 p.m. EST, April 17, 1970.
Saturn The Giant
Title Saturn The Giant
Explanation Forty years ago today (May 25, 1961) U.S. president John Kennedy announced [ http://history.nasa.gov/moondec.html ] the goal of landing Americans on the Moon by the end of the decade. Kennedy's ambitious speech triggered [ http://www.wamu.org/special/moon.html ] a nearly unprecedented peacetime technological mobilization and one result was the Saturn V [ http://www.hrw.com/science/si-science/earth/spacetravel/ spacerace/SpaceRace/sec300/sec380.html ] moon rocket [ http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Rockets/ ]. Its development directed by rocket pioneer Wernher Von Braun, the three stage Saturn V stood [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-350/ch-3-1.html ] over 36 stories tall. It had a cluster of five first stage [ http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000559.html ] engines fueled by [ http://users.commkey.net/Braeunig/space/propel.htm ] liquid oxygen and kerosene which together were capable of producing 7.5 million pounds of thrust. Giant Saturn V rockets ultimately hurled [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ contents.html ] nine Apollo missions [ http://history.nasa.gov/apollo.html ] to the Moon and back again [ http://www.literature.org/authors/verne-jules/ round-the-moon/ ] with six landing on the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/ ]. The first landing, by Apollo 11 [ http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/ introduction.htm ], occurred on July 20, 1969 achieving Kennedy's goal. Bathed in light, this Saturn V [ http://www.apollosaturn.com/frame-sv.htm ] awaits an April 11, 1970 launch on the third lunar landing mission, Apollo 13 [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010519.html ].
Launching of the Apollo 13 l …
Title Launching of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission
Description The Apollo 13 (spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/Saturn 508) space vehicles lifts off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center at 2:13 p.m., April 11, 1970 (34852,34853), Apollo 13 space vehicle is shown almost past the launch tower, fire coming from its engines as it lifts off (34854), The Apollo 13 space craft is shown passing the launch tower as it lifts off to begin its lunar landing mission (34855).
Date Taken 1970-04-11
Launching of the Apollo 13 l …
Title Launching of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission
Description The Apollo 13 (spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/Saturn 508) space vehicles lifts off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center at 2:13 p.m., April 11, 1970 (34852,34853), Apollo 13 space vehicle is shown almost past the launch tower, fire coming from its engines as it lifts off (34854), The Apollo 13 space craft is shown passing the launch tower as it lifts off to begin its lunar landing mission (34855).
Date Taken 1970-04-11
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 liftoff
Description Sigurd A. Sjoberg, Director of Flight Operations at Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), views the Apollo 13 liftoff from a console in the MSC Mission Control Center, bldg 30. Apollo 13 lifted off at 1:13 p.m., April 11, 1970 (34627), Astronaut Thomas F. Mattingly II, who was scheduled as a prime crewman for the Apollo 13 mission but was replaced in the final hours when it was discovered he had been exposed to measles, watches the liftoff phase of the mission. He is seated at a console in the Mission Control Center's Mission Operations Control Room. Scientist-Astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, a spacecraft communicator for the mission, looks on at right (34628).
Date Taken 1970-04-11
View of Mission Control Cent …
Title View of Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 liftoff
Description Sigurd A. Sjoberg, Director of Flight Operations at Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), views the Apollo 13 liftoff from a console in the MSC Mission Control Center, bldg 30. Apollo 13 lifted off at 1:13 p.m., April 11, 1970 (34627), Astronaut Thomas F. Mattingly II, who was scheduled as a prime crewman for the Apollo 13 mission but was replaced in the final hours when it was discovered he had been exposed to measles, watches the liftoff phase of the mission. He is seated at a console in the Mission Control Center's Mission Operations Control Room. Scientist-Astronaut Joseph P. Kerwin, a spacecraft communicator for the mission, looks on at right (34628).
Date Taken 1970-04-11
Launching of the Apollo 13 l …
Title Launching of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission
Description The Apollo 13 (spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/Saturn 508) space vehicles lifts off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center at 2:13 p.m., April 11, 1970 (34852,34853), Apollo 13 space vehicle is shown almost past the launch tower, fire coming from its engines as it lifts off (34854), The Apollo 13 space craft is shown passing the launch tower as it lifts off to begin its lunar landing mission (34855).
Date Taken 1970-04-11
Launching of the Apollo 13 l …
Title Launching of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission
Description The Apollo 13 (spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/Saturn 508) space vehicles lifts off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center at 2:13 p.m., April 11, 1970 (34852,34853), Apollo 13 space vehicle is shown almost past the launch tower, fire coming from its engines as it lifts off (34854), The Apollo 13 space craft is shown passing the launch tower as it lifts off to begin its lunar landing mission (34855).
Date Taken 1970-04-11
Launching of the Apollo 13 l …
Title Launching of the Apollo 13 lunar landing mission
Description The Apollo 13 (spacecraft 109/Lunar Module 7/Saturn 508) space vehicle lifts off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center at 2:13 p.m., April 11, 1970. This view was taken from across a body of water near the launch complex. The launch itself can be seen reflected in the water.
Date Taken 1970-04-11
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