Saturn V | Apollo 13

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Government)
• Rocket: Saturn V — Saturn family

Mission

Apollo 13 was the famous mission that never made it to the moon's surface because of a catastrophic malfunction on board, but the astronauts did return safely to the Earth. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell, the Command Module Pilot was Jack Swigert, and the Lunar Module Pilot was Fred Haise. The mission launched on April 11th, 1970 and the Capsule safely landed in the ocean on April 17th, 1970.

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Lunar Orbit (LO)

Launch Site

• Pad: Launch Complex 39A
• Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Program

• Apollo — The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. (Wikipedia)