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The Apollo Mission is Scheduled for takeoff
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Sperstition with Apollo being "13"
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Takeoff at 2:13pm; one of the engines shut down
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Aplool 13 is declared good to go for outer space
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Takeoff-Splashdown
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Outer Space Broadcast
The Apollo 13 crew broadcasts a live TV show of life in space. -
Liquid Oxgen Tank malfunction
Jack Swigert is asked to turn on the fan in the heater system for the tanks. -
The Explosion
After 55 hours, 3 minutes, and 18 seconds into the mission Swigert flipped the fan switch and there was a big BANG. -
Running out of Oxygen
One oxygen tank guage read 0 and the other started going down. -
The "Life Boat"
The Lunar Module connected to Apollo 13 was used as a life boat for the three men of the crew. -
The Plan
The cew planned to go around the moon and back to earth, in The Lunar Module. About a 4-5 day trip. -
21 hrs later the ship rounded the moon
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Temperatures in the ship dropped to refrigerator temp.
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Too much carbon dioxide
The air purificator was maxed out, and the three men were releasing too much carbon dioxide which could kill them. -
Space Craft Drifting off Course
The ship was drifting off course, it would come into earth too shallow and bounce back up into space and be lost forever. -
Getting back into the Command Module
The crew had to restart the command module to manually steer the ship home. -
Back to Earth
The rocket plundged into the Earth's atmospher after six long days, the Apollo 13 cew landed safely in the Pacific Ocean.
