Apollo 13 Wikipedia ~ Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11 1970 but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module SM failed two days into the mission The crew instead looped around the Moon and

Apollo 13 film Wikipedia ~ Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks Kevin Bacon Bill Paxton Gary Sinise and Ed screenplay by William Broyles Jr and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the book Lost Moon The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger

Apollo 14 Wikipedia ~ Apollo 14 was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program the third to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar was the last of the H missions targeted landings with twoday stays on the Moon with two lunar EVAs or er Alan Shepard Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa and Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell launched on their nineday

Apollo 12 Wikipedia ~ Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the was launched on November 14 1969 from the Kennedy Space Center Florida four months after Apollo er Charles Pete Conrad and Apollo Lunar Module Pilot Alan L Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F

Ken Mattingly Wikipedia ~ Thomas Kenneth Mattingly II born March 17 1936 RADM USN Ret is a former American naval officer and aviator aeronautical engineer test pilot Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and astronaut who flew on the Apollo 16 STS4 and STS51C missions Mattingly had been scheduled to fly on Apollo 13 but three days prior to launch he was held back and removed from the mission due to

Apollo 1 Wikipedia ~ Apollo 1 initially designated AS204 was the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program the undertaking to land the first men on the Moon Planned as the first low Earth orbital test of the Apollo command and service module to launch on February 21 1967 the mission never flew a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on

Apollo 10 Wikipedia ~ Apollo 10 was a May 1969 human spaceflight the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program and the second after Apollo 8 to orbit the Moon It was the F mission a dress rehearsal for the first Moon landing testing all the components and procedures just short of actually landing

Apollo 11 Wikipedia ~ Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the er Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20 1969 at 2017 ng became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours and 39 minutes later on July 21 at 0256 UTC Aldrin joined him 19 minutes later

List of Apollo missions Wikipedia ~ Five of the remaining six missions achieved successful landings but the Apollo 13 landing was prevented by an oxygen tank explosion in transit to the Moon which damaged the CSMs propulsion and life support The crew returned to Earth safely by using the Lunar Module as a lifeboat for these functions

Apollo 18 film Wikipedia ~ Apollo 18 is a 2011 AmericanCanadian alternate history found footage science fiction horror film written by Brian Miller directed by Gonzalo LópezGallego and produced by Timur Bekmambetov and Michele Wolkoff After various release date changes the film was released in the United States United Kingdom and Canada on September 2 2011