They stayed calm and worked the problems as they came up.
The captain of mission control for Apollo 13 was Commander James. A. Lovell.
Houston, Texas.
It was actually astronaut Jack Swigert who relayed the famous message "Houston, we've had a problem" to Mission Control on the Apollo 13 mission. This phrase was slightly altered in the movie "Apollo 13" to "Houston, we have a problem."
The commander of Apollo 13 was James Lovell.
Yes, Apollo 13 was the only aborted mission.
Apollo 13 was a manned mission to the moon that experienced an oxygen tank explosion which severely damaged the spacecraft. The mission had to be aborted, and the crew safely returned to Earth in a dramatic rescue mission.
The Apollo 13 mission launched on April 11, 1970.
The Apollo space mission was planed by N.A.S.A.
"Apollo 13" is set primarily in outer space, following the ill-fated mission of the Apollo 13 spacecraft as it attempts to land on the moon. The film also includes scenes on Earth showing the efforts of NASA Mission Control to bring the astronauts safely back to Earth.
Apollo 13 was not invented; it was a NASA mission that took place in 1970. Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and was intended to land on the Moon, but an oxygen tank explosion forced the mission to be aborted.
The mission was named Apollo 13 because it was the 13th mission in the Apollo program lineup. The number 13 was traditionally considered unlucky, but NASA continued the mission numbering sequence as planned.
The Apollo 13 mission used approximately 20,050 gallons of fuel.