On the third day of Apollo13 mission, just as the astronauts were getting ready to separate from the command module, Lovell had gone to do the final check up before they went in the lunar module, the command module exploded.
An oxygen tank in the command module.
3 astronauts on Apollo 13 one of them did not go up but he went up on Apollo 14.
The Real Story - 2009 Apollo 13 4-3 was released on: USA: 12 August 2012
Modern Marvels - 1994 Apollo 13 7-3 was released on: USA: 23 January 2001
Al the Apollo spacecrafts use three parachutes.
Apollo Live - 2012 5-3 was released on: USA: 13 December 2012
Henry Horn, who played the character Apollo in the film "Apollo 13," was born on June 10, 1950.
There were no casualties on Apollo 13. So there were 3 survivors, which was everybody on the spacecraft.
Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. NASA was planning on sending 3 more missions, but because of budget cuts Apollo 17 had to be the last one.
Two of the astronauts from Apollo 13, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise, are still alive. Unfortunately, Jack Swigert passed away in 1982 from cancer.
There were no spacecraft named Apollo 2 or 3 Sometimes one of the unmanned test missions is erroneously called Apollo 3. This was the AS202 mission which tested the command and service modules in suborbital flight. This was launched on August 26th 1966.
Yes it is. Really happened- we almost lost 3 astronauts.