A massive team effort by all the flight control stations and their back rooms, including EECOM, helped to get A13 back home.
NO!! EECOM is an acronym for "Electrical, Environmental Consumables Manager. In the case of Apollo 13, that would be Sy Liebergot. The EECOM is one of the controllers in Mission Control who feed mission critical information to the Flight Director, who is in charge of the mission. In the case of Apollo 13, the EECOM was critical in the successful return of the crew. He was able to stretch 2 days worth of oxygen and 2 hours worth of battery power into 4 days.
EECOM
Apollo 13 came back to earth on the 17th of April 1970.
The Apollo 13 proved to the world that a damaged spacecraft could be brought back from the moon safely.
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The Apollo is famous for landing the first man on the moon, and returning him back to earth. And the Apollo 13 , bringing back the damaged craft from the moon.
The Apollo is famous for landing the first man on the moon, and returning him back to earth. And the Apollo 13 , bringing back the damaged craft from the moon.
Apollo 13 safely returned to Earth on April 17, 1970.
The Apollo 13 mission lasted from April 11 to April 17, 1970
They used the moons gravity force to make U-turn around it and fly back to Earth.
No astronauts were killed in the Apollo 13 mission. The crew survived a life-threatening situation when an oxygen tank exploded onboard the spacecraft, but they were able to return safely to Earth with the help of ground control.