Not for several (very nervous!) minutes!
Apollo 13 was out of contact with mission control for approximately 3 minutes during reentry to Earth's atmosphere. This period of radio blackout was caused by intense heat and plasma surrounding the spacecraft during reentry.
The captain of mission control for Apollo 13 was Commander James. A. Lovell.
The control center that Apollo 11 took off from was Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, oversaw the mission once it was in space.
The Apollo 13 mission used various technologies, including the Saturn V rocket for launch, the Apollo spacecraft for crew transportation, the Lunar Module for landings (although it was not used for Apollo 13 due to the mission's purpose), and various communication systems to stay in contact with mission control on Earth. Additionally, the mission made significant use of reconfiguring systems and improvisation to solve problems, particularly after the oxygen tank explosion.
The main reason the astronauts lost contact with NASA during the Apollo 13 mission was a failure in the spacecraft's oxygen tank, which led to a series of events including loss of power and water. The communication antennas were manually switched to battery power, causing intermittent communication as the spacecraft rotated.
Apollo 13 was out of contact with mission control for approximately 3 minutes during reentry to Earth's atmosphere. This period of radio blackout was caused by intense heat and plasma surrounding the spacecraft during reentry.
The captain of mission control for Apollo 13 was Commander James. A. Lovell.
The control center that Apollo 11 took off from was Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, oversaw the mission once it was in space.
Houston, Texas.
The explosion of the Challenger shuttle. The Reentry failure of Columbia. The fire aboard Apollo 1. There were the Soyuz 1 and 11 disasters. Apollo 13 mission was almost a disaster as well.
The Apollo 13 mission used various technologies, including the Saturn V rocket for launch, the Apollo spacecraft for crew transportation, the Lunar Module for landings (although it was not used for Apollo 13 due to the mission's purpose), and various communication systems to stay in contact with mission control on Earth. Additionally, the mission made significant use of reconfiguring systems and improvisation to solve problems, particularly after the oxygen tank explosion.
The Service Module, jettisoned after returning to earth, but before the Command Module began reentry.
The main reason the astronauts lost contact with NASA during the Apollo 13 mission was a failure in the spacecraft's oxygen tank, which led to a series of events including loss of power and water. The communication antennas were manually switched to battery power, causing intermittent communication as the spacecraft rotated.
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."
There has not just been an Apollo mission. The last Apollo mission to the moon was Apollo 17 in 1972
No, Apollo 5 was an unmanned mission and was designed to test the lunar module in Earth orbit. The mission took place in January 1968, and the spacecraft reentered Earth's atmosphere and burned up during reentry.
They stayed calm and worked the problems as they came up.