Apollo 13

The only crew member of the Apollo 13 mission that has passed on is John L "Jack" Swigert. He died of bone cancer in 1983.

Apollo 11 landed on the moon on July 20, 1969. The lunar module, named Eagle, touched down at the Sea of Tranquility with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin aboard. Armstrong famously took mankind's first steps onto the lunar surface later that day.

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.

While in space, Apollo 11 successfully completed a series of maneuvers to travel to the Moon. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface in the Lunar Module, while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the Command Module. Armstrong and Aldrin spent about 21 hours on the Moon conducting experiments and collecting samples before returning safely to Earth.

Apollo 11 was launched on July 16, 1969 and landed on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

The Apollo 11 mission was less about discovery than it was about proving that the hardware, and the astronauts, could land on the moon and return safely to Earth. The crew only spent 2 hours 36 minutes outside the spacecraft and walking on the surface. They collected some samples, took some pictures, then they got back in and came home.

The only responsibility that the astronauts had that were on board the Apollo 11 was to perform a lunar landing and return to Earth. The astronauts were able to gather lunar materials and bring them back to Earth for exploration purposes.

The Apollo 11 insignia depicts an American bald eagle carrying an olive branch and landing on the Moon, symbolizing a peaceful mission. The Earth is shown in the background, representing the global nature of the achievement. The names of the astronauts, Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins, are also included in the design.

July 16, 1969

After the accident on Apollo 13, NASA worked quickly to assess the situation, reroute power, and guide the astronauts safely back to Earth. Mission control collaborated with the crew to problem-solve and implement creative solutions in real-time to ensure their safe return.

Command module pilot Jack Swigert manually stirred the tanks on Apollo 13 after mission control instructed the astronauts to agitate the tanks to help mix the cryogenic oxygen and hydrogen. This was done in an attempt to troubleshoot the issue causing the spacecraft to lose oxygen and power.

Apollo 7 never landed on the moon. The crew of Apollo 7 flew to space using the Saturn IB rocket, a less powerful rocket then the rocket used to get to the moon (Saturn V). The Apollo 7 mission was a test flight to make sure that the new Apollo capsule or the command and service module functioned normally.

No, James A. Lovell and Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell are not related. James A. Lovell is a former NASA astronaut, known for his missions on the Apollo program, while Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell was a British physicist and radio astronomer, known for his work in developing the Jodrell Bank Observatory.

It took them 7 days or a little more to splash down in the pacific.

Apollo 11 was the spacecraft that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the Moon in July 1969, with Armstrong and Aldrin being the first humans to walk on the lunar surface.

The main goal of the Apollo 12 mission was to successfully land astronauts on the Moon and conduct scientific experiments and exploration. Specifically, the mission aimed to explore the region of the lunar surface known as the Ocean of Storms and retrieve materials left behind by the Surveyor 3 spacecraft.

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.

NASA did not build the aircraft for the Apollo missions. Instead, NASA used rockets and spacecraft to send astronauts to the moon during the Apollo program. The Apollo 16 mission used a Saturn V rocket to launch the spacecraft carrying the astronauts.

No, the Apollo 1 capsule was destroyed by fire, killing her entire crew, in January, 1967.

The Apollo moon landing missions came to a close in December, 1972.

Apollo 13 didn't land on the Moon. Due to an explosion on board, the mission was aborted and the spacecraft returned to Earth on April 17, 1970.

The Apollo Guidance Computer used by the Apollo missions had a storage capacity of 72 kilobytes (not megabytes) of read-only memory (ROM) and 2 kilobytes of random-access memory (RAM). This capacity was significantly smaller than what we use today for space missions.

The Apollo 11 mission landed the first humans on the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Mission Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene 'Buzz' Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.

Apollo 11 traveled to the moon at an average speed of about 3,600 kilometers per hour (2,237 miles per hour) during its three-day journey.

What went well on Apollo 13: The teamwork and ingenuity of the crew and mission control, particularly in improvising solutions to the oxygen tank explosion.

What did not go well on Apollo 13: The initial critical failure of the oxygen tanks, lack of redundancy in the spacecraft's systems, and the potential for a catastrophic outcome for the crew.