As the astronauts were about 80, km from the moon, an explosion occurred in the Service Module of Command Module , "Odyssey". The electrical power and water in "Odyssey" was lost, so the lunar landing was aborted.
There they conserved food and fuel during the trip around the moon and back to Earth. The Lunar Module descent engine was used to place the spacecraft on a landing trajectory and to speed up the return.
Just before re-entry, the astronauts returned to the Command Module and jettisoned the crippled Service Module. Then they jettisoned "Aquarius", which was not designed for atmospheric re-entry, and safely landed in the Pacific Ocean on April Aluminum alloy, stainless steel, and titanium structures.
Outer shell - stainless steel honeycomb between stainless steel sheets. Crew compartment inner shell - aluminum honeycomb between aluminum alloy sheets. Skip to main content. Flight controllers wrote the new procedures in three days, instead of the usual three months. The CM was cold and clammy at the start of the power-up. All the surfaces were covered with condensation.
Mission control worried the moisture would cause problems during power-up, but the extensive electrical insulation improvements made after the Apollo 1 fire prevented any issues. Apollo 13 astronauts were able to see the damage from the explosion. An entire panel was missing and adjacent areas were in shards. Finally, Odyssey regained radio contact after a delay due to Apollo 13's shallow reentry path, which lengthened the blackout.
Soon after, Apollo 13 splashed down safely in the South Pacific Ocean. Although exhausted, the crew was in good condition except for Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot, who was suffering from a serious urinary tract infection due to dehydration. President Richard Nixon awarded the crew the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor. Learn more. Get closer than ever before with some of our science and space exploration learning center's artifacts and exhibits in our new video series, "History Up.
This month we are highlighting all things Apollo You may recall this notable mission due to the hit blockbuster film. Think you can sort. This month we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 13 mission. In our weekly History Up Close video series, we are featuring. The Apollo 13 mission was to be the first mission to land in the lunar highlands and to mark the third crewed mission to land.
This is. What did Apollo-era fashion look like? Relive the golden age of space exploration through some of the most common fashion of the time. That iconic. After they performed a crucial burn to point the spacecraft back towards Earth, the crew powered down every nonessential system in the spacecraft.
Without a source of heat, cabin temperatures quickly dropped down close to freezing. Some food became inedible. The crew also rationed water to make sure Aquarius — operating for longer than it was designed — would have enough liquid to cool its hardware down. And Aquarius was pretty cramped as it was designed to hold two people, not three.
On Earth, flight director Gene Kranz pulled his shift of controllers off regular rotation to focus on managing consumables like water and power. Other mission control teams helped the crew with its daily activities. Spacecraft manufacturers worked around the clock to support NASA and the crew. It was a rough journey home.
The entire spaceflight crew lost weight, and Haise developed a kidney infection. But the small vessel protected and carried the crew long enough to reach Earth's atmosphere.
In the hours before splashdown, the exhausted crew scrambled back over to the Odyssey powered it up. The craft had essentially been in a cold water soak for days, and could have shorted out, but thanks to safeguards put in place after the Apollo 1 disaster, there were no issues. Numerous design changes were made to the Apollo service module and command module on subsequent missions in the Apollo program.
As for the astronauts, Haise was assigned to command the Apollo 19 moon mission. However, it and two other missions were canceled after NASA's budget was cut. He later piloted the space shuttle Enterprise during its test flights. In , Swigert was elected to Congress in his home state of Colorado. However, during the campaign, he was diagnosed with bone cancer, and he died before he could be sworn in. In , Lovell and journalist Jeffrey Kluger co-wrote a book about Lovell's spaceflight career that primarily focused on the events of the Apollo 13 mission.
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