The Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey, breaks away from the rest of the spaceship, turns around and docks with the lunar module, Aquarius, which has been safely hidden away inside the top of the ...

Apollo 13’s LM Aquarius NASA via Honeysuckle Creek The three exceptions were Apollo 9, Apollo 10 and Apollo 13. Apollo 9 was an Earth orbital mission so its lunar module burned up in the Earth ...

Apollo 13 was supposed to be NASA's third moon ... and scrambled into the cramped lunar module, Aquarius, for a miserable ride back to Earth. It was a touch-and-go situation for several days ...

Apollo 11 was ... Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert, and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise worked around the clock with NASA engineers to turn the Lunar Module Aquarius into a lifeboat to provide ...

Famously described as a "successful failure," the Apollo ... the crew module, as they would need to preserve it for re-entry, and they evacuated to the lunar module, nicknamed Aquarius, and ...

But in the case of Apollo 13, the lunar module Aquarius had been the lifeboat for the astronauts, providing shelter, oxygen, and supplies, because the service module, which usually supported the ...

This is the Lunar Module Systems Activation Checklist Book of Apollo 13. The handwritten numbers ... 058:01:32 CC (CAPCOM) And, Aquarius, Houston. We’d like you to, on your alignment, can ...

The CSM Odyssey then separated from the S-IVB, Swigert turned the craft around, docked with the lunar module Aquarius and eased it out. With a slight course correction, Apollo 13 was on a ...

During the infamous Apollo 13 mission, he and a team of engineers in NASA’s Mission Control found the solution to the lunar module’s scrubbing system, which was starting to lose capacity to provide ...