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But the movie is as much a celebration of the scientists who brought them home as the astronauts who kept their cool while ...
Apollo 13, the third scheduled manned lunar landing, was launched on April 11, 1970, from Kennedy Space Center. ... the astronauts returned to the Command Module and jettisoned the crippled Service ...
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 ...
The Apollo lunar module was built at Grumman Aircraft's Bethpage, New York facility, as seen here with LM-2 in 1968. (Image credit: NASA) "A total of 13 lunar modules were built in New York, and ...
The claim: Post implies Apollo missions didn't happen because lunar module can't travel between Earth and the moon. A Dec. 7 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of a stealth ...
Comparison of the damaged service module of Apollo 13. At left, the familiar image. At center: a stack of eight frames of 16mm film. At right, a high resolution scan of the original transparency.
A replacement for Apollo 10 was found, but the tank was eventually used for the Apollo 13 service module. ... The crew moved into the lunar landing module Aquarius, ...
Lovell's response to being shifted from Apollo 14 to Apollo 13 (and therefore an earlier flight) is happy but muted, while command module pilot Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise) is remarkably sanguine ...