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Apollo 13 🚀 Ex Luna, Scientia 🚀 Unlucky № 13

Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system. The crew, supported by backup systems on the Apollo Lunar Module, instead looped around the Moon in a circumlunar trajectory and returned safely to Earth on April 17. The mission was commanded by Jim Lovell, with Jack Swigert as command module pilot and Fred Haise as Lunar Module pilot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13

 

Public domain image of the Apollo 13 insignia by NASA via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Fh3Z

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Uploaded on October 15, 2025
Taken on April 11, 1970