Why didn't Apollo 13 'turn back immediately'? Tracking the 87 hours until splashdown through reports

Video version (approx. 10 min): April 1970, Apollo 13 was heading to the moon. About 320,000 kilometers from Earth, an ...
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Apollo 13 lost its oxygen supply 200,000 miles from Earth - how NASA brought three astronauts home alive

After an oxygen tank explosion crippled Apollo 13 during its 1970 mission to the Moon, astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert ...
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The crew jettisons the service module | Apollo 13

Action Picks The crew jettisons the service module | Apollo 13 Posted: August 6, 2026 | Last updated: August 7, 2026 Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) and his crew ditch their shattered service module in a ...
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Apollo 13: What Actually Happened On NASA’s Near-Disaster Moon Mission

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
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The Apollo 13: A Near Tragedy

NASA’s third moon landing mission blasts off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. Severe oscillations — astronauts called it “pogo” — cause the center engine of the Saturn V second stage to shut down ...