Apollo 13

Apollo 13 was NASA's April 1970 crewed lunar mission with James A. Lovell Jr. as commander, John L. Swigert Jr. as command module pilot, and Fred W. Haise Jr. as lunar module pilot. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A on Saturn V SA-508, with command and service module Odyssey and lunar module Aquarius. It was intended to land in the Fra Mauro region of the Moon, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank failed in the service module two days into flight. The crew and flight-control teams converted Aquarius into a lifeboat, conserved electrical power and water, improvised carbon-dioxide removal, and used carefully planned burns and re-entry procedures to bring the spacecraft home. Apollo 13 looped around the Moon and splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean on April 17, 1970 after 142 hours, 54 minutes, and 41 seconds of flight. The mission is modeled here as a completed Apollo mission with successful crew recovery, a failed lunar-landing objective, full crew links, Saturn V family and SA-508 vehicle linkage, and NASA as lead agency.