When did Apollo 13 failed and why did it fail? Who were all in the machine?
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when you have complex machines, especially ones with rocket fuel, things on ocassion fail, they still do, rockets blow up every year. the trick is to minimize the failure through better design and materials and manufacturing. MIKE
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“Buzz” Aldrin\n\n\nSix hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the “Small Step” into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named “Eagle,” onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him.\n\nHe was shortly joined by “Buzz” Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module “Columbia,” in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.
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6 manned missions\n\nApollo 11-17  except for Apollo 13
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Are you talking about the god Apollo, or the space mission that put man on the moon?
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This is the second time I have seem this question in as many weeks. Whats going on! Is history evaporating? First the Holocaust didn't happen, now one of mans (no sexism intended) greatest achievements maybe didn't really happen???!?!?!?!?\n\nI guess for some people, the only way to make them believe in the Apollo program is to bring them along, otherwise forget it...
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The last person to step on the Moon was Harrison "Jack" Schmitt in December of 1972 aboard Apollo 17. He was the only scientist to ever go there. His Commander for the flight was Gene Cernan. Gene Cernan was actually the last person to be on the Moon because Jack Schmitt climbed back up into the Lunar Module first leaving Gene Cernan still on the surface. Mr. Cernan wrote a book called "The Last Man on the Moon" that I highly recommend reading. Another book called simply "A Man on the Moon" by Andrew Chaikin is probably the best one you can find on reading about all the people that made the trip. It's over 800 pages long (YIKES) and was then broken up into three separte picture books that shows you the actual pictures on the Moon as the author describes it. It's kind of like being there yourself!!!
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Try You Tube. I do not know what scene Failure is not an option, but here is the link. Good Luck.\nhttp://youtube.com/results?search_query=Apollo+13
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depends on its speed. apollo 13 took bout 4 days to reach the moon and 3 days to return back. y? u plannin to go?
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Actually, no, we haven't done it since the original six landings.  The last one was Apollo 17 in 1972, and since then, we haven't sent a manned mission back to the moon.
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I'm going to guess you mean Apollo 13.  Here they are:\n\nJames A. Lovell (flew on Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13), commander \n\nJohn Swigert (flew on Apollo 13), command module pilot (replacing original CMP, Ken Mattingly) \n\nFred Haise (flew on Apollo 13), lunar module pilot
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Apollo 13 and when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
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Our technology has improved quite a bit since the Apollo program. In particular, computers are able to do the routine chores that required humans back in the late 60's and early 70's. The person up in orbit was there to direct the orbiter to rendevous. This is no longer required.
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Stop drinking the kool-aid. Watch the tapes from the moon-landing. All of that detail could not have been faked in the 60s. Also, what about the moon rocks that were recovered?
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We've sent 9 missions to the Moon. Apollo 8 and 10 orbited the Moon only. Apollo 13 had an explosion on the way out, swung around the Moon, and came back to Earth. Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,and 17 landed on the Moon as the Command Modules with one astronaut aboard orbited the Moon. (Apollo 7, the first succesful flight stayed in Earth orbit, and Apollo 9 also stayed in Earth orbit to test the first Lunar Module that was manned.)
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Apollo 17\n\nThere were 6 Apollo missions that landed on the Moon: Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. Two missions in each of 1969, 1971 and 1972.\n\nMission: Apollo 11 \nCommander: Armstrong \nCommand Module Pilot: Collins \nLunar Module Pilot: Aldrin\nCommand Module Name: Columbia \nLunar Module Name: Eagle \nLaunch Date: July 16, 1969 \nDuration of Flight: 08d 03h 18m 35s\nFirst manned landing on the Moon, July 20. \n\nMission: Apollo 12 \nCommander: Conrad \nCommand Module Pilot: Gordon  \nLunar Module Pilot: Bean\nCommand Module Name: Yankee Clipper \nLunar Module Name: Intrepid \nLaunch Date: November 14, 1969 \nDuration of Flight: 10d 04h 36m 24s\nFirst precise manned landing on the Moon. Recovered part of Surveyor 3 probe. \n\nApollo 13 was launched April 11, 1970 but the oxygen tank exploded en route, forcing cancellation of the landing and the mission to be aborted.\n\nMission: Apollo 14 \nCommander: Shepard \nCommand Module Pilot: Roosa  \nLunar Module Pilot: Mitchell\nCommand Module Name: Kitty Hawk \nLunar Module Name: Antares \nLaunch Date: January 31, 1971 \nDuration of Flight: 09d 00h 01m 58s\nAlan Shepard, the sole astronaut of the Mercury MR-3 mission - and thus the first American in space - walks (and plays golf) on the Moon. \n\nMission: Apollo 15 \nCommander: Scott \nCommand Module Pilot: Worden  \nLunar Module Pilot: Irwin \nCommand Module Name: Endeavour \nLunar Module Name: Falcon \nLaunch Date: July 26, 1971 \nDuration of Flight: 12d 07h 11m 53s\nFirst mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle. \n\nMission: Apollo 16 \nCommander: Young \nCommand Module Pilot: Mattingly  \nLunar Module Pilot: Duke \nCommand Module Name: Casper \nLunar Module Name: Orion \nLaunch Date: April 16, 1972 \nDuration of Flight: 11d 01h 51m 05s \nFirst landing in the lunar highlands. \n\nMission: Apollo 17 \nCommander: Cernan \nCommand Module Pilot: Evans  \nLunar Module Pilot: Schmitt\nCommand Module Name: America \nLunar Module Name: Challenger \nLaunch Date: December 7, 1972 \nDuration of Flight: 12d 13h 51m 59s \nFinal Apollo lunar mission, first night launch, only mission with a professional geologist.
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These three were early directors within NASA:\n\nDr. Robert Rowe Gilruth was an aerospace scientist, engineer, and a pioneer of the American space program during the glory days of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.\n\nDuring his forty-year career with NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Dr. Gilruth led many of the nation’s leading flight research and human space flight operations.\n\nIn 1961, Dr. Gilruth was named director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), in Houston, TX. That complex would later become known as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.\n--------\nChristopher Columbus Kraft, Jr. (born February 28, 1924) was the first NASA flight director .\n\nHe began his career as an aeronautical engineer with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. When NACA became NASA in the late 1950s, he was put in charge of flight control for Project Mercury, where he was responsible for developing the technology and procedures for what became known as the Mission Control Center. He was the director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center from January 1972 to August 1982.\n------------\nEugene F. "Gene" Kranz (17 August 1933–) is a retired NASA flight director and manager. Kranz, who served as a flight director during Project Gemini and Project Apollo, is known for his trademark flattop hairstyle and the wearing of vests of different styles and materials whenever his "White Team" was on duty during missions, but is best known for his role in saving the crew of Apollo 13.
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We visited the moon six times..Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. We haven't been back because there is nothing there worth the expense of going. Each trip cost nearly half a billion dollars and that was in the early 70s.