"Apollo 13" was the seventh manned mission in the United States/American Apollo program/Apollo space program and the third intended to moon landing/land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 13:13 Central Time Zone (Americas)/CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Apollo Command/Service Module#Service Module (SM)/Service Module (SM) upon which the Apollo Command/Service Module#Command Module (CM)/Command Module (CM) depended. Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to Jury rig/jury-rig the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17.

The flight was commanded by Jim Lovell/James A. Lovell with Jack Swigert/John L. "Jack" Swigert as Command Module Pilot and Fred Haise/Fred W. Haise as Lunar Module Pilot. Swigert was a late replacement for the original CM pilot Ken Mattingly, who was grounded by the flight surgeon after exposure to German measles.

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Can We Do This?

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[Nearly four decades later, his ardor has hardly dimmed. Mr. Hanks starred in the film] Apollo 13 ... From the Earth to the Moon.

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.

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Beyond the Moon: Failure Is Not an Option II ... Apollo 13.

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Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?

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Houston - we have a problem!

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Jack Swigert: So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side.

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