Apollo 13
Apollo 13 was a manned spacecraft flight originally designed to explore Fra Mauro- the 80 kilometer crater on the near side of the moon. It was launched April 11, 1970 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida and was intended to be the third spacecraft to land on the moon. But plans of landing on the moon were aborted when the second oxygen tank ruptured causing an explosion and exposing much of the ship to open space. After days of limited power, loss of heat, shortage of water, and jury rigging the carbon dioxide remover the astronauts managed to land safely on Earth.#
The explosion:
The Apollo 13 incident began on April 14, 55 hours into the mission when the flight crew stirred the oxygen tanks. But one of the pipes were damaged and the oxygen tank blew up causing most of the service module to be compromised. The astronauts actually thought a asteroid had hit the oxygen tank.Because of this the astronauts lost most of their oxygen, and power.
What Next?
The astronauts at first thought of the explosion as an annoyance, for mission control would not let then land on the moon with two out of their two fuel tanks ruptured. But it soon became apparent that the because of the two oxygen tanks gone, the astronauts lives were in grave danger, the mission was aborted and the objective was for the astronauts had to get home alive.
The many problems of coming home:
The astronauts had many problems that they had to do because the lunar module they were in when the explosion occured only was built for forty five hours and it would take ninety hours to get to earth. They had to ration water, jury rig the carbon dioxide remover so they didn’t die of Carbon dioxide poisining, they also didn’t have enough power for the ship and were forced to shut off certain devices. Luckily, after dealing with theese problems the astronauts landed home with no problem.
The many problems of coming home:
The astronauts had many problems that they had to do because the lunar module they were in when the explosion occured only was built for forty five hours and it would take ninety hours to get to earth. They had to ration water, jury rig the carbon dioxide remover so they didn’t die of Carbon dioxide poisining, they also didn’t have enough power for the ship and were forced to shut off certain devices. Luckily, after dealing with theese problems the astronauts landed home with no problem.
The many problems of coming home:
The astronauts had many problems that they had to do because the lunar module they were in when the explosion occured only was built for forty five hours and it would take ninety hours to get to earth. They had to ration water, jury rig the carbon dioxide remover so they didn’t die of Carbon dioxide poisining, they also didn’t have enough power for the ship and were forced to shut off certain devices. Luckily, after dealing with theese problems the astronauts landed home with no problem.
Credits:
"Apollo 13 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." 2003. 12 Feb. 2013 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13>
"NASA Apollo Mission Apollo-13." 2002. 12 Feb. 2013 <http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/hstoryi/apollo/apollo-13/apollo-13.html>
^ Apollo 14 Launch Operations (comments on Apollo 13 pogo), Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA
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"Apollo 13 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." 2003. 12 Feb. 2013 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13>
"NASA Apollo Mission Apollo-13." 2002. 12 Feb. 2013 <http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/hstoryi/apollo/apollo-13/apollo-13.html>
^ Apollo 14 Launch Operations (comments on Apollo 13 pogo), Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, NASA
earthpicture-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Western_Hemisphere_transparent_background.png
Apollo13launch-http://kelsocartography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/apollo13rollout.png
Service module after explosion- http://ut-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/apollo_13_damage.jpg