Apollo 13: The Third Mission To Landing On The Moon

Apollo 13, also known as (AS-508), was suppose to be the third mission to land on the moon. The crew on the spacecraft consisted of Fred W. Haise, Jr., lunar Module Pilot, John J. Swigert, Jr., command module pilot, and James A. Lovell, Jr., commander. Launched at 2:13 p.m. on April 11, 1970 from the launched from complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The Apollo 13 mission was planned to launched and land on the moon and return back to Earth. Unfortunately, after about 56 hours into their flight, an oxygen tank crippled due to an explosion inside of it. The damages this caused forced the crew to only orbit the moon and head back toward Earth without landing. This was the creation of the now famous line, “Houston we’ve had a problem…” The lunar module (LM) ended up landing on Earth on April 17, 1970 at 1:07 p.m., landing in the Pacific Ocean The overall duration of the mission was 142 hours, 54 minutes, and 41 seconds, with a total of 622,268 miles. Apollo 13 began the first aborted Apollo mission. And the intended landing area on the moon, the Fra Mauro area, later began the landing of Apollo 14. Five minutes after takeoff the crew members felt …show more content…
The skills involved in the engineers of the computer science set a high pace of computer and electronic development. If these major inventions were not created due to not having a space program, lots of big name brands electronic companies would not exist today. For example Intel Corp is likely to have never been emerged. Which means I most likely would not be typing on my Macbook Air while texting on my Apple iphone 6. Everything that made space travel possible made an enormous significance in the change in technology. Ever since NASA was created in the late 1950’s the world has not been the same. Constantly affecting our world from the Cold War up through the 80’s and 90’s and hasn’t made the slightest hesitation in