Apollo 13 mission report pdf

On april 11, it will have been fortythree years since the apollo lunar mission became one of the greatest deathdefying adventures in. At cape kennnedy, everything is now in order for todays planned launch of americas third moonlanding mission. Since their trajectory had a higher lunar altitude than other apollo missions, apollo set the record for farthest flight from earth of 401,056 km 249,205 miles. Apollo s flight trajectory, with major milestones. Radio contact with apollo was lost during the evening of april 14 as the craft swung behind the moon, passing at an altitude of 264 km 164 miles at the closest approach. National aeronautics and space administration manned spacecraft center in reply refer to, fc5 houston, texas 77058 memorandum to. Astronauts and flight controllers anxiously monitor consoles duringthe apollo mission. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the apollo mission, for days, universe today will feature things that saved apollo , discussing different turning points of. The apollo mission, planned as a lunar landing in the fra mauro area, was aborted because of an abrupt loss of service module cryogenic. Apollo flight director from fc5retrofire officers subject apollo postflight report i. The apollo accident, which aborted mans third mission to explore.

Mcdivitt page 1 of pages b colonel, usaf with enclosures manager, apollo spacecraft program after the attached enclosures pages 73, 74, 77, 78, 1 through 116, e3, e4, and back cover, which are replacement pages, have been. Scandit looksto me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. Prelaunch recovery reported undesirable weather in part of the mode ii area. Equally cool, the men in mission control acknowledged the report and began the. Apollo prelaunch mission operations report, 19700331. Big trouble for apollo so serious that theres talk of having to use the lunar module as a lifeboat to help get the crew back to earth. The report questioned the use of teflon and other materials shown to be flammable in supercritical oxygen, such as aluminum, within the tank. Apollo mission chapter from the online book apollo expeditions to the moon a fragile lifeboat moonport. It is important, however, to view the criticisms in this report in a broader contest.