{"id":109609,"date":"2017-12-09T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:45","slug":"launch-of-apollo-13-1970-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/launch-of-apollo-13-1970-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch of Apollo 13, 1970"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-MbwJ1h-Cckc\/TaGYpTdZF-I\/AAAAAAAAB4c\/jy9F2fg_Nrs\/s1600\/Apollo13liftoff.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593920047536478178\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/apollo13liftoff.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109610\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 160px;\" \/><\/a>On  11th April 1970, a Saturn V rocket launched from the Kennedy Space  Center in Florida carrying the crew of the Apollo 13, James A. Lovell,  John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise, on what was intended to be the third  manned landing on the Moon. Two days into the mission a faulty oxygen  tank caused an explosion that damaged the oxygen supply and electrical  systems of the Command Module, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Odyssey<\/span> [pictured below]. The astronauts and ground crew faced a race against  time to find a solution to the life threatening situation and achieve a  return to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The astronauts used the Lunar Module, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Aquarius<\/span>,  as a &#8216;lifeboat&#8217;, reducing energy consumption and making repairs to the  oxygen supply system. The three travelled around the Moon, using its  gravity to set a course back to Earth.  Following a difficult journey  the crew managed to splashdown safely on 17th April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-fAUoiXQcM8w\/TaGYxQwnR7I\/AAAAAAAAB4k\/-Cw7TbyuTjU\/s1600\/Apollo13SM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"326\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593920184250746802\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/apollo13sm.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109611\" style=\"cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 326px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>To learn more about the Apollo 13 see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hq.nasa.gov\/alsj\/a13\/a13.html\">Lunar Surface Journal<\/a> for the mission at the NASA web site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11th April 1970, a Saturn V rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the crew of the Apollo 13, James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert and Fred W. Haise, on what was intended to be the third manned landing on the Moon. Two days into the mission a faulty oxygen tank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}