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Just before the mission began things started to go wrong. The weekend before launch Charlie Duke, the backup lunar module pilot, came down with a case of German measles.
The original crew of Apollo 13
Apollo 13 backup crew
Apollo 13 actual crew, Lovell, Swigert, Haise
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Targeted for touchdown on the third lunar landing was a place known as the Fra Mauro range, a stretch of rugged, Appalachian-type mounds 110 miles east of the Apollo 12 landing site.
Apollo 13 Mission Patch
The planned destination of Apollo 13, Fra Mauro
Apollo 13 insignia
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Ten days ago, their Saturn V rocket had blasted Bean and his crew mates out of earth’s gravitational pull. Now their home planet was pulling them back at more than 24,000 miles per hour, twelve times faster than a high-speed rifle bullet. “Boy,” said Bean, “we are really hauling!”
Apollo 12 splashdown
Apollo 12 recovery
Apollo 12 mobile quarantine
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Dick Gordon opened the tunnel to Intrepid, saw his companions floating in a dirty cloud of moon dust, and slammed the hatch closed. He called out, “You guys ain’t gonna mess up my nice clean spacecraft!”
LM Rendezvous Radar and CSM Target Orientation
LM docking with CM over the Moon
Intrepid descent stage
