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Aug 16

Space Rocket History #266 – Apollo 13 – “Houston, we’ve had a problem.” – Part 1

Posted on August 16, 2018

Swigert: I believe we’ve had a problem here! CapComm: This is Houston. Say again, please. Lovell: Houston, we’ve had a problem.

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Tagged:Apollo 13, Haise, Lovell, Swigert

Aug 9

Space Rocket History #265 – Apollo 13 – Translunar Coast – The Calm Before the Storm

Posted on August 9, 2018

As Lovell prepared for the thruster adjustments, Haise finished closing down the LEM and drifted through the tunnel back toward the command module and Swigert threw the switch to stir all 4 cryogenic tanks.

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Tagged:Apollo 13, Haise, Lovell, Swigert

Jul 31

Space Rocket History #264 – Apollo 13 – Orbit, Translunar Injection, Docking, and Extraction

Posted on July 31, 2018

Milt Windier’s team at mission control quickly reviewed the status of the remaining four engines, ran the computations for the new engine cutoff times, and passed them to the crew.

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Tagged:Haise, Lovell, Lunar Module, S Ii, Swigert

Jul 25

Space Rocket History #263 – Apollo 13 – The Launch

Posted on July 25, 2018

During the Apollo era, North American-Downey built the Apollo Command & Service Module. After each completed spacecraft, Nasa conducted formal reviews of the build paper work before each vehicle was accepted for flight.

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Tagged:Apollo 13, Haise, Lovell, Swigert

Jul 18

An Encore Presentation of Space Rocket History #169 – Apollo 8 – Christmas 1968

Posted on July 18, 2018

Bill Anders: “We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.” “‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ‘And the earth was without fo...

Tagged:Anders, Apollo, Apollo 13, Borman, Lovell

Jul 11

Space Rocket History #262 – Apollo 13 – Commander Jim Lovell

Posted on July 11, 2018

Lovell completed four space flights and is one of only three men to travel to the Moon twice. Lovell accrued over 715 hours spent in space, and he saw a total of 269 sunrises from space on his Gemini and Apollo flights.

P3-Lovell in front of the launch pad before the Apollo 13 mission

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Tagged:Aldrin, Anders, Armstrong, Borman, Haise, James Lovell, Mariyln Lovell, Swagert

Jul 5

Space Rocket History #261 – Apollo 13 – Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise

Posted on July 5, 2018

At thirty-six, Haise was the youngest member of the crew of Apollo 13, and his black hair and angular features made him seem younger still.

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Tagged:Apollo 13, Enterprise, Fred Haise, Lovell, Space Shuttle, Swigert

Jun 27

Space Rocket History #260 – Apollo 13 – Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert

Posted on June 27, 2018

John Leonard Swigert Jr. aka Jack Swigert was born on August 30, 1931 in Denver, Colorado to parents John Leonard Sr. and Virginia Swigert.

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Tagged:Apollo 13, Buzz Aldrin, Haise, Jack Swigert, Lovell

Jun 20

Space Rocket History #259 – Apollo 13 – Introduction – Part 2

Posted on June 20, 2018

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.

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Tagged:Apollo 13, Haise, Lovell, Mattingly, Slayton

Jun 13

Space Rocket History #258 – Apollo 13 – Introduction – Part 1

Posted on June 13, 2018

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.

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Tagged:Craft, Gilruth, Haise, Kranz, Lovell, Mattingly

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