On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 explosion, the NASA astronauts and Mission Control flight directors involved shared their thoughts and lessons learned in a new NASA documentary and podcast
On the evening of April 13, 50 years ago, NASA astronauts James Lovell Jr., John Swigert Jr. and Fred Haise Jr. were about to go to sleep for the night in the Apollo 13 command module. They were about 200,000 miles away from Earth on the way to the moon.
Everything was about to change, ultimately forcing the crew to abort their mission. Here's what happened, according to newly released interviews with the NASA astronauts. The explosionThe astronauts had just finished a TV broadcast providing a tour of the lunar module that would land on the moon. Read MoreOn the ground in Houston's Mission Control center, Apollo 13 flight director Gene Kranz and his team were about to hand off to another shift.
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