Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat In April 1970, an explosion in an oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 aborted that mission. Ingenuity and clear thinking in space and in mission control allowed ...

Still, Apollo 13 — carrying astronauts Jim Lovell, John Swigert and Fred Haise — makes it to Earth orbit on schedule. The Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey, breaks away from the rest of the ...