Apollo 13 aborts mission to land on moon after oxygen tank explodes

Category
Transportation
Place
Global
Date
1970
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"And oxygen tank had exploded in the command module, drastically reducing the supplies of oxygen, electricity, and water. Mission control at Houston decided to abort the planned lunar landing. . . . The lunar missions were ended after the successful return of Apollo 17 in 1972." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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PeriodMiner
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End
Category
Inventions
-3800
2020
Transcultural