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The three part Apollo spacecraft was designed and selected for use for all the Apoll.o missions, including Apollo 13
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Apollo 13 is completed and ready to be tested.
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Flight readyness test was conducted and completed without any faults.
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Apollo 18 was tested at the Kennedy Space Center. tank No. 2 was not performing correctly and the engineers fixed it but in the process they accidently stripped some wires.
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the long loading process starts.
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original apollo 13 crew comes down with the measles two days before the launch. the backup crew was then assigned to the mission. the crew members where :
John W. Young (Backup Commander)
John L. Swigert (Backup Command Module Pilot)
Charles M. Duke, Jr (Backup Lunar Module Pilot) -
Terminal cuntdown started.
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the apollo 13 spacecraft was launched at 13:13 CST
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the center engine of the rocket cut off two minutes before it was supposed too. this did not cause any problems however and the trajectory stayed the same.
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oxogen tank No. 2 exploded thus causing oxogen tank No.1 to fail. the command moduals normal supply of electricity, light, and water were lost.
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at 10:08 mission control decided to abort the mission in light of the events that had taken place. the team was to make a free return trajectory around the moon and back to earth.
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the crew calculated an essential five minute burn to put the ship back on a free to return course
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The crew had to conserve water, food, and electricity to survive until re-entry.
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at 1:07 PM EST the odyssey landed in the mi pacific and the crew was picked up by a helicopter and brought to shore.
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the explosion from oxogen tank No. 2 caused two fuel tanks were leaking. This caused the crew to have to conserve electicity. this also caused the interior of the ship to drop almost below freezing temperatures.
