Apollo 13 liftoff ksc 70pc 160hr

Apollo 13

By bmonroe24
  • The Apollo Mission is Scheduled for takeoff

    The Apollo Mission is Scheduled for takeoff

  • Sperstition with Apollo being "13"

  • Takeoff at 2:13pm; one of the engines shut down

  • Aplool 13 is declared good to go for outer space

  • Period: to

    Takeoff-Splashdown

  • Outer Space Broadcast

    The Apollo 13 crew broadcasts a live TV show of life in space.

  • Liquid Oxgen Tank malfunction

    Jack Swigert is asked to turn on the fan in the heater system for the tanks.

  • The Explosion

    After 55 hours, 3 minutes, and 18 seconds into the mission Swigert flipped the fan switch and there was a big BANG.

  • Running out of Oxygen

    One oxygen tank guage read 0 and the other started going down.
  • The "Life Boat"

    The "Life Boat"

    The Lunar Module connected to Apollo 13 was used as a life boat for the three men of the crew.

  • The Plan

    The cew planned to go around the moon and back to earth, in The Lunar Module. About a 4-5 day trip.

  • 21 hrs later the ship rounded the moon

  • Temperatures in the ship dropped to refrigerator temp.

  • Too much carbon dioxide

    The air purificator was maxed out, and the three men were releasing too much carbon dioxide which could kill them.

  • Space Craft Drifting off Course

    The ship was drifting off course, it would come into earth too shallow and bounce back up into space and be lost forever.

  • Getting back into the Command Module

    The crew had to restart the command module to manually steer the ship home.
  • Back to Earth

    Back to Earth

    The rocket plundged into the Earth's atmospher after six long days, the Apollo 13 cew landed safely in the Pacific Ocean.