Apollo 13 accident report pdf

The primary mission objective was a precise lunar landing to conduct. A more detailed description of the oxygen tank design is contained in appendix d to this report. This turned out to be the only successful lunar experiment of apollo. Infobox spaceflight apollo was the seventh manned mission in the. Apollo was the seventh crewed mission in the apollo space program and the third meant to. Apollo national aeronautics and space administration wiki. The accident is generally understood, and the most probable cause has been identified. The plan for the landing on the moon was aborted, the apollo made a uturn at the moon, and she. A view of the damaged apollo service module after separation. When a tank full of liquid oxygen inside apollo s service module.

A history of apollo launch facilities and operations apollo houston, weve got a problem annotated transcript of the communications pdf file. Apollo mission chapter from the online book apollo expeditions to the moon a fragile lifeboat moonport. To the people flying apollo , the flight after the accident seemed to break into three distinct periods. The picture above shows the apollo service module after it was released. The majority of these tests and analyses were con ducted at the manned spacecraft center msc and five other nasa cen. Grissom and his apollo 1 crewmates, ed white and roger chaffee were undergoing a full.