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    On this day 55 years ago, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission. The attempt was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded but the astronauts safely returned to Earth.
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    On this day 55 years ago, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission. The attempt was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded but the astronauts safely returned to Earth.


    On this day 55 years ago, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission. The attempt was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded but the astronauts safely returned to Earth.

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    1. sledge98 on

      Which, if you were a moonlanding denier, would mean that in the middle of a series of faked moon missions NASA decided to throw in a fake failure for good measure. 😆

    3. rocketsocks on

      One of the reasons it has taken a lot longer to get back to the Moon is that in addition to Apollo being extremely expensive it was also extremely risky. Had the Apollo 13 failure occurred during a lunar landing it almost certainly would have led to the death of the entire crew.