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Apollo 13: Home Safe

APOLLO 13 RESOURCES

Apollo 13 Mission Information

Mission Objective: Apollo 13 was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro area on the Lunar surface. An explosion on board forced Apollo 13 to circle the Moon without landing. The Fra Mauro site was reassigned to Apollo 14.

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Apollo 13 Online Resources

Find more Apollo 13 assets through our online resource website, LaunchNext.org.

Apollo 13 Audio Files

Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot, Fred Haise provides behind the scenes commentary for the tour of the Odyssey Command Module, which is on display in Cosmosphere's Apollo Gallery

Just remember, nothing is a substitute for the chance to experience this great piece of space history in person!

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Apollo 13 Image Library

They say a photo is worth a thousand words. More than that, images take us back in time to evoke the emotions of the moment.

Cosmosphere has curated hundreds of photos of the Apollo 13 mission. You can relive the months of training and preparation; the launch; the moments before the explosion and the harrowing days after, during which the greatest teamwork and problem solving skills ever were on display. Let us know what your favorite images are! Share your favorite Apollo 13 image on our Facebook page.

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Apollo 13 Views of Moon in 4K

Data gathered from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft was used to recreate some of the stunning views of the Moon that the Apollo 13 astronauts saw on their perilous journey around the farside in 1970.

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Apollo 13 in Real Time

This searchable Apollo 13 website is a NASA-funded project designed by NASA contractor Ben Feist. It provides access to all of the photographs, film, transcripts and audio from the mission. 

Visitors can replay the mission in real time or scroll through to find highlights. The site includes more than 17,000 hours of audio recorded from the various positions at mission control. It also includes video from NASA press conferences as they occurred, as well as newly audio-synched, previously silent, mission control footage.

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Apollo 13 Facts

Prepare for your next Apollo 13 Trivia Night, or just expand your understanding of facts about the Astronauts, the Command Module and more!

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Apollo 13 In-Flight Video Recordings

These TV transmissions are film recordings of television transmissions, or kinescopes, transferred onto broadcast videotape, then converted to digital files and posted to Johnson’s Internet Archive collection.

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Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of the #13

For people who suffer from TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA (the fear of the number 13), the flight of Apollo 13's Odyssey would not have been for them!

Since the COVID-19 Pandemic led to the cancellation of many celebrations planned to commemorate the Apollo 13's 50th Anniversary, Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell speculated that maybe the bad luck of the number 13 is still alive and well!

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