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Apollo 13 legend, Brookhaven High graduate Ed Smylie dies, 95
A Brookhaven High School graduate credited with saving the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts died peacefully in Tennessee ...
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On this day in 1970: Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth after reporting: “Houston, we’ve had a problem here”
The Apollo 13 mission was meant to be the third lunar landing but the operation was aborted ... when Apollo 13 was about 180,000 nautical miles from Earth. One of the liquid oxygen tanks started ...
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On This Day: Ill-fated Apollo 13 blasts off
File Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress In 1970, the Apollo 13 ... landing mission. The attempt was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded but the astronauts safely returned to Earth.
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Apollo 13 ReviewApollo 13 Review: Watching People Do Math Has Never Been As Interesting To Me As It Is In This Stunning & Realistic Ode To NASA
The genre of movies based on the real missions of NASA is actually a fairly succinct conversation when almost no other titles achieved the same acclaim as Apollo 13. The three-decade-old Oscar ...
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On This Day, April 11: Ill-fated Apollo 13 blasts off
In 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft ... 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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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 13 Launched 55 Years Ago, Marking NASA’s Most Famous Rescue Mission
ABOVE VIDEO: The launch of Apollo ... 13, until called upon to join the crew for this mission. After his spaceflight, Haise was called upon to serve as commander for the Shuttle Approach and ...
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: Apollo 13 Splashes Down in South Pacific 55 Years Ago
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – As NASA marks the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission – which has become known as “a successful failure” that saw the safe return of its crew in spite of a ...
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The Apollo 13 Curse: Reliving The Day When NASA's Moon Mission Nearly Ended In Catastrophe
The Apollo 13 mission will forever be remembered as a testament to human ... The accident forced NASA to abandon the landing, crushing the astronauts' dream of a moonwalk. The spacecraft was just 254 ...
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James Lovell and Apollo 13
On April 11, 1970, the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission launched with Milwaukee ... Nine minutes after finishing the live broadcast 200,000 miles from Earth, the flight caught the world’s attention ...
13 Of The Fastest Human-Made Objects To Ever Enter Space
From solar probes to deep space missions, these record-breaking human-made objects reached speeds that make bullets and jets ...
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NASA’s Artemis III Moon Landing Looks to Open Scientific Doors
The presentations were made by Noah Petro and Barbara Cohen, NASA’s Artemis III and IV mission science leads from the Goddard ...
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Maximizing Value for Space-Tech Start Ups
Houston, we fixed it. When an oxygen tank exploded during the Apollo 13 mission, the crew resorted to plastic covers from ...