10 Fascinating Facts About the Apollo 13 Mission

When Apollo 13 lifted off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970 on America’s planned third visit to the surface of the moon, the general public greeted the event with a collective yawn. After just two manned visits to the moon the reaction by many to continuing lunar exploration was “been there, done that.” The major television networks broadcast the launch, as was customary, but declined to broadcast planned transmissions from the spacecraft as it journeyed to the moon, due to lack of viewership. After just four Americans had walked on the moon, the general public had lost interest. Serious discussions of canceling the remaining Apollo missions took place in political circles in Washington. →Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet?sub_confirmation=1 Find more lists at: http://www.toptenz.net Our other YouTube Channels: Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ/ Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw/ Business inquiries to admin@toptenz.net Coming up: 10. Using the lunar module as a lifeboat was a planned and practiced evolution 9. Carbon dioxide buildup posed the greatest danger to the crew 8. The average age of the experts in mission control was just 29 7. Lovell was on his fourth space flight, Swigert on his first (and only) 6. Ken Mattingly did help resolve the power conservation and startup problem 5. Firing the LM engine for course correction was also practiced before the Apollo missions 4. The astronauts used the Lunar Module engine for multiple burns 3. The astronauts used the moon as a fixed point of reference for one burn, Earth for the other 2. The temperature within the spacecraft dropped to 38 degrees, not freezing food 1. Apollo 13 led to several design changes for subsequent missions Source/Further reading: https://ift.tt/3oWt645 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C3NAj4jCb0 https://ift.tt/361aVBH https://ift.tt/2TVwLkp https://ift.tt/32u8yGH https://ift.tt/32dG0Rt https://ift.tt/2TSfuIN https://ift.tt/328T1vy https://ift.tt/2I7oYh5 https://ift.tt/2TRLrB9 https://ift.tt/32f01af https://ift.tt/2TSJWm1 https://ift.tt/3la1TbC https://ift.tt/32fTRXA https://ift.tt/3mTcTL7 https://ift.tt/3l3UoTW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZZ_y1xdJg https://ift.tt/2Egg5uu https://ift.tt/2TSE0cP https://ift.tt/315q2FV https://ift.tt/3oX9sF6 https://ift.tt/3mJYHUK https://ift.tt/2TV23bc https://ift.tt/2Gy8y0w https://ift.tt/38ajZqt https://ift.tt/38chNio https://ift.tt/3kSLlVD https://ift.tt/2HVbEMQ https://ift.tt/2ge9ODc https://ift.tt/2Gy8yO4 https://ift.tt/3l181mO https://ift.tt/32u8zdJ https://ift.tt/3ex6O43 https://ift.tt/3mQpr5P https://ift.tt/2I4AI3R https://ift.tt/3jWMSc6 https://ift.tt/2JBxe9v https://ift.tt/3eoGBVn https://ift.tt/3epplPL https://ift.tt/3mSNCk8 https://ift.tt/38fflaH