Daily Archives for 11 April 2014


April 11: Apollo 13 Launched

On 11 April 1970, the Apollo 13 craft was launched into space. The mission was manned by Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise. Apollo 13’s original mission was to land on the moon, but within two, there was a major accident. One of the craft’s oxygen tanks blew up taking two of the ship’s […]